Arizona state miner., 1920-01-03
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
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and extension of the SocorrO county,
New Mexico rural school system.
The executive committee of the
Southern Baptist convention of New
Mexico, decided on Las Vegas as the
location for the Baptist college, which
is to be erected in this state
GA square deal for the farm boy and
the farm girl" is one of the slogans
of the Boys and Girls club depart
ment of the Agricultural Extension
Service of the University of Arizona
Officials of the Mesa post of the
American Legion have launched
movement to secure for the post two
sections of land northeast of Mesa,
Arizona. The land is now held by the
War Department 1t was homesteaded
ten years ago by officers of the Mesa
Company of the Arizona National
Giovanni Estrada, bright Mexican
boy, 9 years old, is in the st. Mary'S
hospital at Gallup, n. Mex, in a seri-
Gus condition as the result of being
burned by an electric wire. The boy
climbed a pole to get ball which had
lodged in the wires and in some way
came in contact with a live wire with
the result that his left arm was burned
off at the elbow, his right arm partial
ly disabled and his body burned in
several places.
Four hundred and four forest fires
have occurred during the past season
in the national forests of Arizona and
New Mexico, according to report just
compiled by the forest service. Fully
so per cent of these fires were caused
by human agency, and approximately
SO per cent by lightning. Among those
caused by human agency, the largest
number were set by logging operations,
and the next largest by campers. These
fires burned more than six thousand
acres of forest land, caused damage of
about $4,000, and cost over $4,000 to
extinguish. One and one-fourth mil
lion board feet Of timber were des-
troyed.
The Federal Monthly Crop Report
just released for publication through
the office of Field Agent r. f. Hare
of the Bureau of Crop Estimates.
shows that New Mexico has planted
this fall 211, 900 acres of wheat COM
pared to $4,000 acres planted last
year. Last years crop passed the win
ter and spring with an abandonment of
only 8 per cent of the planted acreage.
- Se,
reported better on December 1st, than
was last years crop at that time. In
the United States only 38,77OO00 acres
of wheat has been planted this year,
compared to 5O,489O0O planted last
year. The condition Of this crop is
only 85.2 per cent of normal, compared
to a condition of 98.6 per cent for last
years crop at this time. This report
shows that New Mexico has produced
681,70O bushels of apples this year, and
rs per cent of these have been shipped
from the county in which they were
grown. Chaves county reports having
shipped S45 cars, San Juan county 200,
Otero 60, and De Baca II cars The
Bureaus investigation relative to
wages Of farm labor this year, COM
pared to 1918, 1917, and 1910, show
that the wages of the farm laborer
have kept pace in this state with high
cost of living. The report shows that
the average wage by the month with
out board, was as follows: for 1910,
$3425; for 1917, $4800; for 1918, $500
and for 1919, $6O0O This year, day
laborers commanded $3.50 per day
last year they were paid $2.38; in 1917,
$197 and in 1910 they were only paid
S158
ArizOna's mines enriched the world
by $174, ,559, ,388.96 during the year just
closing, according to the annual report
of the state tax commission. The min
erals produced totaled 19,1S8,716.20
dry tons, and the average value per
ton from the gross yield was 1910.
Copper production amounted to about
16 times the value of all the other min
erals produced, gold and silver follow
ing next. Copper produced amounted
to 729,O01, ,687.06 pounds, of which 682,-
323, ,226.61 pounds were marketed at an
average price Of $O.23291, or a total of
$163,21S, ,51635. Gold production
amounted to 249,259.O8 ounces the av-
erage price being $2O43, and the total
value being $5,O92,7O643. In silver
production the state had 5,126O549
ounces, the average price being
$O.9727, and the total value, $685.
14O.67. In lead the state produced s.
622,O52.O3 pounds at an average value
of .O667, or total of $441, ,563.26.
The government has approved plans
and specifications for the DOugIas-Ro-