The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NelU Mexico
 and Arizona
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The charter for the National Bank of Gallup, New Mexico, has been issued by the government and the new institution will open for business the first of January
 The contract has been let and actual construction work started>on the main building of the MenauI school at Albuquerque, which, when completed, will cost over SIT 7,G00.
 The Glendale State Bank at Glen dale, Arizona, has been closed. Jesse l.. Boyce, supervisor of state banks, said the closing probably would be only temporary.
 The discovery of a. large vein xof high-grade gold ore on claims located in the Sheridan mountains about forty miles southwest from Casa Grande, Arizona, has created quite an excite ment and many automobile loads of people have been rushing out to the new gold field to get in on the ground floor.
 It has been announced at Douglas, Ariz., that the Apache Powder Com pany, which is building a large eX- plosive factory near Benson, AriZ., will begin construction of a fuming acid plant at the Calumet & Arizona Cop per Company's shelter. The plant will make acid for use in the powder at the main factory.
 A wireless telephone net has been installed by the forest department in the office of Supervisor T. T. Swift in Stafford, Arizona. The first connec- tion is to be made with Clifton. Afterwards, a large radio outfit may be installed and connections made with other government radio stations in Arizona and elsewhere.
 Following the example of other min ing companies in the southwest, the United Verde Mining Company and the United Verde Extension Mining Com pany, both operating in the Jerome district, have posted notices reducing pay of miners and other day workers SI a day, and of salaried employees approximately 20 per cent.
 Farmers, business men and citizens or Las Vegas, N. M., attended a big meeting held at. the rooms of the Com mercial Club for the purpose of per fecting an organization to conduct an annual livestock and agriculture eX- hibit in that city. The plans include a permanent organization and the annual cowboys roundup is to be one of the entertaining features.
 The last chapter in the prosecution of the defendants in the Bisbee depor- tatiOn cases was written in Washing ton when the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the decision of the United States District Court of Arizona that the alleged deportation of several hundred men from the War ren district on July 12, 1917, was not violation of federal statutes.
 Inability of cotton growers and stock raisers to meet their obligations owing to depressed markets was given as the reason for the closing of an- other Arizona bank. The latest insti- tuition to suspend business is the Hol- brook State Bank at HOlbrook, Ariz. Last Saturday the State Bank of Glen dale, at Glendale, Ariz., closed its doors
 Organized by a group of prominent citizens of Arizona, J. S. Douglas and George Kingdom of Jerome; William H. BrOphy and Michael J. Cunning ham of Bisbee, and A. J. PickerilI of Prescott, q new firm will soon be added to Yavapai county's list of banking institutions. The new house, to be known as the Bank of Clemen- ceau, will be opened in that city.
 Now that the peak of the cotton picking season is over, the Arizona Cotton Growers Association has dis continued the shipping of pickers from Mexico into the Glendale, Arizona, 
 Discovery of the ruins of a prehis- toric village and cemetery in which were many relics of great value, in the | Navajo country in New Mexico, has been announced by the American Museum of Natural History The dis rovery was made by an exploration party headed by. Earl Fl. Morris, which | las been conducting excavations in the Pueblo community dwelling at Aztec, N. NJ.
 Official announcement from Ca lanea, Sonora, has been received by American Consul Dyer of Nogales, Sonora, that the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company would delay the sus- pension of operations until January I5. Suspension had previously been for December 15. The mes sage, stated the extension of time was lue to the success of General P Elias Calles in securing q rebate of $50,0O0 | n taxes. a ~>-
 Alexander G. Patterson of Chicago, llias George A. Thompson, who posed Il, Albuquerque as q Baptist minister ,f New York City, has been arrested )n complaint of the Rev. L. L. Gaines ,f the Nazarene church, who charged le had cashed q worthless check for Patterson.
 Curry county holds the record in Boys and Girls Club work in New Mexico during the past year, having he highest enrolment of any county n New Mexico. Out of 339 members who started the work at the beginning If the year 1920, 295 completed.
 A cOroner's jury. called to ihvesti-