Taiban Valley news., 1920-12-31
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

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 Menaul school at
Albuquerque, which, when completed,
will cost over $1,000.
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 Of
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.
1t has been announced at Douglas,
Ariz., that the Apache Powder Com
pany, which is building large ex-
plosive factory near Benson, Ariz., viii!
begin construction of a fumtng acid
plant at the Calumet & Arizona Cop
per COmpanys smelter. The plant will
make acid for use in the powder at
the main factory.
wireless telephone net has been
installed by the forest department in
the office of Supervisor Il. T. Swift
in Stafford, Arizona. The first cOnnec-
ton is to be made with Clifton.
Afterwards a large radio outfit may
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
81 a day, and of salaried employees
| approximately 20 per cent.
Farmers, business men and citizens
of Las Vegas, ~ NJ, attended 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
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 hat the alleged deportation of
| several hundred men from the War
ren district on July II, 1917, was not
Il 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 group of prominent
citizens of Arizona, ]. S. Douglas and
George Kingdom of Jerome; William
H. Brophy and Michael J. Cunning
ham of Bisbee, and A. ]. Pickerill of
Prescott, a 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,
district.
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
covery was made by an exploration
party headed by Earl Fl. Morris, which
has been conducting excavations in the
Pueblo community dwelling at Aztec,
n. NJ
Official announcement from Ca
nanea, 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
10. Suspension had previously been
announced for December 15 The mes
sage stated the extension of time was
due to the success Of General Z. Elias
Gales in securing u rebate of $4,000
in taxes.
Alexander G. Patterson of Chicago,
alias George A. Thompson, who posed
in Albuquerque as Baptist minister
of New York City, has been arrested