The Benson signal., 1920-01-24
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Vestern Newspaper Union News Service.

Definite information concerning the
capacity that the Lyman dam would
have at various elevations was or
dered by the Arizona State Land
Board to be secured.
The coming special session of the
Arizona Legislature will vote unani-
mously for the Susan B. Anthony
amendment, according to A. A. Johns,
president of the Senate
The New Mexico Wool Growers AS
sociation will hold it's state conven-
,tiOn In, Roswell on March 8 and 8, it
was decided at a meeting of the state
executive committee at Albuquerque.
Effective at once, all dance halls
and public dancing places in the city
Of Phoenix must close at midnight:
each night, and must not operate at
all ON Sunday, under the terms of an
ordinance passed unanimously by the
Citv Commission
The Tenaja district Of Colfax coun-
ty, n. NJ, will dedicate new $1,000
school ON LincOlns birthday, Assist
ant Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion John V. Conway, was advised i'll
a letter from County School Superin-
tendent r. C. BOnney.
r. NJ Johnson, a brakeman on the
Santa Fe, was seriously injured at
Belen, n. NJ, by coming in contact
with a live wire. He was badly
burned about the legs and body and
was unconscious for nearly six hours
after the accident.
The Bank of Springer, N. NJ, be-
came the First National bank on Jan
uary /, and at the present time is re-
garded as one of the most solid insti-
tutions in the state. The bank was
organized in the early SOS in connec-
ton with the Springer Mercantile
Company and became the Bank Of
Springer under the territorial laws in
1906.
Almost trebling it's receipts of 1918,
the Arizona State Land Board took in
STA, ,595.49 for the year 1919, accord
ing to figures submitted by Sales
Agent George A. Macdonald. The
land department represented an an
nual deficit to the state up to the
year 1915, Macdonald says, and since
then has been showing bigger receipts
for every year.
Boys in the agricultural department
of the Colfax county high school at
Ration, N NJ, Smith-Hughes institu-
ton, made their experimental work
pay them we'll. e. D. Smith, super
visor of vocational agriculture, who
made a visit to Ration, found that
they made an income of from $500 to
$500 from their projects last summer
One who planted wheat got an income
Of $3.50 from his crop.
An important change in the admin
istration of leased lands Of the state
came into effect through the signing
of an order by Samuel L. Pattee, judge
of the Superior Court, making house
bill number 80 a law. The law re-
vises the state land code of Arizona
and abolishes the long recognized but
unsatisfactory system of dummy
tenantry," which stOckmen were be-
lieved to be using in order to rent
lands in the state domain in the pro-
portions that their interests required.
Denying his right to occupy down.
town offices in Phoenix at the ex-
pense of the state while regular Of
fices are furnished him in the Capitol
building, Attorney General Wiley E.
Jones of Arizona announced that he
proposes to continue his use of the ex-
ira downtown offices and that he will
pay the bill therefor out of his own
pocket, if necessary, but that he be-
lieves there will be no occasion to do
so and that he hopes the governor and
the public in general will judge him
as he judges himself.
That auto tourists are being given
some wrong advice about Arizona
roads and are being routed from El
Paso and Deming by way of Bowie,
Wilcox and Benson, instead of the
borderland route through Douglas,
Bisbee and Tombstone, is the state
ment of J. S. Williams, contractor,
who has been working for the last
few months on the grading and sur
facing Of the highway through Will
cox dry lake.
The school budget for New Mexico
for the present school year ending
June 30, 1920, amounts to 3,74S,S75,
says the Taxpayers Association Of
New Mexico. For comparison it may
be stated that the eAl'eilu.,>.r~s loI
the state fiscal year enasT" Novem-
Der 30, 1913, were $2,65S, ,706.8O and
for the previous fiscal year, $685.
015.56. OF the total of three and
three-quarter millions that will be ex-
pended during the present year, near
ly $3,OO0,000 will accrue from the 1919
state, county and district school levies.
1t may be mentioned in passing that
more than One-third Of the taxes
levied in New Mexico are devoted to
the support of the public elementary
and high schools.