The Benson signal., 1920-01-31
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

manufacture OF wine, WnlSKey OF
other alcoholic beverages will be
banned henceforth from the Phoenix
public library.
Development plans at the Shea
mine at Jerome, Arizona, now include
1,2OO-foot tunnel to open at depth
of 675 feet the ore developed by the
32O-foot incline shaft.
The Horse Shoe Oil Corporation of
State College in Dona Ana county, N.
NJ, has been granted charter by the
corporation commission. It will do Q
general Oil exploration business.
One of the largest sheep deals made
al Roswell, N. NJ, for some time was
closed when Worswick & Lowrey
bought from Johnson & Lowrey over
5000 head Of sheep and several water
that city. The consideration for the
deal has not been made public.
There are now 1873 former service
men in training at the department of
government vocational work at the
University Of Arizona, and about 200
beginning of the school year, accord
ing to the report of Prof. w. L. Dar-
row, in charge of the department
The Gallup, n. NJ, district will be
thes scene of unprecedented activity
within the next few months. Contracts
for the drilling of more than 100
wells, varying in depth from 400 to
1000 feet have been let and when the
drillers have started the local field
will be the most active in New MeXi-
co.
D. L. Moye, formerly sheriff of
Curry county and one of the best
known police officers in the state, has
been appointed chief of police of
Clovis, n NJ, by Mayor Stone. Mr..
Moye has for the past seven years
been sheriff of the county and is we'll
known. all through the eastern part of
the state.
H. c.. Hallmark, general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific rail
road, writes the New Mexico commits
sion that the matter of adjusting the
Deming jobbing rates is now before
the director of public service of the
railroad administration at Washing
ton. AS soon as decided, the commits
sion will be informed.
At the school bonds sale which took
place at Springer, n. NJ, the First Ma
tional bank purchased the school
bonds for the sum of $4,000. The
city recently voted the bonds for the
purpose of building a new building
and now that the bonds have been
sold it is expected that the work will
he started at once.
A resolution calling upon Governor
Campbell of Arizona to include in the
business of the special session of the
Legislature soon to be convened, pass
age Of a bill permitting the state to
engage in the manufacture of cement,
was adopted unanimously by the
Buckeye Irrigation Company in it's
annual meeting at Phoenix.
Freshly branded calves found moth
erless on the ranges of the state of
Arizona are subject to seizure by the
state authorities there being stat
ute to that effect for the protection
of the stockmen from the depreda
tiOns of cattle rustlers, according to
Secretary Edward w. Stevens of the
livestock sanitary board.
Arizona will send an exhibit OF
oranges to the national orange show
to be held in San BernardinO, Calf,
Feb. 1923. This will be the first
time since the national orange shows
were started that oranges have been
exhibited from any state other than
California. BY products, however.
have been exhibited by Florida
The field meeting of the south
western section of the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers which was held at AjO,
Arizona, was a we'll attended and sue
cessful gathering, with representa-
tives from almost all parts of the
United States as we'll as from foreign
parts, such as Rio Tinto, Spain, and
Australia
Plans for the construction of fed
eral aid project No. 19 in Luna coun-
ty, n. NJ, have been approved and the
State Highway Department is adyer
tising for BIDS for construction to be
opened on February II, 1920. This is
section of state road No. 4, involving
nearly twelve miles between Myndus
and the Florida mountains. 1t will be
gravel surfaced.
One of the biggest mining transac-
tions Of recent years was closed when
A. E. Minium, representing the Ameri-
can F'ireproofing and Mining Com
pany of Lander, WyO., purchased the
asbestos properties Of Scanlon and
McManus, situated near the Salt
River boundary of the reservation and
several asbestos claims owned by E.
r. Alhplthal and others, situated west
Of Chr &nt'lc all in Ar.ZGnH