Taiban Valley news., 1920-11-26
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Over 150 bankers from various sec
tions of the west and southwest at
tended the 1920 convention of the
| Arizona State Bankers Association at
Douglas.
Mexican consuls' wise of passports
will not be required from Americans
who intend to attend the presidential
inaugural ceremonies at Mexico City,
December /.
Reports from the town of Chloride,
N. NJ, state that the development
work on the tin mines in that vicinity
is going ahead rapidly and several
tons of fine ore has already been
taken off the properties.
At a meeting of the board of educa-
tion of the Socorro schools, the new
high school building was accepted
and the keys for the building turned
over to the board by contractors. The
building is all completed. 1t is one
Of the finest in the southwest.
Private John Gill of the First cav
airy at Douglas, Ariz., will recover
after having eaten eleven electric
light globes, it was said by military
hospital attaches. Gill boasted Of his
glass-eating capabilities and con-
sumed the bulbs to make good.
Paul Leaning of the French tract,
who is attending the New Mexico
State College at Mesilla Park, has
been awarded the highest honors in
livestock judging and will represent
the state of New Mexico at the Inter-
national stock judging contests to bo
held at Kansas City, Chicago and
Ames, Iowa.
The big drills in the PecOs valley,
New Mexico, oil field are still pound
ing away in search of the oil which
geologists say will some day be found
there. In the Orchard Park and the
Picacho districts the drills are getting
low enough so that some interesting
developments are looked for at any
time.
According to conservative esti-
mates, over $4,000 lambs will be
shipped out of Magdalena, N. NJ, this
fall, the largest being shipment of
1000. Most of the shipments have
gone to the eastern markets and will
be pen fed for the spring sales, but
some of them have been in such good
condition that they have gone direct
to the markets for slaughter.
San Marcial, Socorro county, New
Mexico, historic as "cow town" and
railroad division point, is to be left
marooned on the west bank of the
Rio Grande by change in the Santa
Fe railroad route, which involves the
building of twenty-five miles of new
road on the east bank of the river
from ElmendOrf to Lava on the Rio
grande division between Albuquerque
and Ell Paso.
Through the courtesy of A. A. Sy-
mons, Indian agent at the San Carlos
reservation, the reservation will be
thrown open to sportsmen holding
permits. Hunters must also have the
regular hunting licenses in order to
obtain permits. Although previously
when the reservation was open to
sportsmen, hunting on Sunday was
barred, under the present arrange
ment holders of permits will be
allowed to hunt any day of the week.
According to an. announcement of
Frank Clark, director of the New
Mexico cattle sanitary board, over
$4,000 head of cattle were shipped
out of New Mexico during the month
of October. Most of these have gone
to the markets at Denver, Kansas
City and Fort Worth, but it is esti-
mated that nearly 10000 have been
sent to chihuahua, Mexico, where
they will be used for restocking the
ranges.
Senator Kenyon returned to Wash
ingtOn from an investigation of the
housing conditions in the country CON
Quoted by special Senate committee,
and announced that the greatest
problem before the country was the
proper housing of the people. He said
that there were about 100000 peo-
pie in the United States who were
not properly housed, and that the
United States was more than 1,000,-
900 homes short. Federal assistance
should be given the homebuilders,
Senator Kanyon urged.
More than So per cent of the chill
dren of New Mexico are under
weight; more than 50 per cent never
used or owned tooth brush, more
than sc per cent have defective teeth,
AZ per cent have diseased tonsils, 81
per cent have enlarged adenolds, AZ
per cent have enlarged glands (sup-
posedly tubercular glands), AZ per
cent have defective ears, 6 per cent
have various skin diseases, and almost
8 per cent have active tuberculosis.
Such was the finding of the free
clinic conducted by the New
Mexico Public Health Association,
which examined the school children
Of four representative counties.
Owing to the inability of Governor
Campbell of Arizona to attend in
lugural ceremonies at Mexico City,