Taiban Valley news., 1920-07-02
Southwest News
From All Ouer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
Newspaper Union News Service.


NJ, recently.
The old Great Eagle fluorspar mine
in the Red Rock district in New Mex
leo has been taken over by James Bell
and |. l.. Wright and will be put into
operation at once.
At Il meeting of the county commits
Sioners held in the town of Des
Moines, n. NJ, the town of Folsom was
formally Incorporated as a village An
election will be held soon for the pur-
pose of choosing mayor, four VIstees
and town clerk.
Preparation of the Arizona financial
budget was begun when Charles W..
Fairfield, executive secretary to Gov
ernor Campbell, sent to the heads of
all departments blanks to be filled in
with records of expenditure and with
requests for appropriations.
Reduction of the valuation placed on
the property of the Aravaipa Leasing
Company by the assessor of Graham
county was asked by the Aravaipa
company officials at hearing before
the Arizona Tax Commission at Phoe-
nix.
According to reports of the Railways
Ice Company of Clovis, N. NJ, new
plant will be erected this summer Oh
the land west of the rOundhouse which
will be one of the largest in the south
west and will have treble the capacity
of the present one.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of
material for the new 100000 ward
school building at Clovis, N. NJ, was
destroyed by fire caused, it is believed,
by defective wiring in the building
where the material was stored. In ad-
dtion to this the contractor lost his
motor-equipped tool shop, a motor
truck and all his tools
Plans for the new country club il
Clayton, \. NJ, are nearly completed
and the site selected will be the Otto
ranch which has been donated by Mr..
Otto, who is willing to lease the prop,
erty to the club as long as it is active.
The land is located on the Perico river
and is one of the finest locations for a
club of this kind in the state.
The number of applicants for teach
ers certificates in Arizona shows no
falling off because of salaries paid,
members of the State Board of Exam
iners were convinced when they began
grading papers of applicants who took
the examination for teachers certifi-
Gates held at Phoenix. Eighty-nine
from various parts of the state took
the examination.
The camping ground at Roswell, n.
NJ, which was made possible year
ago through the Chamber of Com
merce, has become one of the most
popular places in the city. The litera
ture of the chamber is also distribut
ed on the grounds every day and ev-
erything possible is done to bring the
tourists in closer touch with the city
and its people Plans are now under
way to erect pavilion and reading
room on the grounds during the sum-
mer.
The total motor vehicle fees collect
ed by Arizona for the month of May
to $64,098.75. This amount
covers the registration Of 124 cars and
50 transfers. Maricopa county again
leads as having the largest number of
cars registered, 457 being given credit
during the past month. The total
amount in fees collected for motor ve-
hIcles since the first Of the year, ac-
cording to the records of the office is
$176, 1854.
A new map of the Columbus quad
rangle, in southwestern New Mexico,
has just been issued by the United
States Geological Survey, Department
of the Interior This is one Of num-
her of areas along the Mexican bor-
der mapped by the Geological
Survey in cooperation with the War
Department
Unable to find further trace of two
negroes who, left Phoenix in an auto
mobile about the time of the murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Erhardt on
June 9, the posses have given up the
search. The negroes were last seen
south of Prescott and were reported
at night Mr. and Mrs. Er-
hardt were so seriously beaten about
the head with hammer that they
died.
A big fire occurred near the railroad
track at Escondida, N. NJ, when
large quantity of bear grass which
had been stacked there was burned.
The grass is being cut in large quanti-
ties and shipped to eastern factories
where the fiber is extracted and used
In the manufacture of certain kinds OF
cloth. The grass had been stored for
shipment by several farmers and the
total loss is estimated at over $1,000
Miss Edna Lee Oakly, former in
in the Colfax county schools
In New Mexico has been selected as in
structor in Spanish in the University
Df Arizona. Miss Oakly has resigned
her position at the University of New
Mexico and will take up her new du-
Hos M tha hnuinninC NJ tho folI form,