Arizona republican., 1920-07-13
Garhanzo Crop Moving

 NOGAI IES-The Sonora and Slnaloa 1920 garbanzo crop is moving rapidly to international markets through the port of Nogales Customs records to- day showed that of this crop to date 4OS cars of garbanzos have passed through Nogales. Each car carries an average of 300 sacks, valued at $lo each. The estimated value of the gar banZo crop moved to date through the mort is nearly S2.O0O, 900. A total value of s3, 5OO, ,0OO is expected to be reached before the end of the garbanzo crop movement comes in September | Herald.
 Senator Smith in Flagstaff F. FLAGSTAFF-One of the most dis | tinguished visitors in Flagstaff this week for the cattlemen's and sheep mems convention was Mark smith Of Tucson, one of the two United states senators from Arizona.
 Senator Smith arrived here Monday night from Washington, D. C., coming via French Lick Springs, Indiana, where he took in the famous baths, for treatment of injuries sustained re gently in a fall in Washington. l He expects to remain in northern Arizona a week or two, and said that he found the climate in Flagstaff so | perfect that he hates to leave this part of the State.-Leader.
 Tucson Combats Water Famine | .TUCSON-Crgen necessity for re- i lief from the water famine which has destroyed the comfort and is menacing the health of the residents of the northern and eastern portions of the | city. caused the passage, at a special meeting of the city council Saturday afternoon, of an amendment limiting the hours of irrigation within the city | limits to those between p. m. and 1 I D. m.-Star,
 Gun Club Organized ! ME-Organization of the Je- rome Gun club was effected at a meet l ing held Tuesday evening in the office 1 of City Clerk Ed Fucker. In all prob ability the first shoot of the club will | be held within the next two weeks | Copper News.
 Florence Taxpayers Protest ] FLORENCE the board of | equalization met Tuesday afternoon to ] hear protests as to why the proposed raised assessment as published in Arl- zona Blade Tribune should not stand, | it found itself confronted by fully one hundred more or less indignant tax payers. The crowd was so large that it was found eXpedienr to move up stairs into the superior court room. ! The proposed raise in the assess ment of lands throughout the county provides for raises varying from 25 to 400 per cent. and the taxpayers came 1 in from all parts of the county to make 1 protests against the proposed raise and practically every large interest in the county was represented - Blade ! Tribune.
 Sonora Lands Offered for Sale | NOGALES-The state government of i Sonora has in several of it's districts ! a number of large and valuable tracts l of land, of varying dimensions, some suitable for stockraising others for agriculture, that are offered for sale ] at prices and on terms subject to 1 negotiation, that make them gilt edged investments for any individual or cor 1 poration with capital for their pur- chase. improvement and operation.
 The tracts instanced are scattered
 throughout the Altar, Sahuaripa and Hermosillo districts of Sonora.-Oasis
 Drainage Contract Let
 FLORIIN CE.-The drainage contract
 on the Ray Kelvin road was let on
 Tuesday of this week by the county
 highway commission, the contract go
 ing to DeWard x Cobhan Of San Diego