Taiban Valley news., 1920-09-24
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

the fair which will be held In POr.
tales, n. Mex, early in October, and
all the farmers and citizens are Civ.
ing literally to the fund for the prizes
and expenses Of the event.
The city council of Mesa, Ariz., has
| decided to the American Legion post
of that town lot adjoining the pro
posed civic center, with the stipulation
that a post building to cost not less
than $4,000 be erected within three
years time.
Santa Fe railroad improvements at
Clovis, n. Mex, in 1921 will be the
largest in proportion to any point
west of Chicago and will cost over
$35O,000. Most of this sum will be
spent in improving the yards and the
local station.
Appointment of William A. Morey
as federal prohibition agent for Ari-
zona was announced by Prohibition
Director w. L. Webb at Phoenix, who
added that the appointment would re-
lieve him of extra duties he had been
performing since the removal some
months ago of another agent
The farm and orchard products ex-
hibition for Otero county will be held
in AlamOgordo, N. Mex, October first
and second under the direction OF
County Agent Ware. The program
which has just been finished will in
clude the work of the boys and girls
clubs for the season.
The board of education of Lords
burg, n. Mex, has let the contract for
new school building to be erected
ON the north side Of the city. The
building is to be completed by the
first of the year. The new structure
was made necessary, owing to the big
increase in the school population.
According to the report of J. NJ
Carahan Of the Hudson district near
Tucumcari, n. Mex, much of the cot
ton produced in that part of the state
will run over half a bale to the acre
this year. With cotton selling at $26
per hundred pounds, it is likely that
there will be Il greatly increased acre
age next year.
The Franklin school in Bisbee, Arlz.,
the new school for the Americaniza-
tion of Mexican pupils, is nearly COM
pleted and will be occupied, in part
at least, within a few days. The
opening of the school will mark an
innovation in public school instruction,
the credit for which belongs TO G. f.
Philbrook, superintendent of schools.
A. Z. Sheppard, constable of Bisbee,
Ariz., was shot and killed by two
Mexicans whom he was attempting to
arrest for having burglarized the I'll.
K. Wootton hardware store In that
city. Charles Long, fireman, who
accompanied Sheppard, was shot
through the left arm. The Mexicans
escaped, but dropped sack contain
ing revolvers they had stolen from the
store.
One of the most important units of
the Arizona State Highway from New
Mexico to Phoenix is the road from
Clifton, county seat of Greenlee
county, to Franklin. on the state line.
The most important section of this
unit is the Wards canon project,
completed under the direction of the
state highway department last July.
This new route gives shortcut out
of Clifton over comparatively easy
grade and is regarded as one of the
cleverest pieces Of road location work
to be found in the state.
Work has been commenced on the
new road which will give residents Of
Grant county, New Mexico, an outlet
to the east through Sierra county, the
first grading being done on the west
side of the Black range. This piece
of road is of more than the usual i'm
portancc as 1t Is the connecting line
in transcontinental route which has
been n matter of agitation for sew
eral years
Eastern New Mexico is soon to have
another great highway, which will be
Il NlVoN IOult Will SeNGTul
of the other highways of the state.
The new road will connect with the
Bankhead highway either at Pecos or
Van Horn, Tex, and from there will
go to Ell Paso. From that point the
highway will go north through Carls-
bad, Pearl, Lovington and Tatum,
where it will cross the Dixie, Over
land, Southern National and Border
land routes and then continue north
Portales and Clovis. The route
will eventually go across the Pan
handle into Colorado. The new road
will not only cross some sixteen of
the principal highways of the west, but
will also furnish a direct route from
all New Mexico points TO Colorado
Relief from alleged excessive switch
ing charges was sought by the Shat
tuck Arizona Copper Company of Co
chlse county, in petition filed with
the state corporation commission. The
EI Paso & Southwestern Railway Com
pany was named as the collector Of
the charges.
The twenty-stamp mill of the Hills