Taiban Valley news., 1920-04-16
Southwest News
From All Ouer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

About 1000 acres will be farmed tC
cotton on the Colorado River Indian
Reservation at Parker Ariz., this year
according to Extension Director f. p
Taylor.
The Arizona Federation of Wom
ans Clubs is offering a prize of $1C
for the best short article written by
a club member and under the general
head of Arizona History.
University Week" at Tucson ID
April l9-24th. 1t is expected to be the
greatest aggregation of High school
students ever assembled In Arizona
Final announcements and program are
out
ID. w. Albert of the Horticultural
Department of the College of Agricul.
ture assisted ranchers and develop
ment companies in Pinal county, Ari-
zona, in drawing up landscape plans
for tree and shrub planting this
spring.
A third edition of Field Tests for
the Common Metals" University of
|
Technology Series %, by George X.
Fansett, mining engineer of the Ari-
Zona Bureau of Mines, has just been
published. Copies may be obtained
upon application to the dean of the
College of Mines and Engineering,
University of Arizona.
| Del Orc Hotel Company has just
been organized to build q 100000 ho-
tel at HillsbOro, N NJ. An architect
will be employed at once to draw
plans and specifications. There is
strong need for hotel at this time
when development is becoming so gen
eral in Sierra county. The proposed
new road across the Black Range will
also put Hillsboro on the transconti-
mental route.
| The case of the Buxton Smith Com
| pany VS.. the director general of rail
| roads, brought by the traffic bureau
| of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce,
| has been set for hearing April ~ at
Douglas, Ariz., before Examiner Mat
| tingley Of the State Corporation Com
mission. The complaint charges col
| lection of alleged excessive freight
rates on fruit between California
points of origin and Bisbee and Doug
las.
Raymond II. johnson and assistants
of Silver City, n. NJ, started the work
of the final survey for the Silver City
Santa Rita highway. The surveying
will take considerable time and as
soon as the work is completed bids
bwill be asked for from various con
tractors. 1t is hoped that construc-
ton will start not later than Septem-
Der 1st. The road is seventeen miles
long and the estimated cost is S25O,-
O0O
Charging that the freight rates on
shipments Of sugar from California
points to Phoenix and all Arizona are
unjust and unreasonable, the traffic
bureau of the Phoenix Chamber of
Commerce has filed complaint he
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission against Walker ID. Hines, di-
rector general of railroads the South
ern Pacific railroad, Arizona Eastern
railroad and Atchison, Topeka & San
ia Fe railroad.
Plans are being formulated by the
Springer, N. NJ, Ditch System to build
another storage reservoir, the new
project to be started early in the fall.
1t is roughly estimated that the new
reservoir will cost 100000, which will
mean that every acre of land under
the system will be assessed about $40
The present reservoir, which was built
thirty years ago, will be used for re-
serve water storage and will be kept
filled at all times
Wayne Barboan, an Indian boy of
Crown Point, was instantly killed by
falling rock while working in a mine
near Gallup, n. NJ
The Secretary Of Agriculture has
authorized the grazing of 901 $50 head
of sheep and goats, 541,75 head of
cattle and horses, and 1856 head of
swine ON the Arizona and New Mex
leo National Forests for the grazing
year of 1920 These stock are divided
between the two states as follows:
Ar'zona, 352,200 cattle and horses,
365,5O0 sheep and goats, 1856, swine,
and New Mexico, 189550 cattle and
horses, 536,050 sheep and goats, 1900
swine.
That the New Mexico Central, al
though still far from showing a salts
factory ratio between operating rev.
'enue and operating expenses, is max
ing long strides in the right direction
Is the showing Of the railways an
nual report to the Corporation Com
mission. The report covers the last
calendar year. The railways operat-
ing revenues reached $168,722.01-
nearly twice as much as the operating
revenues for the year before The |
preceding years total was $85, 5,560.75. |
Clovis, n. NJ, has a most ambitious