The Benson signal., 1920-04-17
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About 1000 acres will be farmed to
cotton on the Colorado River Indian
Reservation at Parker, Ariz., this year,
according to Extension Director E. P.
Taylor
The Arizona Federation of W0m-
ans Clubs is offering prize of $40
for the best short article written by
club ilember and under the general
head of Arizona History.
University Week at Tucson is
April 19-24th. 1t is expected to be the
greatest aggregation of High school
students ever assembled In Arizona.
Final announcements and program are
out.
D. 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
Arizona Bulletin No 1O5, Mineralogy
Technology Series 23, by George r.
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 $4,000 hO-
tel at HlllsborO, n NJ. An architect
will be employed at once to draw
plans and specifications. There is
strong need for a hotel at this time
when development is becoming so gen
eral in Sierra county. The proposed
new road across the Black Range will
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 y 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 r. Johnson and assistants
Of ~
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
will be asked for from various con
tractors. 1t is hoped that construc-
tion will start not later than Septem-
Der LIST. The road is seventeen miles
long and the estimated cost is $3.50
900.
Charging that the freight rates on
shipments of sugar from California
points to Phoenix and all Arizona are
unjust and unreasonable, the ira fife
bureau of the Phoenix Chamber of
Commerce has filed complaint be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission against Walker D. Hines. di-
rector general of railroads the South
ern Pacific railroad, Arizona Eastern
railroad, and Atchison, Topeka & San
Ia FeFrailroad
Plans are being formulated by the
Springer, n. NJ, Ditch System to build
StA
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 $50.
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 Il mine
near Gallup, \. NJ.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
authorized the grazing of 9O1, $50 head
of sheep and goats, 541.750 head of
cattle and horses. and 1855 head OF
swine on the Arizona and New Mex
leo AatOuai Forests for the grazing
year of 1920. These stock are divided
between the two states as follows
Aroma, ZOO cattle and horses,
365, 800 sheep and goats, 1915 swine.
and New Mexico. 1Sy.55O cattle and
horses, 536,O50 sheep and goats, ] 800
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 $16S, 722 OIL
nearly twice as much as the operating
revenues for the year before The
preceding years total was $S5,560.75.