Taiban Valley news., 1921-04-22
Southwest News
From AH Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
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The Great Eagle Fluorspar Com
pany has started its new mill north of
Lordsburg, N NJ, and the run is said
to have been made very satisfactorily.
Production of copper from its mines
In Bisbee and reduction of ore in Its
smelters at Douglas, Ariz., has been
suspended by the Calumet and Arizona
Mining Company.
Improvement work at the Montezu-
ma College in Las Vegas Is well under
way and Is being pushed as rapidly as
possible by the contractors in charge.
If possible all the work will be COM
pleted in time for the opening of the
fall term in school.
The first annual show of the Auto
Dealers Association in the Douglas
avenue armory in Las Vegas, opened
with big parade of practically all
the automobiles in the city, the start
being made from Lincoln park. Every
space in the armory was filled, most
of them occupied by Las Vegas deal
erS
Members of city commission of
Phoenix have instructed City Attorney
Sloan to prepare an ordinance calling
for a city bond election. The election
will be on the question of issuing bonds
for paving, purchase ten acres in Uni
versity Addition for a city park, and to
aid in building protective dam on
Cave creek.
Hundreds of persons joined in the
search for Edgar, the 3-year-old son of
Ray Spencer of Tucumcari, who wan
dered away and was lost while his
parents were picnicking in Red River
canon, near Tucumcari. BloodhOunds
were put on the trail but only a coat
worn by the boy and his tracks near
the picnicking spot have been found.
High schools in Arizona have shown
a rapid development since 1915, ac-
cording to a survey just completed by
A. o. Neal, registrar for the univer-
sity at Tucson. Comparative reports
from the four-year high schools in the
state in 1916 and 1920 give proof that
the number of teachers, students and
graduates has gained rapidly, he adds.
The Holbrook, Ariz, board of alder
men has awarded the contraW for the
building of the water and sewer plants
to the Ormon Construction Company.
The contract calls for $108,098, the
contractor paying par for the $135,OOO
bond issue voted last summer There
will be about $4,000 paid into the
town treasury for the bonds, with ac-
crued interest, aside from the compile
ton of the work, according to the con-
tract.
Augustine Romero has been arrest
ed at Greaterville, and Ignacio Var
gass at Rosemont, by agents of the De-
partment of Justice of Tucson. Both
auG7charged with being draft evaders.
They will be tried in the Federal
Court. According to government agents
number of slackers are returning
from Mexico to the United States in
the belief that they will no longer be
molested. After raid, however, they
hurry back across the border, the fed
eral men have found.
The New Mexico crop report, just
issued by the bureau of crop estimates,
states that the crop of winter wheat in
the state has condition of 80 per
cent, which forecasts a production for
this year of 4,600,0 900 bushels, If no nn-
favorable conditions prevail to har-
vest. This will exceed all previous
records of the state. Last years crop
was estimated at 100000 bushels.
The report shows that the supply of
farm labor in New Mexico this year is
| 135 per cent of last years supply at
| this time.
The Animal Husbandry department
of the University of Arizona, under the
direction of e. B. Stanley, as
| sistant animal husbandman, is
conducting a feeding test at
| the experiment farm at Mesa
to determine the feeding value and use
of whole cotton seed under the present
conditions as feed for fattening
| steers.
Deposits in the United States postal
savings system were approximately
| $181, 10000 April 1, the Postoffice De-
| partment announced. Phoenix, Ariz.,
| with deposits for March totaling $685.
| 064, led in the gains for the month and
jumped from 139th to 5Sth rank. Bos-
ton came second, with $146,S92; New
York third, with $S4,491 and, Globe,
Ariz., fourth, with $21,700.
Maud Doster, serving from three to
four years for killing Capt. Wade Dos
ter at Columbus, N. NJ, has been par
doned from the penitentiary by Acting
Gov. w. H. Ducl;worth. Mrs. Doster
was tried, but the jury disagreed, and
she then entered a plea of guilty TO
second degree murder and was SEN
fenced May 8, 1920 Eleven members
Of the jury recommended clemency in
a petition to the acting governor.
The Santa F6 Chamber of Commerce
has distributed for planting here 5000
Of the young spruce and fir seedlings
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