The St. Johns herald., 1921-09-01
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Ser1ioe.)

New street lights are now being in- stalled on all the principal streets of Grenville, N. Mex. This will be big improvement in the appearance of the city.
 Clayton, N. Mex, boasts of being on the map as a tourists town this season. During the month of July 221 autos camped on the local grounds, which means nearly 1000 people.
 AS the result of the work of the hunters of the biological survey in kill ing off the predatory animals, the game in the MOgollOn and Black Range mountains in New Mexico and Arizona is increasing.
 Two big celebrations will be held in Clayton, N. Mex, this fall, the first to be roundup from Aug. 30 to Sept. 8, and the second the county fair which will be held from Oct. to ' inclusive.
 The new roller mill at Springer, N. Mex, has been completed and Is now ready to receive grains of all kinds. It is expected that the mill will fur nish a market for most of the wheat grown in this district.
 Good news was received at Roswell, N. Mex, when 1t was learned that Bat tery A had been extended federal recognition and was now a part of the national guard and the second de fense of the nation.
 E. B. Wheeler, we'll known cattle man and rancher, has been chosen to head the cowboys reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex, for the next year. Walter NaylOr, who has been at the head of the organization for the past seven years refused to consider re- election.
 The total rainfall in Bisbee, AriZ., during the month of July almost eQualled the entire fall registered here during the year 1920 The July total this year was S.48 inches, while only few hundredths more than 9 inches was recorded during the entire twelve months in 1920.
 William P. Birchfield, Luna county, New Mexico ranchman, in a suit filed in the Sixty-fifth District Court against the Southern Pacific Railway Com pany, alleges that trains of that com pany killed nineteen head of cattle that belonged to him. He filed suit for $2,335 damages on account of the alleged negligence of the railroad com pany.
 Richard Warner Watkins, 9-year-Old son of R. A. Watkins, Phoenix print CT, was accidentally shot and killed by his elder brother, Robert, while on fashionable summer resort near Pres colt. In company with their father, the boys had gone hunting, according to testimony developed at the cor oner's inquest.
 The wild horses of the Bloody Basin in Arizona will escape the soap fac tory after all, 1t is reported. After rounding up some 800 head of untamed mavericks in the Sycamore, Cherry and Bloody Basin districts, the cattle men participating in the rOdeO have found that the wild horses are not even fat enough to be valuable to a soap manufacturer.
 The prospects for work being done on the deep we'll at San Simon, Ariz., by the State University are looking fine The state expects to drill to a depth of 2,O00 feet in order to prove the deep arteSian stratas, it being be- lieved that by going to that depth a much larger flow of artesian water can be struck. And if oil is struck so much the better.
 Reports from the Gladstone section near Clayton, N. Mex, state that much of the wheat crop will run over thir- ty-five bushels to the acre. Most of the land is valued at $50 per acre and the yield is said to be better than that of Kansas land selling at $2OO per acre.
 Emery KOpta, the we'll known sculp- tor who is also Arizona's greatest Su- thOrity on the HOpi Indians, has sent word by wire that the date Of the an nual Hopi Snake Dance at the village of Walpi, is August 9. The dance lasts about thirty minutes, and the Indians use about 100 live snakes dur. ing the ceremony. The affair is held on the Painted Desert north of Flag staff.
 In a petition to the city council by a large number of the property own CTS of Clovis, N. Mex, the paving pro- gram for the year is asked to be ex-