The Holbrook news., 1921-04-08
Southwest News
 From All Over NeU MexiCO
 and ArizOnd
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(Western Newspaper Union News SerTice)
 Production of copper by the Copper Queen Mining Company, largest cop per producer in Arizona, will be suS- pended April 15. until the large sur plus of copper now on hand can be re- duced to a normal basis" according to announcement made here by Grant H. Bowell, manager of the company
 The secretary of state now has re- ceived all of the bills passed by the Arizona Legislature and acted upon by the governor. There are 1S1 bills in all. This Legislature exceeded the number of bills passed by the Legisla- ture two years ago by two bills. The Fourth Legislature passed 179 bills.
 A new hotel is to be erected on the site of the old Southwestern at Roy, N. M., which was burned sometime ago, and the work of putting in the base ment has already been started. The new building will be made of brick and concrete and will be modern in every way, having a full basement which will house the steam heating | plant.
 At least two men were crucified in New Mexico on Good Friday. There | probably were more, but American wis itors at the village of the Penitentes | at AbiQuiu, about forty miles north west of Santa Fe, saw the naked forms of two men tied to huge crosses on which they suffered the agonies of Christ, for more than a half hour, when they were taken down bleeding and exhausted.
 Juan Gonzales, an employe of the Chino Copper Company of Silver City, | N M., was instantly killed when the big truck on which he was riding passed over his body. Gonzales was a helper on the truck which was used to haul scrap iron, and it is thought that he attempted to put a rock under the wheels when the big machine stalled on a small hill. The rock did not hold the truck and it continued to back down the hill, one of the wheels pass ing over the chest of the man.
 Although the Superior & Boston Min ing Company at Globe, Ariz., has been in operation for sixteen years and the land surface of the holdings within 100 feet of the mine office has been trOd- den by countless feet, the discovery has just been made that asbestos de- posits exist The asbestos is found on the surface generally with a hanging wall of serpentine and it usually runs from surface down. The discovery on the property is in the nature of pock- cts, after the manner of the Canadian asbestos deposits.
 Asking $15,OOO for a crushed foot and ankle, suit has been filed in the Supreme Court at Jerome, Ariz., for COstOr Parada against the United Verde Extension Mining Company by plaintiffs counsel, F. c. Struckmeyer, R. B. Westervelt and c. E.. Johns. Par ada was working as a miner and mucker in a slope on the 1,300-foot lev el on Nov. 26, 1920, repairing, remov- ing and replacing timbers. A large quantity of rock fell on his right foot and ankle, crushing the bones and mu- tilating the member.
 According to reports of the biological survey, hundreds of coyotes have been killed in New Mexico during the past three months by the field men and trappers. The field men have assisted the ranchmen and farmers in the work and have succeeded in destroying more predatory animals than at any other time in the history of the state. Ex- pert trapperS have been sent to all the ranges where wolves have been a men, ace and it is estimated that their work hnc oPI IoII of livestock during the winter.
 Governor Mechem of New Mexico has appointed the Rio Grande cOmmis- sion which will have charge of the sur vey of the lower valley looking to rec lamatiOn. He named A. B. McAIillen, Albuquerque; w. c. Reid, Albuquerque, and c. T. Brown, SOcOrrO. The Legis- lature appropriated $25,00O for the sur vey.
 The contract for the new high school at Maxwell, N: M., has been awarded and the actual construction work will be started soon. Bonds amounting to $75,000 were voted for the building about year ago and the bids were opened recently and the deal for the O1 lAAC SlOSeu 1IlS will be, the fourth high school building in COlfaX county.
 As part of the effort 1t is making to clean up the city, and to provide as many modern improvements as possi- ble before the influx of summer visit Ors to Prescott, Ariz., rapidly gaining a national reputation as one of the fin est climatic resorts in the country, the common council at its regular semi monthly meeting issued orders to a number of citizens to lay concrete side walks in front of their property at once.
 Attorney General Palmer's ruling on the legality of selling beer in drug stores when a physicians prescription is obtained will not apply to Arizona, a Douglas druggist was informed in a letter from w. T. Webb, federal prohi- bitiOn director for the state Webb said in his letter that his office would continue with its policy of not issuing permits which cOnflicted with state laws, and as the prohibition statutes of Arizona expressly forbid the importa- tiOn, transportation or sale of liquor, the ruling will be ignored so far as his office is concerned.
 Mrs T Allen Rattle vouny xUffa of o