The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-23
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(westsrn Newspaper Union News Service. )

and a subscription is now being taken
 up by the business men to raise the funds. A feature of the program will be wild west events.
 In order to boost the tourists travel over the route through Socorro, N. M., several of the business men of the city have subscribed the money to erect a filling station at Los Lunas. The roads in the Socorro district are said to be in good condition.
 While cleaning a double-barrel shot gun, Dr. w. J. Lee, we'll known physi- clan of Las Vegas, N M., accidental ly discharged one of the barrels which had been left loaded, the full force of the shot taking effect in his left foot, necessitating amputation.
 The New Mexico law imposing an excise tax upon distributors of gaso- line was held valid and the imposition of an occupation tax by the same law partly valid by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision of the lower federal courts was reversed.
 Fifteen miles of standard graded road will be added to the route be- tween ESpanOla and Chama, N M., ac- cOrding to a report of the headquar- ters of the forest service The new road will extend south from the set tlement of Cebolla through Canjilon, and when completed will cost over $1O0.OOO.
 There is no Restitution among the Mexican miners at Jerome, Ariz., des- pite the fact that between 15O and POO mine workers have been discharged there, P. R. Milnes, state immigration commissioner, declared on his return to Phoenix from trip to Jerome and other points in the northern part of the state.
 State Water Commissioner Norviel of Arizona has accepted for filing the application of the Southern California Edison Company to develop hydro-elec- tric energy from the Colorado river. Promoters of the project say it in- wolves an ultimate expenditure of about $3OO,OOO,OO0, or. twice as much as the sum spent on the Panama canal.
 The possibility of opening up an aerial passenger service through the Grand Caflon of the Colorado is being considered by the War Department. Lieut.. Alexander Pearson, Jr., trans continental flier, has been ordered to make an investigation to find landing fields and then make an aerial Obser- vation trip to ascedtain air conditions | at different times of day and note emergency landing fields.
 The local troops of Boy Scouts of | Gallup, N. M., will have a fine week end camp ground if the present plans | of tbe business men of the city are | carried out. A splendid camp ground | has been selected about twenty miles north of the city in the tall pines, and | this will be equipped with real log cabin which will have all the comforts of home and will provide the boys i with a fine place to spend the week ends during the hot weather.
 According to the census report of 1920, Union county leads all the coun- ties of New Mexico in agriculture, there being 2,515,522 acres in farms in the county. There are 2,3OS farms in the county operated by the owners and only 344 by tenants. The nearest ap- prOach to this record is COlfax coun- ty, where $50 of the farms are oper- ated by the owners and 202 by tenants The report shows that out of the g. GAS farms in the entire county only |, four of them are operated by colored farmers. ss7ss..,sa.,, William H. Evans, 40 years old, of Los Angeles, Calif., died in hospital at Phoenix as a result of a broken neck, which he suffered in an auto mobile accident. !, The accident oc- cured four and One-half miles east of Phoenix, when the automobile in which Evans was riding collided with a milk truck from the state hospital for the insane.
 An address by Governor NJ. c. Mechem of New Mexico will be a fea- ture of the celebration to be held on the Fourth of July at the official opening of the new highway over the Black Range A big meeting of the chambers of commerce of Silver City, Hillsboro and Hot Springs will be held shortly, when the plans for the cele- bration will be completed.
 As previously, announced, Wilcox, Ariz., will have a Fourth of July cele- bration to begin Saturday. July ?, and last until Monday evening, July 4. During the celebration a number of