Taiban Valley news., 1921-06-17
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News Service, }

| big celebration for the Fourth or July
and q 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. NJ,
several of the business men of the city
have subscribed the money to erect
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. ]. Lee, well known physi-
clan Of Las Vegas, N. NJ, 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. NJ ac-
cording to n 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
100000.
There Is no destitution among the
Mexican miners at Jerome, Ariz., des-
pite the fact that between $50 and 200
mine workers have been discharged
there, ?. Il. Mines, 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
$300,000,000, or twice as much as the
sum spent on the Panama canal.
The possibility of opening up an
aerial passenger service through the
Grand Canon 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. NJ, will have a fine week
end camp ground if the present plans
of the 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 equifped with real log
cabin which will have all the comforts
of home and will provide the boys
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 2,30S 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.
64S farms in the entire county only
four of them are operated by colored
farmers.
William II. Evans, 40 years old, Of
Los Angeles, Calf, 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. G.
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 Fourth of July cele.
bratlon to begin Saturday, July 2, and
last until Monday evening, July A.
During the celebration a number OF
real sports will be featured, including
horse races, baseball games, foot races
and other sports, with dancing Satur
day and Monday nights of the celebra-
ton and big free barbecue.
Several people were injured, none Sc
riously, when the northbound train on
the Denver 4 Rio Grande, leaving