The Snowflake herald., 1921-09-23
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service }

SOOu cOnultlOH.
! Three days of races and cowboy
| sports have been arranged in the pro-
| gram for the northern New Mexico
fair which will be held in Ration, Octo-
ber 4. ), 8 and Z.
| In the past three months the number
Of eases of indgents in MarlcOpa cOun-
| ty. Arizona, has decreased about 80
/ per cent. Charles Sabin, county indi-
gent officer, stated at Phoenix.
Lupe Gonzales of Roswell, who was
shot by Juan Rubio, died at the st.
| Mary's hospital. Following his death
| the charge of assault against RubiO
was withdrawn and formal complaint
/ Of murder filed
| City mail delivery was started in
| Clayton, n NJ, the first of September
and deliveries will he made over the
entire city twice a day. The service
started with two carriers and the force
will be increased as the town requires
| it.
The new highway travel lawk now is
| in effect in Arizona 1t provides that
all vehicles must carry light at night,
that headlights must throw beam ris-
! ing not over forty-twO inches from the
| roadway, that cutOutS must not ex-
| tend downward to the possible injury
| of the rOadbed, that no unusual noises
shall be made and that person who
| drives from an accident In which he
participated may be guilty of a felony.
| Business conditions in Arizona are
improving if it can be judged by the
| increased number of articles of incOr-
poration which have been filed with
| the State Corporation Commission of
| late. New business enterprises often
mean new money coming into the
state: they place money in circula-
ton, and if nothing more they are
based on the suppOsitiOn that an en-
terprise has been found which will at
tract investors by its merits.
| The> rodent destruction crew which
! has been at work for some time on
| the Zuni Indian reservation is meeting
| with good success, and by late fall
most of the prairie dogs will have been
/ killed. The tract of land which the
| crew has been working on is about
thirty miles long by ten wide and con-
tains about $4,000 acres The land is
said to he valuable for agriculture
purposes. but for long time has been
almost worthless on account of the In
roads of the dogs.
Mining properties in the Twelfth
Federal Reserve district, including the
seven states of Arizona, California.
Idaho. Nevada. Oregon, Utah and
! Washington, produced more silver,
! gold and lead. and less copper during
| July than in the corresponding month
last year, according 10 reports mode
public by John Perrin, federal reserve
agent at San Francisco. The reports
| were received from twelve largest
mines located in Arizona, California,
Nevada, Utah and Idaho.
A movement has been started in Gal
lup to divert the flood waters of the
PuercO river so that there will be nc
| danger of future floods Several times
| this season the west side of the city
| has been under from one to two feet of
water and the loss in property has been
heavy and plans are now being made
for the construction of dykes to pre-
vent this. # the funds can be raised
| a concrete wall about ten feet high
will be built so that the river will be
held i'm its channel instead of flowing
over the low lands of the city The to-
tai cost of the Improvement will be
about $4,000 when it is completed.
Fort Bayard, n. NJ, will soon have
a troop of Boy Scouts which will be
under the management of II. l.. Mitch
ell, newly arrived patient at the big
hospital. 1t is expected that about
thirty members will be recruited by
the first of the month.
Gov. Nj. c. Mechem announced the
appointment of Stephen 3. Davis, Jr.,
OF Las Vegas, as justice of the State
Supreme Court, to take the place of
| Clarence j. Roberts, chief Justice, who.
it is announced, will resign Nov. 1 to
enter upon the practice of law in
Santa Fe. The appointment of Mr..
Davis is made pending the general
election in 1922.
AT recent meeting Of the Sweet
Potato Growers Association, plans
were completed for the new warehouse
which will be erected in Fort Sumner,
n. NJ, to care for the seasons crop.
The lots for the site have been pur-
chased and actual construction work
| will be started soon as the material
can be placed on the ground The crop
this year will be one of the largest
ever grown in the valley and it is pos
sible that the growing of sweet pota-
toes will soon become one of the prin-
cipal industries of the valley.
That no one in Arizona in 1919 had
a personal income exceeding $500, 900
and that only one citizen could boast
All income of this amount is shown In
the list of personal income tax returns
as filed for that, an account of which