Taiban Valley news., 1921-01-14
Southwest News
From All OVer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The total annual output of honey In |
Arizona will amount to about 100 car |
loads. The greater part of it will be
handled in Benson.
Good news to the mining industry |
was contained in wire to the effect |
that the Senate has passed a bill ex-
tending the time for doing the 1920
mining assessments until July l, 1921.
A l. per cent reduction on Pullman
rates between Phoenix and Los An
geles has been granted by Fl. 2. Glenn
ents, general passenger agent of the
Pullman company.
The annual meeting of the Farm Bu-
reau was held at Roswell, N. M. The
attendance was large, farmers ana
stockmen from every section OF the
country being present.
Livestock conditions in Arizona are
very gratifying, according to DR.. f. L.
Snyder, inspector in charge of the fed
eral bureau of animal industry, w!t.i
headquarters at Albuquerque, N. M.
A statewide drive for members in the
American Legion will be started the
| first of the year according to an an
nouncement by Tom G. Trammel, de-
partment adjutant and finance officer
of New Mexico.
More than $4,000 drainage work is
to be done Immediately in the Peoria
district northwest of Phoenix, AriZ.,
according to an announcement by f. q.
Hershaw, secretary of the Salt River
Valley Water Users Association.
Reports from the mines at Chloride
state that the development work is 60
ing ahead rapidly and that by the first
of the year all the claims will be pro-
duclrg tin ore which will be the best
ever mined in that part of Arizona.
Three hundred men employed by the
Arizona Commercial Mining Company,
with properties at Copper Hill, on the
| outskirts of Globe, Ariz., were thrown
out of work when the entire operations
of the company were suspended for an
indefinite period.
What is said to be one of the most
promising coal properties in New Mex
leo is being developed by syndicate
of FL Pasoans on the Cebolleta grant,
about thirty-five miles northwest of
Cubero, station on the Santa Fe rail-
road, in Valencia county.
Ben Johnson was acquitted by jury
in the Superior Court at Phoenix OF
charge of murder arising out of the
fatal shooting of Paul Legerski at the
latter's ranch near Humboldt, Septem-
Der "a last, when Johnson was consta-
BILE of Humboldt precinct.
At a recent meeting of the Roswell
council it was voted to improve the
fire fighting equipment of the city by
building tower for the drying of the
. hose and to remodel the entire build
ing so that it will be one of the most
7 modern in the state of New Mexico.
Arizona copper companies are suf-
t fering from competition from their
own copper, cleaned from the battle
0 fields of France and used over again,
T according to Henry Edwards, an Eng
! lish mining engineer in Prescott. Ed
4 wards said that large amounts of sal
{ vaged copper are being used in Eng
I land and that the country has enough
|, on hand to last for an indefinite
period.
: L. NJ. Reynolds, president of the Hol
e brook, Ariz., state bank which closed
r it's doors recently, has been arrested in
u u Phoenix on warrant obtained by de
). positors of the institution charging hin
:, with embezzlement. After the bank
l had suspended business, it Is charged
= Reynolds removed $4,000 worth of Sc
t curities and turned them over to coun
= ty supervisors to protect county depos
8 its.
t The sixteen Eillistas who have beer
a held at the peritentiary under an in
e junction since they were pardOnet
E: shortly before Thanksgiving day, wer'
5 rearrested by deputy sheriff from
2 Luna county, n. M.
g The first shipment to be mode by th
4 Calumet-New Mexico Mining and Mill
ing Company at Pinos Altos, near Sill
4 YER City, N. NJ, occurred when car
1 load of zinc concentrates was shippe
l. TO the Western Metals Company of Ok
- l0homa.
n Reports on crop conditions Decem
Is ber 1 by the Department of Agricul
Is ture, through the office of State Stats
r tician r. F. Hare, estimates that NeN
H. Mexico has planted this season 284,Oc
acres. The condition of this wheat
last falls revised estimate of 25S,OO
x scres. Thee onditlOn of this wheat
90 per cent normal, compared to
r condition Of 9S per cent fo" last year
cop at this time. If conditions rt
uain favorable, New Mexico will pro
IL duce the largest wheat crop it has eve
" produced. The acreage Of the rye Gro
d. In New Mexico is estimated at only D
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