Taiban Valley news., 1921-11-25
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona


publisher of the Arizona Daily Star
and one of the most prominent crimi-
nal lawyers in Arizona, died at his
home in Tucson after long illness.
The general university extension
work for the year 1922 Is being -ac-
lively encouraged. The Woman's Club
Of Casa Grande, Ariz., has arranged
for series of six lectures during the
year.
Charles Clay, who for the past five
years has been in charge Of the hotel
at Jemez, N. NJ, will start this month
ON the erection of a new $4,000 hotel
which will be supplied with hot and
cold water direct from the springs.
The September record of the Bio
logical Survey of New Mexico, accord
ing to reports received at Albuquer-
que, is made up of two predatory bear,
seven wolves, six mountain lions, thir-
ty-seven coyotes and eleven bob cats.
Roy, n. NJ, Is to call another cleo
ton to vote ON bonds for the COM
pleting of the new school house. The
new building has been started, but
more money will be needed to finish
the work according to the original
plans.
Reports of the contractors of Las
Vegas, ~ NJ, show that there are now
under construction at the present
time twenty-three houses and several
business blocks. The total amount of
building in the city is estimated at
over $4,000
The contractor who is erecting the
new school building at Tres Piedras,
north of Taos, n. NJ, reports that the
concrete work on the building is COM
pleted and that the new school Will
be turned over to the board about the
middle of December.
MOntezuma valley came to the
front the past week in the effort to
secure a rail outlet from Pennington,
\. NJ, to the south. Several enthus-
iastic meetings were held and the
land subscriptions now total over ST.
100000 and there is still about sixty
days to raise the balance of $1,000,000.
Secretary de la Huerta of the Mexi-
can treasury department, issued a de-
cree abolishing the duty on cattle and
horses imported into Mexico, accord
ing to dispatches received at Nogales,
Ariz. Secretary de la Huerta was re-
ported to have said: Il take this
step to enable Mexican ranchers to
stock up with the best cattle obtain
able"
The Albuquerque office of the U. S.
forest service announces the promo
ton of J. H. Sizer of Roosevelt, Ariz.,
to forest supervisor of the Apache ma
tional forest, with headquarters at
Springerville, Ariz. Mr.. Sizer is not
new either to the service or to the
Apache forest, on which he was ct
one time ranger and later deputy su-
pervisor.
Arizona's College of Agriculture il
growing. The attendance is larger
than ever before. Extension work Ia
reaching more people in the state than
at any previous time. The agricul-
tural experiment station is better or.
ganized for effective research than
ever before. These facts furnish oc-
casion for making few comparisons
Of public interest.
J. A. Tatum, representative of the
Southwest Lumber Company Of Ala
mogordo, N. NJ, has just completed a
$500 mile trip through New Mexico
and Arizona and states that the cop
per mines in all sections of the south
west will soon be in operation. Mr.
Tatum thinks that most of the mines
will be running in the next six months
and some of them before that time.
The Tucson chapter of the Rotary
Club has appropriated the sum OF
$1,000 to form loan fund for the
purpose of helping some worthy stu.
dents of the University of Arizona OH
recommendation of the student loans
and scholarships committee
Miss Elsie Toles, state superintend-
ent of public instruction of Arizona
announced that she had apportioned
state school funds among the coun.
ties of the state. She said the appor-
tlOnment had been made in advance
of the usual time, which Is in Jan.
uary, for the benefit of counties where
funds have been exhausted and where
1t has been necessary to register war.
rants.
The Agricultural Science Club
headed by l.. E. Prudential, recent
ly organized at Las Cruces, N. NJ, to
bring the farmers of Dona Ana coun.
ty into closer touch with the New
Mexico Agricultural Colleges expert.
ment station and extension service, is
planning series of lectures on time
ly agricultural problems to be deliv'
cred over wireless telephone by ex-
perts connected with experiment sta.
tlons located within the radius of the
Las Cruces apparatus.
A committee Of fifteen has been
formed in Roswell, N. NJ, to assist In
the marketing of the livestock Of the
valley. A big meeting will be held
soon when all the livestock men OF