Williams news., 1921-06-24
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NeU Mexico
 and ArIzOnd
(western Nexspaper Union News serviee.)

| Ofk CeIcDTdIlOu IOT Ihc OoILk O1 uly
 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 l filling station at Dos LunaS The | roads in the Socorro district are said | to be in good condition.
 l While cleaning double-barrel shot | gun, pr. w. J. Lee, well known physi- l elan 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
 s1OO,OOO
 There Is no Restitution among the
 Mexican miners at Jerome, Ariz., des-
 bite the fact that between 15O and POO
 mine workers have been discharged
 there, P. K. MiInes, 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 Cafion 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 | 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 the business men of the city are carried out. splendid camp ground | has been selected about twenty miles north of the city in the tall pines, and this will be equipped with a real log Hf s,I, f<~,, of a 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 -he county. There are 2,30S farms in he county operated by the owners and ,nly 344 by tenants. The nearest ap- 1roach to this record is Colfax coun- V, where $50 of the farms are oper- lted by the owners and POP by tenants. | The report shows that out of the g. i4S farms in the entire county only our of them are operated by colored armers.
 William H. Evans, 40 years old, Of JOS Angeles, Calif, died in a hospital It Phoenix as result of broken l leck, which he suffered in an auto- mobile accident. The accident oc- urred four and one-half miles east of when the automobile in which Ivans was riding coIlided with a milk ruck from the state hospital for the nsane
 An address by Governor M. c. Iechem of New Mexico will be a fea- z ure of the celebration to be held on l he Fourth of July at the official ( pening of the new highway over the Slack Range. A big meeting of the hambers of commerce of Silver City, Iillsboro and Hot Springs will be held <, hortly, when the plans for the cele ration will be completed
 AS previously announced, Wilcox, rig, will have Fourth of July cele- ration to begin Saturday, July 2, and [ lSt until Monday evening, July 4. [ turing the celebration a number of cal sports will be featured, including h Orse races, baseball games, foot races nd other sports, with dancing Satur- ay and Monday nights of the celebra- A on and a big free barbecue. T Several people were injured, none se- OuSly, when the northbound train on anta Fe, N. NJ, went into the ditch