The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Serice.)

wheat. This is an average of over 50 cars for each working day of the month.
 An order drawing a grand jury of twenty-One members to report on Aug. 20 has been signed in the Yavapai County Superior Court at Prescott. No specific investigations were mentioned in the order.
 A new oil we'll will soon be spudded in on the tract north of Columbus, N. M., by the Redland-New Mexico Oil | Company, the contract calling for a hole 1000 feet deep unless oil is found at lesser depth.
 The balance on hand in the state treasury on June 30, 1921, was $2,S64,- 31S.O4, as compared with $2,651, ,019.55 on July l, 1920, according to the annu- al report of State Treasurer Raymond Earhart of Arizona.
 Building permits for the month of July in Albuquerque reached the high mark of $84, I'll, which is a new rec ord for the city for the year. This is the highest since 1920 when the mark was over $1OO,OOO.
 Canning of the tomato crop in the Mimbres valley, N. M, has been start ed, and in spite of the blight which struck the vines the early part of the season it is thought that the crop will equal that of last year.
 The harvesting of the big apple crop of the Roswell, N. M., valley has been started and indications are that it will compare favOrably with that of other years, and on account of the high quality will bring higher price.
 Artesia, N. M., will ship about 1,2OO carloads of apples during the fall months. The crop this year Is said to be of unusually good quality although the yield is small. There will be a good peach crop in the Hope country.
 After a ten days search in the noun tains near Las Vegas, N. M., all hopes of finding the body of Kenneth Her ron, who was lost last fall while hunt ing, were given up. It is thought that the fate of the boy will never be known.
 Thousands of acres of land in the Santa Cruz county oil district have been leased in Arizona. Representa- tives of the State Land Department located about all the forestry land, it is said, but whether it was all located for the state, or some for private indi- viduals, is not known.
 The contract for the new highway from Magdalena to Wolf Wells, ten miles west, has been let and the work will be pushed to completion as fast as possible. This is part of the main road to the Arizona line and for some time has been one of the worst stretches in that part of the state.
 Recent rains in practically all parts of Arizona have tended to improve road conditions with the exception of a few points where the highways have been badly washed and culvertS are out, according to information received by the state headquarters of the Auto mobile Club of Arizona from its thirty local representatives.
 The railroad valuation of $95,63S,777 fixed by the Tax Commission of New Mexico on May 5 stands as the 1921 valuation, J. E. Saint, chairman, stat ed. The valuation, which falls $5,466,- 419 below the 1920 valuation, allows the depreciation which drew Governor Mechem's protest and which the tax commission, as the result of his de- mand, later disallOwed and raised the valuation more than $8,0OO,OOO.
 An important link in the main high way eastward from Phoenix will be constructed this fall, bids having been asked by the state engineer for three-mile stretch of eighteen-foOt-wide concrete paving from the end of the Phoenix paving eastward on the Tenn pie road to Junction with the state highway at the Grand canal.
 Announcement has been made that work On the road from Clifton, Ariz., will be started soon and with the work on the two projects in Grant county, N. M, it will mean that the dam to dam highway will be opened within the next year. This will mean much to Grant county, as this will be one of the finest transcontinental routes in the entire West. The first work in the county will be on the stretch from Santa Rita and Sherman to connect with the scenic highway over the Block range. The second section will l be from the Gila river west to the | county line, and is also of great i'm l norfonno oS ft will oOnnoOt with tho |