The Holbrook news., 1921-04-01
Southwest News
 From All OUeT NeU Mexico
 and ArizOnQ
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service )

The records of County Treasurer
 Bayne of Grant county, N. M., show that in the month of February over $9O,O00 of the 1920 taxes were collect
 ed, the total of all the fees and taxes
 turned into the office being S92,S76
 Citizens of AlamogordO, N. M., are
 planning the construction of a public swimming pool. All are enthusiastic over the proposition and it is thought that pool will be big asset to the community.
 At a special meeting the Conner cial Club of Las Vegas, N M., decided that the Cowboys Reunion must be held again this summer if possible
 Secretary Root reported that some | $3,5O0 had been raised and that an effort would be made to get more.
 w. NJ. Elliott, foreman for the Dia- mOnd A Cattle Company and one of the best known stockmen in the vicinity of Silver City, N. M., is dead at his home from heart failure He had been d cat tie man of Grant county for many years.
 The Clovis, N. M., Gun Club, with fiji ty members in the initial organization, recently held a meeting for the cleo tion of officers, Milton Brown being chosen as the new president. A range will be fitted up soon and practice will be started by the team.
 Surveyors are now at work on the highway between COlfaX and Maxwell, N. M., and the work of grading the road will be started soon. The surfac- ing will be completed early in the sum- mer, thus making another main high way into Raton.
 A cotton gin in Roswell, N. M., to take, care of the seasons crop is now assured, according to the reports re- ceived since a meeting of the farmers which was recently held. Practically all the acreage needed has been Se- cured and the crop will be one of the principal ones of the valley during the coming season.
 Senate Bill No. 15S, amending the present law relating to the sale of bonds to secure the indebtedness of counties, school districts, cities, towns and other municipal corporations by changing the restriction upon the amount for which such bonds could be sold, was vetoed by Governor Thomas E. Campbell. The measure was passed by the last Legislature
 The farmers of Quay county, N. M., have shipped four car loads of broom corn to the eastern markets, this being the largest shipment of the season. The price paid to the growers was $T5 per ton, which means that the crop will bring neat sum to the farmers of this vicinity and will no doubt mean that the acreage will be greatly increased during the coming season.
 Arizona is a big factor in the mining world. This fact is clearly brought out in the list of officers and committees for 1921 for the American Mining Con gress. James S. Douglas, prominent mining man of the southern part of the state, is a member of the board of di- rectorS, while Norman Carmichael of the Arizona Copper Company in Cliff ton, is on the committee of state vice presidents.
 The Old Dominion Company, one of the oldest producers of copper in Ari- zOna, will discontinue operations In making this announcement, President Charles $. Smith stated that the com pany is carrying large surplus of cop per produced at high cost and for which there is no market. Operations will be reduced gradually over a per iod of several weeks until ore and coke on hand have been exhausted.
 The much discussed Arizona indus trial commission bill has been signed by the governor. The bill creates an industrial commission of three mem- bers, serving terms of two four and six years, each at a salary of $4,OO0 per year. The commission will appoint it's own secretary.
 An immediate embargo on imports of wool was suggested by the New Mexico Wool Growers Association in message sent to President Harding by President Pragermiller of the asso- ciatiOn. The decision to send the wire was reached after many wool growers in the state had voiced their opinion that an embargo would be the only chance of saving the wool growing in dustry from terrific financial damage.
 Oral argument before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the applica- ion of the Arizona railroads for in- creased rates was postponed. from March 26 to April 21, E. R. Raumaker Of the Southern Arizona Traffic Asso- ciation has been notified by letter. The lelay was caused by a similar battle in Wisconsin, which has reached such that it may result in being used as test case and may be a basis 1n which the Arizona case is settled.
 Two new automobiles sales agency buildings containing thirty-three cars, most of them secondhand, were de strOyed and one fireman was severely injured in a fire at Phoenix. Numer- )us explosions made the work of the firemen dangerous. Ed Evans, a vol lnteer fireman, was blown thity-five feet by one of the explosions and suf- fered bruises and cuts with possible in- ternal injuries. The buildings which | were burned were completed only last fall and were considered among the finest of their kind in the state.
 Governor Campbell of Arizona will | rO tO WaSbin 4t..