Taiban Valley news., 1921-02-25

| Inc l0nQ commission resolution,
placing a bipartisan board of three
members in charge of the states lands
has been passed by the New Mexico
Senate without opposition.
Fire which broke out in the pump
shaft of the Old Dominion mine at
| Globe, Ariz., was eXtinguished after
| fifteen hours work by the mine rescue
crew and other company employees.
The New Mexico House passed the
Frisco county bill, after accepting an
amendment by r. l.. Baca of Santa
| Fe to call the new county created in
western Socorro tom Catron county,"
The Hecla Divide Mining Company,
| which has been operating the PinOs AL
tOs mines, near Silver City, has Or
| dered suspension of all work until the
title of the property can be cleared.
In, the three months it has been open
the Baptist hospital in Clovis, N. NJ,
has taken care of ninetyfour children
from all over the eastern part of the
state.
Miss G. Louise Boehringer Of Yuma
was elected first president of the Ari-
zona State Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs, organized
in Phoenix. Mrs, Rosemary Campbell
of Prescott was elected auditor.
Governor Campbell signed the
House Bill No. 13, appropriating $5,-
600 to the secretary of state to be APP
piled in meeting expenses of the mo-
tor vehicle department until the end
of the fiscal year. The bill carried the
emergency clause.
The gravest problems that have ev-
er confronted the livestock industry in
New Mexico are coming up for consid-
Grafton at the seventh annual conven-
tiOn of the New Mexico Cattle and
Horse Growers Association, which
meets in Albuquerque March %, 30
and 81.
At recent meeting of the Gallup,
N. NJ, school board the plans for the
new high school building which were
submitted by T. G. Gaastra of Santa
FG were accepted as those by which
the new building will be constructed.
The new building will cost over $780,.
900, the. money having been voted in
bonds over a year ago.
The cotton season for the Carlsbad, n.
NJ, prOjectis now over and estimates
show that in spite of the low price
during the year the crop will be worth
million dollars. The grand total for
the valley is 6,772 bales, which if the
season had been a normal one in price
would have brought the farmers over
one and half million dollars.
I AT a shoftNsession in the Douglas
Chamber of Commerce and mines di-
rectors, the directors decided to post
-pone, -A4defnitely the proposed meet
ing of representatives sfroM @FSsxi
tRR Important towns alonatlsAAPag
<!ead highway from Ell PasQ 10 Sap
Dfgo in Douglas, Feb, 26,' ''c!nled No
-foSpplate plans to prOmSte iAAGtyafS'
tourist travel via this routes: - twa.
I, The adoption of the Arizona .lneth-
od for the valuation of the metal mines
is provided for I'm bill by Speaker
Clancy and Representative Otero, San
to, Fe county, New Mexico, introduced
in the House. The bill, briefly speak
Ing, provides for the capitalization of
the net proceeds and fixes the multi
pliers for the process. These range
from 10 per cent for copper mines to
30 per cent for metal mines whose out
put is irregular
Over sixty delegates were present at
the seventh annual convention of the
New Mexico Electrical Association in
Albuquerque.
William Owens is In a critical con-
dition in the hospital at Carlsbad as
the result of stabblng affray at a
road camp. The real cause of the fight
10 hstsknOwn, but during an argument
with his uncle, Ray Rawls,= Owens was
stabbed several times and was brought
to the Eddy hospital where it is doubt
full If he will recover. Rawls was
placed under arrest
Governor Thomas L. Campbell of
AIiHOud mas SlRneu lIle Dill repeating
the law which prohibited members of
the Legislature from holding state Of
flee during the two-year period of
their service as lawmakers. The bill
was introduced by Representative ].
f. McGrath, Greenlee. The governor
also signed House Bill No. Is, Repre-
sentative ]. G. Phillips, Maricopa, pro-
vidlng for distribution of community
property to the surviving husband or
wife and their children. The law
heretofore has given other relatives
outside the immediate family a claim
to share in such community prop
erty.
The time for the holding of the spe-
cial election at which the cohstltu-
tional amendments passed by the New
Mexico Legislature will be submitted
to the electors Of the state is fixed as
the Third Tuesday in September next,
by a bill introduced by Wright. -
Delegates to the Arizona Good
Roads associations, annual meeting
numbered over a hundred and repre-