Taiban Valley news., 1921-08-19
Southwest News
From All Ouer
NeW Mexico
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cars Tor each working uay Oh lue
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
NJ, by the Redland-New Mexico OIL
| Company, the contract calling for
hole 1000 feet deep unless oil is found
at a lesser depth.
The balance on hand in the state
treasury on June 80, 1921, was $2,S64,'
31S.04, as compared with $2,651, ,O19.5s
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 $84,171, which is new rec
| ord for the city for the year. This is
the highest since 1920 when the mark
was over 100000.
Canning of the tomato crop in the
Mimbres valley, N. NJ, 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. NJ, 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. NJ, will ship about 1900
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 ten days search in the noun
tains near Las Vegas, N. NJ, all hopes
of finding the body of Kenneth Her
ron, who was lost last fall while hunt
ing, were given up. 1t 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, 1t
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.
i, Recent rains in practically all parts
of Arizona have tended to improve
road conditions with the exception OF
q 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, 1913, III
fixed by the Tax Commission of New
Mexico on May stands as the 1871
valuation, ]. e. Saint, chairman, stat
ed. The valuation, which falls $685.
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 dlsallowed and raised the
valuation more than $8,000,000.
An important link in the main high
way eastward from Phoenix will be
reconstructed 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 jun elton 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. NJ, 1t 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 connec
with the scenic highway over thu
Block range. The second section vii
be from the ella river west to th'
county line, and is also Of great i'm
portance as it will connect with th'
; route to Mogollon. With all the routes
completed Grant county will hav'
some Of the finest roads in the South
west.
Papers in the appeal Of the Arizon'
Power Company, appellant, VS.. 9. Ben
jamin Hayes, administrator of the es
tate of the late II. w. Griffith, appel
lee, were filed in the State Suprem
Court. The power company is appeal