Taiban Valley news., 1921-12-30
Southwest News
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out, the concrete work on one of the
largest factories In the state will be
started by the first of the year at De-
ming, n. M. The new plant will man
ufacture automatic hay balers and by
early spring tits planned to employ a
force of about 1900 men.
The Bank of Commerce Of Taiban,
Roosevelt county, New Mexico, has
closed, State Bank Examiner ]. B.
Read has announced. He gave as the
reason that the bank was overloaned.
1t has a capital stock of $4,000 and
surplus Of 5000 and individual depos-
Its on Sept. 26, when the last state
ment was made, were $4,000.
; Roy Pearce Of. Albuquerque, N NJ,
was sentenced to serve 100 days in
the county Jail in the court Of Judge
Mcclellan ON the charge of carrying
concealed weapons. When arrested
Pearce had a pistol in his pocket and
his companion had his pockets full of
cartridges. jenkins, the companion Of
Pearce, went up" for thirty days.
Probably few people realize that
Roosevelt county, New Mexico, is now
the sweet potato center Of the South
west and that this year over 10000
bushels have been harvested in this
one county alone. Owing to the lack Of
rain all the crop this year was har-
vested in the best condition and the
quality is the best ever produced in
the state.
Troop G cavalry of the New Mexico
National Guard at Deming has perfect
ed its organization and most of the
equipment has been received. There
are now more than the required num-
Der of men enlisted although some are
away attending college at different
parts of the country. All the horses
are in good condition and drills are be-
ing held every week.
The Broomcorn and Warehouse AS
sociation Of Portales, N. NJ, has closed
it's first years business and the re-
ports show that the season has been a
most successful one. The principal
work of the last season has been the
finding of markets for the product
and this has been done to such an ex-
tent that most of the crop has been
shipped out in car load lots.
Contracts are to'be awarded at once
for construction Of material sections
of the main highway through Prescott,
from Ash Fork to the southern county
line, at Canon. The Black Canon
route, the shortest to Phoenix, is to be
improved through Yavapai county,
without reference to the accept
ance by the state of the Wickenburg
route, between the two cities.
Suit for $4,000 has been filed in the
Superior Court of Santa Cruz county,
Arizona, by President Alvaro Obregon
of Mexico, against the administrator
of the Numa Vielldent estate. The ad
ministrator is II. j. Karns. 1t is al
legged in the complaint that Karns, as
administrator, refused to acknowledge
Obregon's claim against the estate,
when it was presented to him. Obre-
gon claims that Vielldent, who died
last spring, owed him $56,000, for mon
les advanced Vielldent.
The 1922 annual convention of the
New Mexico Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association will be held March 20
and 81 in Las Vegas, N. NJ, the execu-
tive board has announced. The atti-
tude TO be adopted by the association
toward the packers going into retail
business and the question of lower
leases and rentals on state grazing
lands were considered at a recent
and referred to the resolu-
tions committee. Further action will
probably be deferred until the 1922
convention.
1t is probable that most of the com
mercial travel from Phoenix to Globe,
will be handled over the Mi
highway, for which the
opening date now is set at April 1. At
this time, probably at Miami, will be
a great celebration, for which plans
have been made by representatives
from Globe, Superior and Miami. This
road will cost about 100000.
Governor Campbell of Arizona, ac-
companied by Senator Ashurst, from
the same state, invited President
Harding to attend the 1922 convention
of the United States Good Roads As
sociation next spring at Phoenix, Ariz.
The President said his plans would
not enable him to attend, but he might
visit Arizona later in the summer, dur
ing his expected tour of the West.
Senator Ashurst, Arizona, has trans
mitted to the Senate finance commit
tee request of raw asbestos produc-
ers in his state for tariff duty of 30
cents a pound on this product, which
Is now on the free list. Senator Ash
urst said If the asbestos mining indus
try was given protection, it could pro-
duce within five years sufficient Of
this material to supply the American
market.
The agricultural essay contest which
was such pronounced hit during the
last Farm and Home Week at the uni
versity at Tucson, Ariz., will be re-
peated this year. Last year the State
Bankers Association was the force