The St. Johns herald., 1922-01-05
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu MexiCO
 and Arizona
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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. NJ. The new plant will man. ufacture automatic hay balers and by early spring 1t is planned to employ a force of about 1900 men.
 The Bank of Commerce of Taiban, Roosevelt county, New Mexico, has closed, State Bank Examiner J. B. Read has announced. He gave as the reason that the bank was OverlOaned. It has a capital stock of $25.0OO and surplus of 5000 and individual depos- its on Sept 26, when the last state ment was made, were $50,000.
 Roy Pearce of Albuquerque, N. M, 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 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 150,0O0 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 cavalry of the New Mexico National Guard at Deming has perfect ed it's organization and most of the equipment has been received. There are now more than the required num- ber 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 PrOOmcOrn and Warehouse As sOciatiOn of POrtales, \. M., 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 CafiOn 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 $56,000 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 H. J. Karns. It is al- legged in the complaint that Karns, as administrator, refused to acknowledge ObregOns claim against the estate, when it was presented to him. Obre- gOn claims that Vielldent, who died last spring, owed him $56,O0O, for mOn ies advanced Vielldent.
 The 1922 annual convention of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Grow CTS Association will be held March 20 and 21 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 meeting and referred to the resOlu- tiOns committee. Further action will probably be deferred until the 1922 convention.
 It is probable that most of the com mercial travel from Phoenix to Globe, hereafter, will be handled over the Mi ami-SuperiOr highway, for which the opening date now is set at April l. At this time, probably at Miami, will be great celebration, for which plans have been made by representatives from Globe, Superior and Miami. This road will cost about $900,000.
 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 a request of raw asbestos prOduc- CTS in his state for a tariff duty of 30 cents a pound on this product, which is now on the free list. Senator Ash