The St. Johns herald., 1922-01-26
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and Arizona
(westsrn Newspaper Union News Service. )

Six hundred and four persons were
 married in San Miguel county, New
 Mexico, during the year 1921. The rec
 ords at the office of the county clerk
 show that total of BOP licenses were
 issued during the year.
 The macadimizing of the new road
 between Deming, N. M., and Mongolia
 station has been completed and is
 open to traffic. It is said to be the
 finest stretch of highway in the entire
 state.
 It is reported that nearly 100 houses
 in Aztec, N. M., are now using the
 gas from the well of the Aztec Oil
 Syndicate. Gas will be used to light and heat the school building as soon as the piping is completed.
 Harry E. Vernon, county engineer of MaricOpa county, Ariz., and a brother of Guy r. Vernon, chairman of the MaricOpa county board of supervisors, was found dead on the rear seat of his automobile on a road four miles east of Phoenix. It is believed that he died from an attack of acute indigestion.
 That long staple cotton will become one of the principal crops of the PecOS valley in New Mexico is indicated by the success made on the irrigated farms this year. The staple is said to have done the best in the Carlsbad project where it is sold for from 26 to 31 cents per pound and most of 1t av- eraged bale to the acre.
 The total gross production of the mines of Arizona for the year 1920 was $102, 2,086, ,366, according to figures furnished the State Tax Commission. Gold, silver, copper, lead and all other metals mined here are included in a table of counties compiled by the com mission. GiIa county is credited with the greatest production in the amount of $31, ,S55,O79..
 Tombstone will soon have the larg- est school band in the state of Ari- zOna, according to the plans of Profess sOr TilfOrd of the Tombstone schools. It will have fifty-one pieces. The school board contributed to a fund for the purchase of some of the more ex- pensive pieces, while the parents of the members of the band will buy the other instruments.
 Much excitement prevails around Vaughn, N M., over the fact that the contract has been let for the first deep test we'll for oil in this part of the state, and many believe that Vaughn will he the center of one of the biggest oil fields in the state. Several geOlO- gists have gone over the ground and, according to their reports, the outlook for commercial oil is good.
 Exports through the port of Nogales, Ariz., in December tOtaled $56S,571, and imports $112,916, according to the report of Collector of Gus toms Charles L. Fowler Exports and imports at other border points for the month follows: Douglas, exports, 234,- 598 imports, $3,24O; NacO, exports, S98,S53; imports, $31 ,S45; Yuma, ex- ports, $3,649 imports, $SS.
 If the plans of the city commission ers of Albuquerque are carried out, | four bond issues will be submitted to he voters at the coming spring cleo | ion. The projects include a storm | sewer system at a probable cost of | S85,000; extensions of the sewer Sys- | em at a probable cost of $4O,OOO; the erection of a new water reservoir at a | cost of $5O,00O, and the build ng of a sewage disposal plant at a cost of $115,OOO.
 Wolves are reported to be doing nuch damage to live stock in the May ill district of the Lincoln National Orest in New MexicO and local ranch nen are offering a reward of $1OO per jcalp for the animals.
 Suit to condemn approximately 190 lcres of mining claims in the Winfield mining district along Cave creek to be covered by water which will be i'm bounded by the construction of the flood control dam across Cave creek, was started in the SupeE- or Court against the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company by the state f Arizona, MaricOpa county, the city f Phoenix, the Paradise-Ver Irriga- ion district and the Salt River Valley Water Users Association.
 O. c. Parker, president of the Ari- ona Good Roads Association, has just ssued a call for the annual meeting of he association to assemble at Nogales an. g and 24 Governor Thomas E. Campbell has accepted an invitation to e present and address the gathering. AmOng those who have been invited 0 be present and speak are Governor 'eneral Angel Flores of the state of inalOa, Mexico, and the Hon. ThOs. l. Mcdonald, chief of the bureau of