The St. Johns herald., 1922-09-07
Southwest News
 From All OUeT NeW Mexico
 and Arizona

Springs and Benson, which will be nee
 essary by the proposed irrigation pro
 ject of the San Pedro Water Users Association, will be about $2,O00,000, it became known recently.
 John T. O'Rourke was drowned in the Rio Grande at Fl Paso when an
 automobile he was driving plunged down a ten-foOt embankment into deep water. A passerby, attracted by hat floating on the water, dived and found the machine with the dead driver seated at the wheel.
 At joint meeting of the Santa Cruz county board of supervisors and the county highway commission 1t was de cided to build a bridge costing approx imately $16,000 across Sonoita creek at Patagonia. The structure will span the creek on the new state highway between Patagonia and Cochise county.
 Harry Ellington Brook, MD, of Los Angeles, who writes in the Los An geles Times on "The Care of the Body" which feature has thousands of regular readers, at one time made his home in Tombstone as the editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, then being conducted by John O. Dunbar, now of Phoenix.
 Construction of the new mill for the StargO Mines, Inc, in the Clifton, Ariz-, district, is being pushed and it is expected that the plant which will han dle 150 tons daily, will be completed by the 18th of September. The Stargo Company, which is controlled by Ben jamin GetzOff of New York, is now employing about fifty men.
 The new railroad, extending from LucerO, on the National Lines of Mex leo to the properties of the Ahumada Lead Company, and the Erupcion Min ing Company of Warren, Ariz., which are located in the Los Lamentos dis Hict of Chihuahua, has been cOmplet- ed Shipments of about POO tons of lead ore will soon begin to the E Paso Smelter.
 Members of Fred Hilburn post, American Legion, met recently in Douglas to discuss definite plans for entertainment of the delegates to the state convention to be held in Doug las Sept. IS, 19 and 20. w. J. Murphy, chairman Of the entertainment com mittee, presented an outline of a pro gram the committee has prepared, which includes several novel and in- tereStlng numbers.
 Several hundred men have been added to the United Verde Copper Company payroll with the operation of third reverberatory at the Clark dale, Ariz., smeIter. Near Jerome steam shOvels are handling some 5000 yards of material & day and are ap- preaching the old mine workings, from which 1t is expected large tonnage of good smelling ore will be obtained The recently completed OOttrell fume treating plant is now in operation.
 Mating customs in vogue for count less generations among Indians on the Camp Verde reservation, fifty miles east of Prescott, are to be suppIanted AS S0(O OJ (AO A4dA4ldl AdWS O1 tue white man. Supt. J. O. Barnd of the reservation was busy recently issuing marriage licenses, and five ceremon- les were performed as the first of a series of weddings in wholesale lots we are attempting to make these peo- pie feel they are mating as human be- ings and not as animals" remarked Superintendent Barnd Sam Jimula and woman who has been his mate for thirty years after the custom of the MOhave Apache Indians, were the veterans of the unique group that 1 faced local justice of the peace.
 That the War Department has no knowledge of a contemplated aban- donment of Camp Harry J. Jones, as was rumored in Douglas recently, and | that repairs to the buildings and an increase in the personnel Is being con templated is the information con- tained in two letters from Secretary | Weeks to Representative Carl Hay | den, copies of which were received by | George B. Buxton, president of the | Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines. The letters were replies to Representative Hayden's inquiries made at the behest of the Chamber of | Commerce.
 The city council is calling for bids for the paving of six blocks of Allen | street in the business district of Tomb stone. Paving of five miles of state | highway will start soon. The addition to the grammar school is to be com pleted within two weeks. Work on the Union High school will soon be | under way. It is an $SOOOO project.