The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-08-25
Southwest News
From All Over
NoU Mexico
and Arizona

Cost of re-routing approximately Ill
teen miles of the Ell Paso & South
western railway tracks between Lewis
Springs and Benson, which will be nee
essary by the proposed irrigation pro-
ject of the San Pedro Water Users
Association, will be about 100000, it
became known recently.
John T. O'Rourke was drowned in
the Rio Grande at Ell 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, Owed 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 bridge costing approx
inately $4,000 across Sonoita creek at
Patagonia. The structure will span
the creek on the new state highway
between Patagonia and Cochise
county.
Harry Ellington Brook, ND, of Los
Angeles, who writes In the Los An
geles Times on 1.-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 Epitanh, then being
conducted by John o. Dunbar, now of
Phoenix
Construction of the new mill for the
Ariz., district, Is being pushed and it is
expected that the plant which will han
die $50 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
tsct of Chihuahua, has been complet-
ed Shipments Of about 200 tons of
lead ore viii soon begin to the Ell 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. 10 and 20. w. J. Murphy,
chairman OF the entertainment COM
mittee, presented an outline Of q pro
gram the committee has prepared,
which includes several novel and In
terestfng 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-, smelter. Near Jerome
steam shovels are handling some 5000
yards Of material a day and are ap-
preaching the old mine workings, from
which 1t Ia expected large tonnage of
good smelling ore will be obtained.
The recently completed Cottrell 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 supplanted
at once by the marital laws Of the
white man. Supt. J. 0. 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.
I'VE are attempting to make these peo-
pie feel they are mating as human be-
lngs 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
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-
tanned in two letters from Secretary
Weeks to Representative Carl Hay
den, copies Of which were received by
George e. 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. 1t is an $4,000 project.
The Fairbanks section of the Tomb
stone-Nogales section of the state
highway will be completed during the
next thirty days. Work starts soon
on the three-mile lateral from Hua-
cy%n 10 h. L.