The St. Johns herald., 1922-12-28
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu Mexico
 and Arizona

I
 General Contractors of America.
 Three Mexicans escaped from the Wilcox jail recently. In some way they had obtained saw and made an opening large enough to make their escape.
 L. B. EasOn, night foreman at the sawmill of the Mckinley Land and Lumber Company at Albuquerque, was smOthered to death when caught in a cave in of sawdust.
 The concrete work for the new vault of the Silver City National Bank Is all completed and when the entire struc- ture is finished it will be one of the finest vaults of its kind in New Mex icO.
 Lieut.. Col. J. G. Scrugham, governor elect of Nevada and well-knOwn throughout the West, will be one of the speakers of the Prosperity Con ventiOn" of the Arizona Industrial Congress which will be held in PhOe- nix, Dec. IS and 19.
 A mill of 800 tons capacity is to be installed at an early date at the prop erty of the Young Mines Company of YOungsberg, AriZ., and production is expected to start not later than next March, according to George U. Young president and general manager of the company. Considerable development work has been done and new machin- cry installed at the mine.
 Although the Phelps-DOdge Corpora tiOn has 800 men at work at its MOr- enci (Ariz.) branch, Capt. J. F. Hodg- son, general manager, has stated that they would be glad to have another 100 or 150. This number is needed at once to take care of the additional work planned by the company. A school has been started to teach green" miners modern methods em- plOyed.
 Henry Williams, Jr., aged 16 years, of Estancia, N. M, killed himself re- gently by placing pistol against his head and pulling trigger. The boy had been to a nearby church and came home, passed up the stairs and was found a few minutes later lying on the floor of his room, dead. He had been attending school for some time and it was rumored that he had become de sponGent over boyish love affair.
 Eastern New Mexico has not been abandoned by oil experts in spite of the fact that several deep holes have been drilled in that section. GeOlO- giSts are now at work in the La Lande district and it is reported tha- the Me Gill Oil Company has agreed to put down test well on the property. The McGill we'll which was started several months ago will soon resume drilling and oil experts believed that the first pay sand will be found at not more than 1,200 feet.
 Water in the big Elephant Butte res ervOir is said to be lower at the pres ent time than 1t has been in the past two years, but if no more water runs in there will be enough to care for the irrigation in that section for at least another two years, according to the of ficials in charge. There are l 1,40O0OU acre feet of water in reserve, or enough to cover that many acres one foot deep in water. No water has flowed into the reservoir since July 20 of this year al-1 there are 100000 acre feet less water in it than at this time last year. When the reservoir was it's fullest last year it stored 1,993,613 acre feet.
 Clovis, N. M., has gone pack to the curfew days again and the police have been busy rounding up the youths of the city and sending them to their homes.
 Out of a class of seventeen appli- cants who took the regular semi-an- nual examination for admission to the Arizona bar in the Senate chambers at the Capitol, fourteen of the number passed successfully, according to re. port submitted to the Arizona Supreme Court by Judge Selim Franklin of Tue son, chairman of the state board of examiners for admission to the bar. Chief Justice H. D. Ross of the Su- preme Court administered the oath to the applicants and they were ad- mitted to practice on motion of Judge Franklin. Those who passed the ex- animation and were admitted to the bar were w. Denseil Campbell, Wesley F. Daines, Harry l. Howard, Benjamin F. Hunter and H. w. Ebbehadle, all of Phoenix; Russell L. Linton, Joaquin F. Moreno and Arthur R. Thompson, all of Prescott; Hugo B. Farmer of Yuma, DOdd L. Greer of COncO, Frederick A. Kuhn of Casa Grande, D. G. Pace of Bisbee. Dorothy H. Sargent of Tucson