The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-05-12
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1.-The Colorado and ella rivers must
be damned by holding back In reser-
voirs their destructive strength he
asserted. These floods and their force
can be utilized for power and land
reclamation"
The Tucson High School baseball
team captured the high school cham
| pionship at Tucson by defeating the
ella Academy nine, 2 to 1, in the third
and deciding game of the University
Week tournament staged at Tucson.
The work of clearing the ground for
the new First National Bank building
in Albuquerque has been started and
actual construction will be started
soon. When completed the new build
| ing will cost over half a million dol
lars.
| The summer conference Of the Prot
estant Episcopal missionary district of
New Mexico and West Texas will be
held In Las Vegas July 5-15. Decision
| to hold the conference there was made
at the conyocation, held in Las Vegas
last February.
Manganese shipments from the Bos-
| ton Hill district near Silver City have
been heavy recently, most of the ore
going to the plants of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company at Pueblo, Colo
A large force of men Is now employed
at the mines.
A prairie fire, which started in one
| of the cations of Roy, n. M, burned
over several sections recently, and
came near destroying the homes Of sew
eral ranchers The fact that there was
little wind probably saved the homes
| OF many of the ranchers
Thousands of little trout will be
placed in the streams of Colfax cOun-
| ty this spring by the sportsmen Of RAJ
| ton, n. M. A shipment of 10000 was
placed In the streams in the Cimarron
country. All were from the hatchery
on the Pecos and arrived in good con-
dition.
At the request of the mothers OF the
city, the Hot Springs, N. NJ, council
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the future all the kiddies must be off
the streets by 9 O'clock in the evening.
| Several of the mothers have offered to
act as night marshal of the town to
see that this is enforced.
A new western empire with an as
semblage of industries that will aston
| ish the world will result from harness
ing of the Colorado river, Colonel Will
| liam A. Glassford declared at q dinner
in Phoenix of the National Reclama-
ton Association. He is chairman of
the associations committee on organ
ization.
The progress of Arizona can be
traced with accuracy by the develop
ment of her road building, Governor
Thos. E. Campbell told delegates to the
United States Good Roads Association
in an address of welcome which fea-
tured the opening program of the ma
tional convention recently held in
Phoenix.
Selection of Greenville, S. c., as the
1923 convention city of the United
States Good Roads and the Bankhead
National Highway Associations; re-
election of all national officers of the
Bankhead Association, and adoption of
a report recommending extension of
the Bankhead system to Mexico City
were features of the closing session of
the two good roads organizations an
nual joint meeting at Phoenix.
Plats have been filed in Lordsburg,
n. NJ, for the new town OF Virden, To-
Gated in some of the best farming coun-
try of the upper ella river country.
There are already several houses on
the new site and streets have been laid
out running east, west, north and
south. A tree planting campaign will
be started soon.
Nogales recently entertained one of
the largest crowds of Out-Of-tOwn Wis
itors in it's history. Fully 1900 people
visited from Phoenix, Tucson and 9th
sr points, attracted by bull fight held
in Plaza Reforma in Nogales, Sonora,
| in honor of delegates to the United
States Good Roads and Bankhead Ma
tional Highway Associations conven-
| tons, concluded at Phoenix.
Hugh Kennedy, II, of Mayfield,
Okla, died while en- route to a Pres
colt hospital from Ash Fork, as a re-
suit of gunShot wounds and injuries
| sustained in fall from an east bound
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe freight
train near Seligman, Ariz. Kennedy
who partially recovered consciousness
before his death, told officers that he
| had been thrown from the train after
having been shot twice by an unknown
travelling companion.
From $3.50 to $3.50 ton on cotton
seed from Las Cruces to FL Paso is the
reduction announced by w r. Brown.
| general freight agent of the Santa F6
| Railway Company at Ell Paso, in a let
| ter to Robert p. Porter, head of the
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