Williams news., 1922-09-08
Southwest News From All OUer NeU Mexico
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 will be one of the fastest in the state. Mrs. Richard Scherer, who for sev i eral years has resided a few miles
 north of Aztec, N. M., committed sui | eide by hanging herself to the limb of | a tree.
 | William Shaw of Roswell, N. M is | now making plans for the erection of
 a new business block on South Second l street, which when completed will cost | over $15,OOO.
 The Anita Copper Company of Lords | burg, N. M., under the management of | G. w. Foreman, is now shipping and | milling some of the best ore that has been taken out of the shafts. The new S1OO,oOO school building in Portales, N. M., which has been under construction since the first of May, is
 nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy about the 18th of Sep tember.
 William $. Bourne, 49, is dead and
 James Mcclure, 36, is reported dying
 as result of a pistol duel at their
 camp near Prescott, Ariz., following
 McClure's unexpected return from Colorado.
 The Ray (Arizona) Consolidated
 Copper Company is preparing to in
 augurate a program of construction
 and expansion of operations and has
 sent out a call for laborerS and me
 chanicS of experience.
 Bert H. Calkfns, manager of Estan-
 cia, N. M-, for the past year, has filed
 suit in the District Court to recover
 $513 which he alleges Is due him for
 engineering services in planning the
 sewer system of the city
 Present indications are that the cop
 per shipments from the Douglas dis
 trict for the month of August will to- tai 14, 900, 900 pounds or more, exceed ing all monthly records since the smelt- | CTS closed down more than year ago
 A chase that began July 29 and ex- tended through four states, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, ended at Yuma, Ariz., recently, when Deputy Sheriff H. c. Parsons of Phoenix ar rested T. w. Burgain in connection with brutal killing near Prescott June 10 last of 1ver Enge of Phoenix
 Development work at the Last Chance mine near Lordsburg, N- M, is now going ahead rapidly and some of the best silver ore in this part of the state is being produced Most of the ore which has been taken from the mine will run $500 to the ton and the | big mill is operating with almost ideal | extraction
 Construction of a mountain top road | from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, is being | urged by many of the prominent busi- | ness men of Las Vegas. They are now | working on plans which will bep laced | before the next Legislature which will | provide for the building of the road l from the top of the Porvenir highway | over the range to the Ancient city.
 The first indication of a resumption | of industrial activity in the district, F following a complete shutdown of | more than a year, came recently with the announcement by Capt J. P. Hodg- son, manager of the Morenci branch of the Phelps Dodge, that 150 miners and muckers would be put to work ,immedi- ately in the mines of Morenci, Afiz.
 A reduction of $25O,OOO in the valu- ation of the producing mining claims of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Copper Queen branch, has been made by the Arizona State Tax Commission, which had previously placed the value at $47 ,305, ,3S0. The Shattuck-Arizona was granted decrease of $S22, ,3OS on a valuation of $2, S96, ,o54.
 George Leppes' of Albuquerque was fined $50 and costs for wreckless driv- l ing of auto. It is alleged that he | drove his car into the kitchen of the home of D. Valles on the Barelas road.
 A big meeting of the farmers of the valley was held in Fort Sumner, N. M, to make plans for some kind | of a system of selling the crops of the valley to the best advantage of all. The result of the meeting was that a | association was formed | through which all the products will be and it is likely that a truck inc from this city to Las Vegas will pc started and plans made to handle he crops in that city. I'll
 Announcement has been made by G. a. Cook of the Forest Service, who is chairman of the U. S. Department of Agriculture district committee on ex- libits, of the fairs in New Mexico and Arizona at which the department will ,e represented this year. Approval las been received for the department Il exhibit to be shown at the Northern New Mexico. Fair at Raten, N. M., Sept. 12 to 15, at the Northern Arizo- Ia Fair at Prescott, Ariz., Oct. 12 to { A. and at the Arizona State Fair at Phoenix, Get. 30 to Nov. A. ]
 A recent strike on the east end of he Tom Reed, near Oatman, Ariz., at ' he 800 level, is said to have developed i nto one of the most important in re- ent years. The vein is reported to