The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-20
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

under construction for some time at
Ration, n NJ, will soon be opened.
The old Hardness hotel at Cerrillos,
n. NJ, frame building, erected in
| 1879, was destroyed by fire recently.
Plans are now under way for the
establishing Of Il golf club at Fort Bay
ard, n. NJ, and the building OF
| course.
Steck shipping in the vicinity OF
! Carrizozo, n NJ, has been heavy, over
5000 sheep and SEQ steers going to the
Kansas City markets
Through the efforts of some OF the
good road enthusiasts of Gallup, n. NJ,
the main highway from Gallup to Zunl
has been signboarGed.
One hundred and nineteen thousand
acres of government land in Arizona,
! all in Mohave and Yuma counties, will
be thrown open to soldier settlement.
| The contractors on the Tombstone
Bisbee paving have laid about 6O0 feet
| of new paving since they started work
again.
Firing at what he believed was
wild turkey moving in the twilight,
| Andy Erickson of Flagstaff, Ariz.,
shot and instantly killed Erick Erland,
| his chum.
| ST Lyons, 60-year-old teamster at
| Globe, AriZ., mine, was instantly
killed when an automobile in which he
was sitting, was backed over q fifteen
| foot embankment.
Pleasant Hill, merchant of ESpano-
la, n. NJ, and Republican candidate
| for state corporation commissioner
was shot and seriously wounded few
days ago at EspanOla.
The Ramaho Mining Company in the
| Tres Hermanas district, near Deming,
| n NJ, is doing considerable develop
ment work on its claims and Il large
force of men is already ut work.
Unconfirmed reports are prevalent
in Phoenix that, on Nov. ], the South
ern Pacific. will take over and operate
the Arizona Eastern railroad as
part of the Southern Pacific system.
Tony Hill, who recently obtained a
lease on the Copper World and Antler
mines, situated about fourteen miles
east of Yucca, Ariz., has shipped Il 40
ton carload of good grade copper to
the smelter.
Word received from the Shea mine
near Jerome, AriZ., is to the effect that
the shaft now some seventy-five feet
l>oIo ;e l,o
best ore that has yet been opened on
the property.
Charged with the murder Of Walter
Steinbrook at Turkey Creek, Yavapai
county, Ariz in December, 1920, Frank
La Grange and his wife, arrested at
Globe, were taken to Prescott by Sher-
iff Joe Dillon.
The Houston Thomas mine in the
PinOs Altos district, near Silver City,
n. NJ, is rushing the development
work at the mines as rapidly as possi
bic and at the present time is ship
ping about 125 tons daily.
According to reports received by the
cattle sanitary board, hundreds of cat
tie in different parts of New Mexico
are dying from the lack of feed and
water. Arizona has been asked to lift
the quarantine on cattle and it is like
ly that many will be shipped to the
ranges of that state.
While JuareZ was calming down
from it's siX-hour revolution the Ell Paso
Chamber of Commerce was counting
it's votes on whether the international
bridges should be closed at 6 D. M in
stead of II 80 a. IN. as at present. The
vote was 495 for the II 80 closing
hour to 100 for 6 p. m.
The three convicts who escaped
from the Arizona penitentiary recent
ly were recaptured at point between
the towns of Gilbert and Chandler
The Sportsmen's Association of
Southwestern New Mexico elected of
ficers for the ensuing year as follows :
Col. G. ). -urner, president: f. NJ
Sawyer, Tyrone vice president; Mai
Charles A. Copeland, Fort Bayard
vice president; DR.. W. H. Chaplin, Sill
yer City, secretary and treasurer.
The state of New Mexico has ap-
proXimately $4,000 acres of land leased
for drilling in San Juan county in the
region between the gassers in the Az
tee neighbOrhoOd and the gusher re-
Gently reported brought in by the Mid
west Oil Co., near Shiprock, according
to Charles B. Barker, land office at
torney.
According to plans of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company about TWEEN
ty-fiye miles of ninety-steel rails will |
be laid in the Bowie district during
the next few months to replace the 70 |
pound rails that are now in use. The
company plans 10 put down fifty miles |
on the Tucson division The other
twenty-five miles will be laid out OF
FL Paso west.