Williams news., 1922-08-25
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeD Mexico
 and Arizona

Cost of re-routing approximately fiji | teen miles of the Fl Paso & South l western railway tracks between Lewis | Springs and Benson, which will be nee | eSsary by the proposed irrigation pro- l ject of the San Pedro Water Users
 Association, will be about $2,OOO,O00, it | became known recently. John T. O'Rourke was drowned in | the Rio Grande at Fl Paso when an | automobile he was driving plunged down a ten-foot embankment into deep l water. A passerby, attracted by hat
 floating on the water, dived 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 it was de
 cided to build bridge costing approx imately 5000 across Sonoita creek at Patagonia. The structure will span the creek on the new state highway between Patagonia and Cochise county.
 Harry Ellington Brook, M.D., of Los Angeles, who writes in the Los An geles Times on ''The Care of the Body which feature has thousands of regular readers, at one time made his home in Tombstone as the editor oA IhC 1oAuOSLOhS Ip1ldpIl, lHcu DelAS conducted by John O. Dunbar, now of Phoenix.
 Construction of the new mill for the Stargo Mines, Inc, in the Clifton, Ariz-, district, Is being pushed and it is expected that the plant which will han dle 15O tons daily, will be completed by the 18th of September. The Stargo Company, which Is controlled by Ben jamin Getzof 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 t1ct of Chihuahua, has been compIet- ed- Shipments of about 200 tons of lead ore will soon begin to the Fl 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, 19 and 20 w. J. Murphy, chairman of the entertainment com mfttee, presented an outline of a pro gram the committee has prepared,
 
 tereSdng numbers.
 Several hundred men have been added to the United Verde Copper Company payroll with the operation 0f a 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 is expected a large tonnage of | good smelting ore will be obtained | The recently completed CottreH fume .reating plant is Eow in operation
 Mating customs in vogue for count eSS generations among Indians on the Camp Verde reservation, fifty miles east Of Prescott, are to be supplanted | 1t once by the marital laws of the | white man. Supt. J. O. Barnd of the reservation was busy recently issuing marriage licenses, and five ceremon- es were performed as the first of a er1eS of weddings in wholesale lots We are attempting to make these peo- 'le feel they are mating as human be- ngs and not as animals" remarked Barnd. Sam Jfmula nd a woman who has been his mate or thirty years after the custom of he Mohave Apache Indians, were the eterans of the unique group that aced local justice of the peace.
 That the War Department has no nowledge of a contemplated aban- onment of Camp Harry J. Jones, as 7as rumored In Douglas recently, and hat repairs to the buildings and an | increase in the personnel is being con emplated is the information con aimed in two letters from Secretary Weeks to Representative Carl Hay en, copies of which were received by Ieorge B. Buxton, president of the ,ouglas Chamber of Commerce and lines. The letters were replies to | Representative Hayden's inquiries lade at the behest of the Chamber of commerce.
 The city council Is calling for bids pr the paving of six blocks of Allen treet in the business district of Tomb tone. Paving of five miles of state ighway will start soon. The addition ) the grammar school is to be com leted within two weeks. Work on le Union High school will soon be nder way. It is an $SO,OOO project he Fairbanks section of the Tomb -one-Nogales section of the state ighway will be completed during the
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