The Snowflake herald., 1922-01-20
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service. }

LOT grazing ana curDlng the main
street of the city, and the work will
be started at once. The cost will be
over $4,000 when all the work is com
pleted.
Six hundred and four persons were
married in San Miguel county, New
Mexico, during the year 1921 The rec
ords at the office of the county clerk
show that total of 3O2 licenses were
issued during the year.
The macadimizing of the new road
between Deming, N NJ, and Mongolia
station has been completed and is
open to traffic. 1t is said to be the
finest stretch of highway in the entire
state.
1t Is reported that nearly 100 houses
in Aztec, n. NJ, are now using the
gas from the well of the Aztec Oil
Syndicate. Gas will be used to light
and heat the school building as soon
as the piping is completed.
Harry e. Vernon, county engineer of
Maricopa county, Ariz., and a brother
of Guy f. Vernon, chairman of the
Maricopa county board of supervisors,
was found dead on the rear seat Of his
automobile on a road four miles east
of Phoenix. 1t is believed that he died
from an attack of acute indigestion.
That long staple cotton will become
one of the principal crops of the PecOs
valley in New Mexico is indicated by
the success made on the irrigated
farms this year. The staple is said to
have done the best in the Carlsbad
project where it is sold for from 26 to
81 cents per pound and most of it av-
eraged bale to the acre.
The total grcss production of the
mines of Arizona for the year 1920
was $102, ,0S6,3 1868, according to figures
furnished the State Tax Commission.
Gold, silver, copper, lead and all other
metals mined here are included in a
table of counties compiled by the COM
mission. Gila county is credited with
the greatest production in the amount
of $31 ,S55079.
Tombstone will soon have the larg-
est school band in the state of Ari-
ZOna, according to the plans of ProfeS-
sor Tilford of the Tombstone schools.
1t will have fifty-one pieces The
school board contributed to a fund for
the purchase of some of the more ex-
pensive pieces, while the parents of
the members of the band will buy the
other instruments.
Much excitement prevails around
Vaughn, N NJ, over the fact that the
contract has been let for the first deep
test well for oil in this part of the
state, and many believe that Vaughn
will be the center of one of the biggest
oil fields in the state. Several geolO-
gists have gone over the ground and,
according to their reports, the outlook
for commercial oil is good.
Exports through the port of Nogales,
Ariz., in December totaled $568,571,
and imports $112,916, according to the
monthly report of Collector of Gus
toms Charles L. Fowler. Exports and
imports at other border points for the
month follows: Douglas, exports, 234,
sos; imports, 1920; Naco, exports,
S9S,S53; imports, $31,845; Yuma, ex-
ports, $3,649; imports, $S8.
If the plans of the city commission
ers of Albuquerque are carried out,
four bond issues will be submitted to
the voters at the coming spring elec-
ton. The projects include a storm
sewer system at a probable cost of
$S5,000; extensions of the sewer sys-
tenn at probable cost of $4,000; the
erection of a new water reservoir at a
probable cost of $4,000, and the build
ing of a sewage disposal plant at a
probable cost of $115,000.
Wolves are reported to be doing
much damage to live stock In the May
hill district of the Lincoln National
forest in New Mexico, and local ranch
men are offering a reward of 500 per
scalp for the animals.
Suit to condemn approximately 100
acres of mining claims in the Winfield
mining district along Cave creek to be
covered by water which will be i'm
pounded by the construction Of the
proposed flood control dam across
Cave creek, was started in the Super
ior Court against the Amalgamated
Copper Mining Company by the state
of Arizona, Maricopa county, the city
of Phoenix, the Paradise-Verde Irriga-
tion district and the Salt River Valley
Water Users Association.
o. c. Parker, president of the Ari-
ZOna Good Roads Association has just
issued a call for the annual meeting of
the association to assemble at Nogales
Jan. % and "a. Governor Thomas E.
Campbell has accepted an invitation to
be present and address the gathering
Among those who have been invited
to be present and speak are Governor
General Angel Flores of the state OF
Sinaloa, Mexico, and the Hon. Thos
Fl. Mcdonald, chief of the bureau OF
public roads at Washington.
A letter received at the office Of the
Chamber of Commerce at Douglas
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