The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-06
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona
CWestern Newspaper Union News serice.)

Eu0CH Q6dF O6pdT, IN. NlS udS JuSI GUILT pleted the shipping of 250 cars of cat tie to California. There were five trains of fifty cars each.
 The town of Armijo, N. M, is with out a postoffice and all the residents of the town are obliged to get their mail at the general delivery window of the Albuquerque office.
 A big road program is being planned for the southeastern part of New Mex leo for the coming month. The high way east of Lovington to the Texas line will be one of the first to be im- proved.
 A fine vein of coal has been uncov- cred by the Gallup American Coal Company west of Gallup, N. M., and plans are now being made to put the mine into operation. The mine is fourteen miles from Gallup.
 The recent cuts in the freight rates on coke from Colorado and New Mex leo points to the smelter cities of the southwest is another factor that will help the mining industry to become prosperous.
 A rich gold strike Is reported from ten miles north of Stafford, Ariz., in Graham county. Eighty-five dollar values at the surface on a ledge two and a half feet wide is the report coming from the Lone Wolf mine.
 Diamond drilling is to be resumed at the property of the Central Copper Company, Dos Cabezas, Ariz., as soon as a diamond drill crew can be as- sembled. Some 3O,OO0 feet of diamond drill work has already been done with excellent results.
 Ramon Osuna, nephew of Gen. P. Elias Callea, secretary of the interior in the Obregon cabinet, pleaded guilty to evasion of the selective service draft act in the United States District Court at Tucson. A sentence of thir- ty days in the Pima county jail was immediately imposed by Judge Will liam H. Sawtelle
 The general appropriations bill, containing appropriations understood to be less by nearly million dollars than those carried in the general ap- propriation bill of the regular session for the fiscal year beginning July 1, was practically completed by the joint appropriations committee of the Leg islature at Phoenix.
 A man believed, from papers in his possession, to be D. Barnell, com mitted suicide while being questioned by Constable Robert Gail at Welltot, near Yuma, Ariz. The man, who was about 9 years of age, had aroused suspicion by pacing the floor in a room of a local hotel, which he had engaged on his arrival at Yuma.
 The University of Hawaii at Hon. olulu has offered the University of Arizona a twO-year football contract, one game to be played at Honolulu played at Tucson the following Christ mas. The matter will be presented to the athletic committee at Tucson at an early date for action.
 The Martinez Publishing Company, Las Vegas, N. M., at a meeting of it's stockholders, has decided to increase it's capital stock from $20,000 to $50,- 900. Officers of the company stated that there are many persons who wished to buy stock, and wno asked that the capitalization be increased. The company publishes La Voz, one of the oldest and best known Spanish newspapers in the state.
 Representatives of the Los Angeles Syndicate visited Pennington, N. M., the first of the month to go over the new proposed railroad to the south. It is rumOred that actual construction work on the new road will be started by the first of April.
 It will probably be the end of March before copper can be poured at the Old Dominion plant, near Globe, Ariz, as considerable trouble is being had by the company in securing expe- rienced miners. There is ample un- skilled labor at all camps.
 D. c. Powell, oil man who is pro- noting the local oil field near Vaughn, N. M., reports that the Royal Dutch Oil Company has leased 35000 acres in that section of the state, and will move several standard rigs from the Texas fields to the new location this month. Well known oil men state that by the first of May there will be at least ten standard rigs working within radius of fifteen to twenty miles. Several geologists are now go- ing over the field and there is every indication that by the end of the year that will be the most active field in