The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-31
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona


H., and made their getaway with a
large quantity of flour, groceries and
tobacco.
Two hundred and fifty members Of
the New Mexico Cattle and Horse
Growers Association attended the an
nual convention of the organization at
Las Vegas
Bernabe Padilla, aged 10, was shot
In the jaw at Las Vegas by Lila Ro-
nero, a girl of 10. The bullet mar
rowly missed the jugular vein. The
mans condition is not serious.
The widely known Brazito tract.
south of Las Cruces, N NJ, the larg-
est privately owned irrigable tract I'M
der the Elephant Butte dam, will be
opened to settlement and development
at once.
Charges of murder have been filed
in Ell Paso against Fred M. Mcclure,
formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, and Tue
son, Ariz., in connection with the
death of Miss Louise Frentzel, %, OF
Ell PaSo.
Thomas A. Flynn, former assistant
United States attorney for the district
of Arizona, has been appointed by
Judge William FL. Sawtelle to act as
special master of chancery in the hear
ing, to be held April 3, of the Arizona.
Eastern and Southern Pacific railroads
versus the State Of Arizona.
Word has been received that Beene-
ham Cameron of Stagville, N. c., pres
ident of the Bankhead National High
way Association, has accepted an in
vitation of the NOgales, AriZ., Cham
Der of Commerce to attend the inter
national conference of Mexican and
April f. He also will accompany
large excursion party down the west
coast of Mexico following the confer
ence.
On account of the revolutions in
Mexico, a colony of Mormons are in
the ella country negotiating for over
1900 acres of land from the ella
Farms Company. Most of the Nor
mons in Mexico are now preparing to
leave that country and, it is said, will
locate some place in New Mexico. All
Of them are experienced farmers and
If the pending deal is closed, it will
bring splendid class of farmers into
Grant county.
Cattlemen are being taxed out of
business. This is the message T.
e. Mitchell, president of the New
Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers AS
Sociation, delivered to the opening SEES
sion of the eighth annual convention
Of the association at Las Vegas. Mr..
Mitchell declared land taxes have I'M
justly been put on high plane which
cattle interests find it impossible to
reach. More than a hundred livestock
men from all parts of the state were
present at the opening session.
According to a preliminary report
that has just been issued by the De
partment of Commerce, through the
bureau of the census, the total mort
gage debt on owned homes and farms
in the state of Arizona in 1920 was
$24, 750,66S, and the total value Of
these mortgaged homes and farms was
81, 4O4, $50, the mortgage debt thus
representing 34.2 per cent of the total
value. Rented homes, tenant farms
and farms that are partly owned and
partly rented, it should be noted, are
not included in this report. The to-
tai number of homes in the state 9th
er than farm homes was 6O,43O, of
which 21,823 or 36.1 per cent we're
owned by the occupants, and of these
owned homes 5,103, or 23.4 per cent,
were mortgaged.
Before the greatest crowd that ever
packed the House chamber in the CAPT.
toll, Secretary of Commerce Hoover
the Arizona Legislature, convened in
joint session at Phoenix.
Governor Campbell of Arizona, fol-
lowing receipt Of report that an cpl
demic of scabies had affected New
Mexico cattle, has issued a proclama-
ton prohibiting the importation from
New Mexico to Arizona of cattle that
have not been dipped and declared to
be free from the disease. A large
number of cattle in Arizona are in
fected with scabies and a quarantine
has been placed over one district near
HolbroOk
Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
speaking at dinner in Phoenix, de-
clared he was prepared to recommend
the Boulder canon dam project
when engineers of the status of
Arthur p. Davis say that dam is prac-
tfcable, and that it will not encroach
upon the rights Of any of the seven
states involved, 1 am prepared to
adopt that dam, Secretary Hoover as
serted. Davis is director of the gov
eminent reclamation service.
The proposed Boulder Canon dam
site on the Colorado river is the most