The Holbrook news., 1922-12-15
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
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hospital following an illness of several
 months.
 Local and state contractors met at .
 banquet in Phoenix and organized the Arizona chapter of the Association oi
 General Contractors of America.
 Three Mexicans escaped from the Willcox jail recently. In some way they had obtained a saw and made ar
 opening large enough to make theil escape.
 L. B. Eason, night foreman at the .sawmill of the Mckinley Land anC Lumber Company at Albuquerque, was ismOthered to death when caught In | cave in of sawdust.
 The concrete work for the new vault of the Silver City National Bank Is all completed and when the entire struc-
 ture is finished it will be one of the finest vaults of its kind in New Mex ic0.
 Lieut.. Col. J. G. Scrugham, governor elect of Nevada and well-known throughout the West, will be one of the speakers of the Prosperity Con- ventiOn" of the Arizona Industrial Congress which will be held in Phoe- nix, Dec. IS and 19.
 A mill of 500 tons capacity is to be installed at an early date at the prop erty of the Young Mines Company of Youngsberg, Ariz., and production is expected to start not later than next March, according to George U. Young, president and general manager of the company. Considerable development work has been done and new macnin- cry installed at the mine.
 Although the Phelps-Dodge Corpora tion has 500 men at work at it's Nor enci (Ariz.) branch, Capt. J. F. Hodg- son, general manager, has stated that they would be glad to have another 100 or 150. This number is needed al once to take care of the additional work planned by the company. A school has been started to teacD green" miners modern methods elli- ployed.
 Henry Williams, Jr., aged Is years, of Estancia, \. M., killed himself re- gently by placing Il pistol against his head and pulling trigger. The boy had been to d nearby church and came home, passed up the stairs and was found a few minutes later lying on the floor of his room, dead. He had been attending school for some time and il was rumored that he had become de spondent over boyish love affair.
 Eastern New Mexico has not been abandoned by oil experts in spite of the fact that several deep holes have been drilled in that section. Geolo- gists are now at work in the La Lande district and it is reported tha the Me Gill Oil Company has agreed to put down a test well on the property. The McGill well which was started several months ago will soon resume drilling and oil experts believed that the first pay sand will be found at not more than 1,200 feet.
 Water in the big Elephant Butte res ervoir is said to be lower at the pres ent time than it has been in the past two years, but if no more water runs in there will be enough to care for the irrigation in that section for at least another two years, according to the of ficials in charge. There are 1,40O,0OU acre feet of water in reserve, or enough to cover that many acres one foot deep ir water. No water has flowed into the reservoir since July 2U of this year al there are 100000 acre feet less water in it than at this time last year. When the reservoir was its fullest last year 1t stored 1,993,613 acre feet.
 Clovis, \. M., has gone pack to the curfew days again and the police have been busy rounding up the youths of the city and sending them to their homes.
 Out of a class of seventeen appli- cants who took the regular semi-an- nual examination for admission to the Arizona bar in the Senate chambers at the Capitol, fourteen of the number passed successfully. according to a re port submitted to the Arizona Supreme Court by Judge Selim Franklin of Tue son, chairman of the state board of examiners for admission to the bar. Chief Justice H. D. Ross of the Su- preme Court administered the oath to the applicants and they were ad- mitted to practice on motion of Judge Franklin. Those who passed the ex- animation and were admitted to the bar were w. Denseil Campbell, Wesley F. Daines, Harry l. Howard, Benjamin F. Hunter and H. W. Ebbehadle, all of Phoenix; Russell L. Linton, Joaquin +. Moreno and Arthur K. Thompson, all of Prescott; Hugo B. Farmer of Yuma. Dodd L. Greer of Conco, Frederick A. Kuhn of Casa Grande, D. G. Pace of Bisbee, Dorothy H. Sargent of Tucson and Tildon Edward Scarborough of Miami.
 Over 2.000 head of cattle have been shipped from the station at Magdalena, N. M., to the pastures of Old Mexico. and 1t is thought that before the first of the year 60000 head will follow. The outlook for grazing next year is now good and it is likely that most of the cattle will be returned in the spring.
 According to the report or the off cials in charge of the big cotton gin in Portales, N. M., $50 bales have been turned out up to date and it is esti- mated that the crop will run over 600 | bales for the season.
 At n biz meeting held in Hnna N