The Holbrook news., 1922-09-08
Southwest News From All Oper NeU MexicO
 and ArizOnd

organizing a basket ball team for the season of 1922-23, which 1t Is thought will be one of the fastest In the state
 Mrs. Richard Scherer, who for sev ;eral years has resided a few mile! north of Aztec, N. M., committed sui eide by hanging herself to the limb oi a tree.
 William Shaw of Roswell. N. M., is now making plans for the erection oi a new business block on South Second street, which when completed will cost over $15,OOO.
 The Anita Copper Company of Lords burg. N. M., under the management oi G. w. Foreman, Is now shipping and milling some of the best ore that has been taken out of the shafts.
 The new S1OO,OOO school building in Portales, N. M., which has been under construction since the first of May, Is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy about the 18th of Sep tember
 William S. Bourne, 49, Is dead and James Mcclure, 36, is reported dying as a result of a pistol duel at their camp near Prescott, Ariz., following McClure's unexpected return from Colorado.
 The Ray (Arizona) Consolidated Copper Company is preparing to in augurate a program of construction and expansion of operations and has sent out a call for laborers and me chanics of experience.
 Bert H. Calkins, manager of Estan- cia, N. M, for the past year, has filed suit In the District Court to recover S513 which he alleges Is due him for engineering services in planning the sewer system of the city
 Present indications are that the cop per shipments from the Douglas dis trict for the month of August will to- tai 14,0000O0 pounds or more, exceed ing all monthly records since the smelt- CTS closed down more than year ago.
 A chase that began July % and ex- tended through four states, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, ended at Yuma, Ariz., recently, when Deputy Sheriff H. c. Parsons of Phoenix ar rested T. W. Burgain in connection with brutal killing near Prescott June 10 last of Iver Enge of Phoenix
 Development work at the Last Chance mine near Lordsburg, N. NJ, is now going ahead rapidly and some of the best silver ore in this part of the state Is being produced. Most of the ore which has been taken from the mine will run $500 to the ton and the big mill is operating with almost ideal extraction
 Construction of a mountain top road from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, Is being urged by many of the prominent busi- ness men of Las Vegas. They are now working on plans which will bep laced before the next Legislature which will provide for the building of the road from the top of the Porvenir highway over the range to the Ancient city.
 The first indication of a resumption of industrial activity in the district, following complete shutdown of more than year, came recently with the announcement by Capt. J. F. Hodg- son, manager of the Morend branch of the Phelps Dodge, that 15O miners and muckers would be put to work immedi- ately in the mines of Morenci, Ariz.
 A reduction of s25O,OOO in the valu- ation of the producing mining claims of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Copper Queen branch, has been made by the Arizona State Tax Commission, which had previously placed the value at $47 ,305,3S0. The Shattuck- Arizona company was granted a decrease of $822,308 on a valuation of $2,S96,954. : George Leppes of Albuquerque was fined $50 and costs for wreckless driv- ing of an auto. It is alleged that he drove his car into the kitchen of the home of D. Valles on the Barelas road. A big meeting of the farmers of the valley was held in Fort Sumner, N. M, recently, to make plans for some kind of a system of selling the crops of the valley to the best advantage of all. The result of the meeting was that a cooperative association was formed through which all the products will be marketed, and it is likely that truck line from this city to Las Vegas will be started and plans made to handle the crops in that city,
 Announcement has been made by G. a. Cook of the Forest Service, who is chairman of the U. s. Department of Agriculture district committee on eY- hibits, of the fairs in New Mexico and Arizona at which the department will be represented this year. Approval has been received for the department al exhibit to be shown at the Northern New Mexico Fair at Raton, N. M., Sept. F to 15, at the Northern Arizo- na Fair at Prescott, Ariz., Oct. 12 to 14, and at the Arizona State Fair at Phoenix, Oct. 30 to Nov. 4,
 A recent strike on the east end of the Tom Reed, near Oatman, Ariz., at the 800 level, is said to have developed into one of the most important in re- cent years. The vein is reported to have been cut for a width of forty feet, ten feet of which is high grade mill ore
 Federal narcotic agents, acting in cooperation with Phoenix police, seized twenty-three teR-ounce tins of crude opium valued at S5,000 in the baggage room of the Santa F6 depot