The St. Johns herald., 1922-02-02
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona
(Wstsrn Newspaper UaiOn News Ssuics.I

called special election for Feb. IA to
 elect the city commissioners for the
 new commission form of city govern
 ment. Three commissioners will be
 elected at this time.
 The pOstoffice at Pennington, N. M.,
 broke all records during the year of
 1921, the total receipts for the year
 being $1O,0O0, or $500 more than in
 the year previous. This Is said to be a
 record for the San Juan basin.
 Benjamin Kaiser of the ArteSia, N.
 M., high school, has received an ap- pOintment to the U. $. Naval Academy at Annapolis from U. s. Senator A. A.
 Jones. The appointment to this gov
 ernment institution includes six-year term in one of the greatest schools in the nation, with clothing board and a yearly allowance for other purposes.
 At recent meeting of the city cOun- ciI a movement was started for new water and sewer system for LOrdsburg, N. M., the water plant to be municipal ly owned. A big program of street i'm prOvement has been made for the com ing year and it is the intention of the council to get the sewer system in be- fore the street work is started if pos Sible.
 On motion of W. J. Galbraith, attor ney general, the case of Otto R. Han sen with his wife, May C.. Hansen, against the state of Arizona, to collect $23,900 damages alleged to have been sustained by them through floods in the Gila river, has been transferred from the Pinal county Superior Court the the Maricopa county Superior Court.
 Organized Bible classes in the Bap- tist Sunday schools of New Mexico are arranging for representation at Mo bile, Ala, Feb. z, 8 and 9, on the occa- sion of the first Southwide convention of Bible class representatives ever held, it is announced by the Baptist headquarters in Albuquerque. The railroads have granted reduced rates for the occasion.
 COcOninO county, Arizona, has filed a friendly action in the Supreme Court against Navajo county for the purpose of determining the boundary line be- tween the two counties. Due to the of the common boundary line both counties have suffered while questions involving property rights, venue of civil and criminal proceed ings, legality of elections and the right of taxation as between counties has never been satisfactorily determined.
 The value of the gold, silver, copper and lead produced by mines in Arizona fin 1921, according to the estimate of v. c. Heikes, of the United States Geo logical Survey, Department of the In teriOr, was about $26,000,000, a de- crease from $114,62S,584 in 1920. As most of the copper smelling plants were closed after March or April the output of copper was less than one third of that in 1920 No zinc was the output of lead was ab- normally reduced, and the output of gold and silver was only half that of 1920.
 That the pifion nut industry is rap idly coming to the front in New Mex leo is shown by a report of the forest service recently received in this city. A total of over one and quarter mil lion pounds have been harvested dur ing the past season in the three princi- pal districts of the state. In the Car son country, 376,OO0 pounds; Santa F6, 100000 pounds, and in the vicinity of Datil 500,000 pounds, making a grand total of 1,276,OO0 pounds for the sea- sons crop. At the present price the above crop represents total of over 8 quarter of a million dollars for the crop.
 That there is steady and remuner- ltive market for wolf belts is the gist of a letter received by the Chamber of Commerce of Wilcox from an eastern fur company which is anxious to buy Arizona wolf skins. Buyers are clam bring for the skins, the letter says, and trappers are urged to send their avail able wolf pelts even in small lots, as the demand is insistent.
 The closely contested election held at Pennington, N. M., on the $55,000 bond issue for a new school building In district number five, carried by a of thirty-three votes. Both sides put up good fight and in spite of the inclement weather nearly every voter in the district turned out. The district includes Pennington, Penin- sula, Hood and the Sever ranch.
 The Arizona Industrial Congress, in a statement, endorsed the plan for a convention as a means of increasing economy and efficiency In the state government. The congress, every industry in Arizona,