The Holbrook news., 1922-08-25
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and ArizOna

 western railway tracks between Lewis Springs and Benson, which will be nee essary by the proposed irrigation pro ject of the San Pedro Water Users Association, will be about $2,0OO,0O0, il became known recently.
 John T. O'Rourke was drowned ir the Rio Grande at Fl Paso when ar automobile he was driving plunged down a ten-foot embankment into deer water. A passerby, attracted by hat floating on the water, dived and found the machine with the dead driver seated at the wheel.
 At joint meeting of the Santa Cruz county board of supervisors and the county highway commission it was de cided to build bridge costing approx imately S16,O0O across Sonoita creek al Patagonia. The structure will span the creek on the new state highway between Patagonia and Cochise county.
 Harry Ellington Brook, M.D., of Los Angeles, who writes in the Los An geles Times on "The Care of the Body" which feature has thousands of regular readers, at one time made his home in Tombstone as the editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, then being conducted by John O. Dunbar, now of Phoenix.
 Construction of the new mill for the StargO Mines, Inc, in the Clifton, Ariz., district, is being pushed and it is expected that the plant which will ham, dle 150 tons daily. will be completed by the 18th of September. The StargO Company, which Is controlled by Ben jamin Getzoff of New York, is now employing about fifty men
 The new railroad, extending from Lucero, on the National Lines of Mex leo to the properties of the Ahumada Lead Company, and the Erupcion Min ing Company of Warren, Ariz., which are located in the Los Lamentos dis trict of Chihuahua, has been complet- ed Shipments of about 200 tons of lead ore will soon begin to the Fl Paso smelter.
 Members of Fred Hilburn post, American Legion, met recently in Douglas to discuss definite plans for entertainment of the. delegates to the state convention to be held in Doug las Sept. IS, 19 and 20. W. J. Murphy, chairman of the entertainment com mittee, presented an outline of a pro- gram the committee has prepared, which includes several novel and in- teresting numbers.
 Several hundred. men have been added to the United Verde Copper Company payroll with the operation of third reverberatOry at the Clark dale, Ariz-, shelter. Near Jerome steam shOvels are handling some 5000 yards of material day and are ap- preaching the old mine workings, from which it Is expected a large tonnage of good smelting ore will be obtained. The recently completed COttrell fume treating plant Is now in operation.
 Mating customs in vogue for count less generations among Indians on the Camp Verde reservation, fifty miles east of Prescott, are to be supplanted at once by the marital laws of the white man. Supt. J. O. Barnd of the reservation was busy recently issuing marriage licenses, and five ceremon- les were performed as the first of a series of weddings in wholesale lots. We are attempting to make these peo- pie feel they are mating as human be- Ings and not as animals" remarked Superintendent Barnd. Sam Jimula and woman who has been his mate for thirty years after the custom of the Mohave Apache Indians, were the veterans of the unique group that faced local justice of the peace.
 That the War Department has no knowledge of a contemplated aban- donment of Camp Harry J. Jones, as was rumored in Douglas recently, and that repairs to the buildings and an increase in the personnel is being con templated Is the information con- tained in two letters from Secretary Weeks to Representative Carl Hay den, copies of which were received by George E. Buxton, president of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines. The letters were replies to Representative Hayden's inquiries made at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce.
 The city council is calling for bids for the paving of six blocks of Allen street in the business district of Tomb stone. Paving of five miles of state highway will start soon. The addition to the grammar school Is to be com pleted within two weeks. Work on the Union High school will soon be under way. It Is an SS0,O0O project. The Fairbanks section of the Tomb stone-Nogales section of the state highway will be completed during the next thirty days. Work starts soon on the three-mile lateral from Hua- chuca station to the Tombstone-No- gales state highway junction.
 W. M. Coog of the Agricultural Col lege of the University of Arizona, was appointed manager of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation at a meeting of the federation's executive commit tee, He will serve for one year, hay ing been granted aleave of absence by the university for that period. AS manager of the federation, Mir. Cook will have charge of the state head quarters direct membership campaigns and organization work, and will con- duct surveys and Investigations and assist commodity-marketing organiza- lions