The Winslow mail., 1923-10-19
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

geology of Arizona is announced to
take place soon at the Arizona Bureau
of Mines at the university.
Execution against forty acres of land
worth $175 for a tax bill of 1925 was
ordered in Superior Court at Prescott
against the Arizona Brewing Company,
which operated at Prescott a decade
ago.
Within four days after they had
stolen two horses, near Prescott, Bob
Hall and Tom Harrison, from New
Mexico were en- route to Florence to
serve a year and a day for their ac
tiOnS
The new athletic field at Douglas,
with basketball and tennis courts, is
being cleared off for the Y w. c.. A.
and tournaments will start in the near
future. Equipment Is ready to be in
stalled.
The city and county of Yuma has
purchased apparatus for the testing of
dairy products. 1t is expected that the
standard of dairy products will be
raised about % per cent when the
tests are begun.
In reviewing the banking situation
in the state recently, State Superin-
tendent of Banking A. T. HammOns
expressed the belief that the closing of
the Citizens Bank and Trust Company
at Bisbee marked the close Of the
| wedding out process, and all the weaks
had been closed, leaving only sound fl
,..i, Il Il,
Jesus Cadena Siguerros, charged
with possession of fifty grains of NOR
phine, is being held in the Pima cOun-
ty Jail at Tucson, pending action of the
federal grand jury. The young Mex
lean, who was arrested in Tucson by
members of the police department. was
given a preliminary hearing before u.
S. Commissioner Edwin Jones and his
bond set at $3.50.
The total number Of automobiles
registered in the state for the eight
months period ending Aug. 81, 1923,
was 44,776 cars or 6,742 more cars
than were registered for the entire
year of 1922, according to a statement
issued in Phoenix by James H. Kerby,
secretary of state. The number of
cars registered in each county in the
state on Aug. 81, the report shows, is
as follows: Maricopa, 1871; Cochise,
5,291 Pima, $685. Gila, 3,714; Yava-
pal, 1866; Yuma, 1922; Pinal, 1855;
Graham, 992; Santa Cruz, 1882; Mo-
have, 1862; COcOninO, 1927; Navajo,
1850 Greenlee, 521; Apache, 435.
Industrial and employment condi-
tions in Arizona are slightly improved
over August Harvesting of cotton crop
in Salt River valley and Yuma dis
tricts causing strong demand for pick
ers who are being imported from other
sections of state. Supply of field
workers not quite equal to demands.
Supply and demand for general farm
labor about equal. Metal mining Eek
cept silver), principally of "copper" con-
tinues on a steady basis. Experienced
machine men are in demand at the
mines, but unskilled labor is ample.
Building increasingly active and prin-
cipally noted at Phoenix where build
ing mechanics of all classes are in
strong demand. A few carpenters are
in demand at Ajo and Ray. Sawmills
in northern part of state call for eX-
perienced mill men. A copper com
pany at AjO is installing new machin-
cry in it's one million dollar flOtatiOn
plant which will require 300 mechan-
les, millWrights, machinists, pipe fit
ters, electricians, handy men and help
ers. Railway shop employment prac-
tically steady. Considerable railway
improvements are under way in many
sections of state. Municipal improve
ments, principally of paving continue
on a comparatively large scale. Con-
siderable highway construction con-
tinueS in many sections of state.
Thornton Jones, former cashier of
the closed Farmers and Merchants
Bank at Tempe, has entered the gates
of the state prison at Florence to
serve a sentence of between four and
five years.
Deposits in state and national banks
in Arizona aggregate almost $65,00O,-
900, according to a statement made
public in Phoenix by State Bank SUI
perintendent Andrew T. HammOns.
Figures show that there are fifty-two
state and twenty-One national banks
doing business in the state at the pres
ent time, with total on deposit OF
$54, ,4O2, ,24O92, as of Sept. II. This
amount is $157, 7,765.67 more than was
on hand at the same time last year.
The State Museum at Tucson re-
Gently received the addition of several
hundred pieces of pottery, bone and
stone implements, relics of now eX-
tinct Indian tribes that once inhabited
the northern part of what now IS the
state of Arizona. Most of the mater
ial was taken from the ruins and bur
ial grounds near Tachini Point near
Marsh pass, according to Dean Byron
Cummings Of the State University, who
headed an exhibition of scientists to
the burial grounds this summer.