The Winslow mail., 1923-11-09
BRIEF
ARIZONA
lTE MS


Fire damaged the warehouse of the
Puntenney Lime Company at Prescott
to the extent of $4,000. Insurance GOV.
cred and the building will be replaced
Immediately.
More than $50 cattle have died near
hlgln OF mysterious disease, supposed
to be anthrax. Experts have been
called in to investigate and remedy the
alarming situation.
With cotton plentiful at Yuma and
selling at 80 cents, many DELINQUENT
taxpayers are calling at the assessors
office, paying their back taxes and also
their current taxes.
DR.. Walter F. McCaleb. organizer of
chain of labor banks in California,
expressed the opinion that the suspend
ed Tucson National bank would be sue
cessfully reOrganzed.
Bankers have estimated the Yuma
project cotton crop at $4,000 bales,
which at an average of 80 cents per
pound will enrich the district an ap-
proXimate extent of $3,00OOOO.
Beginning Saturday, November 10, a
three-day Armistice Day celebration
will be held in Nogales, ending with
big football game A days of 40"
carnival will be one of the main attrac-
tons of the show.
AT So per thousand board feet, the
Saginay & Aainstee Lumber Company
Of Williams, has contracted with the
government for 2,143,OOO feet of Ium-
Der to be cut from feelings in the Tulsa
yam national forest
State Examiner Homer r. Wood has
announced that he will reopen disbar-
ment proceedings against County At
torney Robert McMurchie of Yavapai
county, basing his charges on Su-
preme court occurrence of a year ago.
V. L. Wildermuth of Tempe has re-
ceived information that he has the first
federal accredited herd of dairy cattle
in Arizona. 1t consists of fifty-one
dairy cattle of which thirteen are pure
bred animals and thirty-eight are grade
stock. Other state herds are expected
to pass the required tests
The cotton fields Of the state Of Ari-
zona are free from the dreaded boil
weevil and the pink boil wOrm accord
ing to information brought by field
scouts of the commission of agriculture
and horticulture. The annual summer
scouting and pest survey was com
pleted by the men on September 16
and in no case was any evidence Of
either of these pests found.
A claim on the state for $1,000 aid
for the ella county fair, to be held De
cember %, 26 and q, has been for
Warded to Joe Dillon, secretary of the
state fair commission, by Frank L.
Gates, clerk of the board of supervis-
Ors. The claim is based on a provision
Of the state law providing for state as
sistance to county fairs when the cOun-
ty board of supervisors make an apprO-
priation. An allowance of $1,000 for
the local fair was made at a recent
meeting of the supervisors.
The bargain terms" of the Colorado
river compact would mean the limita-
ton of the states income from power
and "the wiping out Of oQr agricultural
future" Governor Hunt declared in a
letter to L. Ward Bannister Denver
attorney, who had written the chief
executive, urging him to lend support
to the compact. "These terms may be
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concerned" the governor wrote, "but if
the bargain stands as it is written and
Boulder canon dam is built, the bargain
will be almost wholly at the expense of
Arizona 1t would be fOolhardy for the
state to see development start at the
lowest point in the canon"
Through efforts of the Sunshine Gil
mate club, the S. ?. has made Tucson
a ten-day stopOver point for tourists
Among the amusements planned for
the forthcoming Bankers convention,
a NOgales, Sonora, banquet and a golf
tourney at Tucson are featured.
A new plan for diverting water from
the Colorado river making it available
for irrigation of upwards of 100000
acres Of Arizona land has been pro-
posed by c. c. TillotsOn, Clarksdale,
Ariz, engineer, and laid before Gov
ernOr Hunt and the committee of nine
The plan calls for construction of a
dam or the Colorado river more than
seventy feet high, the building Of a
flume or conduit from the dam, along
the river to the mouth of little Colo
RADIO river and thence upstream on the
latter to favorable point estimated
at from fifteen to thirty miles from the
intake The second unit would consist
of a tunnel eighty miles long to the
Verde river at Duff Flats. Engineer
Tillotson said he considered the plan
feasible, though the tunnel would be
six times larger than the longest rail
road tunnel in the world. The cost of
construction of the conduit and tunnel
is estimated bV him at so 600 600