The Winslow mail., 1923-09-14
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS


=. Foster, state mine inspector,
Despondent because of the loss Of
her 1-year-old son, Harry Jordan, Mrs.
Stella Jordan, 22-year-old wife, COM
mitted suicide at Tucson.
Prescott Rotarians have contributed
$127.50 to the Preventorium. The mon
ey was paid to the Arizona Anh-Tu-
berculosis Society by Rupert w.
Bryns of the Rotary Club.
-Four of ten couples who started a
| forty-eight hour marathon dance COM
petition at Phoenix completed forty
| five hours and claimed to have estab-
hshed q new record for dancing with
out change of partners.
Examinations for commercial radio
| operators will be held at the postoffice
In Tucson, Sept II. The Continental
Morse code will be used. Amateurs
must be able to received ten words Of
five letters each per minute.
Fifty experimental plots have dem.
onstrated the success of raising sugar
beets in Sulphur Springs, Bisbee bus
mess men were informed at luncheon
recently. Plans are now being made
to finance the venture in small plots.
Supervisors Claridge and Mcbride,
accompanied by w. R. Hutchins, dis
trict state engineer, have completed an
inspection tour of Greenlee county
roads. Particular attention was paid
to the system of maintenance prac-
ticed.
Yuma valley farmers have raised an
advertising fund to advertise in a num-
Der of newspapers that SIPS per hun
dred will be paid cotton pickers this
year. 1t is estimated that the valley
will produce a bale to the acre on its
present crop.
Considerably more water is flowing
in the ella river this year over the
same period as last according to re-
ports given out by Water Commission
er Hart D. Empie. One day recently
he reported 213,2OO miners inches as
against $500 for the same day last
year.
AS soon as the new machinery is re-
ceived, the New Vail Mining Company,
A. L. New, will be In operation with a
| good force. Men are now at work on
the foundations for a Diesel engine
and hoisting plant. The property TAX
en- over by this company is the Man.
| la mine, near Hilltop.
| About $150,0OO is being spent for de-
velopment work on the property Of the
Arizona-Tucson Copper Company, e.
V. Latham. The property has had
about $5OO0O0 spent upon 1t and is re-
ported to show up large quantities Of
heay low grade sulphide ore capable
of concentration.
The Wishon Exploration Company,
| W. w. Wishon, is reported to have
made a strike of ore running 81 per
cent lead, 81 ounces silver and $40
| in gold. This strike was made in the
Aubrey range. This company is also
| working the Lead Bullion mines, near
| McCracken mountain.
Elaborate plans are being made at
| Ray for the celebration Of MeXicOn In
dependence day, Sept. 16. A thirty-six-
| piece band from Mazatlan, Sonora, has
been engaged. The musical organiza-
| ton is reputed to be one of the best
in Mexico. 1t is expected that Mexi-
cans from all parts of Arizona will
join in the local celebration.
Election of former State Senator A.
| A. Johns Of Prescott, president of the
Arizona Wool Growers Association,
| as director in the livestock division OF
| the Arizona Industrial Congress to
serve as the successor Of the late Sen
| ator Hugh E. Campbell Of Flagstaff
until the next regular election was one
of the important actions taken at the
meeting of the directors of that organ
ization in Flagstaff.
Capt. Prugh Herndon, commanding
officer of &c" company, National
| Guard, composed of Tucson men, has
| announced that a second company will
| be formed in Tucson. 1t will be known
as ''H'' company, machine gun battal-
| ion.
The Arizona State Teachers AssO-
citation will meet in Tucson on Nov.
26, q and %, according to the first Of
ficial announcement made regarding
theiur annual meet. Mrs. Kate B.
Reynolds, Pima county school superin-
tendent, has announced that Miss Hell
en- l.. Brown, who is to be In charge OF
the arrangements for the association
as president, has written her that 1t
has been finally decided to hold the
meet on the dates set above. In place
of the annual county Institutes held In
all of Arizonas counties during the
early fall the southern half of the
state will have the State Teachers
Association meeting. According to
Miss Brown this ruling will be put in
to effect in Pima, Pinal, Cochise and
Santa Cruz counties. The funds that
are ordinarily used for the institutes
will be used for the association meet
ing, permission having been obtained
from the state superintendent OF