The Winslow mail., 1923-08-17
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

lowing an illness of three months.
Most of the roads in the northern
part of the state are in excellent con-
dition, Frank r. Goodman, state en-
gineer, declared, following his return
from a trip Of inspection over most OF
the roads.
The income to the farmers of the
Gila valley, who this year planted cot
ton, short staple variety, estimated by
those in a position to know, will be ap-
proximately 100000. 1t is improbable
that the figure will exceed this
amount.
Hard usage to which Arizona roads
are put was reflected in a report re-
ceived at the office of Gov. Geo. w. P.
Hunt from Tom Reed, mine foreman
at Superior, showing the traffic on
the Superior highway in one day. Mr..
Reeds check shows that during sixteen
hours of Monday, July 80, 655 automo-
bileS and fOrty-eight trucks, total OF
703 motor vehicles, passed over the
highway.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces that gasoline en-
gineer nOn-educatiOnal examination
will be held on Aug. 81, 1923, for the
purpose of filling a vacancy in the pO-
sitiOn of gasoline engineer in the quar-
termaster service at Naco, Ariz. Ap-
plicatiOn blanks and further infOrma-
ton may be obtained from the local
secretary, board of civil service exam
iners, at Naco immigration office.
Tucson has been designated as a
main station on the transcOntinental
air lines south of Denver, it was
learned when Lieutenant O'Connor ar
rived there from Fort Bliss flying
field, Ell Paso, Texas. Lieutenant
O'Connor and an aide were ordered to
fly the course between Ell PasO and
Tucson to map an air route and note
the land marks. They landed at the
municipal flying field at Tucson after
being in the air exactly three hours.
Col J. NJ. McClintOck of Phoenix,
former state historian and a candidate
for the United States Senate on the
Republican ticket at the last election,
was in the district of Jerome for sew
eral days recently making examina-
ton of the Verde Jerome property. He
also visited the Verde Central and the
United Verde mines. The colonel, who
has always been a staunch friend of
the district, expressed himself as more
than delighted with the evidence of
expansion and continued prosperity
which he found on every side.
That Valencia Spanish onions will
thrive in the San Simon valley as well
as in the San Pedro, has been proven
by II. O.. Carr, who threatens to de-
throne J. A. Gumm as Onion King of
the Southwest. On three acres of land
Carr has raised a crop or onions con-
servatively estimated at % tons to the
acre. At the present wholesale price
of cents pound this crop will bring
him $500. The crop was planted in
September. 1922 and transplanted in
March of this year. 1t will be ready to
harvest within the next thirty days.
Prescott consumers of dairy milk
need feel no fear of receiving milk
from ,tubercular cows, according to the
tuberculin tests recently completed in
Yavapai county by DR.. NJ. Shipley, ex-
pert in charge of the tubercular eradi-
husbandry. Accompanied by Harry A.
Stewart, agricultural agent, and G. U.
Pickrell, animal husbandman for the
extension division OF the State Univer-
sity. Dr. Shipley has made an exhaus-
tive test of the cows in the county. Of
the total of 1876 cows in the county
tested, but seventeen were found to be
tubercular and these were immediate
ly shot and buried
Road conditions between Yuma and
Tucson are reported generally poor.
Permits to Craze cattle on forest
ranges are not included among what
old Arizona cattle range practice has
designated as "range rights Judge
Richard LamsOn ruled in superior
Court at Prescott, sustaining an objec-
ton by c. 2. Wingfield to a form of
Judgment submitted by G.. II. Hooker
at the close of his successful suit to
foreclose a mortgage on the Wingfield
assets. Judge LamsOn's ruling was de-
clared by attorneys in the case to be a
pioneer one in case of this sort.
Wingfield's mortgage covered his cat
tie, his brand, his range and "range
rights" and upon foreclosure counsel
for Hooker sought a court writ com
pelling Wingfield to sign a waiver OF
his rights to Craze cattle on the forest
reserve. The defense objected on the
ground that grazing permits are non
transferable under forest service regu-
| lationS and hence can not be mort
gagged as the mortgage itself implies
possible necessity of transfer of the
properties mortgaged. The court held
that this sort of range rights could not
be mortgaged lawfully and denied the
petition for the writ
A bond issue of $23,OOO,OOO for irri-