The Winslow mail., 1923-09-28
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

ly $10,O00,000, according to estimates by
Phoenix Gotten men.
The town of Holbrook, Ariz., was re-
ported flooded and at least one life
was lost when the recent flood water
swept through the town, according to
reports.
Approximately thirty families were
made homeless by rain and hail
storm accompanied by a high wind at
Hayden, seventy-five miles southeast
of Phoenix recently.
A. Won Borstel, manager Of the
Planchas de Plata mines, 1873 miles
from Nogales in the Altar district, re-
ports that the mine will reopen and
will employ about thirty men.
Heavy rains in northern Arizona re-
Gently sent rivers to flood stage, caus-
ing material damage to crops northeast
of Flagstaff, killing live stock and ma
rooning many campers on high land.
The annual state convention of the
Arizona Bankers Association will be
held October 26 and 27 at Tucson.
Over 200 Arizona bankers and their
wives are expected to attend the meet
ing.
The highway from Roosevelt lake
through Payson to the northern line of
the coupnty will soon be signed by the
Automobile Club of Arizona. f. FL.
Hardy, general manager Of the club
stated today in Miami.
After suspension of operations for
about ten years, the La Dura Mining
Company, located on the Yaqui river,
and owned by the Dolores Mines, Ltd,
has started operating again and now
employs from IS to 100 workers.
The recent widespread rumors that
the entire Apache county, Arizona, was
under quarantine because of cattle
scab and that, therefore, no cattle could
be shipped from that area have been
largely exaggerated, according to in
formation received from the bureau of
animal industry.
Apportionment of the tax levy of
ten cents per each $100 of assessed
valuation of property in the state as
provided by the highway bill for road
purposes has been made by A. E.
Stelzer, acting state auditor, to the
twenty-five per cent funds. The total
amount apportioned was $697 ,0O2.
Alfalfa seed growers of the Yumo
valley will net profit this season of
about $250000, according to estimates
made by those in touch with the in
dustry. The crop has averaged about
141a cents q pound. Over 100000
pounds of seed were harvested this
yaer, netting about $50O,000, half of
which should be profit
A bronze memorial tablet to Justice
Albert c.. Baker of the AriZano Su-
preme Court who died August 81, 1921,
is being placed upon the east facade
of the main hall of the second story
of the state capitol building. The tab
let is the fifth to be erected in the
capitol in memory Of members Of the
constitutional convention.
Not only has the War Department
at Washington approved in principle
the project of transferring a govern
ment hangar to Tucson and erecting
it upon the local municipal flying field
but it has recommended that the en-
tire field be leased to the government
instead of the limited hangar space
that has been under consideration.
With the early completion of the
150-foot bridge across Big Hell canon
and of twenty-eight miles of road be-
tween AshfOrk and Puntenny, one of
the outstanding achievements of the
state highway administration will
stand as an accomplished fact, and an
important unit of the Prescott-Ashfork
road will be thrown open to public use.
Thornton Jones, Jr., indicted by
Maricopa county grand jury on a
charge of burning the records of the
Farmers and Merchants bank of
Tempe, withdrew his former plea of
not guilty in Superior Court at
Phoenix and entered a plea of guilty
to the charge. The bank closed July
27 after an early morning blaze in the
vault had destroyed vital records.
Industrial conditions in Arizona in
general are much improved over 1922
and principally noted in cotton, metal
mining (mostly cOpper), fruit, alfalfa,
live stock and building. Installation
of hoist on Roosevelt dam spillways is
requiring small number of skilled work
men. A railway company has under
construction q million dollar program
of yard and bridge improvements ut
Yuma. Another railway company has
under way many improvements to
both trackage and depot buildings,
principally noted at Winslow, Williams
and Pinto. Aditions to the railway
shops at Tucson are under construc-
ton. Much Development work is be-
ing done in the metal mining districts.
Continued shortage of skilled metal
miners and increased surplus of COM
mon (mOstly transienD labor.