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The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Santa Fe Chiefs
Inspect North
Side OF Canyon

During the early part of July the
San Juan Basin of the three states
Of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah
the Santa Fe railroad. They were
Vice President E. j. Engle, Assistant
Traffic Manager j. r. Hayden, GEN
eral Manager w. X. Etter and the
chief geologist Of the company, whose
name was not learned.
They passed through Monticello on
the 18th of the month when the wri-
ter was out of town, but it is under
stood that they took lunch here and
spent an hour asking about the gen
eral resources of this section and the
possibilities for its development.
They went from here into Colora-
do visiting Mesa Verde Park, after
which they went to Durango, where
they were taken in charge by COM
mittee from the Durango Exchange
and shown the country in that part
of the state.
While the gentlemen gave it out
that their trip was only in the nature
of a summer outing, they gathered
much industrial data as they went
along, and the fact that they are the
heads of the departments of the rail-
road which would naturally be selec-
ted to reconnoiter any future line the
railroad company contemplate build
ing, the trip may be safely put down
as one having the building of line
into the basin as an object.-San Juan
(Utah) Record.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
PICKERING TELLS EN- TO HURRY IF
THEY WANT TO GO TO THE MOON

Persons wishing to visit the moor
would do well to start now while the
trip is comparatively short. Only
As days of travelling in an airplane al
200 miles an hour, would be required
for the journey now but every hun
dred thousand years the moon anC
earth grow farther apart and ulti
mately when they will travel at the
same rate of speed, days and nights
will be three or four ordinary days
long.
These unusual conclusions are
among the many new facts that have
been placed at the disposal of sci
ence by Professor William 81. Picker
ing, noted astronomer of the Har-
ward, the Arequipa, Peru and Jamai-
ca observatories and simplified into
a lunar guide book in the American
magazine.
THE atmosphere on the moon,
says Professor Pickering, telling how
it would feel to be living on the
earth's satellite, sis so thin that an
imaginary man, transported there,
would find himself in a world of ST.
lence. If a mountain should tumble
he could not hear the crash because
there is not enough air to convey
audible sound waves. The force OF
gravity is so slight that man weigh
ing 180 pounds on earth would weigh
but 80 pounds on the moon.
''The lunar traveller would also be
surprised by the appearance of the
sky from the moon. Even at noon
day he would see the stars more clear
ly than we see them at midnight from
the earth. The sun would glow as a
great spot of light in dark sky and
the earth would appear as an enor-
nous moon.
"The line between light and dark
ness on the moon is sharply marked.
From the blackness of night to the
full glare of MONDAY is but the turn
like bottomless pits and only where
the direct rays of light fall is there
any possibility of seeing. Nearly the
whole surface of the moon is des-
ert, but I am convinced there is plant
life there. Also, certain moving black
spots may be enormous herds of ami
mails, though this is dangerous to
state"
Another interesting comment of
Professor Pickering is that were it
not for the cosmic catastrophe that
made the moon from the earth, hu-
mans might all be whales or fishes
today. When the moon was torn off
of the earth's crust and went whirl-
ing through space, the mutual force
exerted by the two bodies caused de-
pressions which became oceans and
confined the waters resulting from
evaporation which otherwise would
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
State Taxes Raised
To SO Cents for 1927

The state tax rate for 1927 will ap-
proximate SO cents for each $100 of
assessed valuation of property in the
state, according to an estimate of the
rate made by the state tax commits
sion from tentative figures on the
amount to be raised by the levy and
the total valuation of property in the
state.
The 1926 tax rate was 81 cents, or
26 cents less than the estimated rate
for 1927. The final figures Of the
1927 tax rate fix the rate lower than
the estimate or slightly in advance, it
was stated
The estimation of the commission
was made contingent upon the fact
that there would be no additional
appropriation made by the eighth
legislature now in special session and
the further fact that there will be no
change in the total amount to be
raised in the state budget from the
tentative total of the budget submit
ted to the commission by Mrs. Ana
Frohmiller, state auditor
The final valuation of property in
the state for taxation purposes for
1927 will be about $671 100000 or
nearly $18,000.000 more than the to-
tai valuation for 1926.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Queens RiUer Water
Battle Closes -Four
Banks, Is Claimed

Bishop, Calf The feud of city and
ranchers over Owens Valleys valuable
water rights, the cause of frequent
dynamiting of the Los Angeles water
system, was blamed for the complete
breakdown of the valley banking sys-
TENTS five banks having closed
their doors Thursday.
"This result has been brought about
by the last four years of destructive
work carried on by the city of Los
Angeles" was the bitter note posted
on the door of each institution to noti-
fly depositors of the bank failures.
The banks, according to their last
available statements, have total de-
posits of approximately $2,500,000.
The banks, the First National Bank
of Bishop, the Inyo County Bank of
Bishop, state institution, with three
branches in Big Pine, Independence
and Lone Pine, are in the hands of
bank examiners.
The banks closed voluntarily, ac-
cording to W. w. Wattersan, president
of the state bank and cashier of the
national institution.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Gen. Leonard Wood
Dies In Boston

Boston, August Major General
Leonard Wood, governor-general of
the Philippines died at the Peter Bent
Brigham hospital in Boston at 1920 a.
m. Sunday, following an operation at
the institution yesterday.
The spectacular rise of Major Gem
eral Leonard Wood from an obscure
post in the medical corps to a COM
manding rank in the combatant
branch of the United States army was
one of the outstanding features of
American military annals. Appoin-
ted an assistant surgeon several
years prior to the Spanish American
war, Wood rose to the foremost rank
of American generals, his active duty
eliminating in the governor general
ship of the Philippine Islands after
he had served four years as chief of
the general staff of the army, the
topmost military command.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
States Budget Is
Greatest Ever For
Years 1927-1928

1t will require $6, 1853, ,927.60 to OPP
crate the state government of Arizona
for the fiscal year beginning July /,
1927 and ending June 30, 1928, accord
ing to the state budget prepared by
Mrs. Ana Frohmiller, state auditor,
and made public Monday.
This years budget is the largest in
the history Of the state. It was pre-
pared by Mrs. Frohmiller from the
general appropriation bill passed by
the state legislature for the expenses
of each department of state, special
appropriations of the legislature, and
from appropriations made by laws
providing for continuing appropria-
tions.
The state tax commission in MAX
ing the state tax levy, however, levied
only for $5, $50, ,801.49 due to the fact
that estimated incomes from other
sources and other credits deducted
lowered the amount to be levied by
direct taxation nearly 100000.
Among the deductions was $685.
717.65, the balance in the general
fund of the state carried forward from
the last fiscal year, $189,315.67 rep
resenting appropriations paid prior to
July 1, 1927, and $666, ,741.57 repre-
senting the estimated receipts and
revenues of the state for the coming
fiscal year from other sources than
taxation. There was, however, added
to the budget for the year, $427, ,928.78
representing deficits caused by delin-
quent taxes and other causes. These
deductions and additions brought the
amount to be levied by direct taxation
down to slightly less than $6,000,000,
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Prof. Is Still Back
Tracking Old Tracks

Prof. II. H. Nininger of Mcpherson,
college, Palmer Lake, Colo, discov-
erer of remarkable animal footprints
said to be more than 100000 years
old, in Oak Greek canyon, near Corn
vile on April IL, 1926, will return to
Jerome with party of explorers to
the valley, according to word received
there
Professor Nininger, whose find i'm
mediately brought him nationwide
acclaim will spend several weeks in
the canyon. The discovery of last
year consisted of a number of foot
prints of a giant cat of the Pleisto-
Gene Age, in a white limestone bed.
About thirty of these footprints, some
measuring six inches in diameter,
were uncovered and not far from them
in the same formation has been dis
covered a track which has been identi-
fled as that of mammoth. The geol-
ogy of the markings prove their age
as 100000 years.
A space of more than 200 feet was
cleared by the party last year and it
is believed that further exploration
will yield even more important results,
as the mastodon print was found close
to the overburden and much excava-
tion will be required to open up the
other prints that are undoubtedly in
the same place.
The ancient imprints have recently
been placed in the national museum
at Washington. Being exceptionally
perfect specimens and resembling
nothing that has been uncovered thus
far, they are proving of great value in
scientific study.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
EVERYTHING LOOKING
GOOD FOR THE HOSPITAL

Several people have become skep-
tical as to the location of the Chill
dren's National Sanatorium at Spring
erville inasmuch as the campaign
committee has not yet begun its oper-
ations.
The chamber of commerce of
Springerville wishes to assure all good
folks that they are in constant COM
munication with ex-senator Ralph I'll.
Cameron, Mr.. Wilkinson, Mrs. Moran
and others who are taking an active
interest in this campaign, and from
all indications it looks as if they win
soon be on the ground to give the
movement impetus in Arizona. At
the present time they are working on
the proposition in New York, Wash
ington, Pennsylvania and California.
Apparently everything looks good
Springerville Tourzonan.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
State Forest Fund
Set At SI,29I, 1852

States containing national forests
will receive an aggregate of $1,291.-
652 as their 25 per cent share of the
SIS, 1861 500 which the department of
agriculture announced had been re-
ceived by the government from sales
of timber, permits for grazing and
other uses of the national forests
during the year just ended. Timber
sales accounted for $3,206, 1872 and to-
tai receipts were an increase of $10,-
948 over the previous year.
The 25 per cent of receipts turned
over to the states must be devoted to
school and road purposes and is to
take the place of taxes which might
be collected if the lands were in pri-
vate ownership.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Conference In
Denver Aug. I9

With the receipt of a telegram Sat
urday by Governor Hunt from Gov
ernor Dern of Utah, notifying him
that the conference Of the governors
of the seven basin states had been Of
ficially set for August %, it was an
nounced by members of the Arizona
river commission that 5he confer
ence of the subcommittee of the
Arizona and California river commits
sions would be held in Denver, Aug
ust 10, three days in advance of the
general seven-states conference.
The decision to hold meeting of
subcommittee of the two river
boards was reached during the con-
ference of the California and Arizona
commissions held in Phoenix Thurs
day and Friday.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
LITTLE PECAN TREES
IN BACK YARD

A few weeks ago the county officials
endeavored to get some pecan trees
for shade purposes on the beautiful
new courthouse lawn but it was found
they could not be brought in here on
account of quarantine regulations.
However, Clerk of the Board Sam
Withers was persistent, and when j.
j. Payne, local mining man, offered
him some pecans from his plantation
in Louisiana, Sam planted them in the
rear of the courthouse figuring he
would raise some little pecan trees of
his own. Seventeen out of twenty
four pecans planted came up and now
some of the little trees are seven and
eight inches high In a few years
Sam will be leisurely lounging meath
pecan tree cracking nuts and sing
ing, "this is the end Of a perfect day."
-Kingman Miner.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Control Of KGib0b
Is Up To u. S. A.

The government views the question
OF right to control and dispose of deer
within the limits of the Grand Canyon
national game preserve in Arizona as
settled in its favor and believes the
matter closed.
The department Of justice has an
nounced its determination to accept as
final the decision of the Arizona fed
eral court granting an injunction
against enforcement Of state game
laws against federal employees carry
ing out orders of the department of
agriculture to reduce herds.
The department of justice announced
it regarded as immaterial to success
full operation of the federal law a
provision of the court the decree
should not be constructed to permit
licensing of hunters to kill deer.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
RODENTS SOON TO BE
VALUABLE IN MUSEUMS

The report Of D. A. Gilchrist, in
charge of the activities Of the u. S.
biological survey in Arizona, discloses
that 3,925,00 prairie dogs, pocket
gophers, rabbits, kangaroo rats and
porcupines were destroyed in the
state during the past year by cooper
ating agencies working under the di-
rection Of the biological survey.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
PHOENIX MAN KILLED
WHEN 2 AUTOS CRASH

j. P. Johnson, 81, manager Of a con-
cession at the union station at Phoe-
nix, was killed early Monday morning
when his roadster collided with car
driven by C. J. Peters, at an intersec-
tion. Peters was unhurt.
Johnson, who has a father living
in Texas, came to Phoenix two years
ago from San Bernardino, Calf. He
is survived by his widow.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
HUMBLE BURROS USED
TO TRAIN WILD HORSES

San Angelo, Texas The meek and
lowly burro, or donkey, still plays an
important part in training wild
horses.
Yoked to a complacent burro, the
horses after a few hours learn to stop,
turn and in general to obey the wishes
of someone else.
A rope is placed about the horses
nose and about the neck of the burro
and they are allowed to run together.
After few hours the wild horse may
be down and unable to get up, but the
burro usually will be able to travel.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12

be spread all over the earth's sur
face.
The tides, which are influenced di-
rectly by the moon, says Professor
Pickering, act as a brake on the ro-
tation of the earth with q force of
20,000,000 900 horsepower.
Professor Pickering was at one
time many years ago connected with
the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
Sum OF 900 Up
For RiUer Surrey

A special appropriation of $4,000
to be used in making surveys on the
Colorado river for the state of Ari-
zona was authorized Monday by the
state board of directors of state insti-
tutions and the tax commission was
instructed to include in the 1927 tax
levy that amount.
The special appropriation made by
the board of directors of state insti-
tutions comes under the terms of an
initiated measure voted in by the cleo
tors of the state, November 8, 1914,
which authorizes the board to make
such appropriations as are found nee
essary for industrial purposes in the
state, and also authorizes the board to
establish such industrial businesses as
may be deemed necessary in the state.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12

The most formidable ali. dreadnaught
to be constructed in the United States
and possibly the world, has been sec
reilly completed for the army and
navy. The craft is said to weigh &c.
600 pounds when fully loaded and car
ries war armament of six machine
guns and two tons Of bombs, special
allowance being made for the carry
ing of a one-ton missile.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12

Because Claire Keller used lipstick
she was removed from the line of
graduates of the LIE Conte junior high
school, Los Angeles. She got her
diploma privately-and, her name in
nearly every paper IN the country
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12

Queen Marie of Roumania will vis-
it the United States again as soon as
the period for mourning for King
Ferdinand is over. This time she will
travel as a private person.
The Coconino sun., 1927-08-12
LAND BANK BUSINESS IN
ARIZONA

The Federal Land Bank of Berke-
ley, has issued the following state
ment on its business in Arizona fol
the month of July: Applications fol
loans from farmers, IL, aggregatine
$61, 200; loans made, 8, aggregating
$45, 500; appraisals, 10 farms of 527
acres; gross loans made since organ
ization in 1917, 1882 for S6,899, 900
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19

ter, ct eight 70 eighteen cents .
pound, and eggs, ct seven to fifteen
cents dozen, for sugar and coMee
and rice and calico.
When we went courtin we rode 9
mule or stray colt. Those were the
good old days our eastern friends still
have in mind. No freight problems
No gasoline. No hard roads. No
telephone. No radio. No monograph
No piano. No organ-only a Jews
harp and I couldn't play that. Nc
electric lights nor gas nor electric
range. No coal bills. We cut our
own fuel from our own or our neigh
boris woods" without restraint. NC
"store clothes" for Johnnie. No reap
er. No mower. No "header." Nc
Combine" Those were the days OF
the "scythe and cradle" No movies
No soda fountains. No nothin' for
boy to do down on the farm but work
fishin' huntin' trappin' the old swim
min hole and school and "spell bees
and games and exhibitions" ano
church and Sunday school and sing.
ings."
That was the simple life!
Those were "the good old days
down on the farm!
There was no farm problem then
National Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19
WHEN l WAS A BOY
ON THE FARM

When I was a boy down on the
farm we planted few acres to corn,
we sowed few acres to wheat and
oats and grass. We MIXED a few
cows, we sold an occasional calf, we
fattened pen of hogs; heterogen-
eous flock of poultry ran everywhere.
A small band Of sheep supplied blan-
kets and socks, mittens, "pulse warm
ers" and red, white and blue "com-
forters," and hoods for the girls.
! The Summers boys" worked early
and late six days week and cared
for the stock all day Sunday. Any
additional labor was procured at eff.
ty cents a day and board" or seven
ty-five cents a day if the laborer
boarded himself.
We took few sacks of wheat tt
mill twice a year-that furnished
flour and bread for the family for the
entire year. We shelled bushel Of
corn occasionally and took it to
nearby mill, waited for it to b.
ground, and returned with "the max
ings" of our corn bread and mush fol
winter evenings.
We snapped bacon for jeans ant
copper-toed boots. We snapped but
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19
A DREAM COMIr;G TRUE

"In the United States the task of
putting the agricultural workers on
an even footing with the industrial
and commercial workers of the cities
is everywhere well under way. Am
erican business initiative and Ameri-
can inventive genius brought togeth-
er under state-regulated private own
ership, are fast overcoming obstacles
to general rural electrical distribu-
ton that were once deemed insuper-
able. The goal is yet distant, for
many problems must be solved before
the United States will be able to
boast of 100000 electrified farms;
but unless politics is permitted to
dull initiative and paralyze energy
that day will come far sooner than
we at present dare to hope. The soul
of America is in the electrical indus
try, and even now there are men who
dream of nation from whose every
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19

A GOOD CHURCH GOING STORY
One cold Sunday morning, when the
thermometer was below zero, fifteen
people came to service in a certain
church not five hundred miles away
During the service the church caught
fire and the fifteen had to flee fol-
their lives.
The news spread that the church
was burning. Many who had remain
ed at home that morning, heard the
news and rushed to the scene. They
stood for two hours in snow a foot
deep in zero weather, and watched
the church burn. One of the bystand'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19
Babcock May Run For y. S.
Senate If Defeated On Roads

REALLY such rate Of tax does not
comply with the constitution, and
believe if test were made cars would
have to be listed as personal proper
ty"
Mr.. Babcock's statement today
clearly means that any further re-
auctions in the motor vehicle tax
would mean his resignation. That
would be followed by his candidacy
for United States senator.
Governor Christensen is credited
with ambition to become United
States senator himself. Senator
Henrik Shipstead's course is uncertain
with the possibility that he may file
as a republican next year. That in
dicates possibility of a three-corn-
cred primary fight with Shipstead
Christensen and Babcock as the en-
tries. Another possibility is that
Governor Christianson will run for a
third term as governor and wait until
1880 to run for senator.
Commissioner Babcock's name is
about as we'll known in Minnesota as
any, and he has been in personal
touch with officials and citizens in
nearly every county for a decade. His
friends believe he would be very
strong in primary election.
His implied threat to run for sena-
tor would not disturb the farmer-la-
Dor group, it is believed. They might
figure that the more candidates in the
field the better the outlook for Sena-
tor Shipstead.-Charles B. Cheney in
Minneapolis Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19

Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, may become candid
ate for United States senator next
year. He admitted Saturday that
such course has been suggested tc
him by friends, and that it is possible
he will enter the race, but only in case
his program for developing the trunk
highway system is "hamstrung" by
the legislature.
81 haven't anything in mind right
now but my job as highway commits
sioner," said Mr. Babcock. "That is
the work to which l have given the
best years of my life, and l care more
about it than anything else. If they
are going to hamstrung me, though,
will have to get out and do something
else. l have been through some hare
fights but l am getting too old, and
don't want any more of them, so in
case l can't get what we need without
a fight l will just step out.
"Next to this work in the highway
department, the senate looks like the
most attractive place to me. l have
been in Washington often and have
many friends down there, and could
carry on the work for good roads
there. If / should have to give up
this work, that is the only position
should care about"
Mr.. Babcock's political pronounce
ment may complicate the situation In
the legislature, which is about to
wrestle with the motor vehicle tax
the gasoline tax and the Babcock re-
quest for a $4,000, 900 bond issue.
Mr.. Babcock has announced that he
wants the gasoline tax increased to 8
cents gallon, and the motor vehicle
taxes restored to the rates in effect
before 1925, when the 2 cent gaso-
line tax was imposed and vehicle tax
schedules were pared down. He is
urging the $2O,OOO,000 bond issue, but
is not going to make any fight for II
in face of Governor Theodore Chris.
tianson's opposition to bond issues.
"The governor and l understand
each other" Mr.. Babcock said. 81 be-
lieve l am right and that eventually
the people will know l am right, bu
/ am not going to insist on the bono
issue.
GAS to the motor vehicle taxes
feel that a mistake was made In re
ducing them in 1925. When the. con
stitutional amendment was passed
provided that motor vehicles SHOULD
be taxed on more onerous' basil
than other property, for the benefi
of the trunk highway fund, and ex
empted from the regular persona
property tax. Those who are talk
ing about further reduction in tn
car taxes would find that they woul'
have to pay more than they are pay
ing now if they were listed as per
sonal property.