The Coconino sun., 1927-05-13
EXTRACTS FROM
THE WEEKS
NEWS
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PHOtSu Dy the DOaTu Oh regents Oh the
university of Arizona.
Commencing last Tuesday all
pistols, revolvers and other firearms
capable of being concealed on a
person were banned from the United
States mails under government
regulation.
Unable to straighten itself out
after turning corner, the Winslow
fire truck crashed into an adobe wal
while answering an alarm and re-
ceived a dented radiator and Other
damage. The driver of the truck was
injured.
The name of the Pickwiek Stages
of Arizona has been changed in ar
amendment filed to the articles OF
incorporation of the company witt
the state corporation commission te
the Pickwiek Stages corporation.
A school expansion plan, the fruit
of 10 years of careful study, will be
launched soon in Prescott. The plar
will include immediate expansion o.
buildings and grounds to take care OF
the needs for from five to ten years
Casa Grande's main street is now
a veritable white way since the in.
stallation of a string of lights il
front of each business house The
lights will burn each night between
dusk and midnight.
Chandler celebrated her 18th birth
ady last Tuesday with a days pro-
gram of sports and recreation.
The water users of Salt River val.
ley will have an opportunity to vote
on the financing of a fourth dan
across the Salt River next fall
Engineers of the Salt River VALLEY
Water Users association have pre-
pared the plans and authority to con
struct the dam under revenue
financing plan will be submitted t,
the members of the association.
A combination trip over the dosble
loop of Thousand miles of
thousand wonders to the second an
f1ual "All-Arizona" picnic at flanagan
Meadows June rs and 26 and the
Prescott Frontier Days on July /, 2
8, and looms as one of the foremost
attractions of the "See Arizona
movement this year.
Net profit of the Magma Copper
company at Superior during the past
year was S1,210,520.
The Arizona cotton crop last yeal
amounted to 1881 bales.
new sewer system is being plan
ned for the city of Stafford
A road is to be constructed between
Casa Grande and Gila Bend at The
approximate cost of $150,000.
That another quest for oil in Ari
zona, near Ashurst in Graham county
will be under way soon, is manifesl
in the fact that equipment for new
drilling rig is reported in transit ane
expected TO arrive at Ashurst soon.
Evidences of what is thought t,
have been Arizona's first mine dis
aster have been found in the workings
of the. Sodium Sulphate Producers
company's mine at Camp Verde, near
preserved skeleton and number o.
stone hammers. They were founo
firmly imbedded in solid blocks o.
sodium sulphate. No evidence o..
ancient tunnels or drifts can be fount
in the mine, but it is supposed thai
the stone age miner, seeking salt fol
his stock, was the victim of cave-in
Approximately 100 delegates wer'
in attendance at the 35th annual Ari
zona Baptist convention which was
held at Somerton near Yuma las,
week. Fifty organized Baptisi
churches in the state were repre-
sented.
A serum has been perfected by |:
Brazil doctor which is declared eff
fective against the bites of all three
types of poisonous North American
es-rattlesnake, moccasin anc
copperhead. The serum is described
as effective if injected within IL to "a
hours of the bite and is the first OF
its kind equally potent against the
three distinct species Of snakes.
The forests of New Mexico ane
Arizona support a stand of 81 billion
feet of standing timber There are
in the two states approximately 15t
sawmills with an estimated invest
Inent of $12,000,000.
E. l.. Chase Of Prescott, whose
white aconas hens have been showing
up wonderfully we'll at the state egg
LAYING contest at the University OF
Arizona copped new laurels when one
Of his prize hens laid 29 eggs in 80
days.
Development of Arizon's coal field
found in 1881 and well defined on
government geological survey maps
is forseen in activities of the Arizona
Coal & Development company, Inc, a
fully subscribed organization of east
ern capitalists.
In order to turn more tourist
travel over the Borderland route,
Douglas, Bisbee, and Tombstone are
going to erect attractive advertising
c;o,p hootflSsaf Ranson and Stems cut