The Coolidge examiner., 1930-11-21
SOUTHWEST NEWS

through her left breast.
Skeels and Graham, Tucson, with a
bid of S61,679.70 were the lowest of
eight bidders for oil surfacing fifteen
miles of the Phoenix Yuma highway
near Piedra.
For the first time In several years
each of the fourteen counties of the
state was represented by exhibits in
| agriculture, horticulture, livestock and
mining at the Arizona State Fair at
| Phoenix.
| Mrs. Frances Belle Allen of Las
Cruces and Nicholas Escajada of San
ia Fe won in the fourth national radio
addition for New Mexico at State Col
lege. They will compete in the dis
trict addition at Dallas.
E. A. Hughes, chairman of the state
tax commission, announced in Phoe-
nix that the annual tax conference be-
tween Arizona county assessors and
the tax commission of Arizona has
been set for Jan. at Tucson.
| Gasoline tax receipts in New Mex
leo totaled $25S,74O91 during October,
an increase of Is per cent over the
corresponding month of last year, ac-
cording to the monthly report of the
| Gasoline Tax Department.
The United Verde Extension Mining
| Company announced in Prescott that
it had obtained an option on the IA
| Ur1f1 of ho
greatest gold producer in the South
west. The property is eleven miles
| from Wickenburg.
Weddings in Arizona increased 81
per cent during 1929, the Department
| of Commerce announced in Phoenix.
The increase is attributed to Califor-
MAS three-day marriage law. The
departments figures showed 7,4O5
marriages in the state last year, as
compared to 6,400 in 1928.
| With an infant mortality rate OF
22.4 for 1929, Arizona tied with Vir-
| ginia for 38th place in the United
States. the U. S. Bureau of Census
announces. New Mexico and Utah
surpassed Arizona in number of in
fant deaths New Mexico had the
highest rate in the nation with 269.
The old Bankhead Hotel at Ros-
WELL built in early days by Pat Gar
rett, sheriff Of Lincoln county, and for
years the gathering place for the
| Pecos valley and all eastern New
| Mexico, will soon be replaced by a
six-story modern hotel to cost $780,
900. 1t will be built by ]. P. White.
Standing majestically among the
archives and exhibits in the Arizona
| Pioneer Society's museum at Tucson
| is the first printing press brought to
Arizona. Upon this press, one of the
| first newspapers of the Southwest, the
| Arizonian, established at Tubac in
| February, 1859, was published four
years before Arizona was cut away
from New Mexico territory.
Consideration of the unemployment
| problem in Arizona was begun at a
conference called in Phoenix recently
by Gov. John c. Phillips and plans
made for appointment of a state COM
mittee to carry on the study. Bust
ness leaders told the conference they
believed steps should be taken to warn
laborers elsewhere that conditions are
not good in Arizona Arizona can
take care of her own unemployment" 4"
Governor Phillips said after the meet
ing, "but it will become increasingly
| hard to care for the transients."
The industrial employment survey
report recently issued by the U. S.
Employment Service of the U. S. De-
| partment of Labor in Denver states
that there was an upward trend in
practically all major industries in
Arizona except metal mining and
numbering activities which continued
on greatly curtailed basis. Harvest
| ing of the cotton crop absorbed large
| number of workers who will be en-
| ployed in the next two to three
| months. A shortage of cotton pickers
j developed toward the latter part of
| October. Harvesting of other crops
and other fall agricultural work gave
employment to many men. Gold min
ing increased in the Kingman and
Oatman districts. Building and gen.
eral construction continued quite ac-
tive and included considerable mu-
nicipal improvement work, miscellane-
GUS telephone construction, school
buildings, churches, and manufacture
ing establishments. Highway con-
struction offered employment to quite
number of men in various parts of
the state. Forces employed in the
railroad freight transportation depart
ments are expected to show some in
crease in November with the supply
of railroad labor equal to all require
ments. There was a slight improve
ment in employment in several @ the
major industries in New Mexico dur
ing October; however, the supply of
all classes of labor exceeded require
ments, largely due to an influx of
workers from other states. Harvest
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