The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-11
Southwest News Items

from the Mesilla Valley for the sea
son amounted to S64 cars as comp ed
with SAT cars in 1880 and 4OS cars
in 1929.
The skeleton of an aged man, found
by sheep herders ten miles northwest
of Albuquerque, had been identified
Tuesday as that of P E. Wore of Elko.
Nevada.
William C. Joyner, purchasing agent
for the Arizona Highway Department,
said approximately $S5O,OOO will be
spent with state business firms during
the current fiscal year.
A New Mexico Association of Coun-
ty School Superintendents was organ
lied during the educational confer
ence at Santa Fe and Nj Lena B.
Sexton of DOna Ana county was elect
ed president.
An addition costing $4,000 is being
built by the Desert Grapefruit Com
pany to its packing shed at Yuma in
order to care for a so per cent in
crease in grapefruit production from
the Yuma mesa this fall.
Plans were under way here today
for organization of a 'elegation from
the Salt River Valley to join the pro-
posed motorcade over the Interna-
tional Pacific highway from Nogales
to Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico.
A substantial increase in the princi-
pal grain crops of New Mexico is
shown over previous estimated pro-
duction in forecasts just released by
Fred Daniels, agricultural statistician
at the New Mexico A. and M. College.
Local ranchmen at Artesia report
that prospects for fall and winter
grass are the best in years. Because
of the fine prospects for winter feed,
the ranchmen are expected to hold
over an unusual number of sheep and
cattle.
The State Highway Commission was
notified recently Arizona led all other
states in proportion to it's population
in the number of men employed in
public road construction on August 1.
Persons engaged in this work num-
bered 3,OSS.
Hundreds of visitors were in Gallup,
N. M, for the opening of the tenth an
nual Intertribal Indian ceremonial.
Six thousand Indians fror- the twen-
ty-nine tribes of the southwest par
ticipated in the ceremonial, which con-
tinued for three days.
The Artesia Chamber of Commerce
recently forwarded to Gov. Arthur
Seligman petition for complete shut
down of all oil wells in southeastern
New Mexico except those making less
than twenty-five barrels a day until
the price of crude is restored.
Louis Ilfeld and Howard Payne,
have complained to the New Mexico
Corporation Commission that out of a
shipment of 844 head of cattle loaded
at Sonita, Ariz., nearly 100 died from
rough handling in the railroad yards.
Arizonas desire to aid the copper
industry by using all copper automo-
bile license plates in 1892 will cost
the state $19,64O for 131,711 pairs of
plates. Specifications provide that
Arizona copper be used. At least 75,-
900 pounds of the red metal will be
required.
Terms Of a franchise for an electric
light and power plant at Cimarron
were outlined recently by Donald G.
Bent TO the Maverick Club at the reg
ular monthly meeting of the club.
Bent, who is one of a firm seeking
to build the plant, is asking for
25-year franchise under certain terms.
Cimarron is without an electric plant
at the present time.
All Of the funds from the recent
sale of New Mexico highway deben-
lures, $1,O0O.0OO, have now been
placed to the credit of the state road
fund State Treasurer Warren R.
Graham, a short time ago paid into
the fund 100000 which represented
the state permanent funds invested
in debentures, and the second $780,
600 came recently from private bond
houses who bid in half of the issue.
The proposal to issue 100000 worth
of bonds for the purpose of erecting
impounding dams on Banning creek
and the Hassayampa river to increase
Prescott's (Ariz.) water supply was
carried by vote of 425 to POI at a spe-
cial election held recently. 1t was the
second election on the same proposi-
tion in less than two months, the
bond issue having been defeated by
four votes at previous election
June 27.
E. L. Holt of Las Cruces, A. H.
Darden of Ration, J. A. Hall of Clovis
and Alvan n. White of Silver City