The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-12
Southwest News Items

The body of a man, found in the
desert twenty-fOur miles from ella
Bend, Ariz., was identified as that of
Frank j. Tanning of Los Angeles.
Cards bearing that name were in his
wallet.
A new and exciting thrill was given
scores of girls at the Chi Omega Sor-
ority house on the University of Ari-
Zona campus in Tucson. when an air.
plane made a forced landing in the
front yard. The unlimited airman was
given a cordial reception. None was
injured in the accident.
Arizona's dude ranches represent a
total of six million dollars capital in
vestment, according to the report of
the Arizona Industrial Congress. Their
total yearly income exceeds two mil
lion dollars. Figures of this magni-
tude put the dude ranch business in
high rank among the industries" of
Arizona.
The State Highway Department of
New Mexico has bought $4,000 barrels
of oil for highway use this year. Two
years of experience with extensively
oiled highways has proved their value
The oil used comes from the Pecos
valley, east of Carlsbad. 1t has ar
asphalt base and Is particularly good
fo,. Sr1rfa
Arzona's Colorado river commits
sion, in a special session recently, in
Phoenix, took under consideration a
suggestion that the state file suit in
the United States Supreme Court,
seeking an equitable apportionment Of
Colorado river waters which will be
Hoover dam.
c.. f. lizard, representative of the
division of management of the U. S.
bureau of public roads, recently esti-
mated that there were four times as
many men employed on highways in
New Mexico in April as had been in
January. Some of the increase was
attributed to seasonal increase, but
most of it to the emergency highway
construction program.
The Santa Fe railroad has notified
the New Mexico State Tax Commits
sion that it will accept a 1881 valua-
ton of $54, 4,567,O33, the same as the
final figure of last year, unless there
is a material reduction in the assess
ment of other property To this fig
ure, however, will be added additions
and improvements made by the rail-
road during the last year.
The Circle Cross Cattle Company
ranch, one of the oldest ranches in
the southwest, famous in the history
of the early range conflicts in south
ern New Mexico, has been cut up and
sold in small ranges, it was announced
in Alamogordo, n. M. State Senator
Oliver M. Lee and his sons are re-
ported to have purchased the major
ity of the stock and acreage.
Huge holes have been torn in Cal
lup's new paving to see whether the
city will accent the New Mexico Con-
struction company's $15O,OO0 job. The
tests were made at the invitation of
the construction firm, following pro-
test that the pavement was not up to
the six-inch thickness specified in the
Of ir1i1
ton suit to halt work on the pave
ment.
Farm real estate values in New Mex
leo have slumped only l per cent over
last years valuations, according to
figures recently released by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. Using pre-
war values as 100 per cent, farm real
estate is now 109 per cent, according
to the departments figures. The high
spot was reached in 1920, when New
Mexico farm real estate was 144 per
This year more than twenty million
dollars will be spent in large projects
Of construction and development in
the state of Arizona. This amount
compares favorably with the record of
the last several years. Highway
building and improvements for which
state and federal funds are available
represent the expenditure of eight
million dollars, while railroads, utility
companies and irrigation projects will
amount to about six million dollars.
Another five million dollars will go for
the building Of municipal works and
large construction projects either al
ready begun or soon to be started.
An increase in the urban population
of New Mexico from 1S to % per cent
of the state total between the years
1920 and $780, is shown by census fig
ures released in Washington, D. c.,
which divide the residents of the state
at the last census into 106,S16 urban
and 1901 rural. OF the New Mexi-
can rural population, 157,906 were liy-
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