The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-30
Southwest News Items

will be from November 8 to Is, inclu-
siYe, at Phoenix. There will be auto
and horse races, stock shows and
music furnished by two different
bands.
A ten-acre tract to be converted
into an athletic field for Santa Fe,
N. NJ, public schools has been pur-
chased by the Santa Fe school board
from the American School of Re
search. The purchase price was
$4,000.
The Chloride gold mine located
twenty miles northwest of Kingman.
Arizona, re-opened giving work to
crew of forty-fiye men. Cliff Car
penter auuounces that new equipment
costing approximately $4,000 is being
installed.
The New Mexico Highway Commits
sion awarded to K. j. Maloney of Gal
lup contracts for building the federal
land project roads between Isleta and
Los Lunas and at Laguna. Maloney's
low bids on both projects were $109.-
195.29 and $S4,916.15, respectively.
Roscoe F. Rupp, Yuma accountant,
has taken charge of the defunct Sc
curity Trust and Savings Bank of
Yuma, Ariz., as receiver. The bank
failed Sept. p, 1881. Rupp was re-
commended to be named receiver at
a mass meeting of depositors held
in Yuma.
Arthur j. McQuatters was named
receiver for the Apache railway, op-
Grating between Holbrook and
McNary, according to papers filed in
Federal Court in Phoenix. Interest
payments of $216,8OO were defaulted.
Thirty-five persons are employed by
the line.
Development Of the site of the Sac
ramento Methodist summer assembly,
near Artesia, N. NJ, is expected to
proceed rapidly now with the compile
tion of the organization of the board
of control The camp site has already
been mapped and a survey is nearing
completion.
A full summer of archaeological ac-
tiyity has been concluded by Dean
Byron Cummings, head of the archie
ology department at the University
of Arizona and director of the Arizona
state museum. From June Z to June
f,,r in, OII
leo and other countries of central
America
One of the finest bands in the south
west, Winslows Santa Fe all-Indian
band, will play every day at the Ari-
zona state fair, November to 16, in
elusive. At the famous La Fiesta de
Los Angeles which was recently cele-
brated, this band was one of the sur
prise features.
Arizona ginned 1922 bales of the
1881 cotton crop prior to Sept. II, ac-
cording to a report issued by the De-
partment of Commerce in Phoenix.
Maricopa county was in first place
with 2,401 bales. Yuma county was
second with 1876 The total of last
years ginning was 0,443 bales. Work
on this years crop is still in progress.
Rosie Villalous, 10-year-old Gallup
girl, believes in miracles now for she
is now able to run and play like
other girls" after spending four years
as a cripple. Rosie, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Tony Villalous, of Gallup,
| returned to her home in Gallup re-
Gently from four months treatment in
Denver's children's hospital where she
was sent by the Mckinley County
Welfare Society.
! New Mexico had no local roads sur
! faced in 1880 but in previous years
total of 343 miles had been surfaced
| out of the 38,442 miles of existing
local roads. A total of 1888 miles
of county and township roads were
surfaced during 1880 according to the
Bureau of Public Roads of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture At the
end of the year the total mileage of
county and local roads surfaced was
ACT, 1898.
The depression in the date indus
try has ended at the University Of
Arizona in Tucson. Men students of
the university at a recent mass meet
ing computed costs of a date" at
$1.9S, voted that the goods should pay
one-half of the expense because of
critical business conditions" and
agreed unanimously that the girls
could ask for dates" with propriety
The goods, led by heads of thirty-two
sororities and honor organizations,
said 20. K"
Once the silver mining center of
the world, Tombstone, scene of the
recent "Helldorado," pageant, has one
of the most glamorous and pictures
que pasts of any town in the south
west. Today is just what its name
suggests, monument to the dead
past. Half a century ago when it's
ia bulOuS1v rich silver mines wara Dro-