The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-19
Southwest News Items

duced more than 5000 10O-oound sacks
of Irish Cobbler potatoes, which have
been graded, sacked and are ready
for marketing.
The governors of Montana and
Michigan have advised Governor Hunt
of Arizona they will aid in stabilizing
the copper industry through plans sug-
gested by the Arizona executive.
A discovery of molybdenum ore four
feet in width and of unknown length
is credibly reported at the Del Rey
Silver Mines property in the Pinal
mountains, eight miles from Globe.
A marked decrease in the total
amount of lumber manufactured, in
Arizona and New Mexico in 1881, as
compared with the amount manufac-
tured in 1880 and 1929 is shown.
Special hunts for antelope and elk.
State Game Warden w. C. Joyner an
nounced may be conducted in Arizona
this fall and winter under the super
vision of the state game commission
The United States Bureau OF Roads
has made public a program under
which approximately $500OOO will be
spent on road projects in the national
forests of Arizona during the fiscal
year.
Plans for construction of a gasoline
refinery at Baca, N. NJ, and to market
locally the production of the three
-Hospah dome wells sixty
miles northeast of Gallup, are an
nounced.
Arizona's American Legion for the
third consecutive time will head the
national convention parade at Port
land in September, Commander Ken
meth Aitken of the Ernest A. Love post
has learned.
Pronounced success is attending the
efforts of the Arizona Industrial Con-
gress, Phoenix, to coordinate the en-
ergies of the ten western states in
concerted drive against the depression,
it is announced.
The announcement of new wells to
be started, new refinery to be built,
and the resumption of several wells
which have been standing shut down
featured the news in New Mexico oil
fields last week.
The New Mexico highway commits
sion may stop the sale of its state de-
bentures and instead try to borrow
million and one-half dollars from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Chairman Frank Butt said.
Purchase of farm of at least 5000
acres under an irrigation district is
recommended by Warden E. B. Swope
to Governor Arthur Seligman. The
farm would be utilized to furnish fur
ther occupations for p IN inmates.
Six hundred twenty-five thousand,
two hundred fifty-two acres out of
1,066,439 examined in Yuma county,
Arizona, are irrigable, according to
Porter ]. Preston, chairman of the
Colorado River Planning Commission.
The Winslow Daily Mail, only daily
newspaper in northern Arizona for the
past five years, is to enter the weekly
field, Griaga brothers. publishers. an
nounced, the change in frequency of
publication to be made after the issue
of July 80.
Oliver La Fargo, author of the 1929
Pulitzer prize novel, Laughing Boy"
will serve as one of the judges Of
Indian arts and crafts to be displayed
by Indians of the southwest at the
Intertribal Indian ceremonial to be
held at Gallup, Aug. "a. 25, &c.
The stocking of 26O miles of drain
age bitches of the Elephant Butte
reclamation project with game fish
has been recommended to the New
Mexico state game and fish depart
ment by Deputy State Game Wardens
Hubert Hammond and Carl Welch.
The federal bureau of fisheries is
sending Arizona a carload of black
bass and other fish from the station
at Dexter, n NJ. The fish will be
distributed in Roosevelt, Pichacho,
Apache and Mormon Lakes and at
Carl Pleasant and Stewart Mountain
dams
Approximately $4,000 acres of des-
ert land in Yavapai county, Arizona,
has been opened for entry, former
service men and others with preferred
rights having until October 10 to file
claims. The remaining unreserved
land will be opened to the public for
entry on Oct. 19.
Approval of the $4,000 forest high
way program for New Mexico will
mean employment for between 200
and ESQ laborers, c. A. Long, regional
engineer of the forest service, Albu-
querQue. has announced. Included in
the program is extension of the new
Cedro canyon highway for seven miles
to Yrissari, at cost of $4,000.
Indians of more than twenty tribes
who gather at Gallup, N. NJ, August