The Coolidge examiner., 1932-09-02
Southwestern Briefs


Approximately $4,000 less will be
levied for taxes in Mora county. N.
NJ, this year than a year ago as a
result of the county budget hearing,
attended by members of the State Tax
Commission.
Poppies sold next year and there
after in Arizona by the auxiliary to
the American Legion posts through
out the state will be poppies made
by disabled veterans in hospitals and
in their homes.
Corn is used as money by farmers
in northern Lea county, N. NJ. Farm
ers pay their bills with so many BUSH
els of corn, trade it for necessities
and exchange it for livestock and
farm implements.
The condition of New Mexico
ranges was 50 per cent of normal as
compared with 81 per cent last month
| and IS per cent a year ago, according
to a report released by Fred Daniels,
agricultural statistician for New
Mexico.
Three firms applied to the state
motor bus bureau for permits to op-
crate truck freight lines from Albu-
querque to Santa Fe. The applicants
are F. w. Bickel Joseph Burne and
the HunterClarkson Co, Inc, all Of
Santa Fe.
Near Gallup, N. NJ, three large In
dian ruins, one of them virtually un-
der the tipple of the Gamerco mine,
have been unearthed by miners in
their idle time. Discovery of a skele-
ton over which the miners have trod
for a dozen or more years. led to the
rush to excavate the ruins.
The New Mexico bureau Of child
welfare has arranged for one of it's
field representatives Mrs. Lydia
Eicher Halstead, TO carry on a joint
program for the New Mexico Ameri-
can Logon and the state bureau for
two months, at the request of state
and national officers of the American
Legion.
Grand Canyon, Ariz., is perhaps the
most representatives national park of
the twenty-five national parks in the
United States, according to Superin-
tendent M. R. Tillotson, who points
out each month of the summer travel
season finds automobiles from prac-
tically every state in the Union reg
istered at the park entrance gates.
The New Mexico Bureau of Child
Welfare has arranged for one of its
field representatives, Mrs. Lydia
Eicher Haystead, to carry on a joint
program for the New Mexico Ameri-
months. at the request of state and
national officers of the American Le-
gion
Mohave county, Ariz.. has a road
project, surveyed and estimated, that
is second TO none in importance of any
OF the roads of the state. That is the
proposed road from Kingman to Boul-
der dam, which is later to extend to a
connection with U. S. 80, which is to
become the main line into Mexico and
South America.
Having set the state tax rate for
the fiscal year 1928 at $120, high
est in the states history. the State
Tax Commission has also, it an
nounces, reduced the state budget
S25S,500 for the same period. The
budget reductions were made by re-
quest of the departments involved or
at suggestion of Governor Hunt
Louis Casazza, who lives three miles
northeast of Pennington, N. NJ, near
the Aztec highway, last year har-
vested from 21a acres, over twenty
two tons of potatoes, which he sold
at 81 per cwt., thus taking in about
$3.50, or an average of more than $175
per acre. This years crop is con-
tracted for at $1.25 per hundredweight
A group of California men, headed
by Cooper Shapley of Bishop, have
taken an option on a fluorspar prop
erty near Deming, ~ NJ. They are
building a mill to crush the ore to
100 fineness and then remove objec-
tional material, such as silica, by flo
tation, producing an. ore of 80 per
cent purity. Fluorspar is extensively
used in the porcelain trade.
Articles of incorporation of the Orc
Plata Mining and Refining Company,
with capitalization of $250,0O0, was
filed with the State Corporation Com
mission. The new corporation is be-
ing put over by NJ. E. Settle, Robert
@. Cruel and Charles P. Elmer. The
new company has an option on the
old Orc Plata mines group, situated
in Todd basin. sixteen miles north of
Kingman, Ariz.
With the completion of improve
ments in the Petrified forest by the
government and the stressing of this
wonderful national monument by lo-
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