The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-15
Southwest News Items

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states meet at right angles. A marker
there is at an exact corner of New
Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Colorado.
Governor Hunt has been advised by
President Hoover that the department
has taken over the Tucson municipal
aviation field for military purposes"
The war department recently erected
$4,000 hangar on the Old Pueblo
airport.
Several mercantile concerns in
Phoenix, Ariz., report the discovery
in their tills of spurious 25-cent pieces
that contain more silver than the gov
ernment minted coins. At present
silver prices the coins can be made
for approximately 10 cents each.
All resident highway engineers in
Arizona have been requested by the
state highway department to make a
close investigation of persons en-
ployed on construction work to see
that contractors are abiling by the
state law, providing only Arizona citl-
zens be employed.
Grapefruit acreage in Arizona at the
beginning Of 1882 totaled nearly $4,000
acres, almost all of which was OF the
Marsh seedless variety. OF this acre
age the Salt River Valley had 1850
acres bearing and 8,144 acres non
bearing, and the Yuma district had
600 acres bearing and 500 acres non
bearing.
The board of regents has reduced
the budget of the University of Ari-
zona $137,500. The notification to the
commission is made in order that the
tax levy be reduced. The reduction
represented mostly salaries, although
cuts were made in operation, capital
investment. travel, repairs and re-
placements.
The Miami Bulletin, established IL
years ago by Jean Spear and the late
Ed Harrington, has ceased publica-
ton. William A. Walsh, editor and
manager, said economic conditions
had forced suspension of the paper,
which for the last year has been
printed as a weekly. 1t had been
daily for II years.
A pipe line near Flagstaff, Ariz.,
running 5000 feet from the rim of the
Grand Canyon to Indian gardens be-
low. soon will be supplying water to
resorts for the first time in history
Installment of powerful electrically
driven pumps will be completed within
a short time and the new system
placed in operation.
Arizona has successfully invaded
the California market for dairy prod
ucts. During the past week one firm
sold 10000 pounds of Salt River val
ley butter and $500 pounds Of cheese,
made locally, in the Los Angeles mar
ket This was the first sale of any
considerable amount of manufactured
dairy products from Arizona ever
made on the Coast.
The Costilla Estates Development
Company of Taos, N. NJ, has ad-
vised the State Game Department
that in consideration for the stocking
of that portion of Costilla creek flow
ing across their lands, and Latir
creek and the Latir lakes, these
waters would be left open to public
fishing during the seasons of 1882,
1888 and 1884
Pictures and cuts of industries in
Colfax county, New Mexico, have been
asked of the Ration Chamber of Com
merce by the editor of the New Mex
leo magazine, so that they will appear
in a future issue of the magazine. A
section will be devoted to New Mexico
industries and the Chamber of Com
merce has been asked to especially
send pictures of livestock, mining and
timber.
A very noticeable increase in the
volume of tourist travel is reported
at Winslow, Ariz., by local camp
grounds, apartment and rooming
houses and restaurants. Several Of
the overnight places have been filled
to capacity and in several instances
have had to turn tourists away, while
the restaurants have noted an equally
appreciable increase in their volume
Of business.
1t is confidently expected that the
part Of the entertainment of the Colo
rado Federation of Women's Clubs
which Montezuma county, New Mexi-
co, will furnish will be the main fea-
ture of the big three-day convention.
On Saturday, July 16, the members
and delegates from all the clubs of
the state will take in Mesa Verde
National Park and Montezuma county
will greet them.
The work of completely mapping
and photographing Cliff Palace and
Spruce Tree House, the larest of the
hundreds of notable prehistoric ruins
found in Mesa Verde National Park