The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-30
Southwestern Briefs

A burglar who broke into an office
building at Phoenix recently apparent
ly was suffering from toothache. His
loot was toothache medicine and para
phernalia from a dentists office
Dr. Malcolm r. MacEachern of Chi
cago. associate director of the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons. announces
that a conference of the Arizona-New
Mexico section of the college will be
held in Phoenix March 81 and %.
NJ. r. Wells. statistician for the
United States department of agricul-
ture, announces that 47,O0O bales Of
cotton have been ginned in Arizona
so far this season. The estimate for
the season is $4,000 bales.
In the Florence. Ariz., section, the
average rainfall for a period OF twen-
ty years of 1851 inches. may be shat
tered this year, according to figures
presented by the local weather bureau
man, Maurice G.. Mann.
Terms of thirty-four New Mexico
postmasters have expired or will ex-
pire within a year and in addition
there are seven postmasters who re-
ceived recess appointments or were
named as acting postmasters.
Hidden in the fastness of the Santa
Catalina mountains of southern Ari-
zona for more than two centuries, the
fabulous Escalante mine more popu-
larly known as the mine with the
iron door," at last is believed to have
been relocated.
Arizona has six nicknames in all.
and none official. So you may refer
to it, as you please. as THE Baby
State" THE Copper State" THE Val
entine State" The Hassayampa
State" THE Sunset State" or "The
Apache State"
The Maricopa county board of su-
pervisors plans to ask the state tax
commission for authority TO create an
emergency indebtedness OF $4,000 TO
pay $50 precinct workers in the recent
general election, whose pay has been
held up because of insufficient appro-
priation.
New Mexico's greatest state indus
Observation-Disclosures 10S.525 pu-
pills and 3.S16 teachers, superinteDd-
ents, special instructors and princi-
pals. OF the total enrolment in all
the schools in the state. 50,703 pupils
are to be found in the municipal
schools and 5S,S22 in the rural schools
Orders have been received by Col
r. s. Knox. commanding officer of
the 25th Infantry. now in Arizona. TO
transfer men in his command from
Nogales and Douglas TO Fort Hua
chuca. The transfer is to be com
pleted by January 10 and Camp Little
and Camp Jones are to be abandoned
A slash of s2.5OO,00O in Arizonas
annual expenditures was the plan an
nounced by DR.. B. b. Moeur. governor
elect. recently. as he pored over long
rows OF figures listing the cost OF
maintaining various departments Of
the state government in the past. and
his estimates for future appropria.
tions.
c. l.. Baker of Deming, n. NJ. plant
ed turnip seed the last day of July
One particular seed blew a little away
from the rest and grew to the immense
size of seven pounds, being % inches
in circumference and IL inches in
diameter. This is just an example Of
what can be grown in the Mimbres
Valley
Hugo w. Miller. Nogales. Ariz. as
sayer. has purchased the smallest ore
shipment during his nineteen years
OF ore buying in Nogales-a specimen
OF free gold ore less than half a
pound in weight. but which assays
s135.000 to the ton. The specimen
came from the Ocampa district OF the
state OF Chihuahua. Mexico.
DR.. Byron Cummings. head of the
department of archaeology at the Uni
versity of Arizona. received a valuable
gift to the university museum from
Mrs. Gertrude Hager of Casa Grande,
A set of walrus tusks. the teeth of a
man-eating shark. a mounted Michigsu
bear and mounted Michigan wildcat
were among the pieces that were con
tributed 10 the museum.
Farmers should be interested just
now in getting the best planting seeds
at a reasonable price. says G. R. Ques
enberry of the New Mexico State Col
lege. The old saying that good seed
at any price is cheap is very true but
just at the present time we are able
TO get the best seed of all of our i'm
portant New Mexico farm crops for
less money than ever before.
The entrance of the Tonopah Mining
Company into the Harqua Hala dis
trict is calling attention to that great
area of western Arizona which in the
early days of mining produced some