The Coolidge examiner., 1932-10-28
Southwestern Briefs

Bids were opened for work on ten
miles Tucson-Nogales highway, start
ing twenty-five miles south of Tucson,
Ariz.. and ending at Santa Cruz coun-
ty line.
An emergency relief loan of 500, 800
was made to the state of New Mexico
/ by the Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration. according to advices from
Washington. Gov. Seligman states he
will make known where the money
will be spent when it is received.
Deer hunting will be allowed in
four new state game refugees in New
Mexico Those to be opened are the
Twin Springs, Eagle Nest, Magdalena
and Council Rock protection areas.
| In addition hunting will be allowed
in other refugees customariIy thrown
open.
Through Yavapai county (Ariz.)
mining on the whole is not manifestly
active. There are several properties
/ showing signs of real energy. One of
/ the foremost prospects is that being
engaged in by the Hassayampa Gold
Mining Company in the Walnut Grove
district.
The Arizona State Banking Depart
ment has practically completed it's
contract for disposal of 10000 goats
! from the Kingman area. The goats
were sold T. o. b. Kingman at 55 cents
per hundred pounds, the average Of
the goats shipped being about 81
pounds per head.
The Hot Springs. New Mexico, High
school is financing its band and buy
/ ing school books from the proceeds
of their football games this year. They
report a net of SAC from the first two
games with Hatch and Las Cruces.
There was an $S5 crowd out for the
Cruces game, of which the Las Cruces
team received $50.
| The Roosevelt water conservation
district, which has operated against
many discouraging obstacles, an
nounces a cut of 81 an acre foot for
water for fall planting. This is ex-
pected to result in an increase of acre
age of grain and alfalfa in this, the
! second largest irrigation project in
the Salt River Valley of Arizona
A total of 22O miles of roads are to
/ be built in six Indian reservations in
northwestern New Mexico and north
ern Arizona at the cost of $174,000,
with funds from the emergency con-
struction act. This was the announce
ment following a conference here of
]. p. Kinney, director of forestry for
| the Indian bureau, and superintend-
ents of Navajo and Zuni reservations.
The drouth that prevailed during
/ the first three weeks of September
was broken during the last week Of
/ the month, and according to the rec
/ ord at New Mexico State College, 1.37
| inches fell during that week. The
Jornada range reserve reports from
two to four inches, indicating that the
rainfall was heavier in the mountain
regions, where rain would do the most
good
Five OF Arizona's sixteen territorial
governors were born in the month Of
| October. John p. Hoyt, fourth gov
ernor. born Oct 6, 1S41, in Ohio;
Lewis Wolfley, eighth governor, born
in Pennsylvania Oct. 8. 1899; Nathan
o. Murphy, tenth and fourteenth gov
ernor, born October IA, 1849; John
NJ. Goodwin, first territorial governor,
born Oct. Is, 1854. in Maine, and Ben
jamin Franklin, twelfth governor, ex-
act date for birth unknown.
Deer are plentiful in the Kaibab for
est this year, says communication
received by the Flagstaff (Ariz.) Game
Protective Association from Super
visor Walter G. Mann of Kanab, Utah.
Hunters are allowed one deer, either
buck or a doe. Supervisor Mann
reported fawn deer, Grated and ready
for shipment from the nearest rail-
road point, may be had this year for
$25 each. Fifty fawns have been
raised at Fredona and Kanah, he said
The Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration has purchased all of the re-
naming unsold bonds of the Middle
Rio Grande Conservancy district, ac-
cording to word received by Senator
Sam G. Bratton's office. The unsold
bond issue approximates $5,784,000.
The price at which the bonds were
sold was 80 cents, the telegram to Sen
ator Bratton's office from his secre-
tary in Washington, said. 1t is ex-
pected that more than 100 persons
will be given work after active con-
struction again gets under way.
Within the past few weeks two sep
arate groups of scientists have
visited Arizona for special duty. One
group from Europe was studying
desert plants at the desert laboratory
at the University of Arizona, and the
other, also from Europe, were as
tronomers who were making an in
spection of the Lowell observatory at