The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Southwest News Items

held on July 4.
A pipe line running 5000 feet from
the rim of the Grand Canyon in Ari-
zona to Indian Gardens below, soon
will be supplying water to resorts for
the first time in history.
A total of 100000 annually will be
paid by people Of Gallup, N. NJ, and its
retail trade district under the new
federal taxes law. This is the figure
set by Gallup business men who made
a checkup of the city's retail. auto
mobile and gasoline and Oil businesses.
Most of the farmers in the Estancia
valley, New Mexico, are replanting
their crops which were destroyed by
the hail and rain storm which swept
over large area in the valley several
weeks ago.
Homesteading is going on in Las
Vegas, N. M, increasingly now, as it
did in the years following 1873 and
1898. Instead of on new lands to be
pre-empted and possessed, homestead
ing is now being done on the old lands
and in established communities.
On July 2, and Las Vegas will
hold Cowboys Rodeo. For seventeen
years Las Vegas, N. M, has supported
the Cowboys Reunion Association and
while the rodeo is under new manage
ment this year it is guaranteed the
same support as the old Cowboys Re-
union.
The governors of the copper mining
states have been asked by Governor
Hunt of Arizona to institute campaigns
in their own states to urge the COVER
nors OF other states to start them in
theirs to create wider use of copper
SO that the surplus stocks may be
depleted as rapidly as possible
Arizona's first state fish hatchery
for bass, located in Papago park. will
soon be completed. The hatchery, Of
ficially named the Hunt Bass Hatch
cry after Governor George w. P. Hunt,
was constructed by workers paid from
funds donated by state employees to
the governors unemployment relief
fund.
New Mexico State Game Warden
Elliott Barker has the pelt of a
"Chule" in his office. The animal.
rare in New Mexico, has its habitat
in Sonora and Barker said it was
something between a racoon and a
monkey" The "chule" was killed by
W. c. Echols of the biological survey
in Hidaigo county.
Approximately $4,000 was chopped
off the Colfax county, N. NJ, budget,
including schools, by the Colfax coun.
ty commissioners on completion of the
new budget for the next fiscal year.
Big savings were made in virtually
every item except the general county
fund which was increased to allow
for election expenses this coming No
vember.
The Arizona office of the United
States Bureau Of Public Roads has
recommended that a contract for seal
6oating 81 miles Of OIL surfaced road
within and adjacent to the Grand
Canyon National Park be awarded to
Jack Casson with a low bid of $780,
296.56. The work is divided into two
jobs, one on the Desert View road and
the other on the south approach road
to the park.
The Apache county, Arizona, board
Of supervisors has gone on record ap-
proving the consolidation of the Paint
ed Desert and Petrified Forest under
a combined monument plant. Neal H,
Phelps notified Charles ]. Smith, GUS
todian of the Petrified Forest national
monument Already the Navajo coun-
ty supervisors and service clubs in ST.
Johns and Holbrook have gone on
record favoring the plan.
Clinton P. Anderson of Albuquerque,
N. NJ, was the sole nominee at the
Rotary International convention for
the presidency, to succeed Sydney w.
PASCAL of London, England Anderson
is an insurance man in Albuquerque
and has been prominent in Rotary af-
fairs for many years. He was the key
noter at the recent Republican state
convention in New Mexico and is a
former editor of the Albuquerque
Journal.
Three new day schools were an
nounced for the next year on Southern
Navajo reservation The announce
ment followed a conference with In
dian bureau heads in Washington, D.
c., by Supt. ]. G. Hunter of Fort De
fiance. Hunter, who travelled both
ways by air, returned recently. Schools
set for construction are at Crystal, N.
NJ, Kin-Li-Chee, Ariz.. and Klak-e-Tah,
Ariz., where chapter organizations
have erected buildings.
The Navajo Tribal council will be
held at the Burke Navajo Vocational
School, in Ft. Wingate, N M, on July
7-S, according to announcements by
Supt. e. B. Dale. Superintendent Dale
received word of the council meeting