The Coolidge examiner., 1933-03-17
Southwestern Briefs

railroad shops at Deming, N. M, have
been transferred to FL Paso, and the
shop in that town will be closed, rail-
road officials stated.
M. G. Valdez, deputy collector of
revenue, will be in Gallup, N. M,
from Albuquerque on March CT to
aid in making out income tax returns
for the federal government.
Supt. G. A. Trotter of Zuni, Ariz,
has requested the Indian bureau for
$1,000 to send an exhibit of Indian arts
and crafts to the Century of Progress
exposition in Chicago this year.
Governor Seligman of New Mexico
signed the Beall bill providing for is
suance of receipts in full upon pay
ment of the principal of taxes plus
court costs without interest or pen
alties if paid within ninety days from
date.
At Gallup, n. NJ, Wilson SandovaI
and Mitchell Largo, Navajos, received
. sentences of one to five years on
guilty pleas to stealing and eating a
colt Of Tom Elkis' of Bluewater, ac-
cording to commitments received in
District Court.
The Valley Bank and Trust Com
pany has completed negotiation by
which it acquired the First National
bank of Prescott, Ariz., and consoli-
dated this bank with its Prescott
branch. The First National bank
opened in Prescott Dec. %, 1928.
Governor Arthur Seligman will ap-
pear upon the program of the New
Mexico Cattle Growers convention, to
be held at Tucumcari, n NJ, March
1921. Governor Seligman is slated
to present the response to the well
come address on behalf of the state.
Senator Bratton has informed AL
bert n. Moriaty of Silver City, N. M,
that the Bratton bill to reduce gov
ernmental expenditures will not cause
abandonment of Fort Bayard hospital,
nor will it reduce compensation, dis
ability allowance or pensions of ex-
service men.
Santa Fe railroad paid the San
doval, n. NJ, county treasurer $4,000
Of its April taxes in order that schools
might be kept open a month longer.
Payment of the railroads taxes al
most two months before due was
made at the request of Representa-
tive w. E. Rose.
The outward movement of cattle
from Arizona in 1882 was approx
mately $4,000 head, based on figures
of the first ten months furnished by
the Arizona livestock board of the
University OF Arizona. On the same
basis of calculation the number of
cattle slaughtered was $4,000 head.
Figures compiled at the University
of Arizona indicate that the 1882
spring lettuce deal in Arizona con-
sisted Of 1874 acres in the Salt
River valley, 2,490 acres at Yuma, 660
acres at Eloy, 320 acres at Buckeye
and 200 acres in the Rittenhouse dis
trict, totaling 14,414 acres. From this
acreage ABB cars were marketed, or
yield of ninety-six crates per acre.
Over 400 copies of Brass Tacks, the
officiol booklet prepared by the Las
Cruces, n NJ, Chamber of Chamber
on this valley are being sent out to
the members of the southwestern di-
vision of the American Association
n irrnV 1f ~
which will hold its annual convention
at State College on May /, 2, 8 and 4
of this year. The southwestern divi-
sion includes Texas, New Mexico, Ari-
zona and Colorado.
Eight hundred sacks of federal gov
eminent flour, to be distributed to
needy families in Coconino country,
Ariz., by the Red Cross, arrived re-
Gently. The shipment consisted of
400 sacks Of twenty-four pounds each
and 400 sacks of forty-nine pounds
each. Two hundred and fifty barrels
of flour have already been allotted
to destitute families here through the
Red Cross agency in cooperation with
the federal government.
II the enthusiasm and spirit with
which the local business and cattle
men are preparing for the nineteenth
annual convention of the New Mexico
Cattle Growers Association, to be
held at Tucumcari March 20 and 21,
is any criterion to go by the success
of the convention is assured. The
cattlemen will be welcomed to Tu-
cumcari by Governor Arthur Selig-
man and Mr.. w. A. Foyil, president
of the Tucumcari Chamber of Com
merce.
DIR. Walter Hough, head curator of
anthropology of the United States
Museum at Washington, is inspecting
the canal work of the valleys earliest
inhabitants, the nucleus of which lies
in the vicinity of Mesa, Ariz. Fields
surrounding Mesa are criss-crossed
with sometimes faint indentations
which were once the source of water
supply for the early day Indians. 9th.
er larger canals now in use were
dredged from the primitive, though