The Coolidge examiner., 1933-03-24
Southwestern Briefs

waterworks system
Issuance of scrip by clearing
house associations of Arizona has
been legalized as Gov. B. B. Moeur
signed an enabling act sent him by
the Legislature.
B. l. Staples of Coolidge. N. NJ,
president of the United Indian Trad
ers' Association, is definitely in the
race for the appointment for assist
ant U. S. Indian commissioner.
Arizona has contributed large
amounts of material to the upbuilding
of the American merchant marine by
furnishing copper, silver, lead, zinc.
leather and WOOL government figures
Indicate
A new 1880 school building will
be erected at Fredonia in northern
Coconino county, Ariz., TO replace the
one destroyed by fire January %, If
proposed $4,000 bond issue is ap-
proved by voters in the district
A supply of new application blanks
for the federal seed loan has been re-
ceived by the Dona Ana, Ariz., coun-
ty committee, which is composed of
G. +. knight, chairman; J. c. Rob
bins, Jose r. Lucero and E. j. Stern.
Nine hundred and five gallons of
gasoline and sixty quarts of oil were
used by the various departments of
-, IL ~F At. Nh
ruary, according to a report made by
Fire Chief Walter Suter to the City
Council.
Five states have received emer-
gency relief loans from the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, total
ing over $2,367000, of which Arizona
was granted $201,513. The Arizona
loan is to care for fourteen counties
during March.
A two-year moratorium on mortgage
foreclosures is in effect in Arizona.
The bill passed by the Legislature and
signed by the governor, authorizes Su-
perior Court judges to extend for two
years litigation resulting from fore
closure actions.
The conference between the Ari-
zona Colorado river commission and
federal government representatives
on the proposed contract for delivery
of water to this state from the
Hoover dam project, ended without
an agreement being reached.
of
Utah workmen on Arizona road prof
ects, financed in part by Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation funds, have
been forwarded to state and federal
board of supervisors and Flagstaff
Chamber of Commerce.
Northcutt Ely, representing the
secretary of the interior. was in Phoe-
nix, Ariz., recently from Washington.
d. c., comforting with the Colorado
River commission of Arizona on the
contract for the allotment to Arizona
of a certain amount of the water of
the Colorado river.
Taxable valuation of Coconino coun-
ty, Ariz., will be reduced approximate
ly 100000 upon completion of assess
ment roles, County Assessor Carl
Dickinson estimated. Figuring on
the basis of valuation of $16,975, ,099
for the past fiscal year, the reduction
will total per cent.
After two years of almost complete
inactivity, buying of oil and gas
leases has been resumed in Roosevelt
county. William d. Morris and ]. G.
Maxwell of Fort Worth, Texas, the
Magnolia and Shell Oil Companies,
and others, have taken about 10000
acres of state leases at sales by the
state.
Cattle, milk cows and hogs on New
Mexico farms and ranches have in
creased in numbers while horses,
mules and sheep have decreased in
numbers. compared with a year ago,
according to the annual livestock re-
port, issued by bureau of agricultural
economics, United States Department
of Agriculture.
Albert Mitchell, president of the
New Mexico Cattle Growers Associ-
alton, announces that a special fea.
ture of the nineteenth annual conven-
tion, to be held at Tucumcari March
1921, will be an informal discussion
of problems of interest to cattlemen.
One-half day will be devoted to this
discussion
To meet the demands of Globe,
Ariz., residents sending money
abroad, who do not require the speed
Of the cable money order, the West
ern Union Telegraph Company has
inaugurated foreign mail remittance
service in conjunction with the Amer
lean Express Company, from Globe to
European countries.
From Mesa, Ariz., report comes that
the false chinch bug, the same insect
that destroyed flower and vegetable
gardens and made lawn sitting at
night disagreeable last year, is al
ready making it's 1888 bow in the dis.
trict. War against the pest should
start at once if it is to be extermi-