The Coolidge examiner., 1933-12-22
Southwestern Briefs

Prescott's three CCC camps moved
into winter quarters December 1.
Arizona's scent gasoline tax re-
turned S224,64O.72 during October, it
was announced recently by the state
highway department. Of that amount,
S134784.43 went to the state; $685.
255.99 to the counties and 23,6OO.3O to
the governors unemployed fund.
Operations of the Phoenix office of
the home owners loan corporation
will be speedily increased and begin
ming December 10 checks totaling
S5O,O00 will be mailed daily, Roy Way
land manager of the Arizona agency,
announced recently.
Howard S. Reed, engineer for the
Arizona advisory board of the public
works administration, has announced
the governors of Arizona and New
Mexico will make a joint application
for a $5,000,000 federal grant for a
flood control project on the upper GiIa
river.
Miss Frances L. Hamilton, graduate
OF the University of Arizona. now re-
siding in Phoenix, has recently pub
lished a booklet entitled The Desert
Garden" The booklet is a key to
the study of plants growing in south
ern Arizona, with particular reference
to those which abound in Phoenix and
vicinity Capnp1ho plr
Park, Squaw Peak, and Phoenix Noun
tain Park.
New Mexico banks have begun op-
Grating under a code of fair competi.
tion adopted November 81. Under
this code banks will charge so cents
month for each checking account
which drops below $50 during the
month as at present. However, only
ten checks can be written against this
account without extra charge. For
each additional check two cents will
be charged
Chiselers and imitators of Indian
made goods who represent their prod
uct as the genuine article will feel
the heavy hand of the federal trade
commission. Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes, in a letter to the
United Indian Traders association in
Gallup, pledged prompt prosecution of
all manufacturers, who represent their
articles in a manner Injurious to our
native craftsmen"
Eccentricities of the Navajo Indians
appetite have left Indian Conserva.
tion corps cooks wondering what to
do with 100000 eggs, several hundred
cases OF sauerkraut and gallons of
pickles. The Navajo palate does not
relish sauerkraut and pickles, and the
stomach that readily holds prairie dog
meat will not stand for eggs. Off
cials are endeavoring to find a suit
able market for the eggs while they
are salable.
Mrs. George C. Roskruge of Tucson,
widow Of the late George c.. Ros-
kruge, pioneer Arizona surveyor, has
donated to the Arizona Pioneer and
Historical Society of the University
OF Arizona number of valuable re-
ports and maps formerly owned by
her husband, according to Mrs. Edith
Kit, director of the society. The do
nation includes about twelve sets of
maps, together with reports made by
Roskruge to the United States gov
ernment.
Standing near the base of the gil
gantic Boulder dam, Gov. B. B. Moeur
OF Arizona and Lieut. Gov. Morley
Griswold of Nevada, exchanged greet
ings Dec. amid the noise of diamond
drills as 1000 persons gathered near
by at Willow Beach to celebrate the
starting of work on the new $4,000
900 Kingman-Las Vegas highway. The
artery, which will be the only entry
into the Boulder dam region, will be
more than seventy-five miles long. 1t
is being built by the government.
c. H. Howell, chief engineer for the
Middle Rio Grande conservancy dis
trict, said recently the attitude of the
public works administration at Wash.
ington is distinctly against granting
public works funds for the proposed
$3,500,000 State Line reservoir on the
upper Rio Grande. However, a re-
quest for the grant signed by senators
from New Mexico, Colorado and Texas
has been presented to Secretary Of
Interior Ickes by Pearce Rodey, con-
servancy district attorney, and is be-
ing considered by the secretary.
Twenty-Five years before the bow
of the Mayflower cut the waters along
the stern and rockbound New England
coast, a lonely band Of men, women
and children knelt with uncovered
heads about a rugged cross in the
Indian pueblo of San Juan, thirty
miles north of the present site of
Santa Fe, to ask for divine protection
from the ravages Of new and strange
land. The band, numbering some 13O
colonists and priests and 400 soldiers,
irC lnd in