The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-13
Southwestern Briefs

to sign applications for the 1868
wheat adjustment contract.
Stock movements this fall have been
heavier in New Mexico than for the
past five years, according to H. R.
Mckee, district superintendent of the
A. T. & S. F. railway.
The rural resettlement division is
considering development of available
water for Short creek, as a means of
stabiliZing the crop situation in the
Tucson area.
WPA projects now in progress in
Roosevelt county, New Mexico, are
giving employment to 159 men, ac-
cording to Mrs. KinIey Spense, clerk
of the re-employment office.
Approximately $50 men are being
employed on the San Antonito soil
conservation project in the mountain
area east of Albuquerque, according to
H. W. Hurd, division engineer of the
SCS.
| Natural conditions were favorable to
the development of Arizona crops dur
ing October, according to the Nov. L
estimates of the crop reporting board
of the United States Department Of
! Agriculture.
| BroOmcOrn and grain sorghum crops
in New Mexico will produce about av-
erage this year, according to statis-
tics released by Fred Daniels, agricul-
tural statistician for the Department
of Agriculture.
Llewelyn Zent of Silver City has
been named state compensation direc-
tor for New MeXico's WPA, succeed
ing Peter Macatee, who is going to
Washington with the rural resettle-
ment division.
T. S. O'Connell, Arizona highway
engineer, and E. V. Miller, engineer Of
plans for the highway department, are
attending the annual meeting of the
American Association of State High
way Officials, in Miami, Fla.
Arizona cattle are in the best con-
reports October marketings of cattle
and calves were heavy from the range
areas and considerably above the COM
mercial marketings of October, 1884.
Work on the construction of road
from the Coronado trail to Forestry
lookout tower atop Rose Peak has been
brought to a close for the winter
months. The camp was showed out
following the heavy storms that have
been general in eastern Arizona.
Gila county stood fifth among the
fourteen Arizona counties in produc-
tion of leading metals in 1884, includ-
ing gold, silver "copper" lead, and zinc,
according to an advance summary pre-
pared by c. N. Gerry and Paul Luft
of the United States bureau of mines,
mineral resources, Salt Lake office.
The various departments at Arizona
State Teachers College at Flagstaff
are offering twenty new courses in the
new quarter which starts Monday, Dec.
20 Some of these courses have been
taught in the past years, and are being
taught again, while many are being
taught this quarter for the first time.
A crew of twelve men have started
work eradicating a slight infestatiOn
of twig blight in the Sierra Ancha and
| Colcord mountain sections of Tonto
national forest in Arizona. The work
is in charge of William Stambaugh,
Stafford supervising technician for the
civilian conservation corps in Crook
national forest.
Arizona ranchers from Graham,
Greenlee and Cochise counties have
appointed a committee to study the
| possibilities of setting up grazing
district under provisions of the Taylor
grazing act on the upper Gila River
watershed. The committee will report
at a meeting of livestock men in SAT-
ford December %.
An Australorp hen, owned by E. S.
McSweeney, agricultural teacher at
Phoenix high school, has been ac-
claimed the highest producer of its
breed in the United States. Through
out the fifty-one week egg-laying con-
test of the University of Arizona, the
hen laid 2S3 eggs, winning the trophy
of the American Poultry Journal.
| One-third of the women students at
the University of Arizona are either
| partially or wholly selfsupporting, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
university dean of women. Contrary
to the general opinion, more women
are working while they attend the uni
versity than at any time before, and
! the number seems to be on the in
crease.
! A committee to aid the Arizona
| health department in a planned social
! security program has been named by
| DR.. George C. Truman, state superin-
| tendent of health. Members are Mrs.
Jannette Banker DR.. Trevor Browne,
and Dr.. A. H. Meade, all are from
| Phoenix because the work by the COM
mittee will be gratis as there are no
! funds for travel
Retail sales of 500 independent
stores in the three southwestern states
of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
! increased about per cent in dollar
volume for October. 1885, compared
| with the same period year ago. All