The Coolidge examiner., 1935-05-10
Southwestern Briefs


last year according 20 Fred Daniels.
state agricultural Htatistician.
The annual encampmeut Of the de-
pafimcnt of Arizona. Veterans Of
Foreign Wars. vas heid with several
hundred delegates in attendance.
Dean Tom T. Rodgers. dean emeri.
tus Of the New Mexico Normal IntYer-
sity. was the guest of honor AZ the
fourth AllUniversiiy Banquet held
April 2s.
The Arizona State Game Depart
meni recently received complaint
that wild mustangs are eating up the
grass on the range and the cattle are
becoming very thin"
Tn. value Of the 1895 spring lettuce
crop In Arizona. including wages.
crates and paper. and ice. officially
wAH estimated al $4,000. 900 By the
U. S. market news service.
Cotton farmers OF Dona Ana county
New Mexico should plant AT lcas, forty
per cent Of their base acreage in 1885.
according TO A. l.. Williams County
Assistant In Cotton Adjustment
The Arizona orange harvest for the
is3&-s5 season is virtually ended wsth
the harvest approximating 10000
boxes. according to NJ X Wells. statis.
tlcian for the Department Of AgricuI-
ture.
The Las Cruces Business and Pro-
fessioual Women's Club vas for the
twelfth annual convention Of the New
Mexico Federated Business and Pro
iessional women's clubs held April &c.
- and IS
George II Robinson. chief Of the
Yuma. Arlz.. Fire Department. vas
elected president of the Arizona Fire
mems Association at It's meeting in
Yuma and Williams vas selected as
ncxt years convention city.
The Arizona state motor vehicle dl.
vision reported recently that gasoline
tax collections FOR the first nine
months u the current year. amounted
10 Sg2stes9t3. al increase Of $751;.
1861 over the previous period
TIE office Of assistant professor Of
military science at the University Of
Arizona wlll change hands In the near
future with Maj Thomas G. Peyton.
ol Washington. d. C.. succeeding Maj.
Mack carr vho has held the post since
1880.
J. L. I-aniow. chief OF range manage
uent q the ella Soil Erosion project.
ls making a range reconnaissance ot
The arroyo east of Las Cruces. New
Mexico. The soil erosion project 10
this section IL TO come under the Gila
program
According 70 State Engineer r. G.
o'Conneu. be has received preliminary
information from Washington indlcat.
ING Arizona would receive sil. .tss.o0Q
from various federal sources In add.
ton to approximately s2.o0o. 900 in
state funds
Members Of the science OF archeol.
ogy departments Of the University oi
New Mexico participated In the 18th
annual meeting Of the Southwestern
Division OF the American Association
for the Advancement OF Science. held
al Santa Re.
The Pleasant Hasler Construction
Company of Phoenix, submitted the
low bid to the State Highway Depart
ment. for grading. draining and oillng
Of three miles OF a road extending
north from the Fort Hauchuca military
reservation.
Here are some Indian runners who
wan, bicycles Six Navajo braves.
whose tribe is noted for It's endurance
runners and athletic prowess. have
complained that eight miles Is too far
to walk daily ic and from their classes
al the University Of Arizona.
Computations based on the amount
OF dust settling on a plot OF ground
protected from the wind and drifting
made after a recent dust storm By
X. l.. Priest. Clovis. y. NJ, high school
science instructor. reveals each Clovis
housewife swept five pounds OF silt
from her home
Easter Sunday. observed throughout
the Christian world. Is the day when
the awakening OF spring is celebrated
by dance and feast by New Mexico
Pueblo Indians Ii has been only in
the last four centuries that the two
Easter and spring awakening-haye
been observed together. Heretofore,
the Indians did not observe Easter.
Since 1905 John r. Taylor has car
ried on relentless search for a gold
nugget. AT first he looked in all the
orthodox places but failed TO find one.
Then recently. while trudging down
one OF the main business streets in
Phoenix he saw something glistening
embedded in the asphalt OF the pave
menL He dug 1t out. An assayer
gave him so cents for 1t.
The Arizona State Game Depart
ment recently issued a scientific per-
init TO A. A. Niehol OF the University
OF Arizona TO kill one OF the ibex re-
ported TO be roaming in Mohaye coun-
tv NichDl is assistant rauva arotoefct