The Coolidge examiner., 1935-01-25
Southwestern Briefs

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The Arizona State Temperance En-.
forcement commission reports that
revenue accompanying applications
for liquor licenses totaIed $s0.150 dur
ing the first four days of January.
Work on the new Brannigan Me-
mortal library in Las Cruces is pro-
crossing rapidly. 1t is expected that
the new library building will be com.
pleted by sometime late in March or
the first OF April.
There are more than COO acres OF
pecan orchards In Dona Ana county,
while in Eddy and Otero counties
much interest is manifested in pecan
growing. according TO II. c. Stewart
OF New Mexico State College.
The annual stockholders meeting OF
the Mesilla National Farm Loan AS
sociation was held recently in Las
Cruces. according to w. p. Thorpe.
secretary-treasurer OF the National
Farm Loan Association. Las Cruces.
II is said that Arizona cities will be
included as stop points in the second
daily round trip the American Airway
plans for its New York -Dallas-Los An
geles run. Planes viii leave New
York and Los Angeles simultaneously
A new $4,000 building is being
erected in Pennington, n. NJ. which
will house the Church OF the Latter
Day Saints and a community house,
including Boy Scout rooms, relief so
ciety rooms. a museum and a large
gym.
a gain in postal receipts OF S2.6S9.S5
during 1884 over 1888, was announced
recently by John Caretto, Bisbee post
master Total receipts during 1888
amounted to S29.731.14 as compared
with S32.420.49 in 1884, according to
Caretto.
Prescott national forest officers will
soon blossom out in regulation uni
forms under mandatory orders just re-
ceived from Washington. ID. c.. accord
Ing to Supervisor Frank L. Grub.
There will be two types OF uniforms
dress and work.
Hailed as a source OF water supply
and an aid in securing a PWA loan
for new water system for Hot
Springs. \. NJ. an artesian well. with
an estimated flow OF 200 TO $50 gallons
per minute. has been brought in at a
depth of 235 feet.
With the thermometer averaging an
even 81 degrees for the year. Yuma.
Ar!z-. and the Imperial Valley country
observed the warmest year on record
In 1884. The average was 81 degrees
above normal. according to compiled
weather statistics.
Gov Clyde Tingley has asked that
New Mexico be given a civilian con.
seryatlon corps camp for veterans. He
wrote Robert Fechner. director OF the
emergency conservation works, ask
ing for this CCC camp TO care for
some OF the states $4,000 veterans.
Pages OF southwest history were
turned back lis years when workmen
at famed Mission San Jose de Tuna.
cacori. near Nogales. Ariz.. disturbed
the burial place of Spanish priest
who died in 1920. Priests at the old
Tucson mission held proper rites when
the skeleton was reinterred.
Navajo tiibesmen foresee 1895 as
holding good fortune for them and
their paleface brothers throughout the
land. Three days OF December rains.
unheard OF even by the oldest Navajos.
which fell during the last week OF the
month, gave rise to the predictions as
the white mans New Year arrived.
Dividends totaling s1,296. 1861.
were paid during 1894 by Arizona
State Superintendent of Banks Y. c.
White in the liquidation of deEunct
financial institutions. The largest
went to the First National Building
and Loan Association of Phoenix. in
August and September. II amounted
to S516.927.
Elmer f. Taylor. water expert Of
Pennington, n. NJ. is said to be gath
ering information concerning plans for
presenting the water conservation
problems of the San Juan Basin to
Washington officials. He is making
maps OF all streams and lands in the
basin and the location of seven pro
posed storage reservoirs.
Governor Clyde Tingley of New
Mexico is going about the business OF
filling jobs in his administration,
though as yet he has made no drastic
changes despite the fact that he can
avail himself of the heritage of the
office-namely that he doesn't have
10 call for designations of present oc-
cupants of many appointive places III
the state offices and jobs.
Packs OF dogs have killed 10000
sheep in the Salt River valley over a
four-month period. Jerrie w. Lee, sec
retary OF the Arizona Wool Growers
Association, reports. He estimated
the loss to sheepmen at S1S0,000. The
heaviest loss reported since the sheep
gere moved to the winter pastures
from the Northern mountains, was in
the Mesa district when 300 were
killed in three night raids by the dogs.