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April 2-3.-Annual Meeting Southwestern New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association, at Deming. The postoffice at Harrington has been discontinued and mail is now sent to Gladstone. New Mexico's Representative in Congress, Hon. Harvey B. Fergusson, voted for equal suffrage. A broom corn buyer in the Clovis section claims to have paid out $100,000 for the article during last year. Three cars of broom corn were shipped from Rock Island by farmers from the district northwest of town. The Meloche ranch people recently bought 1,000 tons of alfalfa at Maxwell, paying $9 per ton for the bale article. The wool production in New Mexico in 1914 was 19,077,000 pounds, being exceeded only by Montana and Wy. oming. The New Mexico counties received a total revenue of $128,015.50 from the liquor traffic in the fiscal year ended Nov. 30 last. Joseph Goodale of Arizona claims to have earned $1 from each hen in his possession the past season. He now has one thousand. C. E. Dennis of Clovis, receiver of the defunct American Bank and Trust Company, announces a payment of 11 per cent on all deposits, A report of the city manager for the year 1915 shows that at the end of the calendar year Roswell had on hand a balance of $12,490.18. The residence of William S. Prager, one of the finest in Roswell, was almost entirely destroyed by a fire that started from a defective flue. E. A. Wayne, for the past several years general manager of the Ernestine Mining Company, operating extensive properties at Mogollon, has resigned. The attorney general, in an opinion informs R. G. Marmon of Laguna, that he knows of nothing which should exempt able-bodied Pueblo Indians from the road tax. The Enterprise Coal Company of Gallup, capital $50,000, has filed articles of incorporation with the commission. The company starts with $10,000 paid in. At the annual meeting of the state corporation commission Matthew S. Groves was unanimously re-elected chairman and Edwin F. Coard was reelected secretary The Gila river, which became a raging torrent as the result of the recent rains, has washed out big areas of agricultural land along its banks, according to reports from Redrock and other points. Over 1,600 applications for 1915 automobile licenses have been received at the office of the secretary of state, and the total of the checks and money orders accompanying the licenses is more than $10,000. The Elizabethtown mining district, one of the best-known and most Im portant mining centers in New Mex ico, is reviving again, and will, during the present year, become an important gold producer. The boys and girls of the Artesia section of the Pecos valley are being interested in the raising of stock and hogs as well as poultry. A "Baby Beef and Pig. Club" is being organized by O. M. Trotter. Wright and Stauber, operating the Pacific No. 2 mine at Pinos Altos, the y scene of recent rich gold strikes, struck another gold pocket, which is said to equal in extent and richness those pockets formerly encountered. Rio Arriba county erected seven new school houses the past year. Life and death entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Mares at Gallup almost at the same instant. Just f as the year-old daughter of the family, after an illness of several days, passed away, the mother gave birth to an other daughter. Rev. Father Marra, S. J.. of Las Vegas, is mentioned prominently for selection as head of the Society of Jesus, it is learned upon apparently good authority. Father Marra left Las Vegas some time ago to attend a conference of representatives of the order in Rome, which will select a successor to the last Black Pope, who died about the same time as Pius X. There has been a marked increase in the salaries paid both men and women teaching school in New Mexico in 1913-14 over the previous educational year, but there are still 686 teachers in the state receiving less n than $300 a year. These are disclosures made by the salary report completed by Prof. Rupert F. Asplund and Statistician Paul A. Hall, of the department of public instruction. Governor McDonald honored a requisition from Governor Colquitt of Texas for the return to the state of it Will Pierce, who was under arrest at Clovis, Curry county. Pierce is wanted on an indictment for forgery in Hunt county, Texas. g "I believe our showing here means much more to New Mexico than any citizen now suspects or comprehends," says Fayette A, Jones, president of the New Mexico School of Mines, in a letter to Governor McDonald concern-
