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Southwest News From All Over New Mexico and Arizona Western Newspaper Union News Service. The charter for the National Bank of Galiup, New Mexico, has been issued by the government and the new institution will open for business the first of January. The contract has been let and actual construction work started on the main building of the Menaul school at Albuquerque, which, when completed, will cost over $77,000. The Glendale State Bank at Glendale, Arizona, has been closed. Jesse L. supervisor of state banks, would be said Boyce, the closing probably only temporary. The discovery of a large vein of high-grade gold ore on claims located mountains from Casa in miles the southwest Sheridan about Grande, forty Arizona, has created quite an excitement and many automobile loads of people have been rushing out to the new gold field to get in on the ground floor. It has been announced at Douglas, Ariz, that the Apache Powder pany, is building a plosive which factory large Com- exnear Benson, Ariz., will of a at the Calumet & Arizona plant begin construction fuming Cop- acid per Company's smelter. The plant will make acid for use in the powder at the main factory. A wireless telephone net has been installed by the forest department in the office of Supervisor T. T. Swift in Safford, Arizona. The first to be made with a large radio Afterwards be tion is outfit Clifton, connec- may installed and connections made government stations in with Arizona other radio and elsewhere. Following the example of other mining companies in the southwest, the United Verde Mining Company and the United Verde Extension Mining Company, both operating in the Jerome district, have posted notices reducing $1 pay of miners and other day workers a day, and of salaried employΓ©s approximately 20 per cent. Farmers, business men and citizens of Las Vegas, N. M., attended a big meeting held at the rooms of the Commercial Club for the purpose of fecting an organization to conduct perannual livestock and agriculture an hibit in that city. The plans include exa permanent organization and of annual cowboys' roundup is to be one the the entertaining features. The last chapter in the prosecution of the defendants in the Bisbee deportation cases was written in Washing. ton when the Supreme Court of United States affirmed the decision the the United States District Court of Arizona that the alleged deportation of of several hundred men from the ren district on July 12, 1917, was War- not a violation of federal statutes, Inability of cotton growers stock raisers to meet their and to depressed markets reason for the as owing the closing obligations was of given other Arizona bank. The ansuspend business is tution brook to latest the insti- HolLast State Bank at Holbrook, Saturday the State Bank of Ariz. doors, dale, at Glendale, Ariz, closed Glen- its Organized by a group of prominent citizens of Arizona, J. S. Douglas H. George Kingdon of Jerome: William and ham Brophy and Michael J. Cunningof Bisbee, and A. J. Pickerill Prescott, added a new firm will of banking to Yavapai county's soon list be to be institutions. The new of known as the Bank of Clemen- house, ceau, will be opened in that city, Now that the peak of the picking season is over, the Arizona cotton continued Cotton Growers' Association has Mexico the shipping of pickers disdistrict. into the Glendale, Arizona, from ) Discovery of the ruins of a toric were village and cemetery in prehisNavajo many relies of great value, which in been country in New Mexico, the Museum announced by the has of Natural History. American The covery was made by an dis1 party has been headed by Earl H. Morris, exploration Pueblo conducting excavations which N. M. community dwelling at Aztec, in the 1 nanea, Official announcement from American Sonora, has been received CaSonora, Consul Dyer of by Copper that the Cananea Nogales, pension Company would delay Consolidated the 15. of operations until susannounced Suspension for December had previously 15. January been sage due to stated the the extension of The time mesCalles in success of General was in taxes. securing a rebate of P. $50,000 Ellas alias Alexander George G. A, Patterson of Chicago, in Albuquerque Thompson. who posed of New York City, as a Baptist minister Caino complaint of the has Rev been arrested