Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-09-26
Southwest News
From An Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona

1
have II large producing oil field Is
gaining among those who are conver-
sant with the developments In the Hol-
brook OIL Field In northeastern Art
EOna.
The Pecos Valley Canning Company
of Roswell, n. NJ, has finished canning
10000 cans OF peaches-equal to ten
cars OF canned goods. This represents
about 5000 bushels Of peaches or flf'
teen carloads.
The Aztec State Bank OF Aztec has
received It's charter from the state cor
pOrntlon, having been duly approved
by the state bank examiner. The bank
has n capital stock of $4,000, the par
value of shares 500.
Boring holes around the lock which
they cut out of the front door OF a
clothing store In Chandler, Arlz,, bur
glars gained entrance into the shop
which they looted to the extent OF 3d.
600 worth OF merchandise.
The state OF Arizona has no author.
ity to pny convicts for working on
highways, but can arrange to material
ly shorten their sentences by means OF
n system Of credits already In opera
tion, IN the opinion OF Attorney Cen
eral Wiley Il. Jones.
For the past few weeks the ranch.
ers In the Las Vegas section OF the
state have been making a drive on the
predatory animals and the county off.
clnls believe that In n short time all
the cats, coyotes and other cattle and
sheep killers In San Miguel county will
be under control.
Verde Combination at Jerome, Ariz.,
Is apparently right on the verge OF
making n mine. The northwest drift
on the 1,0S0-foot level Is now all In
ledge matter with three or four feet OF
ore right in the center. This ore Is a
qunrtz-schist with %chalcopyrlte and
white iron shot through the mass. Ex'
perts estimate that the copper content
Is around 4 per cent.
The Arizona Copper Company re.
Gently increased it's force Of miners in
order TO hasten the development OF lie
fine property, fourteen miles south.
west OF Globe. There Is already up.
wards of 10000 tons of commercial ore
proven up on the property which the
company very c~onservatlvely estimates
to average better than 3 per cent cop.
per.
Rapid progress Is being made In
plans for the opening of unit a. OF
the Yuma, Arlz., mesa this fall. Since
the announcement In Washington some
weeks back the unit "B" OF the mesa
was TO be opened up this fall and win.
ter, the land owners OF unit "A" have
been buslly engaged so that unit "A
can be opened up as soon as unit "B'
or n few weeks later.
Following the lead OF other Arizona
cities and important cities Of the coun
try, Nogales, Arlz., has established an
investigating bureau for the purpose
OF prosecuting INSCRIPTIONS profiteers
according to word just received from
that place. q. 4. Halls was appointed
food administrator and Is acting upon
complaints recently filed with the No
gales Chamber OF Commerce.
The state Highway Department sen
fifteen additional cOnvicts TO the roaC
camp near Rlnconada IN Taos county
n. NJ. This viii Increase the number
of conylcts 10 fifty now being EN-
ployed on section 4 of state hlghwa!
No. s from Santa re to Taos. Thli
construction Is north from Ronconadi
towards the bridge across the ri,
Grande on the Taos Junctlon-Tao
road.
Statistics complied by the collecto
OF customs for the fiscal year OF 101l
show that Arizona led ~ border dis
tricts In exports aad imports with No
gales transactlng more than half o
the business credited to the Arlzoni
district.
Charles Johnson OF Silver City
county surveyor, and former hlghwa,
superintendent, has just hurvester
what Is thought to be the record cor
crop In the state OF New Mexico. MI
Johnson n few days ago measured u
part OF the crop and found that II wen
elghty-seven bushels 10 the ncre an
believes that the entire crop when nj
harvested win average at least sixty
tive bushels TO the acre.
That New Mexico Ia 10 have an n
ternal revenue office OF its W 10
the district OF New Mexico and NOT 10