Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-06-20
Pithy News Items
Gathered From An Over
NeW Mexico

Contracts have been LET for a new
administration building and n cadet
hospital 10 be erected nc the New Mex
leo Military Institute at Roswell. The
total cost will be $4,000. The build
ings are to be completed by the time
school opens e fall.
Tourists travelling either way from
clayton on the COlOrado-to-Gulf high
way will know that Clayton Is IN the
map when they read the big signs
which have been placed both ways ON
this road. The signs have been placed
by the Clayton Rotary Club and were
paid for by the business men OF the
city.
The State Highway Commission has
approved and sent 10 the federal gov
eminent for Its approval. the plan OF
the county commissioners OF Taos
county 10 have a federal aid road pro-
ject from Santa re to Taos, or to be
more exact, TO build eight miles of
good road from Rlnconada to Ciene-
gullla.
That the mining boom Is still on In
New Mexico Is demonstrated by the re-
port OF II rich strike ON Bounds ranch,
near Lordsburg. The ore is free mill
ing, soft and very easily mined and
seems TO extend considerable dis.
lance. Assays from specimens taken
show up TO 20 ounces per ton OF ore
valued at $500.
Gallup will soon have one of the
finest amusement parks In the South
west. The park will contain a large
pavilion, n Ferris wheel, skating rink
and In fact all the features OF a large
city park. The park contains oyer
five acres OF ground and will be sur
rounded by an elght-foot board fence.
II Is estimated that the buildings alone
will cost over $4,000 when all are
completed.
Reports have reached Silver City of
! a rich gold strike In the foothills of
the Little Burro mountains, seventeen
miles north OF Spear, Grant county.
Assays of the ore running all the way
from $1,000 to $1,000 a ton are claimed.
The original strike was made on II
group of Flourspar claims and there
has been u rush OF people to the scene
Of the new strike. The new strike Is
In the Gold Hill mining district which
was famous as a mining camp many
years z
The Chino Copper Company plant at
Hurley Is one OF the sources OF indus
trial pride of the state of New Mexi.
co. The annual report is being favor
ably commented on by the large east
ern papers. At the close OF the year
the company showed n net income of
$T,32T 900 or he equivalent to 80 per
share of stock. During the last year
the company spent 81, 100000 on en-
larglng the plant and stripping new
ore. The capacity Of the mill Is now
1860 tons daily and the ore supply
IL good for al least twenty years. with
present equipment the ore recovery
will amount to about one hundred mill
lion tons per year.
Curry county will have an enormous
wheat crop this year according to all
reports. This Is an assured fact now
as there IL nothing to destroy the crop
except hail storms and these rarely
ever visit the entire country at once
II Will require much extra labor to
cure for the big wheat crop this year
aud the one great question which is
troubling the farmers at the present
time Is whether or not they will be
able TO secure the necessary help to
save their wheat. Heretofore many
lnborers have gone TO Kansas and
oklahoma TO work In the wheat fields,
being lured there by the report Of high
wages, but Il Is now an assured fact
that there Will he plenty Of work for
every man In the eastern part Of the
state this year.
Criminals sent to the New Mexico
state %penitentiary from now on are
To be recorded not only on the register
and In the photograph gallery hut by
their thumb prints. The addition to
the other physical records Is regarded
Of great Importance. for thumb print
records of persons are considered the
most easily made and the most nccur.
ate conceivable.
The town Of Clayton Is having a
building boom this spring equal to any
other city In the state. Improvements
In the residence section Of the town
are going on.Rt a steady rate, several
fine houses are now under constitute
ton aud many more will be started IN
the near future, Nearly all the new