Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-09-12
Southwest News
From An Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona

coMiNa EVENTS.


william Menhennett, now on the
coast, will start at once ON a 10000
picture show and vaudeville theater to
be built at Chandler, Arizona.
Frank Strickland, Of Vaughn, Guada-
lupe county, has been appointed by
Acting Governor Il. II. Pankey, a mem
Der OF the New Mexico mounted police.
lie Is TO serve without pay.
Engineer w. s. Ford and Fireman
nix Mathews OF the eastbound Rock
Island Golden State Limited train
were killed when the train turned over
thirteen miles east Of Tucumcari, N.
NJ.
The assessed valuation of the state
of Arizona has increased $2i ,OOO,OOO
during the past year, according to fig
ures arrived at by the State Tax Com
mission sitting as a state board OF
equalization.
The cider presses In the Pecos val
ley have started on the seasons work,
the run being on the early variety OF
apples. Robert Beers OF the Captain
orchard expects TO make 10000 gallons
OF cider during the season which Will
call for the grinding up of from ten
to twelve thousand bushels OF apples.
Tho City Commission has donated
to the Arizona Organization Of the
American Legion a quarter OF n city
block on the edge of the business dis
trict as a site for the state h%eadquar-
tiers building. The donation, which
was not solicited, is conditional upon
the leglon's agreeing to erect a build
ing costing $4,000 or lore.
Union county, New Mexico, has a
county farm and livestock bureau,
which has filed Its articles OF lncorpor-
alton with the State Corporation Com
mission. The bureau represents more
than 8 per cent OF the total OF the
farmers and livestock men In Union
county, and Is ~o'Ennized under plans
approved by the Agricultural College.
1t Is for mutual benefit, but not for
profit.
Cochlse county bears the distinction
OF being the wealthiest In Arizona, ac-
NOlNlilk W ~ iuUit INt0untN w ~
State Tax Commission OF Phoenix. II
leads all the state in taxable wealth.
The Cochise figures are $172. 1872
473.34. They are especially interesting
In comparison with the assessed valua-
ton OF the county published eighteen
years. In 1902 the valuation was
about four million.
A memorial to the boys OF the M
ty who paid the greatest price to the
war Will be erected In the yard of the
B%ernallllo county court house, accord
Ing to the plans made mt the meeting
Of the county commissioners. The
monument is TO be n large granite
boulder from the Sandia mountains,
upon which will be Il bronze tablet CIV
Ing the names Of the soldiers who lost
their lives during the war.
Construction OF a great hydro-elec-
trio power plant in White Rock cahon
on the Rio Grande, forty miles north
OF Albuquerque Is u feasible and prnc-
teal commercial undertaking. The de-
mand for electric energy In the district
embraced In II radius of thirty miles
OF the proposed plant site has nearly
doubled within two years, having In
creased from 34,0O0,OO0 k. W.. hours in
1917, the date OF u preliminary re-
port, TO o. 100000 k. W. hours IN 1919.
These are the outstanding features In
n report OF Waldo @. Cole, commercial
engineer OF the Westinghouse Electric
and ~oeturinU romnouy unon Tho