Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-03-26
Southwest News
From An OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona

first floor and n basement club room
with pool tables and library.
Those following the oil development
Of the Pccos Wiley closely now declare
that ovcr ten deep test wells will be
drilled In that section during the spring
and summer.
The Beck grant south OF Las vegns,
N. NJ, has been leased by A. A. Jones
and II. W. Kelly to Written 4 Young
OF Tulsn, Okla, and will be thoroughly
explored for oil this year.
Drilling for oil and gus south Of
Wagon Mound, N. NJ. will be done by
the Wagon Mound Development Com
pany OF Wiley Center, Kan. The com.
pnny IL bncksd by men OF sufficient
wcnlth TO insure n depth OF 5000 feet
" necessary.
Flood waters this winter have cnused
the Salt river TO change It's course cut
ting away valuable farm lands near
Lehl, Arizona, according to n delegn.
ton OF Lehl residents who called on
the board OF supervisors OF M%nricopa
county. The residents asked county aid
In returning the river to Its former
channels.
The new automobile license law will
produce around S150,000 n year for
rond work according to the New Mexico
state Highway Department. Others
place the figure nj $4,000. The sec
rotary OF state has transferred to the
state treasurer about $4,000 ms collec.
tlon up TO Feb. I. The February col
lections transferred by the secretary
total S12,5O2. II.
J.. II. Fulwlder, who is Interested II
the Ideal Mining and Milling Company,
whose property Is located at Elizabeth.
town, N. NJ, has received specimens OF
ore taken FROM recent workings In the
tunnel which assay $lGS.25 per ton.
The ore contains gold, silver and cop.
per values, and. according to recent re-
ports from Elizabethtown, Is being
found In large quantities.
A force of twenty-five men started
work on the Improvement and rebuild.
Ing OF the road 10 the Ilito de Los Fri.
joles, which viii cost $500, eliminate
the dangerous Ancho canon crossing,
greatly reduce the running time Of cars
between Santa F6 and the Rlto and
constitute one OF the most important
road improvements for years In the vi
entity OF Santa re.
In n report OF the federal grand jury
at Phoenix IL was recommended thai,
no more federal prisoners he confined
In the Marlcopa county Jail until or
unless the same Is made more sanitary
and the directions OF the United Stntcs
marshal are observed ana followed out
In the matter Of safeguarding prison
ers and the permitting of visitors IN.
der proper surveillance"
A ni%nety-dny extension of time In
which Ia file plans for n union station
or for two individual stations afford.
ing adequate facilities for Phoenix has
been granted in an executive session OF
the Arizona Corporation Commission.
The Arizona Eastern and Santa FG.
Prescott & Phoenix railroads recently
asked the extensions IN order to ascer-
tain definitely their condition.
Fourteen prisoners at the B~ernallllo
county Jail made an Intellectual nj.
tempt TO escape by saving through the
iron bars of a window with saws SNUG.
gled In by two men named McMasters
and Baker, held for highway robbery.
All the prisoners we're long term fed
eral prisoners or men awaiting action
Of the grand Jury. -Four OF the bars
had been sawed through before the at.
tempt was discovered.
Developments on the property OF the
Boras Leasing Company at Blsbee,
Arlz, have not only proved the value
OF the mine beyond question, hut Indi.
cate that another big producer has
been developed and that the southern
end Of the camp Is MS good as the older
properties. A drift on the G0O-foot
level has opened up the same ore body
on which the company has been work.
Ing 100 feet above. but the ore Ia OF
much higher grade, running about 20
per cent copper.
An increase in tax collection In
New Mexico Ia shown for 1910 ovet
1918 In a statement issued by the State
Tax Commission. The percentage OF
collection for the first year was 1851
and for the last, $3.50 and, the state.
ment adds, II Ia hoped that the general
average throughout the state will reach
% per cent, through the effort OF spe-
clal counsel. The tax commissions rec.
ords show that In 1918 the tax rolls TO
tailed 50, iOS, 529Ti and the taxes col