Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-07-16
Southwest News
From An Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper unIun Nows Service.

according TO l.. 4. Barker, highway en-.
glneer Of Pima county, Ariz.
Through the efforts OF the Chamber
of Commerce and the city council n
municipal camp ground viii be estab.
lished In Clovis, N. NJ, soon, the site
having already been chosen.
Over 100 bankers from the Pat,hnn.
die Of Texas aud New Mexico attend.
cd the annual convention OF the Pan.
handle Bankers Association which
held It's session In Clovis, N. NJ.
Adji. Gen. Walter s.. Ingalls, OF Arl.
zona stated that n conference would
he held s0on with commanders OF Ma.
tlonal Guard units relative TO the en-.
cnmpment OF the guard TO be held IN
that state this fall.
Jesus Maria Barb0a, n Mexican, has
confessed to numbering Jacob Erhardt
and wife, JUNG q, according to the
statement OF the county attorney ut
Phoenix. Barbon was rushed to the
state penltentlary It Florence for fear
Of mob violence.
According TO reports of the Clovis
Chamber of Commerce nearly $1,000
900 will be spent In the next two years
on the Ozark Trails and the Bnnkhead
highway In New Mexico. Contracts
amounting TO over 100000 will be let
In the counties OF Curry and I.oose-
welt alone during the month OF July.
Cloudcroft, N. NJ, claims to have
the highest golf course In the country
near the resort, which Is over one and
one-quarter miles altitude. The b0r-
der OF the course IL formed by large
aspen trees and all kinds OF ever
greens and the place Is one OF the most
popular resorts In the southwest.
The Ivy Dale Ranch Company, with
large holdings near III Pnso, will soon
enter the Mimbres valley In New Mex
leo by buying n large tract OF land
which Will be improved and planted
In cotton next year. The company Is
much impressed with the cotton pos.
sibllities In that section and will 20 in.
to the business on n large scale.
Vera Mahan. 3 years old, Of Mama.
hOf ~ AAsf hAN AtUIl lIt tllttth vi u
bullet wound received while playing
with he, 5-year-old sister. The two
little ones were playing In the home
and one of them bumped against the
wall on which was hanging q .22-cal.
her rifle. As the rifle fell 10 the floor
II was discharged and the bullet en-
tered the chlld's abdomen.
According TO a report OF the county
agent OF Mckinley county, n. NJ, the
stock and farm interests OF the entire
county IRE assured one OF the most
prosperous years In history, The late
spring rains have furnished ample
moisture for the termination and
growth Of crops aud as the wind has
been infrequent the soil has held the
moisture remarkably well.
Figures OF the assessed valuation OF
Phoenix, made public, show n total Of
s42, 10000, a gain OF So,5Oi 900 over
1919. IL was announced that the only
change made this year In the method
OF valuation was the addition Of II flat
20 per cent on real estate. The valua.
W Wa ~ luNN NtNl WIZ DO
100000, the Increase on that class OF
property this ear being S3.0O0,00O.
Owing to the fact that Colfax coun.
~, N. NJ, Is becoming one OF the big
sugar beet producing centers OF the
West, II is likely that a large sugar
factory viii be built In the county
soon. Rrsnors are afloat that the big
factory Will be built In the town of
Springer, but this has not been def.
nltely settled ny Maxwell and other
towns are bidding for the plant.
The project statement for the con.
structlon OF the Superior. Ray highway,
for which federal aid In the amount of
100000 has been asked has been np.
proved, according 90 word received al
Phoenix from Washington.
Advlces received from ella Bend,
Arlz., stated that contractors engaged
TO construct Il new irrigation heading
for the ella Land and Cattle Com.
pany's canal, have established camp
and started work IN Il levee which IL
to extend from u pumping plant ut the
river 10 the old canal, five miles dis.
tant. The Irrigation system Is designed
to take care Of several thousand acres
10000 acres or more of which Is IL
cotton this year.
Motor stage lines In various part,
of Arizona have filed applications with
The corporation commission for au.
tllorlty to Increase their rates. The
commission granted an application OF
the mn-Summerion line to raise It's
rates from n cents 10 81. The Tue
son Stage Line, operating between
Tucson and Ray. hns asked for nm I'm.