Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-06-04
Southwest News
From An Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona

NENH ~ ~ 1fNA RAttNANiN NAAAfA
Arl2, according TO Prof. 6. II. T..
Smith, irrigation engineer of the uni
vcrsity.
Through the efforts OF the Pima
county farm bureau white arsenic for
grasshoppcr poisoning has been So.
cured through u. A. Gllchrlst of the
United States biological survey at
8 cents per pound.
Curry county, N. NJ, had n million
dollar rain which broke Il drouth Of
over ninety lays duration and threat.
ened TO destroy 80 per cent Of this
years wheat crop. Winter wheat, IL
Is said, will be II 90 per cent crop.
Trinl cotton paintings are reported
by County Agent Adamson IN Cochlse
county, Arl2., at McNcnl, Whitewater,
Webb, Wilcox, san Simon, Bowie, Co
chlsc ana Benson. Fancy Mebane
short staple from Yuma will be grown.
Citizens OF Flagstaff, Arlz., have
raised $500 toward the construction of
n state armory there. A check for tie
amount was received by Adjutant
General Ingalls, TO be deposited with
the state treasurer. The armory Is to
cost $4,000.
Land viii sell for $1,000 an acre IN
the Salt River valley In Arizona next
year, Judging from the way land prices
have arisen 10 from three Ia five times
their former levels, according to the
estimates of one of the leading reni
estate dealers In Phoenix.
The Springer, N. NJ. post OF the
American Legion has engaged the
Pnstime theater for the big Legion
dance to he given on the evening of
July ., ana II the present plans are
carried out the affair viii be one Of
the social hits of the year.
with The arrival Of the new $4,000
fire truck and OF modern equipment
for flremen ordered nnd with an eff.
Client fire fighting organization already
drawn up, Lowell, ArIz., will be as
well protected from fire risk as any
town OF Its size In the state.
The Farm and Livestock Bureau OF
De Bnca county, N. NJ, at n recent
meeting, decided to put on u big eel
ebrntlon, to be held In Fort Sumner on
July 3. All the committees on arrange
ments have been appointed and plans
are now under way to make the Gel.
ebrntlon II OF the best ever held IN
that part Of the state.
The once famous Telegraph Silver
mine on the ella river. q few miles
south OF the town of Cliff, has been
leased by William Dorsey OF Silver
City, N. NJ, and the property will be
put In the producing class. Thirty
yenrs ago this was one of the most
famous silver claims In the Southwest
was abandoned at the time OF the
big slump In the price of silver.
The growing use Of automobiles has
limited Its patronage and the Douglas
Traction and Light Company, holding
the street car franchise nj Douglas.
Arlz, hns decided to discontinue stree,
ear service, The street railway, which
has been In operation eighteen yenrs
ana represents an Investment OF s250,-
900, the announcement states, has been
a losing proposition for the Investors.
Refrigeration charges from Phoenix
to eastern destination will be attacked,
Il Inns been announced 10y State COrpur
ntlon Commissioner ID. T.. johnson, IN
. complaint which he said he would
file with the Interstate Commerce
Commission. lie said the complaint
would draw comparisons between the
refrigerator charges on cnrs from
and those from California.
The population Of Blsbce, Arlz., ne.
to the figures of the 1920 cen.
,us, Is O,2Ol.
The customs office at Nognles, Arlz,
predicts S2a.000,0 600 import aud export
business through that port this year.
The gnrban2o crop, estimated nj So
100000, win begin moving north SON.
The largest |. o. o. u. lodge meeting
held In the state wns staged lu
Roy, N NJ, when flfty.two members
we're Initiated into the local encnmp
mont. The meeting was held In the
Masonic hall and the degree work was
'ut on by the degree tenra from Clay.
After the work was completed n
'anquet WINS served, which, owing to
he large number Of guests, taxed the
apaclty OF the entire town.
According Ia the report OF Earl
Of Albuquerque. a total OF
orty building permits were issued
airing the month Of April, the value
4 the new work being estimated at
yer SS2,O0O. Eleven OF the permIts
we're for residences, three for bust