The Benson signal., 1920-02-07
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
yestern Newspaper Union News Service

building occupied by the Edward Shoe
Company and the telephone office,
were burned to the ground here, early
Sunday.
On account of the demand for resi-
dence property at albuquerque a new
tract of land consisting of fifty acres,
adjoining the city on the north will be
placed on the market in the near fu-
ture. The owners Of the land will give
three streets to the county of Berna-
lilo and will subdivide the balance In
to lots which will be sold on easy
terms.
This should be banner year for Ari-
zOna in highway construction and with
proper cooperation between the vari-
Gus highway authorities, two years
should see the entire system complet-
ed, according to Gov. Thomas E. Camp
bell of Arizona in an address written
by him and read at the state conven-
ton of the Arizona Good Roads Asso-
citation held at Tucson.
That the new dam and canal irri-
eating upwards of 5000 acres of fruit
and alfalfa lands on the PecOS river at
Fort Sumner, n NJ, can be completed
for less than 100000, was the gratify
ing news brought to the farmers of
that valley by the final report received
from NJ. G. Hinderlider, irrigation en-
gineer of Denver, who has made an
exhaustive study of conditions.
The we'll being drilled by the e. T.
Williams Oil Company in the Willow
Creek field Of Rio Arriba county, N.
NJ, is down 1,20O feet in depth and
may cut an oil sand at any time. This
well is being drilled to test out the
Pennsylvania system of rocks in the
San Juan basin and it is believed that
a new oil field rivaling the famous
fields of Texas will be opened up.
The board Of trustees Of the Phoenix
public schools have set February 18th
as the date for a bond election to de-
termine whether $500,O0O bonds should
be issued to cover the cost of erecting
three new buildings for the Phoenix
union high school and of paving ada
cent streets. The structures proposed
to be constructed are a class room
building, manual training building and
gymnasium.
Arizona's taxpayers will be called
upon to produce approximately $780,
900 in addition to the amounts already
hyrI rseIo
by the school administration commit
tee carries at the coming session of the
Legislature, the committee suggesting
that the present budget of about $780,,
900 be increased to almost double the
amount in order to increase the sal
aries of the teachers.
Word has been received at Albu-
querque that a party Of 125 tourists
from London, England, will visit the
Southwest during the coming summer.
While in this country they will visit
Ell Paso and will ride over the Apache
trail from Globe to Phoenix by the way
Of the Roosevelt DAM The party will
reach Ell PasO about the first of April,
but as yet it is not known just what
points they will visit in New Mexico.
The final plans for the construction
Of the Capitan-Nogal Hill forest aid
road project in Lincoln county, New
Mexico are completed and are now up
for approval. This project involves 6.72
miles, the estimated cost of which fs
about $4,000, and is a section Of state
road No. 13, running from Roswell to
CarriZOZO. The construction of forest
aid road project is done by the forest
service and the federal bureau of pub
lie roads
Robbery of the Gilbert, Ariz., post
office by crOcksmen resulted in the
loss Of $4,000 in cash, money orders
and stamps, it was announced, as re-
suit of check by county officials and
a postoffice inspector
According to a statement of a prom
time thirty-seven oil wells partly
drilled in New Mexico, and of this num-
ber twenty-seven have been obliged
to close down on account of bad wealth
err. If ali the present plans are car
ried out there will be POI wells drill
ing by the middle Of the coming sum-
mer. The only wells which are actu-
ally producing at the present time are
those in Mckinley county.
State Land Commissioner N. A
Field Of New Mexico has ordered thag
the oil leases of 81 900 acres of land
in the Tularosa Basin, located west Of
Tularosa. will he sold at public sale on
April 3rd. This land is nearly all in
Otero county, there being only Il lin
tied acreage in the panhandle of So
cOrrO country No hid will be accepted
unless the h'tlher q"A'ifies by filing
hond to guarantee that a well will b.
completed within Que yca".