Taiban Valley news., 1920-02-06
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Company and the telephone office,
were burned to the ground here early
Sunday.
On account of the demand for resi-
dence property at Albuquerque 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 Il. Camp
bell of Arizona in an address written
by him and read at the statei 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 crafty
ing news brought to the farmers of
that valley by the final report received
from NJ. G. Hinderlider, irrigation en-
gfneer of Denver. who has made an
exhaustive study of conditions.
The well being drilled by the E. T.
Williams Oil Company in the Willow
Creek field of Rio Arriba county, n.
NJ, is down 1000 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, 900 bonds should
| be issued to cover the cost of erecting
| three new buildings for the Phoenix
| union high school and of paving adja-
cent streets. The structures proposed
| to be constructed are a class room
building, manual training building and
a gymnasium.
ArizonaS taxpayers will be called
upon to produce approximately $780,
900 in addition to the amounts already
budgeted, if the legislation proposed
| 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 Afbu-
querque that party of 125 tourists
| from London, England, will visit the
| Southwest during the coming summer.
While in this country they will visit
FL Paso and will ride over the Apache
trail from Globe to Phoenix by the way
Of the Roosevelt dam. The party will
reach El 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 672
miles, the estimated cost of which is
about $4,000, and is 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 "A re
suit of check by county officials anG
postoffice inspector.
According to a statement of a prom
inent oil man there are at the present
time thirty-seven oil wells partly
drilled in New Mexico, and of this num-
her twenty-seven have been obliged
to close down on account of bad wealth
err. If all the present plans are car
ried out there will be 207 wells drill
ing by the middle of the coming sum
mer The only wells which are aPtu-
ally producing at the present time are
those in Mckinley county.
State Land Commissioner n. A..
Field of New Mexico has ordered that
the oil leases of $1,000 acres of land
in the Tularosa Basin, located west of
Tularosa, will be sold at public sale on
April 3rd This land is nearly all IN
Otero county, there being only lin
tied acreage in the panhandle of So
corro country. No bid will be accepted
unless the bidder qualities by filing a
bond to guarantee that a well will be
completed within one year
The railroad valuation for this year
will pass $100,O0O,O00, in the opinion
Of Joseph e. Saint head of the State
Tax Commission of New Mexico, which
fixes the valuation under law He es-
timated that the valuation, for the rail
roads, would be raised between 3d.,
Z. 100000 and S4000000. Last years
valuation was sos, S,461, ,S31
Hinnipe of cottou In Morioono coun-