Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-01-16
Southwest News
From An Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspapsr Union News ssryIes.

Chloride-K erwln-Arizona oil field. Gas
Is bubbllng out OF the ground contlnu-
ously and oil sediments form on top
OF the water In the water holes In that
locality.
Tst annual meeting OF the New Mex
leo Public Health Association, which
was to have been held In Albuquerque,
N. NJ, On Jan. 8, has been postponed
until Jan. ~, according ~ an an
nouncement made by the executive sec
rotary.
A number OF women's auxlllarles TO
the American Legion posts will be
formed throughout the state OF Arl-
o n In the near future, II was fore
cast at the state headquarters Of the
Legion. II was said several applica-
tons to organize women's a%uxlllarles
Of Legion posts had been made.
The eyes Of scouts for the big oil
companies and others equally as much
Interested in the striking Of oil In New
Mexico are now turned toward the
McGee well southeast OF Tucumcari.
II will be the first deep well In the
state TO strike the formation ut which,
following biologists predictions, oil Is
expected to be found.
January 10 and 20 has been selected
by the Arizona Daily Newspaper Asso-
citation as the dates on which the meet
Ing OF the association at Nogales will
be held. On the dates mentioned, pub
fishers or representatives OF publish
ers OF Arizona and El Paso newspapers
will gather at Nogales for the third
meeting OF the association.
The New Mexico state land office is
getting to be n financial Institution and
handles n very large amount OF money
during the year. The fiscal year end
ing Nov. 80, 1910, shows that the land
office has transferred to the state
treasurer the neat sum Of $1,002, 480. 70.
This does not include the unused bal
ances OF the maintenance fund.
A formal invitation was sent to Gen.
eral Pershlng by the Chamber Of Com
merce, to spend Friday, Jan. 80, at
Phoenix, as the guest OF the city. This
followed word received from Repre-
sentative Carl Hayden at Washington,
saying he had received confirmation
rom a member OF the generals staff
that General Pershing would visit Ari-
IONA.
j. Is. Shumate. acting president Of
the Settlers Ditch & Reservoir Co. OF
Taos, N. NJ, has filed with the state
engineer application for extension Of
time to complete irrigation works to
Dec. 20, 1920, and beneficial use OF
water till June 20, 1921. This project
proposes to divert water from Aguage
de In Petaca, a tributary Of the Rio
Grande.
The New Mexico National Guard
will he ~reorganized. AdJt. Gen. James
Baca has announced. The state has
had no troops since the beginning of
the war and because OF unsettled o n
billions which may nj any time necessl-
tntc the use of state troops, according
TO the adjutant generals announce.
ment, Governor LnrrnzOlO has directed
hat immediate steps be taken toward
the reorganization.
los Cruces, N. NJ, now has some of
the bcst paved blocks In the state, The
curhlng IL now being done and II Is
expected win be completed In the next
two weeks. A meeting Of the citizens
viii be held In the near future to de.
eide the amount and the kind OF paw.
Ing 10 be done during the coming year
and fall. Most OF the paving up to the
present time has been OF concrete and
no doubt the remainder viii be laid oI
this material.
william Brlte, %bookkeeper at the Arl'
zona-Binghnmpton mine, was killed
when the automobile In which he was
riding went over an embankment be
tween Humboldt and Huron, twenty,
five miles southeast OF Prescott, Arlz
The Chino Copper Company Of sll
yer City, N. NJ, has reduced It's force
OF men to about one-thlrd OF the nor
NAL force on account Of the shortage
Of coal. The company had not expect
cd to reduce the force this winter ever
though very little copper Is being sol,
at the present time. II Is thought tina
on account OF the shortage OF coppeI
In some OF the foreign countries tn,
copper industry will return to normD
In a short time.
The boundary between New Mexlc,
and Arizona is not a true north AM
south line, but Is about a mile out o
Jne at Its southern extremity, It wa
stated by Col. James II. McCIlntoch