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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
2
Subscription rates listed as one year two dollars six months one dollar. Post office entry as second class mail matter. Local advertising accepted at thirty cents per single column inch. Five cents extra for one time advertisements.
In 1924 Class 1 railroads paid out about 4.8477 billion dollars for wages, materials, supplies and improvements. They paid roughly 340 million in taxes and about 510 million in additional outlays, underscoring their large economic role.
Interest charges and dividends totaling 910 million dollars largely flowed to Our Country industries, delivering funds to wage earners and supporting broad prosperity in 1924.
A prospectus asserts motor transportation offers rail-road like benefits with low initial costs while noting highways are taxpayer funded. It argues interurban electric lines and railroads are unfairly advantaged and condemns the current motor bus and truck taxation as inadequate.
The piece argues mining has improved through geological research and should be viewed as a legitimate industry. It warns against dismissing mining as gambling due to wildcat promoters and urges investors to research mining merits as thoroughly as real estate.
After thirty three years as United States Commissioner in Luna County Judge B Y McKeyes departed Deming for Denver where his daughter Mrs Wells resides and he plans his future home He sold his West Pine street residence to Mr and Mrs Jack Wright and will be the town s oldest serving commissioner since 1893 He helped select the present courthouse site and was godfather to Columbus New Mexico He arrived in the Eureka mining district in 1881 and once helped name Hachita after a burial ceremony mishap involving a grave digger and a Bible from a Life of James A Garfield during a rough camp era in the area
In Deming a farewell tribute recalls Judge McKeyes MeKeves who served the town with fairness, officiated weddings and funerals, and earned broad respect. His departure leaves a community wishing him well as Wasco and Luna County reflect on his years of public service. Willcox News notes the broader arid west's oil and water discoveries reshaping views on geology and industry.
Letter from Boulder Colorado dated June 9 1925 describes cool weather rain and a heavy snow storm 25 miles west of town near Ward at about 10000 feet. Writer asks Mr Holt to check on Liberal subscription and notes radiator freezing risk in mountain snow.
Speculation surrounds the source of oil in the 8S. P. R. water tank at Willcox. Pumper Lundquist tested the locality to see if it seeped from Farmers Oil & Development Co. tank a half mile away and hit oil at fourteen feet, finding the same oil as in the Southern Pacific well.
Two additional wells drilled opposite the pumpers house hit the same oil as the first. Each is pumped by pitcher pumps and yields about two barrels daily of very high grade oil selling at 5.25 per barrel on the ground. Total cost to reach production, including pump hookup, is under 10 dollars. The sand was reached at three feet, the limit of the tools. The same oil quality has appeared in water wells across Amaréa in the Willcox field and in the Bowie well at about 1300 feet.
A standard oil rig arrived by morning at Willcox after order by F L Copening. Site ground is leveled with a well and pump installed, water tank erected, and a road to the site. Drilling will begin once derricks are built and the site tested. Local optimism expects several rigs by January 1.
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