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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1928
Page
2
The newspaper touts the area as having a mild sunny climate ideal for health and comfort. It urges readers to appreciate the region’s inviting weather and promotes tourism quality in an official tour guide context.
Local advertising accepted at thirty cents per single column inch per insertion with five cents extra per inch for only one insertion. Postal matter entered at Lordsburg New Mexico and rates apply to each insertion locally.
Report summarizes multiple New Mexico projects and activity. Hatch contract for Hatch Union high school set at 80 500. Santa Rita Black Hawk awarded 100 to 10 ton flotation mill. Alamogordo Las Cruces road under construction. Baker Dollar Store in Deming opens. Cornerstone laid for Methodist Church Artesia. White way lighting system for Carlsbad Main Street. McLena building rebuilt after fire. State College dairy lab contract 815 400 at A M College. Eddy County cattle shipments 4266 head in April. Gallup wool and ore activity noted. City mail delivery in Gallup soon. New subdivisions Chevalier Cedar Pine. Palace Hotel renovation Silver City. Building permits in Albuquerque. May livestock totals 6022 cattle 97 horses. Airway traffic planning in Gallup. Alamogordo white sand plant planned. Springer new business buildings. Federal Light & Power franchise in Springer. McKinley County assessed value 1928 13 293 420 up 125 000. Hope alfalfa shipments 27 cars. New Mexico Power & Light to Springer via Maxwell. Hatch street improvements by state. R K Williams buys for cotton mills. Red Arrow Company improvements. Standard Oil warehouse and tanks in Gallup. Ellis Drug Co installation in Gallup.
The report notes moves and openings in Portales including Gallup Big Ben clothing store relocating to 202 W Railroad Avenue and the Hardy building on State Street under reconstruction. Springer Spur announces M Byetem Store in St Manders building and Maxwell beet sugar factory under development. Portales Cheese factory produces 1200 pounds daily and Pepeeta plans an 18000 pound daily output increase. Bilver City will receive 350 250 federal railroad aid refund.
Elfego Baca figure and famed outlaws feature in Kyle Crichton biography “Law and Order Ltd.” to release July 1. Book portrays Baca and Mexican revolutionaries Villa, Madero, Huerta, Orozco, Salazar with new tales of Billy the Kid and Joe Powler.
The Geological Survey completed a structural map of the Ameson field and surrounding lands in southern New Mexico covering over 300 square miles. It documents structural conditions on the red sand, well locations, and details of oil prospecting permits and leases.
The Lordsburg Liberal argues New Mexico needs publicity and capital for growth. The El Paso Herald notes rising population, increased investment, and industrial development as signs of better publicity arriving from eastern sources.
The article contrasts historic prospecting with modern science driven mining. It notes prospector days are over replaced by scientists and engineers, bringing stability and efficiency to copper lead and zinc production with new machinery and methods. It highlights balanced supply demand and increased ore yields under professional management.
Walter J. Woodall of the Industrial Index argues highways should be treated as public utilities on par with railroads telephones and electric power. He says properly mined highways yield dividends and that roads are now economic necessities not luxuries.
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