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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
2
The Sierra County Advocate is entered at the Hillsboro post office as second class matter. It is devoted to Sierra County and the state of New Mexico, transmitting through the US mails with impartial coverage of local interests.
John Bright and Billy McDonald travel to El Paso and North Percha as mining activity intensifies in Sierra county. Jeff Hirsch reports a 15 ton ore shipment from the Chance mine while Monitor Mining eyes lessees and bonds on John Brooby’s Kingston properties. Wolkenstein and McAllister of Monitor export plans, extend Hermosa exploration, and a double turret armored automobile is described in a Goodwin’s Weekly feature. Chloride Mining Co of Chloride Sierra county forms in Lafayette with $100 000 authorized capital and $3,300 paid in commitments from local residents and out-of-area principals.
Report notes that operations completed at the U S Arcevs facility in Rock Island Illinois and personnel were deployed to the Mexican border amid ongoing border security efforts.
A wartime address urges legislative bodies to inventory statutes and cut extravagant and useless expenses to aid poor families and farmers. It laments idle labor and overstaffing, notes farm wages around $1.60 for thirteen hours, and promotes a back-to-the-farm movement with magazine subscriptions offered for $1.18 a year.
Readers are invited to subscribe or renew and receive four standard magazines Home Life Hapso bold Fara Life and W a World included for one year at an extra 15 cents.
An obscure 1916 village ordinance from Hot Springs borders on legal boilerplate. It details enactment, publication, and effect in Hot Springs Village, Sierra County New Mexico, naming Mayor W Adams and Clerk Agapo Gorzaes, with sections on repeal, amendment, and penalties.
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