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CARRIZOZO Painted Donkeys * Colorful Buildings * Carrizo Grass

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efore the railroad tracks reached the site of present day Carrizozo in August, 1899, as far as the eye could see there were few signs of human habitation here at the upper end of the Tularosa Basin. There were just a few scattered cattle ranches established in the 1870's and a lonely stagecoach road that crossed the landscape from the booming goldmining town of White Oaks 12 miles to the northeast.

The town grew quickly when the railroad made it a terminal town, and many jobs were soon readily available.

The surrounding land opened for new homesteads.

After becoming the county seat in 1909, incorporation followed in 1916 As Carrizozo began to flourish, White Oaks began to decline. Many of its former residents moved their homes and businesses (some quite literally) to the new town as railroad employees moved in and the land surrounding Carrizozo quickly opened for homesteading.

Carrizo Grass for which Carrizozo is named for

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ALL THAT GLITTERS When a Michigan based Canadian family up and leaves to the rugged west in search of gold, you know there’s more than a few stories to pass down to their children.

William Watson was a single father. He and his first wife Sarah had a seven-

building as a place to hang their hats and to do legitimate business by trade.

The Lund family consisted of three brothers, Fletcher, Albert and Robert, their parents Robert and Saphrona and two sisters Alice and Sarah. The men mined for gold and never found any, however Alice’s husband William Watson would be one of the few to strike it rich.

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oon after the Lund family would arrive in the gold mining town of White Oaks, New Mexico in 1886, their daughter Alice would meet and marry local attorney William Watson.

This is their story.

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he story of William Watson was filled with tragic losses and golden opportunities. A successful man by anyone’s standards, he would live a life of huge peaks and deep valleys. It has been said that in times of tragedy a silver lining can often be found; you just have to look for it. This surely must have been the case for William Watson, one of the original pioneers of White Oaks, New Mexico.

When Alice Lund moved to White Oaks at the young age of 17, her soon to be husband William Watson had already endured the loss of a wife and child. Just four years earlier his first son died during childbirth, ten days later his wife Sarah also died. The baby boy and Sarah Watson were laid to rest in White Oaks historic Cedarvale Cemetery.

the gold rumored to be hidden in the hills of White Oaks.

year-old daughter named Adda. The Lund family has no memories of Adda living in White Oaks .

However these men, along with the rest of the town were there looking for

We assume that she was sent to live with relatives after her mother’s death.

William Watson was an attorney who worked out of a small building in White Oaks. The building was built out of bricks and mortar brought in by wagon at a considerable cost. Originally built by Watson, it would later be shared with William’s in laws Robert Lund and Fletcher Lund.

Robert E. Lund was a judge and a reverend, his son Fletcher was a mining engineer and assayer.

On the front of the office hung a wood sign that read “Watson Lund” and their office simply known as the Watson Lund building.

Watson and the Lunds would use their office

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Watson along with two other attorneys John Hewitt, Harvey Fergusson and Watson’s nephew Matthew Hoyle would

purchase the rights to the southern stake of the Old Abe mine when its original group of owners let their lease lapse.

the Cedarvale Cemetery on buckboards.

For the first time in a long time, the booming little town lay silent.

This golden opportunity would lead William Watson and the others to their riches.

the timbers in the shaft, and railroad bypassing the settlement in favor of was shut down for good. nearby Carrizozo, the town In 1904 William Watson declined. By 1910, White and the others he had Oaks had only about 200 partnered with were sued by residents with William and the mine’s previous owners. Alice Watson among them.

William Watson and his wife Alice would have two sons, Roy and Kenneth both born in White Oaks.

In total about twenty million dollars in gold and minerals was pulled out of the mountains of White Oaks; the Old Abe mine produced over a million and a half dollars of gold.

This was a great time in White Oaks and in William Watson’s life. The Old Abe mine was able to employ many men and the town was booming. Of all the many mining operations, the Old Abe Mine was the largest, employing forty workers yielding between forty-five to fifty tons of gold per day.

In March of 1895 as often seemed to be the case in William’s life, tragedy would strike unexpectedly when a fire in the Old Abe mine took the lives of nine men. This was a crushing blow to the mine’s owners who knew all of the men that died as well as their families.

Roy would go on to marry and have children of his own. Kenneth never married or had children; instead, he would join the Navy. Kenneth Watson lost his life in WWI when the Navy ship he was on caught fire at sea.

The mine continued to operate until shortly after the turn of the century when the deposits became less profitable. The mine developed a problem with

The lawsuit found that Watson and his partners were the rightful owners of the mine and it’s gold.

With its precious minerals depleted and the

William Watson continued to mine for gold for as long as his health would allow him to. On Christmas Day 1921, William died from a heart attack. He was recorded as a beloved community member who was said to have been “one of the most cheerful men; in charity more liberal than his means would warrant; in loyalty, abiding, and in friendship true.”

He was buried in Cedarvale Cemetery in White Oaks, New Mexico, with his body facing the mountain where he spent so much of his life prospecting for gold.”

Watson and the other Old Abe mine owners were devastated by this tragic event. Of the nine that died in the mine, eight were buried in White Oaks with one man sent to his hometown to be buried.

Alice moved to Los Angeles, California to live near her son Roy and his family. Her life was blessed with grandchildren and great grandchildren that filled her life with love. She lived to the bright old age of be ninety-six. Story By: Donna Kout Ikard from family notes & oral history

The town’s people gathered on the streets and bowed their heads as the eight coffins were carried to

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Lemonade Iced Tea 1/2 cup sugar 4 cups cold water 1 (6-oz.) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed Garnish: fresh citrus slices

Preparation 1. Bring 3 cups water to a boil in a 2qt. saucepan. Remove from heat, add tea bags, and stir in fresh mint. Cover and steep 10 minutes.

2. Remove and discard tea bags and mint. Stir in sugar until dissolved.

3. Pour tea into a 3-qt. container, and stir in 4 cups cold water and lemonade concentrate. Serve over ice. Garnish, if desired.

Bourbon-Lemonade Iced Tea: Prepare recipe as directed, and stir in 1 cup bourbon. Makes 9 cups.

Similar to an Arnold Palmer, this refreshing drink combines two summer favorites— lemonade and iced tea. Turn this into a cocktail by adding bourbon or spiced dark rum.

Spiced Dark Rum-Lemonade Iced Tea: Prepare recipe as directed, and stir in 1 cup spiced dark rum. Makes 9 cups.

Ingredients 3 cups water 2 family-size tea bags 1 (1-oz.) package fresh mint leaves (about 1 cup loosely packed)

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WHY OWN SILVER? T S I ilver is silver; it is an absolute, independent of its perceived value in money!

t is not an investment, but rather it is a store of value as it can not be counterfeited.

he first note had serial A00000001A. One hundred million notes later, the letters flipped to A…B. After 2,600 million notes the serial became B…A, etc.

Serial L…C was reached only after 31,400 million

Please also note that the total amount of money in circulation includes bank deposits and credit, etc., with a total value many times higher than that of just currency.

Let’s now consider an

otherwise simply because only we could print dollars.

This helped us improve our standard of living by keeping imports cheap.

Unfortunately for us, people in other countries can read the papers and know we have

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onsider the following. In 1960, when silver coins circulated freely in the United States, an ounce of silver cost about $1.25.

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hat same amount of mo-ney also bought about 4 gallons of gasoline or would pay the postage on about 31 first class letters.

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oday an ounce of silver costs about $17, which amount of money will pay for about 7 gallons of gasoline at the present cheap prices, or 36 first class letters!

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t is vital to recognize that the value of silver notes were issued. This is has not gone up; rather, $3,140,000,000,000 (3.14 the value of the dollar has trillion dollars) – from one gone down. of twelve banks! ow let us consider another fact. The United States recently issued a new series of colorful $100 bills. The first one I got had a serial number LK35684756C. The letter K simply shows it was issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Note that serial numbers are consecutive in different series, so this enormous number of notes has been printed since series 1993.

However most of these are still in existence as 100s do not wear out very fast, and this still is an inconceivable amount of money.

even more unpleasant fact.

Since World War II, the US Dollar has been the standard reserve currency of the world. This means, for example, that if Russia wanted to buy oil from Iraq, they first had to purchase dollars and use them for payment. Virtually all major world trade was carried out in dollars.

been issuing billions of dollars of currency every month, which obviously decreases the value of each dollar.

More and more large and many smaller countries are now making agreements to bypass the dollar and do their trading in their own currencies.

Examples include Russia This, of course, created an and China, Japan and the enormous demand for European Union, and many dollars and has helped the others. More and more US to prosper more than

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countries are calling for an Be prepared. Have some end to the dominance of the emergency food and other US dollar. necessities on hand. Mainly get rid of large amounts of The El Paso Times cash! Pay off your property. reported on June 6, 2014, Buy stocks or other investthat several large American ments. Buy some silver (or companies have stopped paying in dollars and have begun to purchase the Communist Chinese currency, the Renmimbi , to pay for their imports from China, in exchange for a discount. The US Dollar’s days as the world currency are numbered.

When the largest percen-tage of world trade is no longer dependant on the US dollar, it will crash.

gold if you have a lot of money; the same arguments above apply to gold as well).

useful in buying food, fuel or other necessities until the revised economy begins.

Other useful forms are US silver dollars and 1 ounce silver rounds (US Eagles,

etc.). Gold should be held as coins, either bullion or bullion related collectible coins. I would avoid ingots

your silver and gold at home – not in a safety deposit box.

In a crisis, your bank may close or the government might simply seize your silver.

Do not worry about the usefulness of small silver coins for trade. In dozens of countries involved with currency collapses, history shows that the average person who has something to sell or trade will always take your small coin of real silver in preference to a handful of cheap clad coins or a bundle of worthless paper money.

References: Google “quantitative easing”, “US dollar as reserve currency”, and any other terms which seem relevant.

There is a wealth of information on the internet. Use your Argentina, Brazil, judgment of the Colombia, Israel, sources you are Mexico and many reading. others have dropped Remember the three or four zeros problem was caused from their money by the corrupt (1000 pesos becomes banking system in 1 new peso, etc.), league with usually many several times. incompetent and Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression. often corrupt The Bank opened in 1917 and went out of business on June 30, 1931.

Citizens of those politicians. Do not countries lost the depend on bankers buying power of the or the government cash they had on hand for helpful information!

It is best to have a few larger than one ounce of In Summery, “The Crash” is hundred dollars worth of 90 either silver or gold as there Good luck to us all! percent silver US coins (1964 is risk of counterfeits. coming, but no one knows exactly when or how serious or older dimes, quarters or Copyright c 2016, Jeff King I would also avoid half dollars) for use during it will be.

(Revised June 2016) Palladium and Platinum as the transition phases of the these are not liquid.

Stash crisis. These will prove Since the end of World War II dozens of countries have used the printing press money to “solve” their problems and it just does not work.

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Get In Touch With Your Inner Kid - Billy, That Is!

OLD LINCOLN DAYS Event Starts: 9:00 AM on on Friday, August 5, 2016 Event Ends: 5:00 PM on on Sunday, August 7, 2016 Fee $6.00 Adults Location: Lincoln State Monument Additional Information Performances of the "Last Escape of Billy the Kid" will be held at the pageant grounds at 8:30am Friday & Saturday, 8:30pm Friday and Saturday, 3:00pm on Sunday.

Shops & Museums open; Historical Center & Courthouse will be open 9am-5pm Friday thru Sunday.

All Day Food Concession - Arts & Crafts - Parade 11am Sun Living History Demonstrations throughout town.

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CIRCA 1969

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Don’t Mess with Miss Alice!

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ell, today we're going to go back to the shenanigans that Willy has pulled here at the shop. I hope you guys have been keeping up with the stories we have been writing and Steve has been printing beautifully with Alamodoso Magazine, we have really enjoyed it.

Then Mr. Bill asks " Have you told Nancy about Willy?" Nancy's ears perked up, she and I had been friends since our kids had been little bitty and said, "Who's Willy?" I said, "Oh, he's an entity that lives here with me." She looked at me and said " You've got to be kidding?"

So I

turned around and

And about that time this thought popped into my brain and I opened my mouth to say “Nancy don't”

On the way back here, Mr. Bill said, " Well, let's go to Victoria and make some coffee?" Okay we will and we rounded up at Victoria.

reached for the printed interview about Willy.

(Which you guys have already read, if you are keeping up with the stories).

I read it to her and by then she was standing over here leaning against the counter, with her elbows behind her and feet kind of in front of her leaning back.

Of course Nancy had to shop, and Bill and Jay visited, after which we got settled back to drink our coffee.

you could believe in that sort of thing?"

'You've got to be kidding?" she said. "

By then she was floundering around, you have to understand Nancy is tall, dangling, boney all legs and here she was dangling around behind the counter, trying to keep from hitting the floor. She finally got herself together and said

“No! think about it, you were making fun of Mrs. Alice and he is very protective of me. You can tease me and carry on and have a good time but don't make malicious fun of me."

"Did you see that, the counter moved?"

Now, Nancy and Jay go back to the Houston area where Nancy has a bunch of double cousins. because brothers and sisters of different families marry each other. Every year the first cousins get together a reunion. They tell what they did that was most spectacular, and whoever tells the best story wins some money. Well guess what, Nancy told them she had been pushed down by a ghost. SHE WON THE MONEY!!!

Probably around 1999, that's been a long time already, a friend of mine, Nancy and her husband Jay, came down from the Houston area, to visit Mr. Bill and I. It was early spring, cause we went up to 16 Springs and it was still frozen, that's how I know it was early spring.

The thawing hadn't reached the mountain yet.

" Nope, Willy just pushed you off the counter.”

If you ever been in Victoria , you know that the counter doesn't move. Mr. Bill built that counShe said ter and an elephant “There is no way, Alice, that can do tricks on it.

I looked at her and said

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Well anyway she was asking for me to tell her more. So I had to go thru the whole thing about Willy being here and how he made himself known to me back in 1986 or 1987. He was a such a cold spot , I nearly froze to death as I was running out the front door.

Anyway that was a fun time.

Nancy and Jay are both passed away and...I miss them....

RUIDOSO EVENTS Ruidoso Art Festival July 22-24, 2016 — Over 100 of the nation’s most talented artists will be set up at the Ruidoso Convention Center showcasing a broad spectrum of mediums including sculpture, photography, glass, paintings, ceramics, jewelry, mixed media and more! The annual festival will be held July 22 and 23 noon-6 pm, and July 24, 10 am-5 pm.

Handcrafted Arts and Crafts Festival September 3-5, 2016 — The organizers are excited to be celebrating the 3rd year of the All Handcrafted Art shows. We are moving to Wingfield Park which is a much larger park. It with the convenience of one stop shopping. You can park and walk over to our show and then check out the downtown merchants.

Aspenfest October 1-2, 2016 — Rod Run and Car Show, Arts and Crafts Fair, Parade! Aspenfest kicks off with a parade through Midtown Ruidoso, followed by an arts and crafts fair, a rod run and car show and the New Mexico State Open Chili Cook-Off. Also don’t forget about the Aspenfest golf tournament on Sunday at at Sierra Blanca golf course.

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ABOVE: Passengers posing in front of Cloudcroft Station in preparation of leaving downhill to Alamogordo (Circa 1920) BELOW: Turn-of-the-Centurty 4th of July Train to Cloudcroft/

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The Changing Face of New York & 10th Alamogordo NM, 1909 to 2014

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Three Rivers Petroglyph Site

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he Three Rivers Petroglyph Site is one of the few locations in the Southwest set aside solely because of its rock art. It is also one of the few sites giving visitors such direct access to petroglyphs. The number and concentration of petroglyphs here make it one of the largest and most interesting petroglyphs sites in the Southwest. More than 21,000 glyphs of birds, humans, animals, fish, insects and plants, as well as numerous geometric and abstract designs are scattered over 50 acres of New Mexico's northern Chihuahuan Desert. The petroglyphs at Three Rivers, dating back to between about 900 and 1400 AD, were created by Jornada Mogollon people who used stone tools to remove the dark patina on the exterior of the rock. A small pueblo ruin is nearby and Sierra Blanca towers above to the east.

The site offers five shelter sites with picnic tables and cooking grills (one is handicap accessible); one group site that has three picnic tables under a shelter and two grills; two RV sites have covered picnic tables and grills and water and electric hookups. Five locations are also established for tent use, within defined boundaries. One of the tent locations is at the handicap accessible site. Restrooms and drinking water are available. Pets are allowed in the campground (on leash), but are not allowed on the trails.

The site is located 17 miles north of Tularosa, NM, and 28 miles south of Carrizozo, NM on U.S. 54. Turn east from U.S. 54 at Three Rivers onto County Road

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23 Coyote Canyon Road (2 Miles N of Tularosa) Phone:575-585-2260 or 800-687-4467

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CANCER JULY HOROSCOPE Your Cancer Horoscope for July 2016 focuses on projecting your brilliance out into the world. Yes everything revolves around you during your birthday month and this is the time of the year when you are actually allowed to be rather self-centered. During this time you will find it quite hard to see things from the other persons point of view which can cause conflicts with others if other factors are making your ego swell. It is therefore vital you find some form of artistic self expression as your creative force is at it’s peak. Enjoy this period to focus on your needs and what makes you feel good. Your physical body should get a nice energy boost too. Your sunny warmth and enthusiasm are attractive to others. After July 22 you are tempted to indulge yourself further with material pampering. It might be difficult to rein in the spending, but hopefully you can ride on the birthday wave and get others to treat you.

Intimate relationships and business collaborations are intensified by the July 19 Full Moon for better or for worse. In a good marriage, the connection could feel extra warm, loving and romantic. It’s not one sided either with both partners wanting to show their commitment and how much they care. In a business partnership, things could get competitive, but in a good creative way with both sides spurring each other toward greater excellence.

energizing solar energy while it is skulking in the sign that shadows your rising sign. This is the time to look in all the dark crevices behind the sofa of your life and give them a good vacuum. Figuratively you don’t want to launch into a new solar year with last years stinky build-up of dust.

The only way to make sure you aren’t carrying old issues with you is to slow down and spend time looking behind you to see what you have left in your wake. After July 22 you can celebrate when it’s your birthday month and a solar new year for you.

LEO JULY HOROSCOPE Your Leo Horoscope for July 2016 could bring the possibility of your ego dissolving into a puddle and you could feel quite lost. All you can do really is to surrender into the sea of uncertainly and go with the flow of your unconscious mind. It will feel at times that you are in a waking dream, so pay attention to the images that float in and out of the fog.

You might also feel that you need a lot more sleep than usual. What is really happening as you are in a cocoon state waiting to be reborn into your birthday month. Even if you are reading this for your ascendant it still feels the same kind of vibe because you cannot quite access the

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Avocado Lime Cheesecake INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream 3/4 cup white sugar 1 1/2 ripe avocados, peeled and pitted 2 (3 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup fresh lime juice 1 (8 inch) prepared graham cracker crust DIRECTIONS Heat cream in a small saucepan until small bubbles appear around edges. Remove from heat and stir sugar into cream until it dissolves.

Transfer to a medium bowl and allow to cool.

Combine avocado and cream cheese in a food processor and blend until smooth. Add lime juice and process until smooth; whisk into the cooled cream mixture.

Fill an ice cream maker with the avocado mixture, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions for making ice cream.

Spoon avocado mixture into the prepared pie crust; smooth surface with a spatula. Freeze until solid, at least 2 hours. Let cheesecake sit at room temperature until slightly softened yet firm enough to slice before serving, 10 to 15 minutes.

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