- The Above picture was captured from a Youtube Video about Billy the Kid Museum PRESS HERE
From the Newspaper timeline below, building of an Electric Line or Telegraph Line was constructed and operational: July, 1900
Telegraph and Electric Lines proposals
- June 28th 1884 Effort to secure Telegraph lines
- Jan 28th 1892 Bid for telegraph Line to White Oaks
- Dec 22nd 1892 $900 dollar proposal
- June 28th 1894 White Oaks Telegraph Line Sought
- April 25th 1895 Proposition to construct Telegraph line
- In 1895 the closest telegraph was in Carthage 60 miles away
- Jan 25th 1900 White Oaks to Carrizozo
- Feb 15, 1900 Telephone lines, and electric being talked about
- March 22nd 1900 Telephone Lines
- April 19, 1900 White Oaks Electric
- April 26, 1900 Secured Poles
- June 14th, 1900 Telephone fixtures arrived
- July 12th, 1900 Telephone lines up and running
- July 26th 1900 Old Abe getting a phone line
- August 2nd, 1900 The Mines and Mill poles lines
- Sept 27th, 1900 Mine, Mill and Pump telephone connection
- June 5th 1902 Contract to install telephone lines from White Oaks to Carrizozo
- June 26th 1902 New Iron Poles being installed on line to Carrizozo
- Jan 22nd 1903 Hewitt Block soon to have phone lines
- June 25th 1903 Incorporated