The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-11
NEW MEXICO
oftlle Herald.

,s,oordeucs of the Herald.
SneSr CITY NEW MEXICO, August J, ISL.
80 ! last wrote you we have been en-.
~. the rainy season. 1t has been so far
H ..iOiest on record. The old inhabitants
- there has been nothing seen equal to i!
,.o.,bs country has been acttled. The raius
', ammspced about the first of this month
..d hardly a day has passed without a show
- According to the records of the signal
S.r,ca Office there has fallen during this
nth fraction over ten inches Of rain.
w,., Of the showers let fall froms.05 TO .O2
4 = an inch, but one rain recorded in the rain
4 ,,ncs over 2 inches in one hour and u
lsOu,es. and rain at FL PAso about the l0.h
J,bn month registered over six inches.
| Tina country which ordinarily looks dry
j Sa,e rtlke, has been made to ''bloom like
arose" Vegetation has sprung up with
swslcus rapidly. The grass is already
INV and luxursnt, and the flowers are
,..tEog over the wastes. Various plants
'Trvected here before have been discover
/ j fbe smsll boys are reaping harvest now
NEg!heripg mushrooms, luxury not often
aSged in mere. Everything proclsims it
In extraordinary rainy season.
Al An unpleasant feature in all this, is the
I'm tia. wo are now almost entire
cut off FROM communication
IN The outside world. The small streams
a e country have been flooded to sn IN.
,sAlented degree, and travel has been sus-
A,s6el 10 a great extent. Even the Gils
h., beading IN the mountains northwest
NAh place, and ordinarily small noun
In stream easily waded by small boy, is
kEs torrent some three-fourlhs of mile
Aje. No one has crossed it for over o week,
dlhe probabilities are that il will not be
iMsed for two weeks more. The railroads
lW been "Washed out" in many places, and
HAN ounce OF mail has been received from
< IN est for week now, The railroads
taofus have just brought us in some
b. after a gap of silence ola week. Even
Photograph line has been SO injured by rain
lightning that We cannot depend upon it
Il sny information. The rainy season is
iye. over, and we may have this same
bible over again in few weeks.
District Court adjourned on last Friday
Igs three weeks session. Nothing of any
gCrsnce WAS transacted during the term.
smlrder trials we're carried over to the
mm, and also the Lake Valley mining
The Oasis List Chance suit was ar
on demurrer and the Judge, not hsv-
ime to examine the authorities, reserved
3 j;iOn until such time as he can examine
Il Ia. Probabilities are that the demurrer
lbe Oveuuled in favor of the Oasis owners.
II Eureka suits were decided in favor Of
g.
NriDg the session of court cow
fy murder was committed by g
"a u named Chino, town marshal
this place. He killed in cold blood az
.ensive man named Harvey. A bench
rsnt was immedia:...ely issued and Gilmo
fsted. mat night he escaped, and it was
NSnly suspected that the sherin OIL THIS
MY, Mr.. Whitehill, connived at the est
&A The following night mass meeting
4te citizens was held, and set of resolu-
nvss adopted condemhing the sheriff
asking that he resign, which of course he
PM do, This is the first murder which
occurred here during the psst eighteen
4nths-s good record for frontier town
!6OO inhabitsnts-and the inhabitants are
urally muchincensed at the sheriff for his
elessness.
III very rich strike has lately been made in
Burro mountains, southwest OF here.
rock carries some of the richest speci-
|nOt silver ore ever found in any couu-
b. Native silver occurs in some of the
a fEhntastic shapes ever found in any ore.
"a us beautiful specimens, showing native
Isn traceries like fern leaves, are on ex-
zion in town at Porter &c Ora Words. A
h rich strike has been made in the Viola
BE- adjoining the famous Last Chance
n mine at Shakespeare. This slso car
{ Considerable quantities of native silver.
noted Brunen mine, two snd half
Y from this place, has been stocked for
10000 by an English company.
Work has been resumed on the old Santa
aopper mines near this place on on ex-
fliVe scale, and they will some time soon
fasbly rival the Calumet and Hecls.
OPERATOR.