Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-27

Notwithstanding the
scalebug and he must be accepted
as thing to be extirpated, not
ignored. AS to the remarks of our
Riverside contemporary about the
scalebuR and vineyards, Mr.. Rose
will also deal with that phase of
the matter.
Near Cimmarrou, New Mexico,
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad passess for consider.
able distance through the Maxwell
ranch, which contains 1,7O0, 900
acres Of land. Tbis magnificent
property was acquired by the man
whose name 1t now bears, first, by
marriage with one of the
heirs, and then by purchase
of the interests of the CO.
heirs. The ranch. lis now owned by
an English company who are at
present engaged in building a
fence around its entire area. They
propose to devote it to the raising
OF blooded stock-horses and neat
cattle. To that end they have al
ready cent a number Of blooded
animals from England. Among
the stock that has arrived at the
ranch are the celebrated racing
stallion Uhlan and twenty-three
thoroughbred mares, all with foal
to famous English flyers. The fact
that this stock Is now In New Mex
ico accounts, perhaps. for the offers
of certain weli.known English
turfmen, just after the brilliant
victories Of the American horses
Iroquois and Foxhall, to bet that q
winner Of the Derby, In the near
future, would be bred In New Mex
leo. Grand preparations have
been made for the comfort Of these
aristocratic scions Of the turf. A
corral 200 feet square, surrounded
by an adobe wall, on the inner
side Of which spacious box stalls
have been erected, has been pre-
pared for their exercise and hous.
ing, and large reti9ue of trained
grOOms provided to see that they
want fer no attention necessary to
assure them and their progeny
proper care. When all the con-
templated arrangements are COM
pleted, the Maxwell ranch will not
only be the largest but the best ap.
pointed stock farm in the world,
and We have no doubt but that the
boast of the projectors-that many
winners of future Derbys will be
bred In New Mexico-will be real
lied.
The frequency Of wrecks on
freight trains on the Southern Pa.
cifio Railway, of late between this
point and Arizona, cannot fail to
have excited the attention of our
readers. They are sometimes at
tended by very amusing incidents,
notably by that at the Sweetwster,
at the bottom of the descent to the
desert, which occurred several
week ago. On this train was a
large and choice consignment OF
liquors, consigned to q saloon In
Arizona. AS this train was pretty
badly demolished, the whiskey
barrels and boxes Of champagne
were turned out pell.mell. The
violence Of the shock started the
slaves Of the barrels fresh from
"old Keutuck," and the bouquet OF
the we'll distilled corn SOON drew a
host Of admirers. The same shock
also rolled champagne bottles out
Of their light packing. An Irish
man came upon the scene, with q
bottle, filled IL frop u leaking bar
rel and realized that he had no
cork. To think and to act were
one with him He stopped and
picked up bottle OF Louis Roeder-
er. smashed 1t to flinders, rescued
the cork, and whitfield it to the
requisite size with his pocket
knife, thus securing bottle of
Robertson county whiskey, let us
hope. The unfortunate agent of
Wells, Fargo & Co., saw the
champagne Uttered around and
rapidly disappearing, and captured
some six or seven bottles, which
he drank, with some boon COM
panions, thinking that 1t was a
case OF devil take the hindmost.
The surprise of this snterprising
youth was great when he learned
that the Southern Pacific Railway
bad presented bill for $4,000 to
Wells. Fargo & Co, which Mr..
Valentine promptly paid, based on
the consumption of those seven
bottles. II is surprise was not les
sened y wbi when Wells, Fargo &
Go. notitied him that they had 10 ia
him off for month. He promptly
replied that if he were to be iaid
off for month he was laid off for
good, and the affair at once took
that shape. He had had u situa-
ti0n waiting for him for some time
past In Adams's Express Company