Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-27
DENYING LETTER.
A Commercial Boom Resulting from the
 Freight War.
DENYING, N. M., Dec. 18th.

DEMrSG, N. M., Dec. 18th.
 Yesterday one Of the Southern Pa cific yard men, named Robert Mckee, while engaged in switching one of the passenger trains, got seriously injured by being csugh. and squeezed between the Miller couplings.
 A rather Imaginable incident occurred to MT. White, the train baggsgeman (vho, by the way, is and has been for years a citIze1 of the honOrabls and Gn- cient pueblo). While waiting for his train the other morning he lad down to have a quiet snooze in the telegraph office. To make himself thoroughly comfortable he spread his mattress and blankets aud removed his shoes. He and the night operator w-re the only occupants of the office till a soldier tramp was admitted through charity to warm himself. When he had thoroughly enjoyed the genial warmth of the stove for half an hour, and expressed hls gratitude and departe !, Mir. Whites shoes had also disapPe ired- It was too early and too bitterly n.ild a morning for any of the stores tJ bs open, and our friend Mir. White cut a curious spectacle with his fee. encased in the day operators slippers as hc boarded his train.
 The weather has been T, markedly pleasant for the past week.
 Business with our merchants never was so good. Owing to the war of freight rates between tine A T. & ;. f. and the Texas-Pacific, We can buy sugar over our retail counters at as low a figure Us the wholesale men can m SaE Francisco, by the car load, and everything else in proportion. The regular rates on freight from San Fran cisco or kanshs City Is only JO cents per hundred -half cent per pound on all classifcations, excepting only powder and coal oil, and from Kansas City the rate ou some articles, such as flour and grain which comes Tn direct competi- tiOn with the California trade, the rate k even lower. and we can buy at | iobbers prices the finest brands of | Eastern patent flour at from g. 10 to | g. 8 per hundred, according 10 the | brands. Mining machinery, agrIcultural | implements and such things are coming in with wonderful prodigslity and property IS being rapidly developed. Owing to these really nominal rates the entire country IS experiencing boom such as was not dreamed off year ago. It IS now a daily O ,currence tO meet two or three stock men looking for suitable ranges and negotia ing with the three railroad companies for the transporta ton of from twenty to a hundred car To ds of stock, and every day We hear oi some of our stOckmen or others propos- ing to go into the business, starting for Kansas or Texas to buy stock. Every stCckman who settles hereRbnuts Is a permanent and lucrative customer for our merchants as well as solid addi- ton to the wealth of the country. The Mexico trade, which used to be a small item, Is now quite trade, hs ihe Mexl- can merchant can do as well here or at Fl Paso as he can in San Francisco or Kansas City and he now goes out of his way & hundred miles to reach our mar ket to lay in his stock. IL was at first said our merchants were stocking mp aud overlading themselves, owing to the cheap rates; but such is not the case. The merchandise goes out as fast as 1t comes m and is apparently con -umed-the market has simply enlarged and the stocks carried have to be larger as the business increases, while one and all Ut us are getting the benefit of from one to four dollars per hundred on every thing We consume and conse- quently money is getting more plentiful. The great saving can be seen the mer- chant pays his freight on a car load of goods with S75 to SlO0 where formerly 1t used 10 be S311 to S9O0 J.
 Vim. Rettiger left for Strong City, kansae yasterlay He coutemplates