Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1888-11-17

states, that will cause who receive
them to open their eyes to the i'm
port4nce of this region as a fruit
country. Some Of the apples
weighed one and a quarter pounds
each, and for flavor this same fruit
cannot be excelled anywhere. Mr.
Dane also sent specimens of oats
two feet high, grown since August
|, without irrigation, and fine SAM
ples OF corn. All OF the sahoye
wore raised on the Vermejo river
about twenty miles from Springer.
Stockman.
1t has beensproposed to do away
with explosives in mines where
their use Is attended with danger
md substitute the latelyiinvented
cartridge, one portion OF which is
filled with asmixture OF finely di
vided zinc and zinc oxl1ide, which
collects in the condenser of the
zinc retort, while the other part is
filled with diluted sulphurio acid.
According to the requirements in
this case. the cartridge is put in its
intended,place and then, by suita-
bic mechanicism. the acid is allow
ed to flow into the zinc Hydrogen
il then evolved and by its expan
sive force the rock Is broken down
without ombustion or violent ex-
ploslan.
A man named Hodges has noti-
fed Surveyor General Julian that
he and his brothers ,and sisters are
the rightful owners Of a tract of
land thirty miles square, contain
ing.600, 900 acres in Colfax county,
n. NJ. Title to this vast territory
Is claimed under q grant alleged to
have been made by the crown of
Spain in 1885 TO the present claim
ants natural ancestors, who bore
the peculiar name Of Corpus Christi
The land claimed is IN the vicinity
Of the towns of Ration, Springer
and Folsom, and probably the last
two named. A portion Of the Max
well grant and large number of
claims of settlers are jeopardlzed |
by this grant. Optic.
Judge Joseph Magoffin, United
States collector of customs at Il
Paso, has Just made an examina-
ton of the, extensive engineering
work on which the Mexican gov
ernment has been engaged for a
year, with the object OF protecting
the Mexican bank of the Rio
G.ande from destruction. The
work consists of series of "mnt-
tress. fastened embankments con
by willow works, at inter-
vals OF a hundred yards along the
river bank opposite I'll Paso. The
embankments are thirty feet wide
1t the bottom, twenty six feet wide
At the top and ten feet high, run
ming out obligueiy flom the Mexi-
san, toward the American shore.
new embankment inst begun at
The street railway bridge has Gre
ated some concern lest it should
turn the river current so as to cut
INTO the American bank. Collector
concludes that there Is no
cause for alarm, and that Mexico is
not exceeding her right under the
treaty OF 1884,
Capt a. Fl. Thompson, chief of
.he geographic division of the ge-
illogical survey, came in from Col
orado last night and was in con-
ference at the Palace to-day with
Mr.. Arthur Z. Davis, who is in
charge Of the party now st work
n the Santa Fe and Jemez valleys
Tapt Thompson is on a visit OF
Inspection to the various survey
parties in Colorado aid New Mex
co, gathering data for huge map
,howlng the topography of every
DOT of land in the United States.
This map will be of the same ma
ure as those Of Hayden and Whee- {
er about the year 1872, but much
uore valuable. Haydeus map was {