Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-30
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Somebody in the San francisco CA
refers to Albuquerque az "a sleepy town
still peopled as the ancient pueblo con,
nunities." 1t grinds the sef-style.
Metropolis"
A proposition is about to be made t,
The people of Las Cruces to supply tII'
city with an artesian well flowing a thre'
Incll stream for s. 1000. The proposition
seems good one and will doubtless b'
accepted.
A letter to the Optic from his distressec
wife at Cerro, Taos county, announce
the death OF Billy Bond, as he wss famii
ilrly known, at that place on last Sab
bath morning. He had been patienI
sufferer from chronic disease for severa
| years.
NJ. A. Otero. county clerk, is runnnl
an abstract of title OF the Pablo Montoya
grant in this county. The tract comprises
about 100000 acres, to which Wilson
Waddingl am has clear chain OF title
Valuable and desirable land, that. optic.
After December the boy population
in the city will be somewhat diminished,
the youngsters all having gone Off to east,
eru colleges. What is needed here at
present Is schools in which higher grades
are taught.-Optic. What's the matter
with st. Michael's college at Santa Fe?
The Stock Grower Is urging OH the cat
tie sanitary inspectors of this territory
and Arizona the exercise oil greater vigil
of Texas fever into the territories. The
ttI y,t
now absolutely free from disease OF all
kinds.
The question OF the boundary line be-
tween the United States and Mexico will
he settled when-the Mills reservoir is
Duilt and the water OF the river controlled
within the banks. This work will be
done by the two governments and will be
permanent in its benefits. Ell Paso Her
aid.
There is shade as we'll as sunshine in
New Mexico. Nowhere in the prettest
picnic haunts OF the northern States
either, can be found more lovely valleys
than ours, watered by clear, crystal springs
and carpeted with the widest green,
here butter and walnut together form
cool groves, and forest vines climb crag
and tree. Sentinel.
Mrs. Jennie Hedden left the city veg
terday for Denver but it is known that
she has left the city to be gone indeh-
nitely. She told some that she WAS only
going on trip to her daughter at Denver
and would be absent few weeks. Sew
eral merchants whom she owed sus-
pe,ted differently, and Deputy Sheriff
Hubbe was sent up the road last evening
i'll the hopes Of catching her ut Wallace.
Albuquerque Citizen.
Major W. Cal. Brown expects to leave
this evening for Lynchburg, Va, and has
been appointed to represent the Atlantic
Il Pacific company at the Virginia state
fair, which will be held there next month.
Major Brown has fine collection of an
cient curiosities, gathered in this territory
and Arizona. Tie exhibit which will he
made by the Atlantic x Pacific company
will he fine one, and will do much to
make the people OF Virginia familiar with
the products and resources OF this terri
tory.-Cjtizen.
The fruit shipments from the Mesilla
valley keep growing rapidly with each
year This year they are much larger
than they were last, and two years from
now the new orchards and vineyards
which will then he in bearing promise
to make the shipments enormously larger
than they now are. Some idea of the
quantity shipped even now may he gath
cred from the size of the shipments that
90 to individual houses. One house alone
in Dallas, Texas, has shipped to it every
two or three days from one vineyariist
there 900 pounds OF choice grapes at
time. Other houses elseW here in Texas,
New Mexico and Colorado are having
equally large orders filled here.
The Albuquerque town councils com.
mittee on water works reported: "We
have examined the reservoir OF said water
this afternoon and find ~
inches of water in the same, which is
there as a reserve for fire purposes, but
is not available until a man is sent from
the works to the reservoir to turn on
the water, all which would require about
thirty minutes to get water to vicinity OF
lst street and Railroad avenue after the
alarm OF fire had been sounded. We also
find parties from the east side complain
ing that the pressure is SO low that they
receive but from one-quarter to one-half
the water they are paying for; We also
notice said water company is not taking
any immediate steps in the way OF inn
proving their supply of water" The
council passed an order directing the
water company to comply with its charter
or its contract with the city would be for
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