Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-15
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Las Cruces now sports street sprinkler
The coal miners strike is still on at
Gallup.
The little daughter OF 4. j, Fountain
lr., died at Las Cruces.
Las Cruces has six nowspapers-two
dailles and four weeklies.
The Billings slneter at Socorro outputs
VI 800 900 worth OF bullion annually.
1t is estimated that there are in New
Mexico ,250,O 900 head Of cattle, valued at
$4,000, 900.
/ Henry Grants store at FL Rito, contain
ing the postolEice, was burned Tuesday
night Insured,
/ The New Find mine, in the SOcorro
/ mountains, has been purchased bya Phil
adelphia syndicate.
4 correspondent from Engle writes
, that the Cuchilo gold boom" is busted
Ior want OF gold, so says 4 Mesilla valley
paper.
Gallup can show up more babies on
less time--beg pardon-more babies on
regulation time than any other town in
New Mexico,-Geaner.
Our alfalfa raisers have signed an agree
ment creating an alfalfa trust They pro-
pose to keep the price up ii possible
Las Cruces Republican.
Gallup note: Frank Martin was sent
to the st. Vincent hospital at Santa Fe on
Tuesday morning. A subscription paper
was circulated to raise funds with which
TO defray the trip expenses.
In Rio Arriba county $1,000 in county
bonds, and st. 900 OF floating Indebtedness,
have just been paid and Cancelled At
this rate OF payment there will not be in
three years dollar OF Indebtedness on
Rio Arrlba county.
The success Of the new smeter at
Kelly has given new impetus to mining
in that vicinity. Several more mines are
at work taking out ores, and several more
that have been idle for some time will be
worked on lease, or will change hands.
Had it not been for their sheep f1ocks
in the early times the poor people of Now
Mexico would have been poor indeed.
The wool they clipped from their natives
backs brought them but little money, but
the flesh Of the woolv brutes kept them
from hunger.
Hon. T, D. Burns was III town this
week experimenting the rebuilding of
his telephone line from here to TERRA
Amarillo. He will have an office at his
store and one at warehouse here also, one
at his business houses at Parkview and
Terra Amarillo. a.-Chama Northwest.
So far the following gentlemen are I'M
dersto0d to be candidates for secretary of
the territory: DR.. B. NJ. Thomas, of Santa
Fe; Major j. u. woodward, OF Socorro;
Hon. w. y, Kistler, of Las Vegas; Mr..
d. z. Carr, OF Georgetown, and Mr.. Silas
Alexander, Of lIillsboro. .-Enterprise.
We are in receipt Of letter from Jo-
seph &. Parks, of Lordsburg, now in
Philadelphia, which states that the report
that he had withdrawn from the race for
surveyor general OF this territory is with
out foundation. He is still in the ring,
and hopes to win,-Silyer City Enter
prise,
Building is the order of the day; from
all sides and at all times throughout the
day is heard the sound of the trowel,
hammer and saw. Messrs. Stewart,
Nabors, Mayer and Lund, have their
buildings inclosed and will soon be COM
pleted. Others are progressing slowly.
White Oaks is having Il steady growth
Interpreter.
Las Vegas improvement notes: George
Ward, as city marshal, has issued orders
to all residents on Douglass avenue, to
lay sidewalks Immediately on that thor
oughiare and the extension will soon run
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