Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-03
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Roswell is on IA building boom.

ROSWELL IS on Il building boom.
Ii is said the Silver City Enterprise vii
soon launch a daily.
Stockmen complain that great MANY
poor COWS are sticking III the mud along
the banks OF the San Juan river,
Las Cruces News: Jennie, the s yeal
Old daughter OF Dr. and Mrs. VIM. 3.
Lyon, died Sunday, at 2 O'Clock a. m, oil
| dlphtherla, after IN illness Of five or six
days.
A big mining deal, and one OF great i'm
portance to the people of Las Cruces and
the Organs, is about to be consummated.
Will tell you more about it later on
Cruces News.
justice OF the peace md school
director :or this precinct will be appointed
by the commissioners, also Il meat in
spertor for the county and n justice foi
Amargo. -Chana Northwest
Major John B. McGee, the successful
mining man OF Kelly, is in the city. Mr..
Mctree savs that the smeter will be ready
to bio" in about the 18TH OF April He
reports that mining in the Magdaenas is
looking up.-Socorro Advertiser.
A chestnut kick from the Citizen ::
Henry Carpenter, the sage OF Tijeras,
which place WAS recently taken from Ber-
nalillo county and added to Santa Fe by the
politicians OF the latter place, Is in Albu-
querqne to-day, watching the progress OF
the city election.
The San Augustine plains III Socorro
county, are now covered with immense
lakes, Il condition OF affairs that has not
been seen in that locality before for yea g.
The snowfall the past winter was the
heaviest for decade of Years in central
New Mexico. The thousands OF antelope
that have made their homes on the San
Augustine plains have been nearly ex
Terminated, the horns OF the dead animals
are to be seen sticking up in every direc-
ton.
LII May last Will Stewart soWed patch
OF alfalfa on new salt adobe soil, and only
irrigated it once before the river cut the
ditch, and every one thought it VAS burned
out, but good irrigation has developed
that the seeds took root downward and
will spring up at the first opportunity.
Our land grabbers, who want the earth
will have to manufacture another lie to
deter prospective settlers from settling and
buying homes In our vicinity. Rio |
Grande Republican.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Milligsn, Messrs. Eames and
Lloyd, have discovered q bed OF anthra-
rite coal, eight miles west OF the city, and |
are working the mine for all there's in it, |
They have high hopes for the future OF
heir discovery, as the thickness OF the |
vein increases as they 60 down. The
parties have taken up 200 acres OF coal
and in the vicinity, and they give it out
old that they will continue the work OF
development as rapidly as possible, as
hey feel it in their very bones that it is Il
ich tind.-Las Vegas Optic.
City elections yesterday-at Las Vegas
AT little past O'Clock this afternoon
t was estimated that 42J votes had been
asst in the city election, and it was
hought that about 900, probably little
ess, would be cast by the time the polls
'losed at t o'clock. The chances favor
he peoples ticket" At Albuquerque
AT 2 40 p. H., the hour the forms are
,losed there are cast in ward No | , Ia
'otes; in ward No. 2, llS; in ward No. 8,
IS, and in ward No. 4, 10. No one can
oretell the result, for the tickets are be-
ny terribly scratched"
San Juan county note; A great deal OF
and will be brought under cultivation
his season that heretofore has been un-
,atered. Yet there are quite number
# bitches under headway that will not be
in time for crops this season,
,ut will be ready for next. We under
tand the Animas, La Plata Il San Juan
Ditch company expect to complete their
itch about August /. This will be one
+ the best bitches in the county when
ompleted, heading at Pennington, near
he mouth OF the Animas river, and ex-
ending down as far rs Jewett, n distance
t twenty miles, covering thousands of
cres OF fine lands.