Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-13
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

More new houses are being built in
Ration this year than ever before, and vet
there are no empty houses.
The MuntcMn,a valley paper says work
is in progress on tn" WAGON road from the
san Juan country To Gallup.
The sun juan independent says that
Tu>rut, the Chicago murderer, has joined
the Navai0eS and married II SQuaW
over ~ .Oun fruit trees will he set ont
this wear on the Animas and San Juan
rivers, also the acreage OF alfalfa Will ''e
largely increased.
Tie Navajo Indian agent has notified
the Gallup crowd of prospectors that I'M
less they secure permission from the In
dian department none OF them can enter
the reserve.
The ranchmpn in this section are
building large reservoirs on their ranches,
and are preparing to SOW alfalfa. This crop
is an experiment, but all the conditions
guarantee success. --Deming Headlight.
The Folsom stock yards, will he en-
larged to double their present capacity.
They will he made large enough to hold
: 900 head of cattle Folsom is destined
to make the largest cattle shipping point
on the Forth Worth road.
The Ration Base Ball club has reorgan-
lied as follows: j. Heating, lst b.; /.
Gardner, I'd b. W. IIowells, Sd b.. Henry
Farrell, 8. $. r. Arrdof, p.; r. Smith,
'c.; p. McGarvey, !. f.. II. Jones, c. f.,
and y. Connell, r. f. Now let the Gallup
, boys follow suit.
Just like Santa Fe: "Quite Il number OF
first class dramatic and opera trOups have
passed through New Mexico the past sea-
son that could have been induced to favor
RatoE with delightful entertainments il
we had had an opera house, Why can't
this be remedied in the future?''
The Flagler company will soon move all
their mill and machinery, except the
sampling works located below town, to
Demng, where within two weeks they
will commence the construction Of extern
sve smelling works. The plant is to be
built especially for the reduction of the
gold silver, copper and lead ores produced
from the mines in this portion of Grant
countv.-Silver City Sentinel.
San Juan Independent: ''rhe mer-
chants of Albuquerque are reaching far
out and grasping the trade for many miles
around. They are live, wide-awake men,
who are not afraid to advertise their BUSH
ness, or to meet the sheriff, and it will be
Il day of rejoicing to our people when We
get II railroad connecting us with this
thriving city, that is anxious both to buy
our produce and to sell us goods at living
prices"
Maxwell Grant notes The visit of Mr..
Paul Gelefie resulted in a number of land
sales under the Nermejo ditch, aggregat-
ing about 800 acres, some Of the pur-
chasers being from Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mr.. butcher, OF Grand Rapids, Mich,
was here this week and will take a sec
ton of land under the Vermeio ditch, in
which there is a fall OF eighteen feet,
and will utilize this for water power,
proceeding to erect planning mill and
grist mill in the near future. He also
made q timber tour with a view of es-
tablishing q saw mill. Mr. W. 7. Whit
nev, of Waterloo, Iowa, writes that he
has started car load of household goods
and would arrive in Ration, early next
week, en- route for his Nermejo ditch
land.