Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-18
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Silver CITY is organizing a ionkny clu

Silver City is organizing a jockey club
Jim Roberts, an old time Las Nrann
died OF rheumatism at Pintado
4 special meeting oi the lodge oi knights
Of Pythias in this city is called for to-
night, at their Castle nail, t. welcome
several distinguished visiting brethren,
among others, \. ~ Dcttelbach Of Santa
Ec, grand keeper ol the records undsA,l -
optic.
Al the installation SclYucs IT the Pres
byterian church at as VEGAS. last night
the sermon WAS by Rev. George 6. smith,
Santa Fee; the charge to the people, hv
Rev. George ". Riggles, OF SocoIro the
charge to Rev. f. s. Brush, the new pas
tor, by Rev. John Monaul, ot l.aguna.
A Mexican washed ont a gold nugget
Thursday said to be worth nearly 500.
The same day, PreCillano, another Mex
lean, PANIED out nearly $40 in coarse gold
near the same place. The ground is
around the rim Of the old hydraulic work
ing at the loot OF Snake mountain
Hillsboro Advocate
Two hundred miles of lrrigating canals
will do more to affect the destiny OF New
Mexico than any change OF territorial adj
ministration Modern civilization is
bringing us down to very material basis,
and lat cattle and good crops count for
more than all the offices in the territory.
Optic.
The train robber who escaped by Jump
ing through the car window on Ration
mountain is still at large. The two dep
uty shcrifis who got off the train are re-
ported to have gotten on his trail. Sheriff
O'Neal told them never to show up in
Flagstaff again unless they brought the
escaped prisoner with them.
New Mexico has made great progress in
irrigating within the last few years. Her
property owners have built and main
tanned system of canals that fur
nish the lfe-giving principle to
more than half million acres
OF land, which, without it, would be the
most worthless soil out OF doors. There is
a great quantity of land in this territory
which can be reclaimed by irrigation and,
within the last twelve months, there has
been greater awakening to the possibiIi-
ties OF this method of agriculture. The
irrigated acreage OF New Mexico will be
more than doubled before the close OF the
present decade. LAS Cruces News.
1t begins to look as if Deming will be
something OF queen vet. Their new
railroad is about assured. improvements
are the order of the day. The Flagler
smelling works are being moved from Sill
yer City to that point, which is good
thing for the miners OF southern New
Mexico as it gives them another conve-
nient market. Now, if Deming so chooses,
1t can, as an ore buying point, become
the Pueblo OF the south, while FL fasO
will remain the Denver. Rio Grande
Republican. Yes, and when Dening be-
comes the Queen, Las Cruces will be
"only Pansy Blossom" in the valley.
But what's the matter with Silver City?
Oh, she's all right. The business outlook
was never better. There is more ready
money in circulation, more confidence
and activity than in any other place in
the southwest. She is not making any
display, but she has solid backing and
splendid resources. --Southwes Sentinel.
Silver City note: A number OF eastern
capitalists have expressed desire to take
ny tlit pei tcllt toulilS DuH''5 Spcil w
be issued, and there will be no difficulty
in placing these bonds at par. Those who
hold county warrants should keep them,
for they will be redeemed in short time
at par, and they should not therefore be
sold now at discount. The county will
also be enabled to redeem large part OF
its old bonded indebtedness, which now
draws high rate of interest, and issue
bonds at per cent instead, and thus save
the county large sum of money. The
late funding act also provides that the
county may issue bonds from time to
time to provide fund to pay current in
debtedness accruing from July next to
January l, 1890; SO that warrants issued
after July next can be cashed ut once,
and from January, 1890, an available fund
for this purpose will arise from the col
lection Of taxes. 1t is thus apparent that
the county will soon be placed on cash
basis, with ready money to meet warrants
as they are drawn, and pay a much lower
rate of interest on large part of its out
standing bonded Indebtedness.