Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-08
TERRITORIAL TOPICS. q

Bishop Kendrick confirmed Mrs. w. T.
Delaney and christened her infant daugh
ter at Las Cruces Yesterday.
The new county ui Eddy, which has
Just been erected bv act OF the territorial
legislature, is about 10 miles north and
south.
1t is reported that party of California
capitalists are now in the vicinity OF Gal
lnp preparingt to develop the oil fields in
that locality.
The twelve electric lights now being
put up on various streets of the city, will
not be ready for use until about the even
ing OF the lOth.-Optic.
=. +. Garrett, of Lincoln county, has a
fine farm OF ! 200 acres, with $40 acres
under cultivation. lie is putting out a
large orchard with apple trees.
Las Vegas is suffering at present from
an epidemic uf colds. From Wheeling
kids up to venerable grandpas there is Il
sort OF graduated sneezing, coughing,
whooping, barking an choking.
Mr. Sol Jatla, one OF the leading bust.
ness men OF Trinidad, is expected in
Roswell this week. He is one OF the
stockholders OF the reservoir company
and is here on business connected with
that concern.
Ration is not incorporated, and the
water company will not put in any more
fire plugs until it is. Several property
owners have money in bank with which
to build, but refuse to do SO until the
town is incorporated
Everyone seems to agree that New
Mexico is on the eve OF another great
boom, and capital, which is the surest
barometer, was never more confident in
its investments in this territory than it is
now.-San Marcial Reporter
Socorro note: Sheriff Robinson is
home again. He thinks New Mexico is
ahead of them all when it comes to re-
sources. He says forty acres are worth
acres of the best land in the state of
Kansas.
The market of the country is open to
New Mexico cattle. There are no quar-
antine laws against them and will not be
as long as we continue our wise legisla-
ton to keep out Texas fever and other
contagious disease, and keep it we'll en-
forced. San Marcial Reporter.
1t is claimed that the meat inspection
law has already given an impetus to the
beef maturing industry in the upper por-
tor of the territory, and buyers are look
ing for alfalfa fed steers. Harvey and
other meat handlers are complying with
the law and the cattle men are satisfied
Las Cruces Republican.
Have any of our territorial exchanges
within the past few weeks met Bowden
G.. Tate, attorney ard counsellor at law? !.
Mr.. Tate left here to 60 Las Cruces and |
an injunction in the San Simon |
ditch matter, being furnished with the
necessary cash for travelling and other
expenses, and has not been heard from
since. 1t is feared that he has met with
foul play or skipped. There is warrant |
for his arrest. -Iordsburg Liberal,
On the tornado, near Engle, wells bored
to depth Of less than 100 feet strike
salt brine in what appears to be lake |
underlying the plain for considerable .
distance. 1t was first found by Col. A. j.
Fountain in the sixties when he was sent |
from Fl. McRea with orders from the war
department to bore for water. The salt
brine is said to be so strongly impregnated
that bar which was let down to test the
depth would only sink certain distance.
The Grayson Cattle company, OF Sierra
county, is shipping this week from Engle
the first bunch of the lot of 5000 steers
which they will place in pasture in Kan
sas. Some difficulty has been experienced
by the company in gathering so early in
The season, there being only scant grass
IN the range at the present time. The
season, however, over the the entire New
Mexico range promises to be one OF the
pest for years for the cattle men.-Stock
Irower
The site for IL new smelling plant at
)eming has been located by w. &. War
ng, manager Of the Flager works of Sill
yer City. The discovery OF coal on the
inc of the proposed railroad south OF
Deming, within less than 100 miles of that
olace, will undoubtedly make Deming the
argest smelling center in the southwest.
trading has been commenced on the road
north of Chihuahua, and it will probably
De in operation about as soon as the smell
er can be put up.
The Carlisle Gold Co. will put the main
shaft at their mine 200 feet further. The
has been freighting the concen-
rates from the mill to Lordsburg by OK
teams because the railroad company
charged such high rates for freight that it
was cheaper to employ teamsters to freight
Lhe concentrates to the line of the South
ern Pacific Railroad at Lordsburg than to
freight them to Duncan on the line of the
Arizona 4 New Mexican railroad and
then pay railroad freight to Lordshurg.
Nauar Gixe in.