Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-05-13
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

| new Huntington concentration will be
fired up at Cold Springs shortly.
The agricultural college bows at Las
Cruces contemplate organizing brass
band.
Miss Mamie Mccarthy has returned to
Taos, where she has charge of the Indian
school.
The Brush Heap mine in the Kingston
district has been sold to Michigan capt.
talists for 100000.
The members of Thomas post, G. A. R.,
Las Vegas, held meeting and decided to
observe Memorial day.
l.. G. Caldwell, of Nebraska, is assisting
Special Agent Stldger in his investigation
OF land entries at Las Cruces.
The curiosity of Lordoburg people was
aroused the other day to a high pitch
when a carriage drove into town.
The citizens OF Hlsbor0ugh will hold
meeting Wednesday to devise means for
the prevention of the spread OF SIN III poX
in that burg.
The machinery at Don Pacdo Sando-
vars sawmill, on the GulIinas, has been
N.'A'i|' w hhhhoNu paul w lhCeAlCht
OF about $500.
J. G. Wells, of Roswell, placed a num-
Der OF accounts i'll the hands OF Arthur
Joyce for collection. Joyce collected
about 500 and gambled it away.
1t is reported that an English syndicate
Will spend S3JO,UUO in The Cash Entry
and other mlnes at Cerrlllos, in which
Wilson Waddingham is Interested.
The contract for building $44 900 hotel
at Folsom has been let TO Tumanson
Brothers, of Fort Worth. Que hundred
men viii be put to work on tue bUildlDg
The machinery of the land office al
Roswell has been set in motion, much to
The qualification. OF the large number OF
persons who are now ready to prove up
IN that district.
A section man employed between Lake
Valley aud Mutt stalh,r was bitten on one
Ot Ills arms last week by Il raltlesnake.
the mans guzzle and III short time he
VAS SO heIplessly drunk that poison had
no ELECT On linn.
Ranchmen predict good crop OF calves
this year. Already numbers vi The lutle /
fellows are beginning to put III an ap-
pearance, and The good cUnulllon OF the !
range together With the warm weather |
viii do much to keep them alive. IL Is
thought the crop OF this year viii Tar eX
coed that oil last year.
Woe he unto the man who imbibes Al |
buquerque liquor. The other day Il ranch
man went into the town, took couple OF |
a fnr 4, IA
He had gone but short distance when lie
Imagined lie was attacked by Indians ana
used shot gun to defend himself. Re
suit: One dead mule and man shot in the
ieg.
Our old friend, Judge Stone, of Ros
ll-on-the-Pecos, is the heaviest orchard.
LIST i'll New Mexico. lie has just finished
planting seventy acres of apple trees,
We are lold that Judge Stone intends to
continue until he las 32O acres i'll or
chard. He Is the pioneer irult planter Ill
the tecos valley.-Field and Farm.
The sum of 81 500 has just been placed
TO the credit vi the experiment station al
the agricultural college. This amount is
to be expended, or contracts let to cover
1t, before July |. On this date a Iuithef
sum vi " ,oUU 8 at Its command and alter
Ihis date the regular annual appropriation
ot Sl5,OUU viii be paid Ill lnstalnIents
quarterly.
The promoters of the new Bank OF
Commerce at Albuquerque held u meet
ing and elected officers as follows: A.
". Cleland, president; Albert Elsemanu,
vice presluent; w. 5. Stricken cashier;
board Of directors, X. Mandei, NJ. Man
dell, NJ. ). Oteru, u. W. Harrison, W. q.
Leonard, a. W. Cleland, Albert Else
mann, W. s. Stricken, Ernest Me, ers.
The natural bridge on Pine creek, i'll
the northern pass OF CHA county, equals
If it does not surpass the natural bridge
ol Virginia. 1t spans the creek at II
height OF about 200 feet, and the walls
Of the canon rise about it on either side :
7OO or $40 feet, forming ON one side Il
preclpce. The bridge Is
ii LIME formation, aud the inside Of the
great arch, some 80 feet across, is worn
ny the water rs smooth as though CHS
4led 10y The hands OF stone mason. On
-op the arch is nearly, if not gu tie, 100
eet in width, 900 feet i'll length across
he canon, and at the thlnest pant only
SIX feet through. About the center Of
;he arch is hole large enough to admit
lie body Of u man, and through which .
)ne can look down into the crystal pool .