Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-12
TERRITORIAL TIPS,

The White Caps have made another
nocturnal display at Las Vegas.
Felix Martinez made sale of IO.OO0
head CT sheep last week at Las Vegas.
Col. Carpenter, OF Grant county. has
put in a Greedy pump ami II works like &
charm.
The mines OF Sierra county are turning
out some high grade ore, and the outlook
in general is encouraging.
Paul st. Nrain, of Mora, has accepted a
position in st. Louis, and that city will BIZ
his future address indefinitely.
Robert Mingus, cattle man of note,
living near Puerto de Luna, is quite ill at
his ranch, and sent messenger to Las
Vegas for medicine.
The Mountain View mine at Pinos Al
tos has beer leased to Monroe Toby, ali
enterprising man OF the tall pine camp,
who will soon have the mine in shape for
active work.
Congressman Taulbee, who was re-
Gently shot by Charles kincaid, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Louisville,
Ky, Times, is brother of DR.. Taulbee,
who was the former surgeon at the Navajo
agency.
Water does this for Ell Paso: "Resl
estate transfers yesterday aggregated over
S25,OOO. There is a marked movement
in valley lands on account of the ap-
preaching completion of the Ell Paso Irri-
cation company's canal"
February was the best month for New
Mexico miners that they have had for
thirteen months. There is increasing
good feeling among the miners of New
Mexico, and there is also improvement in
ArizOna."-Prof. Longuemare.
There is very perceptible and marked
advance i'll the price of cattle and the i'm.
mediate future augurs we'll for that much
depressed industry. Our stock men de-
serve both good prices and great credit for
their fortltude in holding to their stock
during the terrible four years Just passed.
The average eastern farmer, who at this
season OF the year is greatly annoyed by
almost impossible roads, can come to
New Mexico and find roads equal to the
best pixies that are made. And then We
have all the other advantages, such as good
markets, cheap and productive lands, un-
excelled climate and everything else to
make life pleasant and profitable.
Las Vegas waif: Our farmers are al
ready beginning preparations for planting.
The experiment of change in seed wheat
of last year has had most desirable ef-
feet, and larger area will be sown by a
finer grade Of seed than ever before. The
fovp houn han,1 Il L..
realize the new order Of things, and find
the yield heavier and prices correspond
ingly better.
The Office Of Indian affairs has issued
instructions to Major G. E. Vandever,
agent to the Navajos, to Immediately take
energetic and proper steps to keep the
members ofthat tribe, with the exception
of those who have settled upon lands out
side of their reservation for the purpose
of taking homesteads, within the limits
of their reservation, and to return rowing
Indians to the reservation.
1t is said that Don Eugenio Romero has
discovered the ringleaders of the parties
who destroyed his ties last Thu sday night
and intends prosecuting them to the ex-
tent of the law. Don Eugenio is loath to
do so, but protection to himself and sub
contractors compels it. 1t is time that
this spirit of open defiance to the law and
utter disregard for the rights OF others was
checked, else there is no conjecturing the
ultimate result.-Optic.
H. W. Loomis, superintendent of
schools in Grant county, states that the
number of public schools in Grant coun-
ty is fourteen, and that several more will
soon be established before the close Of
the year. English is taught in all of
them and Spanish in but one, and that
only for one-half OF each day. This gives
the lie officially to the statement OF the
Albuquerque Democrat.-Silver City En-
terprise.
Says the Silver City Enterprise: Re-
ports from the Mescalero Apache Indian
agency show that matters there have
changed greatly for the better since Col.
J. F. Bennett took charge eight months
ago. There are about 500 Indians on the
reservation. Several of the principal men
and chiefs already favor the assignment
of lands in severalty, and some of them
during the past six months have given up
their nomadic habits, have built comfort
able log houses and are living in them.
This year there will be more land broken
up and placed under cultivation than ever
before on the reservation.