Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-10-30
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

Coal at Gallup is $ per ton, while the
present price in Prescott is $)5.6Oper ton.
The distance is only}50 miles.
1t has leaked out hat the anonymous
friend who supplied the beautiful new
carpet for the Episcopal church at Albu-
querque was Judge V. G. Hazledine.
Mrs. G. P. Jones,of Albuquerque, and
Mrs. Borden, OF La Vegas, are the New
Mexico delegates to the national conven-
ton of the w. G. :. u, which meets in
Atlanta, Ca, on the l4th OF November.
General ManagerJudy came up Satur-
day to locate the yads and the depot for
the Pecos Valley railroad. The yards
will be on River street. and will extend
from the Greene street. bridge as far as
necessary. The de)ot will be located on
the corner of Riverand Mermod streets,
two blocks from the Hotel Hagerman
ana the proposed court house.-Eddy
Argus.
More public lant is being taken up in
the vicinity of Albuquerque at the present
time than was ever taken up before in
the history of tho country, Lands that
have been passed over for years as COM
paratively worthless are now being eager
ly picked up, ant land hunting parties
are to be seen on the plains every day for
radius of ten niles around the town.
The scheme to sink for artesian water
caused the squirt.
Tuesday one year ago occurred the great
blizzard in northeastern New Mexico,
southern Colorado southern Kansas, the
Panhandle of Texas and the Neutral Strip.
1t was the worst storm ever known in
the region it passed over. Several men
were frozen to death and others injured
for life. The cold wave passed within
about twenty miles of Springer and was
followed three days later by remarkably
heavy fall OF snow
Two men broke into car at Grants on
Tuesday. They we're caught by train
crew, and sealed in a car. At Wingate
station the trainmen had to do considera-
BILE switching, and during that time the
men broke out of The car and made them.
selves scarce. That night they were
found in box car in the yard here, and
were arrested and held that night, next
morning they were put in the cooler,
handcuffed together, and about noon
they got out drought the roof and made
their escape. They are still at large
Gallup Elk.
A Ration Enterprise About twenty
men are now EN- loyed on the Acme
Fence factory at Catskill pushing it to
completion. The superintendent states
that he hoped the factory would be in
running order in thirty Gays. The weav-
ing room will be 100 feet long by twenty
five feet wide, and the engine room eighty
by sixty feet. Besides, there will be
ten immense steam watts used for
extracting the sap from the logs
after which they will be cut into strips
for use in the fence. The boiler
and engine which are now on the grounds
and which will be used to run the ma
chinery will be sixE-five and sixty-horse
power respectively. The machines for
cutting pickets and vineering were made
especially for the Acme company and
have already been placed in position.
When in full running order the factory
will have a capacity of five miles OF fenc-
ing per day and will give employment to
eighty men or more. Already the COM
pany has received orders for over 200
miles of fencing.