Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-07-22

I DR.. G.. G. CruiCkshank will sink a well
and erect wind mill at Red Canon, neal
San Marcial.
White Oaks echo; Rain continues to
fall frequently in this vicinity. Grass is
growing finely and the stock can be heard
to laugh.
/ Miss Helen A. Carter, Of Norwalk,
Ohio, has been engaged to take charge OF
the commercial department of Las Vegas
academy.
Army officers are appraising the build
ings, stock etc., OF the post trader at Fort
Stanton, preparatory to transferring it to
the Canteen,
B. II. Dye, OF White Oaks, has made
an elaborate report to the statistical de-
partment of the government on Lincoln
county's building stone.
The recent assessment OF property in
Lincoln, Chaves and Eddy counties is as
follows: Lincoln, $l,712,l5 Chaves,
81 ,2S5, l57; Eddy, $1,055,444. The total
is 1852, 755. Lincoln has 1926, 997 more
than Chaves county, and $656,7l0 more
than Eddy county
A joint stock company, formed at Far
mington, has built and completed build
ing for grist mill, which is situated about
half mile from the above named place.
The building is 32x32 and two stories
high. The flume is completed and water
is running in the same.
Some time ago Jaffa, Prayer < Co., the
Roswell merchants, offered 500 worth Of
prizes to children between the ages of 8
and - for the best written letters. Nellie
Howe, daughter of G. M. Howe, won the
prize for the best letter by 10-year-old
girl.-Las Vegas Democrat.
S. M. Folsom, president OF the Albu-
querque National bank; W. p. Metcalf,
manager of the Antelope Springs cattle
ranch 4. A. Cahoon and R. H. Fry, for
mer clerks in the Albuquerque National,
have gone to Roswell, the latter to have
charge OF the new bank there.
Austin +. Smith, of Pennington, N. NJ,
is in the city on business. He reports the
fruit crop along the San Juan and lower
Animas as generally good, at some places
it is immense. He says that VIM. Lock s
peach crop is estimated at between 400
and 500 bushels. Durango Herald.
At Hillsborough the sale of the Mamie
Richmond for 500, 900 was completed on
the 14th instant by Thomas S. O'Neil to
Chicago parties. There is to be $780,
900 capital furnished, good, substantial
mill built at the most convenient place to
treat the ores from this valuable mine.
Alfalfa raising is becoming the chief in
dustry on the ella. Five crops are an
nually cut, and the fields afford some gra-
zing besides. All domestic animals, but
the dog and the cat, flourish on alfalfa.
Chickens, sheep. pigs, goats, cattle, bur
ros and horses, all 60 for the alfalfa stack
like the long suffering Kansan for the
original package house.
What great country we will have
within the next two years. Just think Of
our vast resources now, and add 100000
acres of fine tillable land to them that
will be thoroughly reclaimed by the reser-
voir, and then of the Pecos valley road
that will give us direct communication
with the deep water harbors along the
coast of Texas and the manufactures Of
the east.-Eddy Argus.
Twenty-Five bushels of corn and two
acres Of alfalfa will raise and fatten three
hogs, worth from $25 to $50, while the
twenty-five bushels of corn and three
acres of alfalfa will fatten ten sheep that
will be worth $40 quite handily in the
market. Now the wool Of the sheep will
be worth $15, which will make the sheep
feeding just double as profitable as the
hog feeding.--Independent, Lincoln.
At Judge T. ]. Clark s the hail cut the
corn leaves into shreds and played havoc
generally with the garden. AS an Offset
to the loss, however, an immense crop of
fish was gathered, they having been driven
out Of the river into the bitches and thence
into the fields where they were found
floundering. Some were over two feet in
lenght and all in the vicinity supplied
themselves with plenty to eat and to salt
down.-Silver City Sentinel.
Mr.. Joseph Walker, q millwright and
engineer in the employ Of Thompson &
GALES, passed through an experience in
that firms ore mill last Wednesday from
which few men could have escaped alive.
On the day mentioned DR.. Walker was
engaged in making some repairs upon the
mill machinery, and had just about com.
pleted the task, when one Of his legs was
caught by the belt and pulled into the
pully Mr.. Walker at once realized the
danger Of his situation, and with great
presence Of mind wrapped himself, as
best he could, around the shaft and held
on until the engine was stopped and he
was released from his perilous condition.
When the engine was stopped no fewer
than four belts were wrapped around the
imprisoned leg, and his other limbs were
turned and twisted in various directions.