Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-27

At the present rate the roller process
mill at Pennington will grind $4,000
pounds of wheat in the month of May
Index.
The recent high water in the Pecos par
TALLY swept away the dam of Messrs.
Garrard, Lewis 4 Haynes, forty miles
above Roswell. 1t will be rebuilt.
The assessor of Chaves county informs
the Record that so far the rolls for 1891
had footed up 81 ,221 900, and that the
final total would no doubt reach the sum
of one million and quarter.
During the past week large quantities
of wool have been brought to this place
and stored in the Pratt Bros. warehouse,
where it may be inspected by buyers on
next Thursday, the 2Sth, the first "wool"
day in Eddy.-Argus.
Page Otero writes to the Black Range
"The Indians that are troubling you are a
part of the tribe of Apaches who live in
the White mountains not forty miles from
Engle, and they are band of about if
teen or twenty who have never left the
White mountains and no one will ever be
able to get them out of their stronghold"
San Juan county note: People under
i the Model ditch, south of the San Juan
are &reathed with smiles at the success OF
their undertaking. 1t is indeed "model,'
everything about it being first-class in all
particulars. 1t is nine miles long, crosses
three arroyas on substantial, well built
fumes, and carries more than 1000 inches
of water, miners measurement.
| Conductor Crittenden and Engineer
Cole have been dismissed from the Ate hi
son company for carelessness which re.
suited in the freight wreck at the Purga.
toire bridge, Immediately this side of Trim
idad. Sixteen cars were dtched and 235
cattle killed in the accident. The cattle
were shipped by Mr.. Wilson for Black
Hurst, Kehnie & Wiley, of Socorro
county.
A hail storm did great damage at Silver
City last week. Some of the larger build
ings have as many as forty panes of glass
shattered. D. G. Hobart's beautiful resi-
dence suffered most. The thick glass in
railroad coaches was broken. The school
house lost thirty-two glasses. The storm
continued for six minutes. The numer-
GUS fine shade trees adjoining the city had
millions of leaves stripped off.
For small fruits the county Of Chaves
can not be surpassed anywhere. The
growth is rapid and hardy, and their
yield is surprising. In one garden in the
town of Roswell, gooseberries two years
old are in full bearing, and strawberries
planted last year are loaded with the
finest fruit We ever saw. We measured
one berry in the garden, and found it to
be four and half inches in circumfer-
nce.-Roswell Record.
Sugar cane, the best fodder in the world,
is now selling for $40 per ton in Eddy
that is, when you can get it, but there is
very little to be had. Yet land in the
lower Pecos valley produces two crops a
year, averaging from four to five tons per
acre, making from eight to ten tons sea-
son. 1t has never sold for less than $12
per ton, the average being $17. This
brings the gross return of land sowed in
cane to the handsome figure of $40 per
acre. Not bad ground to own.-Eddy
Argus.
William J. Halves, property agent OF
Inc raKlr company, winch snow re-
Gently faxed our citizens out of good
sized purse by one of their snide enter
tainments, was found dead in fish pond
near Tucson the other day. A 32-calibre
revolver was found lying near his cloth
ing on the bank, every chamber loaded
The general opinion at Tucson is that he
was fishing, had muddied his clothes and
taken them off, and then went into the
pond and was drowned. A diamond
ring, diamond pin, silver watch and
chain, railroad ticket to any point on
the Southern Pacific and a purse contain
ing $2.75 and various papers were
found in his Observation-Disclosures Citi-
zen.