Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-14

only ran Ill ounces silver and 70 per
cent lead.
f. T. Sutherland, travelling for Frazier
4 Chalmers, Chicago, manufacturers of
mining machinery, has visited White
Oaks, San Pedro and other camps in the
territory Of late.
Silver City note: A subscription paper
has been circulated about town, and is
being very generally signed, with the OBJ
ject of raising fund to pay for three con-
certs week by the band.
1t is announced that John w. Young
has placed the bonds in London and
raised ample funds for the building of
| Deming's new road south aCrosq Mexico.
All debts of the company have seen paid
off at Deming lately.
Las Vegas logic: The amount OF rain
this year has made the quantity OF atmos-
pheric moisture much greater than usual.
From the increased moisture comes in
creased heat. However, it will soon be
over, and the increased heat can be borne
in view of the increased agricultural bene-
| fits.
Owing to the death of Geo. X. Ander-
son, register of the Folsom land office
district, the office will transact no bust
ness except to take the final proofs al
ready advertised and such other business
as can he done in the absence of the
register.
! CLAYTON Tote: Jesse Tanner returned
last Sunday with twelve dogs for himself
and the same number for the Matador
Cattle company of Texas. Mr.. Tanner,
so far, has killed ninety-one gray wolves,
one mountain lion, five bob cats and six
coyotes. He has been hunting only
about three months.
Hugh McSparron, of Gallup, who has
gained some reputation as prize fighter,
has challenged Freddy" WEIGH, the win
ner of last Saturday nights contest at Al
buquerque for fight, Marquis of Queens
bury rules, on some day yet to be an
nounced. WEIGH has accepted the chal-
lenge, and made deposit of $25 as a
guarantee that he will fight.
The preparations that our people have
already made for the entertainment to be
rendered to Mr.. D. B. Robinson Friday
evening show that this will be by far the
grandest social affair that Albuquerque
ever witnessed, and under the circum-
stances this will be compliment to Mr..
and Mrs. Robinson which they will doubt
less appreciate. 1t will be an unselfish
and unbiased expression of the esteem in
which they are held by tie people of AL
buquerque.-C Citizen.
A miners, convention is being agitated
for the purpose of memoralizing congress
in behalf of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and to impress upon the
same body the injustice that is being done
to the Arizona and New Mexico miner by
the alien act that prohibits the investment
of foreign capital in the territories, while
it encourages it in the states. Ell Paso is
mentioned as the most central point 70
convoke this assemblage of miners.-El
Paso Bullion.
Albuquerque will soon issue call for a
convention to be held in that city to be
composed of delegates from all towns in
terested in the extension of the Rio
Grande road from Espanola, and also to
interest Denver INA scheme to construct
a new gulf line by way of Albuquerque,
that is by widening the gauge of the Es-
pamela branch and extending it over to
Galveston. The arguments advanced by
the Citizen in this regard are worthy Of
considerations News.
A few days ago it was announced that
Fred Harvey had been granted an iDjunc-
ton to restrain the Santa Fe people from
operating dining cars on its line, as he
claimed to have contract to keep dining
stations which the company was disre-
garding, The injunction has, however,
been dissolved, it is claimed, and the new
dining cars which the company have re-
Gently constructed for the travel between
Chicago and Denver have been putinto the
service. Eight new dining cars have been
built and the next move will see through
dining car service through to the Pacific
coast.