Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-11-05

The lower Pecos country is gathering
in large number of settlers this fall. An
immense amount of work is being done
down the valley in fencing, breaking up
and preparing the land for orchards,
vineyards and agricultural crops.
H. I. Vaille, secretary of the CONNER
cial Club, has received from Prof. Car
rera, at Las Cruces, samples OF the gyp-
sum and soda to be found in Dona Ana
county, along the line of the Las Vegas &
Ell Paso railroad.-Optic.
The fire clay plant of this city, at pres
ent, is giving employment to some forty
odd men. This is one of the solid insti-
tutions of the southwest 1t manufactures
all classes of ware, both from fire clay and
potter's clay. Their force will soon be
largely ncreased.-Socorro Chieftain.
The town lot sale in Clayton averaged
very well, considering the short notice
given. Twenty one lots were sold when
the owners concluded to crafty the pur
chasers by selling at private sale. The
auction sale established price, however,
and no lot was sold for less than $3.50
Enterprise.
Mrs. Judge Lea has chrysanthemums
growing in her garden, which are as tall
as man. She cultivated them herself !;
hence the extraordinary growth. Her
cotton crop, although small in area,
proves beyond any question, that cotton,
if irrigated and cultivated, will yield es
largely here as in the cotton-producing
belt.-Roswell Record.
The Albuquerque police have made
big haul of stolen goods-arresting
California crook named Hhos. d. Moran
and recovering some $4,000 worth of
jewelry and valuable papers. The dia-
monds and jewelry were stolen from Mrs.
E. J. McClernand, wife of Capt. McCler-
nand, of Fort VIM gate, from the Pullman
coach, "Orimo" somewhere between
Barstow and Los Angeles on October 20.
San Juan grand jury note; John S.
DeLuche, being duly sworn, says that he
lives near Jewett, N. NJ, and that during
the month of August, 1891, while tenn
porarily away from home, band of
Navajo Indians came to his house and
into his yard and in threatening man
ner drew Winchester rifle on his wife
and daughter and forced them to retreat
to the house for protection.
The returns received from the two car
loads of rough steers shipped about two
weeks ago by W. II. Jack from this
place to south Omaha were very satisfac-
tory. Mr. Jack stated that he would
have been satisfied if they had not netted
more than 500 head, but they netted
$27.S5 head. Omaha is surely the mar
ket center for our New Mexico cattle
Folsom Metropolitan.
Las Vegans gave the Indiana editors a
big reception Monday, and, among other
things, this is what they told them: Las
Vegas handles over half the wool clip of
the territory, she handles the largest part
of the output of native lumber, she has
tributary to her the cream of the cattle
industry, and she is the metropolis of
almost the entire agricultural part of New
Mexico. The Mora country alone, which |
finds its market here, produces yearly
more than 20,000,000 pounds of grain.
One house, in this city, at the beginning
of the fall, purchased from one man in
the Mora valley 200 900 pounds of oats,
of last years crop, which were shipped
into the Rio Grande valley. One house
here, through single buyer, last season,
purchased As 900 lambs to be fattened for
the eastern market. The La Cueva ranch,
thirty miles north of this city, has 5 900 !
acres under cultivation and can easily add |
6 900 mora. That ranch alone produced
l 100000 pounds of grain last season, in.
cluding 1000 pounds of oats, besides
many thousands of tons of alfalfa hay.