Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-03-11
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.
Plant fruit trees now.
Arbor day on Friday.

Arbor day On Friday.
Enlarge the irrigation bitches.
City incorporation is the topic of the
times about town.
The merchant who does not advertise,
is none too desirable business man.
Workmen are engaged in placing the
boiler and other machinery for the cleo
trio light plant.
The executive committee Of fifteen on
city incorporation is in session this after
noon at the Office of B. NJ. Read.
For the usually clustering month of
March, the weather is very calm, no
winds OF consequence having yet come to
hand.
Tickets to G. A. R. encampment to be
held at Deming will be sold on March %
in addition to the dates previously mem
toned.
Hail Gentle Annie ETHEREAL mildness
come s-running; fresh vegetables and the
twitter of blue birds-all hail the coming
of spring!
The annual meeting for the election Of
officers of the Building & Loan associa-
ton takes place at 7:30 this evening at
the court house.
The Cerrillos and San Pedro mail
stages now connect with all trains at Ger.
rlllos. A new Concord stage has been
purchased and will soon be put on the
line with four horses.
A letter from Mr.. R. N. Piper states
that he will shortly arrive here with his
family and take up his permanent resi-
dence here, engaging in the real estate
and abstract business.
The 1.-TWO Sisters" one Of the strong
est dramatic organizations on the road,
eighteen people composing the company,
will appear at Gray's tonight. 1t is
everywhere highly spoken of by the
press.
Tomorrow the Weekly New MEXICAN
REVIEW appears. This paper is first
class weekly in every respect, and just
the paper to send east to friends. Call at
the Office of the New MEXICAN, buy copy
and send it east.
The A., T. & S. F. city ticket Office will
be abolished on Saturday next and the
tickets removed to the depot Office. To
serve the wants of the city patronage,
Manager Smith will have desk room in
J John Morton's commission house on the
plaza, with telegraph wire connecting
with the depot office.
Now that there is no longer call upon
the business men for contributions to-
ward the plaza concerts, it is suggested
that it would be advisable to raise fund
toward the lighting of the public streets,
especially those about and adjacent to the
plaza. Doubtless very liberal arrange.
ment could be made either with the Gas
or the Electric Light companies to this
end.
From the way in which things are
shaping themselves just at present, it
now seems probable that the woeful waste
of water that has been going on down the
Rio Santa Fe for weeks past will not be
permitted long. Storage reservoirs in the
foothills will solve the problem, bring
thousands Of acres OF fruit land under
cultivation, and make the promoters of
the enterprise pile of money.
John Howard, who writes from Chica-
20, and says he used to live in New Mex
leo, sends word that he learns Of syn
dictate being formed in the city by the
lake, backed by Kansas parties, which
proposes to take all military contracts for
forage, commissary supplies, etc., in Ari-
IONA and New Mexico. He says the syn
dictate will try and freeze out, by bidding
low, all local contractors, and after that
make the government pay them big
price. This information is published for
what it is worth.
A. j. Griswold, former Wells-Fargo
agent here, is in the city from La Junta,