Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-10

IIuuy 4A'5"S'
Albuquerque is organizing base ball
club.
]. J. Fitzgerrell has contract to build
forty miles of the Mexico road south from
Deming.
Even broken leg doesn't prevent the
editor of the Springer Stockman from
trying to be very cute.
Harry Whigham appears to be the
choice OF large number of our citizens
for Raton's first mayor.-Raton Re
porter.
G. G. Hall, of Albuquerque, is doing
good work in bis endeavors to get up a
military competitive drill between COM
panies of New Mexico and Arizona at the
next territorial fair.
A committee from the Gentlemen's
Driving association, al Albuquerque, is
out endeavorng to raise sum of $1,000
to induce first-class horses, trotters and
runners, from outside cities, to be there
at the coming spring races.
The Pacific Mining company, az Pinos
Altos, has taken out an injunction against
the Pacific No. 2 company, enjoining the
latter from taking out ore in certain To-
calities in the ground in dispute between
the two companies.
The Valencia county section OF the RiC
Grande valley is looking finely, plenty Of
grass already up, and the wheat three
inches high. Farmers are about through
their blowing, and larger acreage thar
heretofore will be put under cultivation
Roswell Record: A petition is being
circulated, and extensively signed, asking
for the incorporation of the town, and will
be presented to the board of county com
missioners, at their regular session, OF
Monday next. Already the number o
signers exceed 100.
The Springer Cement company is AGAR
in operation. Mr.. Brown has force o
twenty-five men at present and intends
to add a large number soon. Since thu
first of April ne has turned out 800 bar
rels, one order alone calls for seventy Ca
loads.-Stockman.
With the steady increasing output o
New Mexican mines, the development o
the mining properties and mining dis
tricts surrounding Silver City, and thu
new strikes being made in the are'
tributary to this town, the need for
large smelling plant at this point be
comes more and more apparent.-Sen
tinel.
The Pecos Valley railroad folks vii
soon begin preliminary surveys for th
projection of their road, one of which wi
9 be up the Hondo from Roswell to Whit
, Oaks and thence to San Pedro, which tn
same is in south Santa Fe county. The
want the Cerrillos coal and must have
since it is fact that at Eddy fire wood
, sold by the pound!
Y Leopold Wallach, a prominent Ne,
9 York lawyer, and party of three Englis
+ capitalists, looking for Investments, cam
{ in from the south in special car. The
were met at the depot by M. Brunswic
-. and Max. Nordhaus.-Optic. Been dow,
, to look over Wilson Waddingham's irrigs
{ ton enterprise at San Marcial.
Bishop W. Derby Johnson, jr., geners
2 manager of the North Mexican Pacifi
railway and j. Fewson Smith, chief {
: construction, tell the Ell Paso Bullion this
: a large force of men and teams are busil
engaged in preparing the road bed sout
t of Palomas, and in short time the rail
5 will be laid from Ieming to consider
Y able distance into Mexico.
Jonas Nelson has again astonishe
mining circles at Socorro with hi
latest bonanza, the "Young America,
|, which he has just bonded. At three fee
j below the surface he found the body G
}; ore, and up to date has explored it thirt
i feet in one direction aud twenty-eigh
feet in another, and has yet to find tn
end. 1t assays 80 per cent lead an
about eighteen ounces silver to the ton.
The question of the storage OF waite
: should be one that should earnestly en-
t gage the attention of the people of Me-
d Mexico. A system of storage proper
i carried into effect would materially il
" crease the rainfall of this country b
y creating greater humidity in the atmos
y phere. Instead of flowing out of til
: country the water should be kept her
i and allowed to pass into the air by evaI
v Grafton, the good effects of which woul
II soon be seen.--Lincoln Banner.
&c Among the needs of the Pecos valley
, one or two frst-class nurseries. There
now, and will be, during the next tie
years, greater demand for trees of a
kinds in the Pecos valley than any otht
section in the southwest. Agents, frol
elsewhere, are reaping rich harvest
v, this valley selling stock from nurseries
' a distance. Trees, not acclimated, an
:, too old for safe shipping, are readily pu
q chased by our farmers and fruit grower
.s for the reason that they can do no bett'
at present.-Roswell Record.