Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-30

Las Vegas has seventeen license saloons
under the new law against forty last
year.
San Juan county is in the swim so for
as building irrigation bitches 60. The
railroads will follow soon.
Roswell needs railroad, and needs it
bad. Our traffic facilities are not ade-
quate to the demands. The Pecos Valley
Railroad company should bear this in
mind. At present our mail facilities are
not satisfactory, and the manner of get
ting here by stage is not sufficient to &C.
commodate the travelling public. All
that we need to make the county of Cha
yes the brightest and most prosperous in
the entire territory is better shipping and
travelling accommodations.-Record.
Albuquerque Citizen Eduardo Chav-
es is proving to be one Of the best wool
buyers in the southwest, and he is now
in Valencia county buying wool for Else
mann Bros. To date he has purchased
about $50, 200 pounds Of WOOL about 3d.
600 having arrived yesterday from the
Aragon brothers and II 900 pounds this
morning from Bernard Sedillo. This
wool has heretofore been purchased by
John Becker. of Belen, but Mr.. Chaves
has turned the trade in the direction of
this city. This enterprising firm also Be-
cured the immense spring clip of Soloman
Luna, amounting to $4,000 pounds, and
this purchase is now en- route in nine cars
to the firms st. Louis house.
The mineral resources of New Mexico
have never yet been properly appreciated
by her people. There are many who
have lived for years within the territory
who have no idea of the untold wealth
which lies hidden in our mountains.
The gold fields of southern New Mexico
are just now coming into notice. The
coal, iron and copper mines have never
received the attention they deserve, for
the reason that there has not been any
demand for the products; but now, that
the mountains are to be penetrated by
railroads, the demand for these minerals
will at once take leap, and we can ex-
pect to see the material wealth of New
Mexico increased three-fold in the next
five years.
The Albuquerque Citizen notes the re-
cent rainy season as something very I'M
usual for May, as for ten years past it has
been rainless month, in New Mexico.
Hon. f. A. Manzanares, however, in
forms the Citizen that it is only for the
past years that May has been so dry. He
said he remembered distictinctly that
when he was boy there were usually
seasonable rains during the month of
May, and large portions Of the high table
lands, which have been for some years
past utterly destitute of vegetation, were
then reckoned as among the best grazing
lands in the country. 1t is fact that the
entire spring has been an unusually rainy
one all over the Rocky mountain country.
but whether this indicates any change in
climatic condition yet remains to be dem
onstrated.
Silver City Sentinel: Daniel Raft ct al.
vs.. Illinois Mining company. This is the
great apex case from Kingston, Sierra
county, which has proven of more than
usual interest to the mining fraternity of
this section. The question at Issue is,
whether or not claim located in lime
formation had any right to follow ores ex-
tending beyond the side lines, as also the
existence of contact veins in the Kingston
district, and, if they do, if such vein ex-
lists in the Illinois mine. A jury was i'm
paneled Thursday evening the 14th in
slant, and the case proceeded to trial next
morning. The case was given to the jury
last Thursday, who after remaining out all
night were discharged as they could not
agree.