Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-28
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

Horse thieves are numerous in Rio Ar
riba county.
Mountain quail are damaging the corn
crop Oh the Berenda, Sierra county.
There are $50 pupils attending Deming Is
public schools and 400 at Albuquerque.
Examinations OF school teachers in Rio
Arriba county takes place at TERRA ANA
rilla October 5.
Friday and Saturday the floods covered
the A, T. & S. f. track near Algodones
for severel hundred yards.
Albuquerque, or rather Bernalilo eoun-
tY, will vote bonds on Wednesday for the
erection of two bridges across the Rio
Grande.
Before this time next year, Raton will
have the finest system of water works in
operation to be found in the western coun-
try.-Range.
Colfax county is ahead on cereals. The
wheat and oats raised under the Vermeio
ditch system took first premium at the
territorial fair last Range. H..
Hon. T. D. Burns spent the week at
his Home ranch near Abiquiu, at which
place he is building an immense ,irrigat-
ing dam over the eChama.-Chama North
west.
Mr.. R. V. Martlnson, Of New York,
president of the Maxwell Land Grant
company, has purchased sland ia Catskill
and wilr erect there a handsome summer
residence.
Baron Won Zuyen has moved his stamp
mill from Ute Creek gulch to Black Horse
guich, Colfax county. The mill has been
enlarged and improved and is running to
its full capacity.
The 800 steers sent to Kansas City last
week by M. ). Otero, of Bernalillo, N. NJ.
sold as follows: 227, averaging 773,
brought $1.621a, and 1876, averaging 571
pounds, sold at $l.40.
Messrs. G. W. Peacock, G. R. Coates
and w. j. Harper, of Tiptonville, Tenn,
who have been spending month in the
Mesilla country, have purchased property
and left to bring their families to New
Mexico.
Chama note: The following sheep
buyers are in town: John Ballard, Lead
vile; G. G.. Hampton, Aztec; W. E.
Doyle, Pueblo; j. L. Hurt, La Garita;
Doc. O'Conel, Animas City, Colorado;
and Marlano Perea, Bernallllo, N. M.
F. b. Dunlap returned from Denver
last night. lie has opened market for
Rio Grande fruits in that market. He
says the people Of this valley are stand
ing in their own light by not cultivating
improved grated acknowledgements
Citizen.
One OF tl.o s.~--I -----it- e IL. to-~itnr-
ial fair at Albuquerque has been that
there is a general awakening among the
people of New Mexico to realization of
the great resources and possibilities ofthe
territory and the necessity of more trans
portation facilities for the development OF
the same.-Stock Grower.
j. L. Vaughn, of the Mimbres valley,
north Of Demlng, brought in load of
peaches the other day which will rival
the products of any section, east or west.
They are of the Heath cling variety, large,
luscious and beautiful-they show what
can be done on these sandy plains, with
intelligent cultivation.-Headlight.
The new jury law has nearly ruined
portion of our community and some of
our best trained jurors are forced to 60 to
work. Jurors who sat proudly in the box
and stoically refused to find verdict
until the bailiff furnished them supper,
and gave their verdict in four minutes
after, are now gathering mesquite beans
for winter cons umption. No wonder they
exclaim that the ways of providence are
inscrutab ble.-Las Cruces Republican.
W. L. Ross, of Las Vegas, has located
at White Oaks. Last week, in considers
ton of ,131 he purchased all the per-
sonal property belonging to the Jicarilla
Mining & Water company, embracing
we'll boring machinery, boiler, engines,
buildings, etc. He also gobbled up six
teen placer claims. The next day he
bought 750 feet OF the Miners Retreat
placer claim, for which he paid $4,000.
Prof. Buddington, the author Of some
scientific works on planetary evolution,
who has been sent by the Kansas City
Journal to get some more definite ideas
relative to the Rocky mountain country
and it's resources, has been spending the
past five weeks over in the Bonito
country, studying the geological structure
and mineral resources of that portion of
Lincoln county. He reports that the
western side of the White mountain range
is evidently of very ancient formation
and abounding in porphyritic veins, car
rylng gold, silver and lead in considerable
quantities. He says this section is the
nearest in nature to the famous silver
bearing fissure veins of Georgetown,
Colo, and as far as external indications
testify should rival that country.