Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-09

John A. Miller is commencing to make
q valuable fruit farm out OF his place be-
low Central City. He is at present en-
gagged in setting out 5000 choice straw
berry plants, 500 fine varieties of apple
trees, 800 peach trees and 500 pear trees.
Senator Dorsey, Col. Love, DR.. North
and John Hill, manager OF the Key
stone Cattle company, are holding:
conference at Springer, the object being
to compromise suit for 500, 900 recent
ly instituted by Mr.. Dorsey against DR..
North.
Ploughs were put to work on the Silver
City & Northern r. r. on Sunday and on
Monday morning mile OF ploughed
ground was ready to be graded. Forty
teams started to work on the grade Tues
day morning, and construction is now be-
ing pushed ahead rapidly.
1t is estimated by Las Cruces parties in
town at present that DR.. Wood, OF that
place, will lose not less than 1000 by
the failure of his peach crop, this season,
the trees having been nipped by untimely
frost.-Optic.
News has been telegraphed from Las
Cruces of the killing of Jack Light, at
Seven Rivers, Saturday night, by Leslie
Dow. Both were prominent cattlemen in
that vicinity, and well known. There
has been trouble between the two outfits
for some time, and the killing is proba-
bly, the outcome.
Springer prospects: "What with the
cement works running in full blast, the
extensive oper atoms of the Maxwell COM
pany near town, the influx of settlers
under the ditch and the putting up of
some big machinery at the mines west of
here, Springer will have one of the best
seasons it has had for several years.
Every branch Of business is improving
General Manager A. A. Robinson and
General Superintendent H. R. Nicker-
son went east yesterday. They had with
them the tie into which was driven the
golden spike on the completion of the
connection between the Santa Fe and the
A. & P. 1t is to be taken to Topeka to
be preserved.
P. Millhiser is anxious to secure con-
ference of all the claimants to the Las
Vegas grant, so that all the property in the
city and certain property outside OF the
city, may alike be exempted from the eff
fects of the new pending suit.-Las We
gas Optic.
Several soldiers at Fort Stanton are
preparing to explore the cave two miles
east of the post On more extensive
scale than has ever been given that sub
terranean cavern. One of the soldiers
stationed there accompanied a French
expedition to Africa, and had consider
able experience in underground explora-
tons.
Jos. Merk, resident of Deming, is
about to move to Silver City and 60 into
gardening business. He proposes to put
up large green houses and Conservatives
within the next two or three weeks, and
will bring out one or two families of prac-
tical gardeners from the East to work for
him. City Sentinel.
The following extract from the Pueblo
Ore and Metal Review shows the increas-
ing estimation in which the New Mexico
mineral output is being held: "The Pue-
bio ore market is quiet, but with little do
ing owing to the snow blockade. The
stream of New Mexico ore is increasing
steadily, and is already greater than all
Colorado manages to get to this market.
The indications for heavy shipments from
the south brighten every day."
Bell & Stephens have large pile OF
beautiful ore on the dump, enough tc
keep the mill running for long time.
They are still pushing development in
the mine. As previously announced in
this paper, it is the intention of this firm
to have a gold brick of one ton weight on
exhibition at the Columbian exhibition,
and if the present ratio of output is kept
up, they can secure their brick in a few
months. They have shipped about 25O
pounds of gold in bars this month, to say
nothing Of the output in concentrates
Silver City Enterprise.
&c. Mallano, of Maxwell city, Colfax
county, tells the Hutchinson, Kas., News
this: "The country is fast settling UP,
and irrigation is easy along the Vermejo,
the Rayado and Ocate, east of Wagon
Mound, and good crops are raised of blue
flint corn and frijoles, while alfalfa grows
almost wild, and on the mesas gramma
grass affords good grazing for hundreds
of head Of cattle and sheep. The Moreno
and Ration mountains on the grant
are full Of rich deposits OF silver, and
there is not creek in these ranges
where good placer mining is not profit
ably pursued. New Mexico will be the
next state, and it is now better equipped
for statehood than any of the recently
admitted northwest territories.