Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-01

NJ. W. Mills, of the Colfax county or
Chards quotes prices as follows. ship.
ments Of fruits to be made from Springer
Nectarlnes, 50 ceEts; peaches, so cents
pluns, IS cents; apples, So cents German
prunes, 65 cents; grapes, 40 cents pears,
CD cents; tomatoes, so cents; basketa,
| IS 30 per 100.
Il believe that thare are those now
living who will see % 600, 900 of people in
New Mexico. 1t will be an imperial state,
and has, beyond question, glorious fu.
ture. There is not in the Union more
energetic, progressive, liberal class OF
people than the inhabitants Of New Mex
leo. "A Traveller
Silver City note: Levin W. Barringer,
OF Philadelphia, who is interested in tho
iron mines at Hanover, will be here this
week, and will go to Lss Cruces to attend
| the Injunction case of the Atchison, TO
peka x Santa Fe Railroad company
against the Silver City & Northern, to
restrain that road from charging local
| rates on ores.
Mr.. Gambill informs the Index that
the water in the Locke well at Farming
ton raised to within ten feet of the sur
face, instead of forty, as reported last
week. AT q depth of 200 feet (the limit
Of the contracO the drill stopped in a
clay stratum, to pierce which, Mr.. Gam.
bill is confident, wonld give a strong
artesian flow.
San Juan waii: Mr.. d. d. Dawson, of
Center Point, who is taking his ripe
tomatoes TO the Durango market, SAYS he
never knew prices better. His first load
last week brought ID cents a pound, and
the second ~ cents, Tuesday he went
up with the third load. Mr.. d. will have
between two and three tons of tomatoes
to market this season.
Wm. Mcintosh, of Chilli, has herders
driving overland 1000 head OF sheep to
Las Vegas, and he will meet them there
on the lst of September. II no buyers
are found in Las Vegas, the sheep will be
driven further north with the expectation
Of finding purchasers at Trinidad or at
some other point in Colorado on the Santa
Fe road He states that the Sandia
ranges are greatly in need of water, but
saws the sheep are in fine condition.
Albuquerque Citizen: The gentlemen
OF the committee in charge of the artesian
we'll matter have secured a sufficient
amount in subscriptions to guarantee the
payment of the sum for which Mr. Bush
proposes to have well to the depth Of
600'feet, and have written to that gentle.
man that they are ready to enter into
contract with him. 1t will be necessary
to raise a few hundred dollars more to
purchase piping for the well-as the
character OF the earth at this point makes
it necessary to pipe the entire distance.
The New Mexico agricultural college and
U. 5. experiment station at Las Cruces will
exhibit at the territorial fair 450 varieties
OF wheat, in the sheaf and grain, seventy
of oats, forty-two of barley, twenty-seven
OF rye; also sixty or more grasses and for
age plants, and many textile and economic
plants. Prof. Blount, uperintendent,
writes the tair management as follows
The display will be no ordinary show;
end will be the finest of its kind and most
extensive ever seen grain of every kind, !
from every country in the world, raised
on the college farm this year, at Las
Cruces, will be shown in the finest Colors
and most attractive arrangement.
AT Cane Springs. Grant county, W. w |
Cox shot and killed Mexican sheep.
herder few days since in dispute over
work the Mexican was hired to do. The
Sentinel says: Immediately after the
killing, they sent for W. M. Taylor, who
is a deputy sheriff, and an inquest was
held on the body of the Mexican by the
Justice of the peace of the precinct. The
jury returned verdict of justifiable
homicide. The deceased was fugitive
from Justice, having killed two men in
Mexico, and the Mexcans in the neigh.
borhood who were afraid of him are very
much relieved by the killing"