Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-04
TerritorlaI Items.

Leeson saFB that sweet potatoes
are a failure in Socorro, as they
grow too large for market use. It
is hard to please mankind.
At Hillsborough the board of
education enumerates over $50
children of school age, and over
$50 voters have paid their poll
tax.
Experiments have been made at
Socorro lately in drying the blue
plum or prunel, which has demon
strated the fact that it is a success
and is very profitable.
The exhibit of bugs from the
agricultural college, by Professor
G. H. Tyler Townsend, at the fair,
was well worth attention, and en-
braced 352 different specimens, all
from New Mexico.
A. P. Rusk has succeeded J. J..
Strong in the management of the
Depot HJtel at Deming, while
Frank Culver is once more in the
traces as cashier.
The county commissioners of
Dona Ana County had a short
special session last week at which
the all important business was the
removal of Marcial Valdez from
the position of county printer.
Mrs. Julia Rhodes, wife of Col.
Hinman Rhodes, late U. s. Indian
agent at Mescalero, was injured in
the recent railroad collision In
Ohio. Mrs. Rhodes was en- route
to Washington.
W. s. Prayer, of Roswell, has
been nominated on the republican
ticket as candidate for the legisla-
tive council from the counties of
Lincoln, Chaves, Eddy, Dona
Ara and Grant, vice Hawkins de-
clined.
Richard P. Hart came down to
Demlng from Lordsburg last week,
suffering from a dislocated shoul-
der, the effect of a runaway acci-
dent the evening previous. DIR.
Bullock reduced the fracture and
Mr.. Hart is getting along nicely.
Sam Lee, the proprietor Of the
laundry on Main street, in Las
Cruises, surprised a number of the
boys the other evening by eating
80 eggs, 2 bowls of rice, half
pound of onions, and some fish,
and drinking a half pint of whis-
key in forty minutes. Sam says
he is willing to repeat the dose
any day if any one will furnish
the necessaries.
Professor Blouut. of the agri-
cultural college, showed at the
fair, 480 varieties of wheat, both
threshed and in the head, seventy
varieties Of oats, forty-two of bar
ley, twenty-seven of rye, twenty OF
native grasses, twenty forage
plants, twenty economic plants
and six textile plants. These were
all grown at the college and were
beautiful specimens.
1t has been decided by the Pc
cos Valley railway company to
build another hundred miles oi
road soon. This will bring it tc
Roswell and by that time it viii
be determined whether to builC
through Lincoln County to Albu
querque or via. Ft. Sumner tC
Bernal, point sixteen miles south
of Las Vegas, ON the main line o.
the Santa Fe.
The Old Abe company, at White
Oaks, have been driving for a SUI
6cient supply of water to answer
all purposes for a large mill anC
increased mining facilities. Theil
efforts have been amply reward
ed. A shaft was sunk ninety fee.
and drilling with a six inch drill
was continued for an additional 10C
feet Steam pumps were ther
placed with a three and one-hal
inch pipe reaching the bottom o
the we'll, ard for several days thl
pump has been working incessant
lily on the well, with the result de
termining that the flow Of water
which increases as the standing
body Of water is gradually lower
ed, amounts to about 1900 barrel
per day. This is the deepest vel
ever sunk at White Oaks and dem
onstrates fully that the opinion
OF the company and the communt
ty in general that an immense M