Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-02-06
TERRITORIAL.

chairman and w. {. Porterfield sec
rotary.
The United States court met at
Las Cruces, and nothing but U. S.
court business will be done on &C.
count of lack of funds.
The post-tradership at Fort Bay
ard is to be discontinued All the
business heretofore transacted by the
post-trader will be attended to by the
government officers.
ID. p. Carr will commence the pub
LEGATION of weekly mining journal
in Silver City some time this month.
The new paper will be issued from
the Masonic building opposite the
Thinner house.
Plans for an opera house and new
club rooms are being earnestly dis
cussed by the members of the Santa
Fe Athletic club and number of
wealthy citizens. The enterprise
bears every aspect of success.
Mr.. Moore, of the big New York
firm of Moore & Schley, is en- route
to Santa Fe to look into the affairs
Of the Santa Fe Southern. lie is in
Denver today aud will arrive here in
special car on Saturday.
IL. Detwiler, of FL Paso, has been
engaged for the past two months in
the field between Ell Paso and White
Oaks, along the line of the Denver
IL Ell Paso short line, investigating
resources and looking up practical
route for reaching same by rail-
The Las Vegas Optic, in recent
issue, comes to the rescue of some
slanderers who take every opportun-
ity to SANDER this city and It's people
and institutions, and lie about them.
However, there was nothing else to
be expected from the Optic. Nature
IS nature and will out.-New Mex
lean.
A. J. Cory, the compiler and pub
Usher of New Mexico Gazetteer and
Business Directory, says the work
S completed, and the books are on
he way from Topeka. Every sub
icriber will get the book as per con-
ract, and no one will be defrauded
If cent. Mr.. Cory was delayed in
he publication by the loss of copy
n the mails. The work will be
and the directory great
lelp to the business men of this city
md territory.-CitIzen.
Matt Calhoun, of Watrous New
Mexico, who is here to introduce the
Copeland system of concentration of
res, called at the Citizen office this
fternoon in company with that old
itizen, DR.. Strachan. Mr.. Calhoun
las visited a number of the camps of
colorado and the northwestern states
nd territories where the system is in
se, and found excellent satisfaction
nd returns. Mr.. Calhoun is on his
way to the mining camps of Arizona
o introduce the system. The meet
ng of the Commercial club this
vening is to consider propositions
or the erection of plant here.
his IS an opportunity that Albu-
uerque should not overlook. -Citi-
en-.
Yesterday afternoon a man, de-
cribed as being above the ordinary
a height and sparsely built, entered
he residence of Capt. w. w. Sleight, 1
4 the Highlands, and helped him :
Elf to everything he could comfort 4
bly, carry away. He took 100 shares \
{ stock in the Anchor Gold mining
omPany, of Boulder county, Colo,
orth $40 a share, and notes and .
,counts amounting to between $500
nd 5000; a gold watch case and !
old chain, three Wade & Butchers =
zors, and a lot of underclothing. =
he captain was at work at the At '
ntic d Pacific shops, and knew
'thing of his loss until he returned
ON his work IN the evening.
The growth of business on the
81 Norte branch of the Rio Grande,
ginn 10 tho rnnh nf rnnnIn a. \ 81