Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-08-29

Ed Allen, while at work on the Gypsy
last Monday, fell abort fifty-fve feet,
breaking both legs. His right leg is
broke in two places. The accident oc-
Cured while he WAS getting into the
bucket, his foot slipping. Mr.. Allen is
in the care of DR.. G. i. Edmundson. -
Kingston Shaft.
The preliminary Steps were taken last
Tuesday evening, by the election OF Off
GERS, toward the organization Of q Ma
sonic lodge at this place. The applica-
ton of twenty-three old Masons have al
ready been received for membership in
the new lodge and manv others have sig-
nified their intention OF joining as soon as
the organization is completed. Eddy
Citizen.
Mr.. II. X. Thurber, of the firm OF
Thurber & Co., New York City, the
largest grocery house in the United
States, recently said to a friend that he
had been in California before fruit cul-
ture there was thought of, and that he
had been there several times since within
the last few years; that he had lately
trayersed the entire Pecos valley, and had
studied its conditions thoroughly. He
said he believed that The Pecos valley
would, in time, excel any portion OF Cali
fornia as fruit producing country.
"Rumors" in the Eddy Citizen: "That
another dam will be built just above the
new bridge crossing the Rio Pecos. That
corps OF engineers are already in the
field surveying the proposed extension OF
the Pecos Valley railway from here to AL
bnquerqne. This, Of itself, will be good
news to Roswell. That as soon as these
enterprises are finished the road will be
surveyed and track laid from here to
Eagle Pass, Texas. Rumors! Yea, verify
rumors. But there may be something in
them"
Miss Mamie Mcdonnell, who has just
been voted the most popular sales-lady in
Chicago in the Times contest, has arrived
at the Las Vegas hot springs and will
remain about ten days. She was accom-
panied this far from her home in south
ern Illinois, by Mr.. Charles Greve, Of
Chicago, who was en- route for San Ber.
nardino. Miss Mcdonnell had her
choice of five trips, free of expense to
her-Mackinac, Waukesha, Niagara Falls,
Potoskey, Las Vegas hot springs. She
choose the latter place.
Work on the long.talked OF The First
New Mexico Reservoir was inaugufated
yesterday morning. Quite nunlber of
wagons loaded with lumber, hay, grain,
scrapers and provisions, lett town for the
place of beginning on Wednesday after
noon, and large force OF men with teams
and scrapers are now busily engaged in
making excavations, while several me.
chanics are erecting the necessary build
ings. There is no foolishness about the
P. 1. & I. Co. The land that this reser-
voir will cause to be put into cultivation
will, itself, support large town.-Roswell
Record.
Junction City Times: Starrielt & Prev.
tits dirt elevator is rapidly nearing
completion and Mr.. Starriett expects to
put the machine in operation during the
present week in his lateral work, An
extended description of this machine is
as it has received wide
spread notice in the Scientific American,
a year ago. Mr.. Starriett with the able
assistance of William Roble, one of the
best machinists of Durango, has added
several improvements in the construction
OF the machine, which will make it
labor saving machine of great value in
ditch construction. The work of the ma
chine is seen to best advantage upon the
level expanse Of our mesas, although the
wheels are 80 constructed as to admit of
the machine running upon billy and
siding places, almost to the angle of 35
degrees. 1t requires three teams of draft
horses to propel the machine and two or
three men to operate the machinery.
In the spring work of cleaning out
bitches the machine will be Of extensive
value.