Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-06-14

Climatic note from the Las Vegas Op
tic: New Mexico has been cursed witt
more bad weather, in the last six months
than she probably ever knew before il
the same length of time.
A Sultan colt, half-brother to the
wonderful trotting stallion, Stamboul
has been brought from Phoenix, A. T.,
to stand the season at Pennington, San
Juan county.
Chama Northwest: A new church
bell from Cincinnati, Ohio, was at the
depot this week. 1t Was consigned to
Father Gourcey and inscribed as follows
Don Salome Jacquez, Dona Loretta Man
zanares, Don ADDE'S.
Mr.. +. f. Dinsmoot, of Lawrence,
Kas., general western agent for the Fred
j. Meyers Manufacturing company OF
Covington, KY, has closed contract
with the San Juan board OF county com
mlssoners to erect jail with patent cell
cages.
At a meeting OF the Albuquerque school
board last night Prof. G. +. Hodgin was
reelected to fill the Office of superinten-
dent of schools. The action of the board
in retaining the service of Prof. IIodgn
is commendable. lie is ali able man.
A locoed Dago, from Cooks Peak, got
into room II at the Windsor hotel, with
u pop and cigar box full of cartridges
and stood off the town, last Monday
night. Over dozen shots were fired.
No one was hurt. After a while when
! all had left, he fell asleep and then they
nabbed him. lie is now IN the hotel
de Cook where he will remain until a
commission in lunacy sends him to Las
Vegas. .-Socorro Chieftain.
The Biggs Lumber company with q
paid up stock of $l00 900 has been formed
at Chama. The corporation is consoli.
dation of the Chama Lumber company
and j D. Biggs & Son. The company
has two mills with a capacity of $4,000
feet each per day and own and operate
twenty-five miles of railroad with en-
gines and rolling stock sufficient to do
their business. A large lumber yard has
been established at Durango with Vice
President Biggs in charge. So soon as
their mill on the Chama is removed to
the Brazos river large supply store will
be put in at that place. There is enough
timber to run the mills for years to
come.
Albuquerque Citizen: "The gas and
water companies and people connecting
with the sewers in the streets and alleys
OF this city do their work so tarelessly,
that the entire system OF streets and al
leys in the business portion Of the city are
spoiled for driving, and is but success
sion of cross ruts, sand and pot holes, ,
and corduroy rifles. Besides this every
one OF the business streets is full OF small |
boulders that have dropped from teams
hauling sand and gravel to the different
builders. Railroad avenue, from the !
mesa to the city park is disgrace on this
account.
The hearts of ranchmen in the vicinity |
OF Olio, San Juan county, are gladdened !
by the unlimited supply of water assured
by the recent completion Of the new
heading OF the Coolidge canal, the gate
to which is just below the junction Of the
Animas and San Juan rivers. This canal
is twenty miles long, sixteen feet wide on
the bottom, and its estimated cost is about
100000. The headgate and work In
Herewith cost $1,000; the
hNhio ofVA piio bh L ldldy fOU |
cost $4,000; the large flume near Fruit
lands, 700 feet long and fifty feet high,
cost $4,000; two miles of heavy work
along "the bluff" just below the mouth of
the La Plata river, where the rock was
'shot off" into the San Juan, to make
solid foundation for one bank OF the canal,
cost $4,000. This canal covers about
10000 acres of fine fruit land. Decided
land can be obtained at $25 to $50 an
acre. There is one tract of 320 acres that
is for sale at $2250 per acre. Perpetual
water rights are sold by the canal COM
pany at the rate Of $500 for forty acres,
and 81 per acre annually for service. This
arrangement is on the plan adopted by all
the most noted canal and water COM
panes in Arizona and southern California.
The terms are very easy, ten years being
given by the company to pay out the con.
tract.