Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-04
RAINFALL AND GRASS.
Cheering Reports from All Over New
MeXicO-Santa Fe COunty's
COnditiOn-TerritOrial
SOakings.
SANTA FEE oouNTY's IN IT.

SANTA FEE ooUNTYs IN IT.
Demetrio Leyba, of Galisteo, says much
more rain has fallen in his section of
Santa Fe county that at Santa Fe and all
crops are doing we'll
John Jewell returned last night from
the upper Pecos. He says another two
hours rain fell all over eastern Santa Fe
county yesterday and the grass is grow
ing luxuriantly.
Alex. Allan and Vim. Evans returned
last night from trip up the Rio Santa
Cruz, and say the line rains have set the
grass to growing all over northern Santa
Fe county. Many thousands of sheep are
grazing in that locality and they are
picking up nicely. The streams are well
supplied with water.
Gov. Prince has returned from visit
to his Espanola valley orchard and speaks
of abundant rains there. The fruit inter
fourishing. g..
At Cerrillos and San Pedro heavy rains
have set the arroyos boiling, and native
people are having good luck finding mug
gets of gold in the washed sands. The
grass is growing nicely all over south
Santa Fe county.
Grass in the Santa Fe valley is more
abundant to day than for six years past
and particularly DO the level stretches
southeast and west of Aqua Fria present
an attractive appearance.
All danger of a water famine in Santa
Fe is forever past. The big reservoir
holds an ample supply for the present
and tho fall rains, which never fail, will
greatly augment this. Forty men and
twenty mules are still at work raising the
crown of the dam. Engineer Howells is
to return from Chicago shortly and then
the work of laying ten miles of additional
mains will be pushed rapidly. These
facts indicate to the man who appreciates
the value Of water in this country the
fact that Santa Fe's future is very flatter-
ing.
FROM OTHER POINTS.
Mesilla valleys fruit crop is rendered
superb by the timely rainfall of the last
month.
All the Eddy, Chaves and Lincoln coun-
ty papers announce abundant rains and a
rapid improvement in the range grass.
"Kim XII" Rogers, the Sandia miner,
arrived in the city and says the arroyas
are running over and hard to CROSS
Tines.
Tuesday last the rainfall recorded at
Las Vegas amounted to over three inches,
and the total for July reaches the remark
able figure of over six inches. Live stock
men and farmers are jubilant.
In Grant, Sierra, Valencia and western
Bernalillo counties rains have fallen every
few days for the past six weeks. No such
good fortune has come to that region of
New Mexico for ten years.
This section of New Mexico is prosper
ing finely. We are having plenty Of
splendid rains anu will have an abund-
ance of winter feed on the range. Enough
rain has fallen within the past ten days to
fill all the storage reservoirs in this sec
ton of the territory Ration Range.
A five foot wave Of water swept down
an arroyo through Ration and W. G.
Wrigley had close call from drowning.
He had hand badly lacerated by using
barbed wire fence to rescue himself.
Jesse Anthony, one of tho managers of
the Fruitvale colony, drove into the city
yesterday morning. He reports heavy
rains in that section, but no damage to
the property of the colonists.- Albuquer-
que Citizen.
Messrs. William Mcintosh and William
Fraser came in from their sheep ranches
east of the Manzanos yesterday, and re-
port glorious rains all over the eastern
plains. That means better times for
everybody in the future Albuquerque
Times.
George Beckett, of Badger, who was in
the city Tuesday, reports that there have
been abundant and frequent rains in the
Penasco country lately and that grass is
booming. Back five or six miles from
the settlements it is already six inches
high Eddy Argus.
From San JUAN Rio Arriba and Taos
comes the same good news. The valley
farms are looking thrifty and the range
grass on the mountain sides insures fat
cattle and sheep throughout the winter.
The heavy rains came down as far as
Rincon, and then switched off and took
the Silver City branch Of the Santa Fe to
Deming. Near Mutt station, where the
Lake Valley road branches off, river
several hundred feet wide and more than
foot deep above tho rails flowed across
the track for some time. This side of
Mutt the arroyos were raging torrents,
but no damage was done to the track
Ell Paso Times.
Will Houts, Ann Risdom and Tom Nc
Intyre, three boys, had a cave about
half mile west of Ration, where they
were when the severe rain storm broke
this week. The water poured in on them
and they were carried into the arroyo and
whirled down the rapid current at a
frightful speed. Jerome Troy rescued
them. A Mexican, name unknown, and
his boy and burro were also in the
current and were roped out by Mr.. Troy.