Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-06-17
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Arrivals at the Exchange: Thos. Mar
tin, Albuquerque; A. L. Kendall, Ger
rillos.
This town needs more sidewalks; it
would be cleaner and healthier had it
more of these.
G. W. Benedict, Denver; julius Merz-
bach, San Francisco; A. Fl. Baker, Denver,
are at tho Claire.
Don't forget the citizens meeting at
Adjutant General Knaebel's Office this
evening at 5 O'Clock.
By order of the president special
meeting of the W. B. T. will be held Mon.
day, June 10, at 2:3O p. IN.
Mr.. Robert G. Gortner is about to ex-
change his Ariel bicycle for new Union.
Bob will look handsomer than ever.
Four spanking new mules were re-
ceived by Quarterlnaster Stottler at Fort
Marcy this morning for use at that post
H. I. Cleaver, Denver; Oswald Brown,
H. L. Addison, London; II. B. Hamilton,
Socorro, are late arrivals at the Palace.
The water company is looking after
the water mains and connections and the
water service is correspondingly i'm
proved.
If you want the latest city news, the
latest county news and the latest terri
torial news, take and road this paper and
read it carefully.
game of base ball takes place to-
morrow afternoon on the San Miguel col
lego campus between tho Athletic base
ball club and the Juniors. Game COM
mences ut 2;3O; the boys promise good
game.
| Two parcels of real estate belonging to
the estate of the late Frank Chaves were
disposed of by public sale at the door of
the court house this morning. The piece
on San Francisco street, known as the
Cienfuegos property, was sold to Grant
Rivenburg for $1,000; and the property
or the Albuquerque road was disposed of
to G.. W. Dudrow for $500. These sales
make good to the Santa Fe Loan and
Building association the amount of their
disbursements in the way of loans to
Frank Chavez. Mr.. N. d. Laughlin rep
resents the association.
Investigating Irrigation ia New
Mexico.
Mr.. Oswald Brown, civil engineer
from London, Eng, is at the Palace; he
paid the New MEXICAN call and in con-
versation it was acsertained that he is
travelling through the southwest as the
official representative of the South Aus
tralia government and is investigating
the irrigation works and facilities of this
region with view to preparing and
furnishing an official report thereon to
the government and parliament of South
Australia. Mr.. Brown has been through
northern and central Colorado and has
examined irrigation matters there.
He is to-day looking up the new sys-
tenn of the Santa Fe Water & Improve
ment company, with Mr.. Seymour, fthat
company, of which he has read in En-
lglish and American scientific papers, and
will go south from here to investigate
the irrigation of the Rio Grande valley
and the great irrigation system of the
Pecos company. He is accompanied by
his nephew, Mr.. Addison, also of London
! Mr.. Brown is now engaged in construct
ing large dam and reservoir in South
Australia, which country is not nearly as
we'll watered nor as permanently watered
as the Rocky mountain region he has
passed through, and where water is even
more valuable than it is in New Mexico
or Colorado. From New Mexico he goes
to Arizona and California. for an inspe
ton of the principal irrigation systems
there.