Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-31
TERRITORIAL. TIPS.
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The Pecos Irrigation company offers
fine list OF cash premiums for fruits ant
farm products Of the lower Pecos.
The bond of johnson, the colored maj
accused of mardefing Melton Gonzales
was placed at $5,Go0.by Juatice stalcup
Mr.. ard Mira. Fred Piontkowsky ane
"Oab" Conway departed for Roswell
to file on rsyernmea.sa land near thai
place.
The Spencer dam beyond McKittricl
springs is about complsted. This dam Ii
about $50 feet long and about fifty feel
high in the center. 1t is for the purpose
of creating storage reservoir.
Jailor Waldie has put the insane pa.
tient at work in the garden. He is i'm.
proving SO fast that he took notion to
run away the other night, but was over.
taken by the jailor before going far.
Ed Myers, Of tho Truitt restaurant at
Phoenix, was pretty badly knocked out
He came up town with very black eye
and stated he was "rolled" for all he had
while asleep, though he swore out no
complaint.
The Pecos Irrigation d Improvement
company has already cent good assort-
ment of photographs of the valley to T.
B. Mills, who has charge of the New Mex
leo exhibit at the Worlds fair, to be
placed on exhition.
Mathew Little, Mexican, wss pulled
for assault upon v. Lopez. 1t seems the
parties fell out ovor game Of cards and
Little knocked Lopez down and then
stamped on his head, the blood running
clear across the room at Brooks place,
Phoenix.
As showing what monsy and enterprise
will do, it is only necessary to speak Of
the rapid Improvements on the Bolies Sec
tion near Francis. Mr.. Bolles purchased
this land of Mrs. Fox and four weeks ago
the contractors went to work making i'm
provements. Last week there were SIX
teen teams at work and 200 acres had
been sown to alfalfa and eighty acres to
millet. The balance of the land is plowed
and will be ready for planting to-day.
aoswELL NOTES
J. W. collars, of Las Vegas, was in
Roswell last week, with JEFF Reynolds,
looking at the country.
s. r. Johnsou is fast getting the ma
terial ON the ground for the erection of
his business house on Main street.
Jas. Cook, Guadalupe cattleman,
passed through town "Wednesday with
u..uS-.. =. * ~
George Stockton, of Memphis, Tenn,
has beon here for several days. looking
at this section, with view Of locating
aud investing.
Daniel & Mcdonald have secured the
contract for the building OF the Masonic
hall, and will begin operations at once.
The building ia to be Of brick, 25x7O
feet, two stories high, with plato glass
and iron front. The contract price ia
$4,000.
Devine & Barnett, proprietors Of the
Roswell Eddy stage line, have purchased
new and handsome stage from the
Kansas Manufacturing company, Leaven-
worth, Kas., which they intend running
between this place and Roswell. 1t will
start from Eddy at 6 n. m. and will carry
passengers only, while another stage will
start after the train arrives and will carry
the mails and express, together with such
passengers as may wish to go on it.
While JEFF N. Miller, superintendent Of
the Pecos Valley railway, was in Roswell
week or two ago, he secured the ship
ment of the j. NJ. Miller clip from north
of Roswell. This clip is being delivered
now, will weigh fully $1,000 pounds and
| will fill fve or six cars. It goes to New
York via the Pecos Valley railway to
Pecos, thence to New Orleans, via the
Texas l. Pacific, then to destination via
the Cromwell steamship line. This wool
comes from district that has heretofore
sent its product to Las Vegas. 1t has to
be freighted over 100 miles to this place
but still it is the nearest railway point.