Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-08-29

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Of the district court Of this dis
trict, having been admitted TO the
bar years ago has opened law
Office in the Raymond building at
Las Cruces.
The Rosedale mining camp is
attracting a great deal Of atten-
tion. Parties from Denver, Pueb-
10 and Silver City, who have ex-
amined it found the prospects
first-class.
The Hillsborough school house
and school grounds are being put
in good repair. School will open
on Monday morning, Sept. 4th,
with Jas. A. Long as principal and
Miss Carrie Bushman as assist
ant.
G.. B. Lee has resigned the su-
perintendency of the Rio Grande
smelter in Socorro to travel in
Europe. A. B. w. Hodges has
been promoted to the position
from that Of assistant.
Prof. Cockerell, the entomolo-
gist at the Agricultural College,
has placed a very unique and at
tractive cabinet of insects i'll the
post Office at Las Cruces for pub
lie inspection.
Manager GALES has contracted
with the Silver Mining Company
of Lake Valley for the delivery Of
1000 tons of iron ore for hux for
the Standard smelter at HILLSIDE
rough. The ore is already mined
and its delivery will begin as soon
as the condition of the roads will
permit.
r. F. Hare has reached Las
Cruces from Alabama. He has
been chosen assistant professor of
chemistry at the college. Mr..
Hare comes fully prepared by
learning and experience to per-
form the technical work required
in that department, and will prove
a valuable aid to Professor Goss in
his work.
The Hillsborough gold placers
are now supporting an army of 100
men, chiefly from the silver camps
of Colorado and this County, and
new buildings are going up at a
rapid rate. Where there was but
one gold dust purchaser in the
County a month ago, there are now
four-two at Hillsborough and
two at the placers.-Advocate.
Commencing at once, Arthur
Goss, professor of chemistry at
the Agricultural College, at Las
Cruces, will begin the analysis of
irrigating waters from the differ
ent streams and wells throughout
the Territory; the experiments to
be continued through the year.
These tests will be extremely
interesting and instructive, and
should show what kind Of plant
life each different water is best
adapted to.
Mr.. Thomas Scales, of Grafton,
while in town yesterday informed
the Range that Robt. Howe has
opened up a fine body of gold
ore on the Emporia mine. He has
been working on agood pay-streaR
of ore in the winze $50 feet from
the surface but bad air compelled
him to abandon operations in thai
place aud go to the surface where
he struck a pay-streak A feet wide
which he has developed by a shat
between 10 and 20 feet deep from
which he has taken some 20 toni
of second-class ore and 80 sacks o.
pre- that will go $500 in gold Il
the ton.-Black Range.
An extensive irrigation enter
prise is about to be inaugurateC
near Hillsborough by the Sierri
Land and Cattle Company, b.
which thousands of acres of it
tillable lands can be placed unde
irrigation and offered to the farm
or and horticulturist through
lease. An immense ditch will b,
excavated to tap the Rio Grand
at a suitable point ON the compa
ny's domain and cause a large por
ton to yield to the welfare of th
husbandman. The plans have al
ready been perfected by Mr.. Ride
nour, the millionaire president 0
the company, and Mr.. Robert II
Hooper, its enterprising genera
manager. and work with a larQ