Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-08-01

The grape crop in the Mesilla
valley never looked betser.

Ddnth re taxes DlcycieS y rOdu
tax Of 81 per year, to DO used
IN street improvements.
The Eddy county commissioner
have levied q tax of S1.40 on each
500 Of taxable property. The
territorial tax is 81 on the 800.
Chaves county returns S1,446,.
602 for taxation, the principal
item being 74.311 cattle at S449,.
213.
Plans are being drawn by w. f.
Douglas for a $1,000 school house
at Otis, Eddy county. A little over
a year ago the country about Otis
was but a mesquite plain.
The Lincoln county commits
sioners fixed the rate Of taxation
for this year at 2.4O cents on the
dollar. Adding the school tax, the
rate for the White Oaks district
will be $50.
The Messrs. Lamb, Englishmon,
who recently arrived in Eddy from
New York, have bought forty acres
of land just east of the Tansill farm,
and are now tenting on the ground,
grubbing and preparing to SOW
alfalfa.
Warren Smith, scientist and
lecturer, and general agent of the
United States Agassiz association,
is in Las Vegas from New Orleans.
He came to New Mexico to exam
inc some supposed manganese
properties of great extent, but they
proved destitute of manganese and
utterly worthless.
It is rumored that one of the two
passenger trains will be taken off
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
until business gets better. So far
several hundred employees have
been discharged between Albu-
querque and Mohave on account Of
business stagnation.
A large amount of water came
down the arroyo in or near which
the Santa Fe Company's we'll is
located, six miles from Engle, from
which the company pumps its sup
ply Of water for the tank at that
station. The we'll is % feet in
diameter and about IA feet deep,
the walls built up of masonery.
The force of the food tore down
the walls and filed the we'll. which
will have to be dug out and entire
ly rebuilt before it can be used.
This is the time of year when
the Ell Paso papers tell that the
White Oaks road will be complet-
ed in a short time and the Demine
paper gives out the startling in.
formation that work will be com
menced on the Silver Spike rail
road next week and the road viii
be Immediately pushed through
the Sierra Madres. Both items
have appeared according to the
usual custom.-Western Liberal,
Mr.. H. B.. Cartwright recently
returned from a short fishing triI
on the Pecos and reports that there
are daily rains on that river. They
begin about noon and last for two
or three hours. Last Tuesday Their,
was a hail storm that drifted two
feet deep at the foot of the noun
tains. Over a hundred people are
camped on the stream, and every
body seems to be having a good
time. The fishing is tolerably gooC
but the constant rains interfere
He says there will be plenty o.
water in the Pecos during the res.
of the summer.--New Mexican.
There are said to have been sew.
eral earthquake tremors felt lately
near La Joya and Sabinal. The
one which was felt here last weel
was so severe at Sabinal as to cracl
the walls of F. Levey's store badly
and knock down dishes, tinware
etc, from the shelves. The ole
inhabitants of the little Mexican
town of La Joya, across the river
say that in years past earthquakes
were of quite frequent occurrence.
and they were always felt during
an unusually wet season. The one
which occurred there the other day
did great damage to their main
acequia, and left openings in the
ground a foot wide. San Marcia
Bee.
Lack OF vitality and color-mat-