Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-11

| ly elected 10 tne nrst vice presidency o.
the Atchison, contained no superfuuus
words. 1t simply read: "Congratula
tions. Bully for you?"
E. W. Wise has discovered some clay
banks near this city, which promise tt
be very remuneratiye. He took some o.
the clay back to Clay county, Mo-, where
there are large pottery works, and had il
thoroughly tested 1t is pronounced o.
the finest quality and suitable, not only
for pressed bricks, but tiles and pot
terry. He has number of objects made
from it, which show the excellent quality
of the material and the range of pur
poses to which it can be applied. The
color is red, of very attractive shade.
EDDY ECHOES.
District court convenes next week.
I 1t is said that Waco ice factory woult
remove to Eddy for a bonus of some
thing like $1,000.
The heaviest fall of rain during the
pa.t year occurred Monday night, fully
two inches on the level being precipi
tated.
The postoffice at Black River will be
emoved to Malaga about March Is, OF
as soon as permission is received from
Washington.
The Pecos Improvement Co. has offer
ed $500 to any person who will be first to
find flowing water west, or northwest Of
and in not less than fve miles, from
Pecos City.
F. G. Campbell and Rev. Allen Bartley
have gone to the La Luz and White Oaks
country to obtain a knowledge of that
land and view the site of the big reser-
voir projected by a company in which
several eastern capitalists are said to be
interested.
G. W. Greene has already received
100000 plants and trees from France,
10000 rose bushes from New York, and
thousands of fruit and grape vines from
California, as we'll as numerous car loads
of shade trees from Louisiana and the
Rio Grande valley. These statements
will indicate only small fraction of the
work going on in the valley.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
M. G. Wilson, visiting health-seeker,
died of consumption.
The injunction suit to restrain the
building of that viaduct has been dis
missed by complainants.
The opera of "Chimes of Normandy"
will be given at the opera house on Tues
day and Wednesday, April 4 and s. The
costumes are expected from Los Angeles
in a very short time.
Announcement Is made of the dissolu.
tion of the firm of W. 9. Leonard & Co.,
W. c. Leonard retiring, and the business
hereafter will be conducted by new
firm, E. L. Washburn & Co., the COM
pany being represented by Jacob H.
Gainsley.
SPRINGER SPRAYS.
Mrs. M. w. Mills has been very ill all
week.
Mesdames Hosmer and Morton are busy
with Worlds fair matters.
Miss Hays has accepted position with
the Springer Mercantile Co.
The children of the Loyal Temperance
Legion will give concert at the school
house next Sunday night.
Wednesday night Ed. White, in Jail
from Clayton for assault on II. A. JAEGER,
and three buns sent down from Ration,
broke Jail here. No clue yet as to which
course they pursued.
DEM1Na DOTS.
The Barela cattle In Dona Ana county,
numbering $4,000 head, and purchased by
Col. James A. Lockhart, of Deming, and
Capt. John H. Riley, of Las Cruces, are
being shipped to feeding grounds in Mon
tana, as rapidly as possible.
The Silver City Sentinel is out in long
editorial on the county division question,
the subtance of which is to the effect that
the residents of the southern end of the
county, with the possible exception of
Deming, are not in favor of division and
that two years hence the feeling in favor
the change will have been replaced by
desire to retain the lines as they are at
present.
The first extraction of the tannic acid
from the cana-agria root was made at the
plant Of the Tanning Extract company at
this point Thursday afternoon and the
process proved thorough success. The
company will now commence active
operations and the pulp will be shipped
from here in large quantities. For over
year past the promoters of the new in.
dustry have been engaged in the construc-
tion of $4,000 plant to the east of
town. This has been completed and all
the machinery placed in position and as
stated above, the initial test made.