Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-01-24
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sOCORRO CHAT.

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dent of Socorro, is dead.
L. M. Brown, county surveyor, will be-
gin the erection of new house on his
property in Socorro in the near future.
Leeming and johnson have made a
strike out in the western part of this
country, the ore running way up in the
hundreds.
Already the farmers of the Rio Grande
are plowing and planting their wheat,
gangs of men this week will commence
the work of clearing the acequias, and
spring will soon be here.
Robert Sniffen ard John Dale have
taken a $4,000 contract to do develop
ment work on the Mountain Key mines,
in the Magdaiena mountains, on which
they will begin work Immediately.
The. Magdalena and Socorro mountains
arc white with snow. If this continues
until March there will be plenty of water
in these mountains the coming spring
and with plenty of water there will be
plenty of grass. To us, in this south
land, snow on the mountains means good
grass and bountiful year.
klNGSTON CRUMBS.
Kingston has an excitement over the
discovery of a cave said to be rival to
the Mammoth in Kentucky.
The rich gold strike on the Flora
Temple, IN Ready Pay gulch, is being
followed up and more of the stuff found.
The last payment on the Gypsey mine
was made on Tuesday 1000. The
Gypsey is one of the many mines around
Kingston that has given up more ore than
it's selling price, with no outside capital
to assist.
There is good deal of quiet and earn
est talk going on among several of our
local capitalists about putting in water
works in Hillsboro. The cost is esti-
mated at $4,000, and it is predicted that
the enterprise would pay for itself in two
years, at most.
While hunting for game in the noun
tains the other day, Jake Reidlinger and
John Angler claim to have discovered a
rich lead of gold ore. Some of the rock
that they brought home and washed
proved to be quite rich. They have
located it and will develop it when they
can.
RoswELL's DISASTER
Following are the losses and insurance
in the recent fire:
Bird O. Allen, groceries, etc, $4,000;
California store, dry goods and clothing,
$4,000; Masonic lodge, building and fix
lures, $4,000; Robt. Alexander, saloon
building and stock $4,000; Burnett Il
Co., stables, vehicles, hay, etc, $4,000;
DR.. Mckinney, Office fixtures, library, ETC.,
$50; N. Costa, buildings, household goods,
etc., $4,000; P. H. Boone, butcher shop,
$3.50; Miscellaneous losses, $500. Total
loss, $4O,90O.
Insurance-Bird e. Allen, $4,000, dis
tributed us follows: North America. $2,-
600; Liverpool and London and Globe.
$1,000; Pennsylvania, $1,000; Fireman's
Fund, 81, 900; Springfield Fire and Marine,
$1,000. Calisher Il Co, $1,000 distributed
as fpllovas;a National, $1,000; Imperial,
$l,50O; Pennsylvania, $l,500; German
American, $2500. Robt. Alexander, Inv
erpool and London and Globe, $1,000.
Masonic lodge, Pennsylvania, ION fix
tures) $500; Palatine, Ton building) S.
600. Total insurance, $16,SO0. No def
mite clue as to the origin of the fire has
yet been discovered.
cHAMA NOTES.
Good sleighing between Chama and
TERRA Amarillo.
Gaspar Ortiz, late deputy county clerk,
has been appointed deputy sheriff and
collector by Sheriff Frank Chavez.
Ed. vorhang will soon make another
final proof on his homestead at Amargo.
Ed. will surely get there after while.
Col. Broad's new hall is 35x7O. The
floor is laid in maple and the sides and
ceiling are finished with matched pine.
1t was opened with a grand masquerade
on roller skates, and ball combined.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
"Prof." Soldering and wife have fled the
town.
The colored people of the city are con-
templating organizing Worlds fair club,
and meeting to discuss the question will
be held at the A. M. E. church.
At the Atlantic & Pacific hospital, E.
B. Hart, we'll known and popular
freight brakeman between this city and
Gallup, died after brief illness from
pneumonia.
Old Albuquerque voted on PROPOSE
tion to issue bonds and erect a fine school
house. Fifty-three votes were cast and
thirty-nine of them were against the pro-
position.
Rev. Menaul, Of the Presbyterian church,
will leave one day this week for Taos,
where he will accept the new mission
school house just completed, and make
the final payment to the contractor.
The finance committee of the board of
aldermen held special meeting at W. B.
Childer's office to consider plans for a
viaduct over Coal avenue, and also to dis
cuss the financial condition of the city.