Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-02-08
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
CHAMA CHATTTNGS.

Plenty of snow and slush.
There is talk of establishing an Odt
Fellows lodge in Chama.
Manuel Gomez has gone to valenci
county to purchase sheep.
The Biggs Lumber company have start
ed up their shingle machine.
Messrs. Fleek & Henderson, of thi
place, have purchased GAO acres of timbe
land on the Navajo.
The TERRA Amarillo Southern is no
bothered with snow, and consequently il
making regular trips.
Capt. B. F. Moore, Pueblo mining ex
pert, spent day in town the first of the
week. The captain intended going tc
the Abiquiu placer fields, but after read
ing Joe Mulhatton's letter in Sundays
Durango Herald concluded to postpone
his visit till some future time.
The Chama Northwest says: Tommie
Sargent, we'll known Ell Rito merchant
was married last week at that place to
Miss Priscillania Jaramiilo, the belle OF
lower Rio Arriba, a handsome and fasci-
mating young lady, daughter of the late
Pedro 1. Jaramillo. The young couple
set off in life amid tho usual shower of
rice, old shoes and good wishes from
everybody.
SAN JUAN sIFTlNGs.
Mrs. Harry Hawkins, of junction City,
was seriously injured by her horse run
ming away.
W. W. Shea will open a shoe-shop at
Pennington, and George Duvi barber
shop. Both are new comers from Colo
fa}o. :.
~. frrraker, from Rifle, Colo, an
rpsriest and handler of fruits, is stop
ping at Mr.. Blacklock's, and intends to
stay during the summer and will handle
the fruit of the Phelps and Carson
ranches.
Messrs. Chambers Brothers, two Colo
RADIO prospectors from the lower San
Juan, are stopping at Foster Blacklock's,
with the intention of prospecting the
country thoroughly in the vicinity of
Pennington.
1t is reported on good authority that a
new ditch is to be taken out on the lower
San Juan, running some fifteen feet be-
low the Coolidge canal. There is less
than 1000 acres difference between the
two bitches, and the cost of construction
will be nominal compared with the bene.
fits arising from it,
Lincoln Post G. A. r., installed the fol-
lowing officers: Commander, W. Fl. Will
lisms; Senior Vice Commander, M. L.
Page; Junior Vice commander j. D. Rum
burg; Officer Of the Day, G. H. McHenry;
Chaplain, N. L. Hayden; Quartermaster,
A. Sewers; Surgeon, A. Bowman; Adult.
ant, II. G. King; Assistant Quartermaster,
G. Mercer; Quartermaster Sergeant, W. R
Epperson.
soCoBBo WAITS.
Tree planting Is popular.
The ladies of the Sanctuary society will
give phantom" ball and supper at the
San Marcial opera house March II.
We couldn't appreciate our incompar-
able climate without an occasional sand
storm. They are blessings" (?) in dis
guise, says the Bee.
Elario Pena and Esperidlon Sapato,
W0IO dIEc6tCu ht Odu MdTCldl Will sofoTdl
horses in their possession belonging to
Grant county parties. They were taken
back to Silver City.
The Rio Grande smelling works OF
Socorro are running with smaller force
than for years, about 1876 men being EN-.
ployed. There full force is about csc
men.
The Socorro Fire Clay company have a
fattering prospect; with large and well
equipped plant, and an abundance oi
material Of different kinds close at hand
they are enabled to turn out the very best
quality of both fire and common brick
promptly, and at reasonable prices. With
q capacity of about 10000 brick per day
they are now several weeks behind thei,
orders, but are making improvements
that will enable them to increase the out.
put.
GRANT COUNTY cRuMs.
An effort is being made to organize an
Eastern Star lodge in Silver City.