Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-10-31
EDDY ECHoES.

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Rev. Henry Carlyon, of Hillsboro, N
NJ. ia the new pastor of the NJ. Z. taber
nacle. A reception will be given tt
him.
Superintendent Miller reports that tn,
Pecos Valley track is rapidly being re
paired and gravsled where It WAS damaged
by the flood.
R. w. Tansill is selling ont at auctio,
his eighty lots adjoining Golden Gat'
park, where the mid-winter fair at Sar
Francisco will be held.
Sheriff Kemp arrested W. G. Cass, Johr
Plowman, and a young man named Sneee
upon charge of defacing brands OF
horses belonging to Will McLennan ant
III. Morse.
Some day the vast gypsum deposits
bordering this valley will be source Of
wealth. In California the mineral is being
used extensively to reclaim and fertilize
alkali land.
Why not send the Pecos valley exhibit
entire to the mid-winter fair at San Fran
cisco! The exhibition has been organ
lied to show coast products to the many
thousands of visitors and homeseekers
who will 60 there IN the winter.-Argus.
Mr.. Hagerman has fully decided upon
the reconstruction of his power dam, and
is considering details of plans. Engineer
Harris plan to extend the dam eastward,
with masonry base, iron and timber
frame and slash boards, has been accept
ed, and work will soon be commenced.
While II. X. Thurber was here he made
arrangements to have coal shed built at
the railroad yards ard will establish an
agency for the Texas q Pacific coal COM
pany to retail the Texas coal, screen nut,
at $S.75 per ton. Heretofore from Sll
to $13 has been charged for coal in this
market.
The immigration office has received
more than a hundred specimens of gold,
copper and silver ore, onyx, coal and
marble, from the Roswell Fair association.
The specimens came from the territory
which is either now tributary to Roswell
and Eddy, or can be made so by rail-
road.
For the purpose of convenience we will
here use calculation made by Califor-
nian as to the cost of a prune orchard in
that state upon land at the value of $75
per acre, adding 10 per cent each year for
interest, charging So for plowing ground,
S9.37 for first cost of seventy-fiye trees
and So for cultivating, the cost of one
acre Of prunes the frst year would be
$105.37.- Making due Allowance for in
terest charges and miscellaneous expenses,
the acre of prunes will have cost at the
end of four years $l96.14.-Argus.
GALLUP GLEANINGs.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M. Z.
Church are quite busy now arranging
for festival at the church On Thursday,
November 10th.
On Sunday evening November 5th at
1880, the Gallup Lodge No. 13, of the
Knights of Pythias, upon invitation will
attend the Episcopal service at Hart's
hall. The Rev. E. A. Osborne will ad-
dress them upon the subject of "Friend
ship, Charity and Benev olence."
Gallup people, as general rule, are
always generous and give good deal of
substantial support to the Albuquerque
papers, but when they wish Albuquerque
people to help them secure new county,
ETC., they get mud, with big M.
That alleged coal discovery at Goler,
near Mojave, in southern California, is
not causing many people in this city to
lose sleep or 90 without their meals,
neither are the southern California news