Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-26
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
RATION RAN0INGS.


a big charity ball takes place tonight.
Hon. Caaimiro Darela, Of Las Animas
cnunty, Cole, wss In Ration Tuesday on
business.
Last week tho board of directors of
the Maxwell Land Grant company held
It's annual meeting at the general Office in
Ration.
Mr.. Chas. A. Fox, for e number Of
years the active and efficient agent of
Wells-Fargo in Rnton, resigned last week,
and F. d. Hunt, tho gentlemanly agent OF
the A., L. d S. F., now has charge Of
the express business and the Office is in
the depot.
If the farmers under the Colfax county
bitches would turn their attention to rails
ing sugar beets, IN industry would be
opened up that would give employ
nent to large number of people and
speedily enrich the tillers of the soil in
those localities.
The following officers were elected by
tho Commerclal club for the ensuing
year: President, L. W. Collier; 1st vice
president, D. w. Stevens; I'd vice presi-
dent, D. Risdop; secretary, v. E. Hest
wood; treasurer, c. N. Blackwell; direc-
tors, NJ. P. Pels, J.. j. Shuler, J. W..
Dwyer, G. M. Bayne, Simon Cohn.
CLAYTON oHuMBs.
Clayton is preparing for big celebra-
tion July 4.
Louis A. G. do Baca has been doing
some surveying for Louis F. Garcia, who
has bought up twenty-one claims on tho
Tramperos.
Jim Smith has just returned from the
Cimarron, and reports plenty of water
everywhere. The water holes on the
prairies as we'll as the creeks are full.
Numa Raymond, Of Las Cruces, arrived
in town the latter part of the week. He
expects his herd will arrive here in few
days, when they will be shipped from
here to the northern country.
We need county record books but we
don't know the amount, style or quality
Of said books. We are compelled to go
200 miles to the nearest county seat to
find out what we need. It will cost some
one of the board time and money to find
tanned without expense--who wants to
take the risk. The law makes no provision
for pay to do this work, and still it must
be done.-Enterprise,
aaAHz COUNTY NOTES.
Edward Henry, of Las Vegas, insurance
adjuster for tho companies operating in
New Mexico, came down to adjust the
losses of John Brockman on the Miller
residence and of Robt. Redding at Lone
mountain.
James s. Carter went out on yesterdays
train to st. Louis, where he will be mar
ried about June to Miss Cornelia Breck-
enridge, an estimable young lady of that
city, we'll known to many of the best peo-
pie of Silver City with whom she spent
few months visiting two years ago.
There is rumor among some of tho
cowboys recently rounding up in the
vicinity of Thompson's canon, on the
other side of the Burros, that Kid and
nine of his men were camped near there
last week and that white man was feed-
ing them.
The Enterprise to-day publishes seventy
mining patent notices, rendering it neces-
sary to issue supplement. One lot of
the notices for claims of one company
occupies more than fourteen columns of
space and contains moro printed matter
than ever published in one single adver-
tisement before west Of the Missouri
river.-Enterpriss.
Should Furt Bayard be abandoned in
the near future, as some rumors probably
not very we'll founded would seem to in
dictate, there would be rush for the min
eral lands now held in the reservation. 1t
is claimed that copper, iron, lead, gold
and silver are known to exist there, prob
ably in paying quantities. Tho lack OF
authority to mine on the reserve and the
desire to keep things mum by those who
are posted, until chance is offered to
make locations, have prevented any gen.
eral knowledge as to tho mineral wealth
there.
EDDY roHO8s.
Messrs. Witherspoon and Dorkin went
down to Black river few days ago and
caught forty fish.
DR.. Clough, Of Denver, came in last
week and took up his abode with the
Colorado colony near Riverton.
Frank Battisle was arrested upon COM
plant of W. r. Doster, for catching and
Offering TO- sell fish. he was discharged.
Architect Douglas is preparing plans
for a $500 residence on Canal street for
n. P. Brown, cashier of the First National
bank. = Y,
The little Russian mulberry trees plant
ed in the yard Of the Pecos Valley railway
Offices last season now. have ripe berries
on them.
On the Hagermau farm is some alfalfa
now in its fourth season. 1t is estimated