Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-06-07
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.

ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
The Albuquerque fire department will
not send running team to Silver City
July 4.
The entertainment given by the High
land kindergarten at the college on Lead
avenue, last night, was pronounced sue
cess.
The county board of equalization has
placed a valuation of $1.00 per acre on
confirmed land grants, and so cents an
acre on the unoonfirmed grants.
Mr.. A. A. Grant will, in the fall, build
another story on his block and will also
fix up the opera house. He would COM
mence work at once, but is waiting until
business picks up. n
The new board of directors of the Ter
ritorial Fair association held rousing
meeting. They mean business, if it is
Worlds fair year. Hon. J. A. Saint was
chosen president of the association.
The two sons of Mr.. aud Mrs. Trim
stillo Chavez, who we're badly burned
while playing with coal oil, were reported
slightly improved yesterday, although
the younger ones chances for living are
poor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Medler left for
Chicago, where the great fair will be
studied for several weeks. Mr.. Medler
will spend part of the time in Cincinnati
as delegate to the supreme lodge Of
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine.
Prof. G. L. Bailey, of the Chicago In
ter Ocean, accompanied by his brother,
Charles A.. Bailey, B. D. Thorner and
Charles Southmayd, all of Chicago,
stopped over in the city yesterday. They
are on their way to Kingman, Arizona, to
examine into the practicability Of irri-
eating large area of land in that yicin-
ity.
The Albuquerque Irrigation Canal&
Improvement company have signed a
contract with Engineer Behrens for the
completion of the survey of their big
ditch from the plaza of San Felipe to the
pueblo of Isleta. Mr.. Behrens will leave
Wednesday with his corps of surveyors
for San Felipe. II the ditch is built it
will place 10000 acres of land under irri-
cation. The ditch will run along the
foothills east of the city.
SILVER CITY SETTINGS.
Preparations for the silver convention
are going on satisfactorily. 1t is ex-
pected that there will be fully 1000 peo-
pie present and they will all be COM
fortably accommodated.
More machinery is being shipped out
to the Confidence company's mill site on
Whitewater creek, and work on the mill is
going on rapidly. About fifty men are
now employed at the mill site.
All of the secret societies hero are max
ing preparations to entertain visiting
members during the convention next
month. 1t is expected that there will be
representatives here from nearly all the
lodges in the territory.
Bert Gilbert, who received the appoint
ment as cadet to the United States mill
tary academy some months ago, has
started for West Point He will stop
over q few days in Chicago and will re-
port for duty on the 18th inst. at West
Point.
The contractors on the Montana tun-
mel at Pinos Altos expect to strike the
vein in day or so. There is every in
dication that the end of the tunnel is near
the vein and that the work which was
commenced nearly a year ago is about
completed.
The case of the board of county COM
missioners of Grant county against ex-
Sheriff Lockhart and his bondsmen is on
trial at Las Cruces. The decision of the
case will determine whether the tax levy
of last year was illegal, and if it was
illegal, to whom the taxes collected in
excess of the legal levy should be paid.
There are good many thousands of
cattle yet to be shipped from this county
this month. Cattle on the ranges are
generally in good condition, but another
rain is needed to keep grass growing.
Feed got good start last month after
the heavy rain, but the ground is getting
dry again and the growth will soon stop
unless there is another rainfall.
EDDY EcHoEs.
The Ice factory will be located opposite
the power-house at the Hume, and will be
operated by a cable.
On the Gregory farm alfalfa freely
watered has grown eight inches in ten
days since the first cutting.
large force of men and teams are
preparing the west portion of the Hager-
man home place for alfalfa.
1t is reported that Ed Lyelps $1,000
race horse, which died last week, was
poisoned. He offers a reward for the de-
lection of the perpetrator.
Capt. W. G. Mann, of Eddy, and Dr..
Powers, Of Pecos City, have organized the
Texas Irrigation company, with a capital
of $4,000. They will furnish water for ir-
rigation near Phantom lake.
The work on the big $1s00OO reservoir
above Seven Rivers is moving along