Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-09

Ihe Iannln8 Extract factory at this
point is making car load shipments Of
the extract from the cana-agria root and
has more orders than can be filled for
months.
The May Day festival given in the
Opera house last Tuesday evening by the
ladies of the Congregational church was
great success. A handsome sum was
realized.
Cattle shipments from Grant county
still continue heavy. The Haggin- Hearst
company have shipped over 1000 head
from Gage ON the Southern Pacific within
the past few days.
Manager T.. F. vanWagenen has dis
posed of his interest in the Deming Ore
company and will remove with his family
to Colorado and engage in the mining
/ business there.
Fred NJ. Smith, formerly of the firm of
Smith & Fleishman, has gone on an ex-
tended trip to Albuquerque and Durango,
Colo, and will likely engage in business
in one of those cities.
Receiver Foster, of the defunct First
National banks ofSilycr City and Deming
is rounding up the stockholders Of those
institutions with such success that there
is prospect of another dividend in the
near future, but the exact date of that
future is not known.
Col. Dick Hudson, formerly of Silver
City, but now Indian agent at the Mesca-
']ero agency, was in Deming during the
week He reports that the Indians at
Mescalero are friendly and are rapidly
settling down to agricultural pursuits.
There are more children in the schools
this yenr than ever before, and nearly
three times as much grain has been plant
ed this spring than at any previous time.
Work on the big irrigation system of
the Rio Mimbros Irrigation company is
being pushed forward with all possible
speed, and it is thought that the opera
tion will be practically completed by June.
The laterals have already been construct
ed and sufficient water has been placed in
them to irrigate 300 acres. The company
is not constructing an immense dam, as
seems the general impression, but is dig
ging down to bedrock and utilizing the
natural flow of the river. Negotiations
are now pending for the erection of a
handsome hotel at Hudson hot springs
and the fitting up of the place as a sum
mer resort.
EDDY ECHOES.
Witt Brothers have purchased the dairy
business formerly owned by G. D. Lucas
and have also leased the Scoggns place
west of town.
Fred Mendenhsll, of Roswell, son of S.
S. Mendenhall, of this city, and Miss Ida
Kaeser, of New York, were united in mar
rage Tuesday, May 2. 1898, by Rev. W.
G. Chew.
Prof. W. f. Edelen, principal of the
Junction City Male and Female institute
at Junction City, Texas, and president OF
the county board of examiners, has been
spending n week or two in the valley. ..
James S. Massie, who is doing immi-
grafton work for our county, returned last
Saturday from the rounds of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
He reports that the Pecos valley is get
ting to be pretty well known throughout
the east and that immigration from that
section will be heavy this fall.
W. s. Whittelsey and Chas. NJ. Joys
have purchased the extensive farm imple-
ment and seed house of E. G. Shields,
and are now firmly established as busi
ness men of our city. The firm name will
be Whittelsey & Joys. Mr.. Whittelsey
came from Ypsilanti last fall for the
benefit of his health, and it has agreed
with him. He was formerly in the seed
business in Michigan. Mr.. Joys came
with his wife and child from Portland,
Ore, only few days ago.
L. Carter, arrived last Wednesday from
Lampasas, Texas with sample of the j.
C. Tom double acting force pump. 1t is
claimed for this pump that twice the
amount Of work can be done with it and
that with much less labor than is required
to run the old style pump. 1t is also light
and very durable, being made of the best
material.
A jolly trio departed Friday evening
for the Worlds fair, all from the Greene
place, west of town; Fred Baisch foreman
Of nurseries, while absent, expects to visit
his old home in southern Illinois. Tom
Jones, carpenter, expects to be gone all
summer and will make a trip to the Isle
Of Man in the Irish sea and will stop on
the sea board at Boston for while. Ira
Couch, carpenter, will be gone two months
and expects to call on friends in Butler
county, Iowa.