Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-07-17
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Mercury marked 10 degrees in cool
place the other day at Eddy.
The strike worked great hardship on
those having orchards at Socorro.
Recent showers have done great good
to fruits and vegetables in the Mesilla
valley.
The bodies of cement lying south of
the Hillsboro gold belt assay $l3 in free
gold.
Hon. j. A. Ancheta's 4th of July ora
tion at Silver City is said to have been a
fine effort.
About twenty-five men are developing
gold properties in the White Signal dis
trict of Grant county.
The fair at Roswell has been postponed
until the completion of the Pecos Valley
railway to that city.
The output of the Hillsboro gold
mines for the week ending Thursday,
July II, 1894, was 14,S24 tons.
The pay streak in Judge Falls Sunol
gold mine in the Black mountain district
is thirty-six inches wide and of high
grade ore.
]. w. Murray, who was killed in mine
accident at Silverton, Colo, few days
ago, was buried at the expense of the Ger
rillos Masonic lodge.
The Pecos Valley Independent has en-
tered upon its second volume and is in Il
prosperous condition. tits creditable
sheet, barring its Co1ey ideas.
The Gallup Cleaner notes that the
Postal Telegraph construction "gang"
struck town last week and have proved
themselves gentlemanly lot of fellows
Prof. j. H. Hatton, for several years
president of the McGee college, at Col
lege Mound, Mo-, has been selected as
principal of the public schools at Deming
for the ensuing year.
The Black Range mentions: Grange
cattle are suffering for the want of water
This shortage of water could be easily
remedied if the cattle owners would take
the pains to open up a few water holes
along the creek bed"
On the day before yesterday, Pablo
Jaramillo, down near Romeroville, saw
three men set fire to railroad bridge
being recognized by him. He immedi-
ately extinguished the fire and came to
town with his report.-Optic.
The Rustler wants the amateurs at Las
Vegas to give the play entitled "The
Woven Web" at Cerrillos. Miss Mira
Harkness, formerly of Isrrillos, takes q
prominent part in the play.
The funds now available in the hands
of the school treasurer at Cerrillos
amount to $4,000 and several hundred
dollars more will be added to the amount
during the ensuing year.
Says the Chieftain: "The closing down
Of the Rio Grande smelter was on account
of the lack Of dry silver ores. The dis
trict that on May 1, 1898, supplied about
1000 tons on May l, 1894, supplied less
than 400 TONS"
James Gillen, the store keeper at Beldy,
in Colfax county, was held up aud robbed
of $500 in cash and four gold watches
valued at $500 on Monday night. The
work was done by four masked men who
compelled Mr.. Gillen at the muzzles of
six-shooters to open his safe.
The cana agria works at Deming have
been compelled to stop for few days on
account of the supply of root in the ware
house being exhausted, but by tomorrow
there will be sut1iciency on hand and
work will be resumed with vigor.
The Springer Stockman notes: "Last
Friday the Cimarron river was up beyond
its banks, as high as it has been
for some time. Rains to an unusual
amount must have fallen in the western
part of the county, for the river rose over
seven feet within an hour"
The Silver City Enterprise reports that
atom HOLMAN is working tiftyone men
upon the Golden Giant mine. The shaft
is now 800 feet deep, but levels have not
yet been driven at that depth. The ore
being extracted is taken from the 200 and
$50 levels. The slopes are 400 feet in
length on each side of the shaft and the
ore body continues throughout the entire
distance of 800 feet, beside showing we'll
at the side of each level. cleanup was
made at the Pacific mill last week with
returns of 1876 ounces in gold from 1913
tons of ore, beside which there we're
shipped twenty-five tons of concentrates
that will average two ounces in gold per
ton, bringing the average value of the ore
to about an ounce and a quarter of gold
per ton. The Mammoth mill will finish
cleaning up on the Golden Giant ore this
week, on mill run of 145 tons. From
Indications the cleanup was about 22O
ounces, beside twenty-five ton lot of
concentrates. The entire clean up from
both mills was about 1856 ounces of gold
from the plates, and forty-ive to fifty
tons of concentrates. Pretty good for
small mine."