Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-07-12
GRANTS GRIST.
A Newsy Roundup from Silver City
The Strike, Mines, Range and
Local Politics.
Correspondence New Mexican.

Correspondence New Mexican.
Silver City, July 1O.-For the past
twelve days there has been little else
talked of here than the great railroad
strike and the possibility of the supply
Of provisions on hand becoming ex-
hausted before the difficulty could be ad-
Justed. few families prepared for the
worst and laid in two or three months
supply of groceries, but, after all, there
has been but little inconvenience caused
here except on account of the delayed
mail. The supply of eggs was exhausted
week ago and butter is not plentiful in
the market. On Sunday afternoon q
train arrived bringing through mail from
the east, tho first time since the eth of
June, and this morning a train arrived
bringing mail which would have arrived
yesterday afternoon ut 4 O'Clock if the
trains had been running regularly.
Troops have been ordered from Fort
Bayard to Ration and are on the ground
ere this.
Within the past week there has been
quite number of showers IN this section
but they have not been heavy enough to
do much good. The ranges in many per-
tions of the county are very dry and
heavy rains are needed. Several quartz
mills in this and Socorro counties are
closed down on account of lack of water
and can not be started up again until
sufficient rain has fallen to swell the
streams from which they are supplied.
The Silver City Water company still
has plentiful supply of water for the
city and all that is needed for the Pacific
mill here when it is in operation. The
supply is greater this summer than it has
ever been before at this season of the
year since the works were built.
The political situation is gradually
warming up and candidates are already
in the field for all the Offices to be filled at
the coming election. The campaign in
this county will be Il short one, probably
not more than three weeks from the date
of the nominating convention to the day
of election, and the candidates realize the
fact that the most of the work will have
to be done before the convention meets.
The contest for sheriff will, in all
probability, be between Baylor Shannon,
one of the members of the present board
of county commissioners, and Cipriano
Baca, one of Sheriff Laird's deputies. 1t
seems to be tacitly understood among
the Democrats of the county that Shan
non is to be the Democratic nominee and
1t is not at all probable that he will have
any serious opposition in the convention.
de is one of the most popular young
men in the county and was elected COM
missioner from this district over DR.. G.
N. Wood at the last election. The Re-
publicans put Wood forward as their
strongest man and were confident of his
election. G. ID. Cantly, city marshal of
this city, and Bud Moore, of Deming,
have also been spoken of in connection
with the Office of sheriff. but Cantly has a
good thing as marshal and is making no
and Moore has little strength IN the
northern part of the county. There are
numerous candidates for most of the
other Offices and the campaign promises
to be an exciting one. Deming has sew
eral strong candidates and will undoubt-
edly secure good share of the nomina-
tions in the county convention.
There is quite strong sentiment here
in favor of the nomination of Gov.
Thornton for delegate to congress if he
could be induced to accept it. Many of
the Democrats here are of the opinion
that the passage of the bill for the ad-
mission of New Mexico to the Union
through the house Of representatives was
largely due to his efforts during his re-
cent visit to Washington. If tho COVER
nor could be induced to accept the nomi-
nation he could rely on the support of
the Democrats of Grant county and
handsome majority at the election.
LAFAYETTE.
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