Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-27
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

James Lynch shipped 200 ounces of
gold last week to tine Denver mint from
Moreno Valley placers.
Lieutenant Seyburn, who has been
stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kas, for
two years, returned to his regiment at
Fort Bayard last Thursday.
This portion of Colfax county has no
occasion to irrigate this season. The rain
fall is ample for all crops and an unpre-
cedented yield of grass.-Raton Range.
The Luther Sproule ranch at Ration
was sold Saturday at masters sale under
a decree of court. James Hartsell was
the purchaser and the price paid was 49,
O3OGO.
Mr.. Fred H. Peitz, the new county
surveyor, has established himself in Las
Cruces and is prepared to attend to busi-
ness in his line. Mr.. Petz has had ex-
perience on irrigation works, and is said
to be very competent man.
Last week, School Superintendent s.
W. Sherfey, of Dona Ana county, received
from the war department a check for
$48.23 in final settlement of his account
as captain of the 9th Indiana cavalry
Tom Manefee, catcher and all around
player, and Jack Holland, pitcher and
center fielder, two of the very best base
ball players to-day in the southwest,
leave this evening for Gallup, where they
have accepted ns.-Albuquerqu
Citizen.
An Albuquerque lawyer tells the Citizen
that as far as he can learn, about thirty
cases have been appealed from Judge
Golfers bench. This, he says, is not
astonishing considering that Judge Col
lier has been wiping the ground up with
his delayed docket.
Last Saturday evening John Johnson,
one of the Oldest and best known resi-
dents of Blossburg, in temporary fit of
alteration, and when no one was present,
emptied the contents of shotgun into
his brain, producing immediate death.
Laf Clapp's mill at Hatch is greatly
improved this season and the 11aiity of
the flour turned out is much above the
average of small mills. Mr.. Clapp is
also prepared to roll barley and make it
in every respect, as good as the Califor-
mia product. -Rincon Weekly.
The lessees of the Mountain Queen in
the Baldy district have received returns
from car of ore smelted at Omaha and
Denver which run $73 ton. 1t paid
handsome revenue over shipping and
sme.ting charges. The ores of this camp
are easy smelted and the charges are only
$S to SO per ton.
Col. T. G. Shoemaker will this fall
bring 10000 steers to his pasture on the
Maxwell grant between Eagle Tail noun
tain and the foot hills. He uses this
particularly for winter pasture. Capt.
VIM. French, who has leased big pasture
on the Vermejo expects to turr loose
1000 or 5000 more cattle there about
August l. They come from the Magda-
lena, New Mexico, rict.-Raton
Range.
For several years gang of thieves has
systematically operated at Ration, and
until last Wednesday its members have
succeeded in euding detection. On that
day Mrs. Jerome Troy, who had lost some
chickens, gave the officers some pointers
that resulted in the Rrrrst of Mrs. Fry and
her two daughters and Mrs. Ash, and the
recovery of quantities of stolen goods.
Other houses will be searched and more
arrests will doubtless follow.
Mr.. Geo. Lynch, of Colorado, N. NJ,
looked in on Tuesday. In Mr.. Lyrch's
and it extends over fifteen
years, there never was such crop of
wheat and other small grain in the Colo
RADIO valley as has been reaped this sea-
son. The wheat has suffered little dam
age from the recent heavy rains. The
second cutting Of alfalfa in the valley is
by far the heaviest ever secured in tho
Weekly.
Hayden and Hubbel, of Cleveland, Ohio,
are now experimenting with their dry
washer on the San Pedro placer gravel.
The machine has been already tested with
success in the Animas placers and they
hope also to make it work with profit on
the San Pedro deposits. II it should
prove so, the parties who are handling it
may be sure of an immense return on
their Investments.