Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-20
CONGRESS And The FAIR.
The National lrrigators Royalty Re-
ceived In the Capital City-Three
Cheers and a Tiger for
Santa Fe.
DELEGATES GONE TO SEE The COUNTRY
Our Fruits at the Fair Win the Big
PriZe-Personal Mention and Newsy
Notes Pertaining to the Great
Gathering.

After giving three hearty cheers and q
tiger for Santa Fe, the delegates to the
national irrigation congress, who spent
yesterday here, boarded their special
train on the A., L. & s. f. for a
junket among the farms and orchards
and thrifty towns in the lower Rio
Grande and Pecos valleys. Their trip
will cover nearly 1,4OO miles.
The delegates were loud in their ex-
pressions of surprise and delight over
what they saw in Santa Fe. Citizens
We'd with one another in entertaining
them. Homes and gardens and orchards
were thrown wide open to them, and
while many were interested in the his
toric sights by far the greater number,
naturally, found their chief delight in the
wonderfully productive orchards, in the
new irrigation systems, built and build
ing, the great hydraulic dam. etc. The
many civil engineers in the party
were specially pleased with these features
VI AioOOiA SdApd L % 4Nob u lCW Vi Iu5ul
were practical fruitgrowers and expressed
establishment at what was revealed to
them az the carriages conveyed them
from orchard to garden. Samples of
choice fruits raised by irrigation were
given them freely everywhere and when
they reached their train they found the
baggage car piled high with baskets of
good things to supply them while en-
route through the lower country.
The irrigators are in the Mesila valley
this afternoon where Las Cruces is show
ing them every attention and tomorrow
they enter the Pecos valley. Gov. Thorn
ton and wife, exGov. Prince, Hon. G. M.
Shannon and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Maltby,
of Missouri, guests of Mrs. Thornton,
Hon. Geo. Curry, Manager Blodgett, of
Pecos Irrigation company, Hon. G. A..
Richardson and other leading citizens of
the territory are on the train and doing
all things necessary to entertain the
guests and to reveal to them the resources
of our rich territory. Gov. Thornton
and party will be with them until Tuesday.
SANTA FE TAKES THE BUN.
As briefly announced IN these columns
last evening, the first prize for the best
and most varied fruit display at the terri
torial fair was awarded yesterday after
noon to Santa Fe county. The collection
is superb one and no orchardist who
takes pains to examine the size, flavor
and wide range of fruit products therein
shown can doubt but that the highest
henors have been worthily bestowed. A
New MEXICAN representative spent the
better part of Wednesday looking over
the frEit exhibit, and found marvellous
display there from Dona Ana, Colfax,
Chaves, Eddy, Bernalillo and San Juan
counties, and for while he tried to re-
conche his first impression that all of
them were good enough to win first
prize, but when the small fruits,
the apricots, plums, cherries,
raspberries, strawberries, blackberries,
currants, ETC., were taken into account,
along with the eighty varieties of apples,
sixty eight of pears, twenty five of plums,
'welve of peaches and two of ounces,
which went to make up our home display,
t was readily to be seen where the first
orize would 60 if justice were considered.
Santa Feans are much gratified |
,ver the receipt of a telegram from Mr..
tivenburg announcing the award of the
weepstake prize to this county.
FAIR NOTES AND PERSONALS.
The pyrotechnic display last night was
me.
A grand bicycle parade is billed for to-
light.
Joe Bale is entered for the half-mile
INNING dash to-day.
Cochiti has magnificent exhibit on
lew in the exposition hall
There we're over 500 residents of Santa
9 at the fair grounds yesterday.
A light shower of rain passed over the
lir grounds about noon yesterday, but
i'd no harm to the race track.
In the bicycle races, Worries won the
alf-mile heat in 1:12, and Keen won the
mile race in 2:3612.
Hon. w. s. Hopewell, Mr.. Fred Lindner
I'd Banker Booher, of Hillsboro, have {
zen largely instrumental in showing the
sitors at the fair what Sierra county ,
n do. The mineral exhibit is by far the
rgest and most attractive on fairgrounds.
The 2:3O class trotting for 5000 was =
On by Lizzie s, in 1928; Lucky John '
IN three straight heats in the $40 class
cing race, purse 5000, best time 2:47; a
Q half mile running race was captured
Ben Cannon over Artless, the time of
9 heats being 5111a and 5o24.
The Ration base ball players beat the s
hletics, of Albuquerque, yesterday, f
Their worse than they beat the Indian
nool nine. The score stood % to in !,
7or of Ration. The Santa Fe and II
llup teams CROSS bats to-day end the II
nner of this game will play the Ration il
i'm for the first prize tomorrow.
The base ball sports of Las Vegas will fl
interested in learning that at Albu-
cirque Tuesday the forenoon game u
od, Albuquerque 1, and Santa Fe 4. IL
9 Santa Fe team, it is said, played a p
eblo import, and the Albuo uerque m
lie had enough imports to make the
ne seeming snap.-Las Vegas Ex-
liner. r.
citizen Mclean, of Rocky Ford, Colo, ia
d yesterday, after seeing Santa Fe's al
hards, that this valley had better get