Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-28
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

The Navajoes are selling string beans
at cents per flour sack in San Juan
county.
John Real had close on to 1000 bushels
of grain from forty acres at La Plata, San
Juan county. y
Peter Martinson was drowned Sunday
afternoon while bathing in the Animas
river on Mr.. Pieper's ranch near Cedar
Grove.
Oats that have attained growth of
seven feet, with beautifully developed
heads, is the kind of grain grown on J..
H. Phillips place at Fort Stanton.
Dec Hawley, who is known throughout
Colorado as an AL horseman, driver and
trainer, is handling number of fine colts
for JOHNNIE Pond. Doc informs US that
the horses will be taken to Albuquerque
for sale.-San Juan Times.
Messrs. Hampson & Smith still have
their construction outfit, teams, wagons,
etc., in this valley ready to extend the
valley railway to a Kansas City connec-
tion at Washburn, Texas, when the word
comes.-Eddy Argus.
Scarcely day passes that there is not
a flood in some portion of Grant county,
and while they nearly all do more or less
damage, the great good resulting to the
mines and ranges more than mpensates
for the loss, says the Sentinel.
Owing to some of the citizens at the
Brazos and TERRA Amarillo refusing to
grant right of way, the Biggs Lumber
company has stopped work on grade to
the latter place. There are some persons
who wouldn't know good thing if they
met it in the road.
The d. & R. G. has set the rate on fruit
at IS cents freight and $1.10 open ex-
press. These rates apply to Denver,
Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Trinidad.
San Juan Times. These rates are from
Durango, Colo, which is nearly 100
miles further from Denver than Santa
Fe.
The extension bridge of the Pecos Val
ley RAILWAY across the Delaware is com
pleted, and the construction force will at
once begin on the one over Black river.
When this is completed, the washing out
of bridges on the Pecos Valley line south
of Eddy will be thing of the past
Eddy Independent.
In the immigration Office is a bass, In
preserving fluid, that weighs six and one
quarter pounds. The fish was caught in
North Spring river, Roswell, on the 18th
instant, by Ed. Simonson. The largest
bass ever taken from the river weighed
two ounces more than this one, but was
not so long. Scott Truxtun was the
lucky taker, and he sent the catch to the
Columbian exposition. Last week Mr.
Truxtun and companion caught two
dozen bass in the Berrenda. The spring
rivers all have many bass yet, and the
lakes southwest of town teen with the
ish.-Eddy Argus.
1t is we'll known to the local friends of
the editor and proprietor of the Optic,
that he is at present attending the Kelley
institute, at Denver, from which institu-
tion he expects to graduate, after full
course, about the middle of next month
1t will be gratifying to these, as we'll as
to his friends throughout the territory
to know that after two weeks of treat
m ent he expresses himself as delighted
with the transformation he has expert
enced, while he has no doubt of his ulti.
mate and complete recovery.-Las Vegas
Optic.
Blair Burwell, prominent civil en-
gineer of Durango, arrived in the valley
this week, and is now engaged making
another survey for the proposed high lint
canal. This ditch, if completed, will b'
about twenty miles long and will waite
much of the high mesa land situate be
tween Aztec and Pennington, but th'
pro oiectors are constructing the ditch TO
placer mining purposes. The headgat
will be at the Koontz ford below town.
San Juan Index.