Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-22
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Ex-Sheriff Hunt, of Albuquerque ia in
Mexico.
There are no vacant desirable houses
in Las Vegas.
The saloons of Socorro were tightly
closed on last Sunday.
The Pecos river was higher last week
than 1t has been for year past,
The city dads of Ration have ordered a
new ordinance repeating the Sunday law
of that town.
Joe de Oliveva, of Fort Sumner,
marketed $4,000 pounds of wool in Las
Vegas last week.
The lawns around Deming are looking
more attractive this summer than ever
and show careful attention on the part of
property owners.
New Mexico produces millions of
pounds of wool annually. Why would
not wooden mill pay here? asks the Las
Vegas Examiner.
L. Romero & Son, at Wagon Mound,
lost large reservoir by the heavy rains
last week. The reservoir had been built
at an expense of $1,000.
Socorro Cheftain: The continued
heavy rains in the western part of Socorro
county have made plenty of grass. The
county is dark green and very beautiful.
Cerrillos will no doubt boom for the
next few months. With the new smelter
to be erected, and the building of the
Denver d Rio Grande road to that point,
business will hum.
The peach crop on the Mimbres this
year is unusually large and fruit growers
are receiving good returns from their
sales, which are for the most part con-
fined to county towns.
Las Vegns imports thousands of dol
lars worth of poultry, eggs and butter,
and good prices are paid for them. A
hint for a good number out of employ
ment.-Las Vegas Examiner.
Roswell Register: J. H. Hampton and
Misses May and Willie Meeks returned
from their mountain trip Sunday. They
were caught by few rain storms but on
the whole had an excellent time.
The Santa Fe railway company is using
the immense Stag pile at the Rio Grande
smelter to rip-rap the road-bed in the bad
places along the river between Socorro
and Albuquerque and San Marcial.
E. c. Houghton, cattle inspector for
southern New Mexico, has accepted po-
sition with the Corralitas company Mt
Corralitas, Mexico, to look after their
immense cattle interests in the capacity
of manager. His family will continue to
reside in Deming.
About Springer this summer more
snakes have been killed than in any
previous year. number of large rattlers
have been killed and every week some
one meets large reptiles of different
species. This is not poor whisky joke,
adds the Springer Stockman.
The Albuquerque Citizen announces
to let the public know what they may ex-
pect regarding the Corbett-Ftzsimmons
mill. The Albuquerque gentleman, who
meandered north to Denver on business
in connection Herewith, informs the
sporting editor of that paper that he will
not report action until word is received
from certain we'll known and influential
Chicago gentleman, who is anxious to
have the mill come off in or near that
city, but who has not, as yet, fixed up
certain matters pertaining to the
scheme.
The Chisum ranch orchard is loaded
down with apples this year. On one
twig no thicker than lead pencil we
counted twenty-four big maiden blush
apples yesterday and there we're hundreds
on the branches. Many of the trees will
bear at least eight bushels each. 1t 10
only question of how many can be left
without breaking the trees down, for
many of them must be stripped of half
the green fruit to save the trees. Her
man Weiser, the orchardist, always takes
pleasure in showing prospectors and per-
| sons interested in fruit growing around
the place.-Roswel Register.
Judge Needham G. Collier and family
are home again to their host Of friends,
all feeling better after delightful So
iourn in the romantic spots of northern
New York. On the shores of Lake Cham
plain, under tho shadow of Ticonderoga,
the Judge blended southern blood with
revolutionary patriotism. Although he
has travelled extensively through the
busy marts of the east, he returns
to the bench an unconverted Democrat
with the excise law in one hand and the
Wilson bill in the other to knock out un-
believing Philistines. Judge Collier will
be occupied in chambers until the meet
ing of the supreme court,'July 20. 1t is
understood that the twenty or more cases
appealed from his cleaning-up process
will be punched 80 as to make his stay
off the bench as short as possible and all