Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-19
NEW MEXICO FAIR NOTES

Says the Citizen: Santa Fe puts up a
swift game of ball.
Joe Bale was beaten in the five-eighths
of a mile running race yesterday.
Gov. and Mrs. Thornton will remain in
Albuquerque until the close of the fair.
The exhibits at the territorial fair are
being admired by thousands of visitors.
An unusually large number of repre-
sentative newspaper people are in attend
ance.
Gallup is one of the best towns in New
Mexico, and in base ball and everything
else it is hard to beat.
The grand trades procession was most
attractive and imposing. The pyro-
tecnic display tonight will be fine.
The championship bicycle race, one
mile, was won by John M. Moore; Bert
Worries, second, Tom Scott, third. Time,
2:36H.
M.P. Moore, of the internal revenue
office, Santa Fe, is in Albuquerque, the
guest of the deputy internal revenue col
lector, VIM. Burns.
The fourth game of the base ball tourn'
ament resulted in victory for the Ration
team over the Indian school team by q
score of % to Z.
This has been observed as general
holiday in Albuq querque to-day. The At
lantic 4 Pacific shops and most of the
stores we're closed for the day.
Three exhibits of sandstone are shown
the gray, white and req. The two former
are found overlying the coal bodies and
close to White Oaks, while the latter il
| found on the slope of Lone mountain. Gov
Thornton so admired these great blocks
of stone that he made request that they
be shipped to Santa Fe after the fair.
Solicitor General Victory and Mr.. Fitz
hugh Thornton returned from Albuquer.
que this morning. Mr.. Victory reports
that the territorial fair is dazzling sue
cess, both as regards the attendance
and the large and varied exhibits of the
fruits, vegetables, grains, minerals and
other products of New Mexico. HI
pronounces the Santa Fe fruit exhibit
superb, and is naturally proud of the fact
that his fine exhibits of choice cherries
and raspberries were the only ones of tht
kind displayed.
Visitors to old town should take in the
ancient church built in 1901, 2, 8, 4 and
and have their attention called to tn,
building to the west of the court house
which was the residence of Gen. Manue
Armiio, commanding the Mexican forcet
at the time of the occupation of New
Mexico by the American forces unde
Gen. Kearney, in 1846. It is also know
as the building where Major (afterward
General) Rucker afterward lived with hi
family, and where, it is said, Gen. Phil
Sheridan's wife, daughter of Majo
Rucker, was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Citizen
The fair is success, even beyond tn
hopes or expectations of the most san
guine of our citizens. Taken altogether
nothing like it has ever been witnessed i
all the long years during which the fai
has been annually held. There are prod
ucts of the soil, both vegetable and min
eral, on view, such as have never befor
been gathered together in the great south
. west, and sight of them gives promis
: for the future which should be sufficien
to arouse the hopes and the ambitions q
even the most despondent.- .-Albuquerqu
, Citizen.
The Old Abe mine shows specimen Q
free milling gold ore of immense valu
as does the Lady Godiva with specime
assayed at 1000 ounces of silver an
! thirty ounces of gold at depth of Al
, feet. The specimen from the Old All
Q was taken out week ago at a depth {
, 600 feet. The North Homestake show
:, Leaf and wire gold upon which it is in
!. possible to place value. In the Jica
lila district the Eureka mine shows fire
gold in chalcopyrites.
No. 8 from the north last evenin
brought in detail of ten men from con
pany B, New Mexico National Guard, {
Santa Fe. They were armed and equippe
in business-like way, such as to refe,
4 credit on their captain, William Strove
who, unfortunately was detained at hon
y by sickness. The men we're under Il
: command Maj. Neustatter, of Go
Thornton's staff. The major is an q
g thusiastic guardsman, having serve
' three years in the national guard of Ar
a zona before coming to New Mexico. +
IL is the efficient Office deputy for Unite
8, States Marshal Hall, at Santa Fe.-Alb
querque Citizen.