Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-30
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Counterfeit silver dollars are circulating
at San Marcial.
A.P. Swineford, land office inspector,
has gone from Las Cruces TO Tucson.
Development ia being pushed on at
least twenty-five claims in La Belle gold
district.
Las Cruces Republican,: If all we hear
is true, the murderers of Col. Fountain
are getting iu pretty close quarters.
Sheriff Pat f. Garrett has decided to
become a citizen of the Mesilla valley,
and will shortly move his family there.
Major Arthur Morrison, who has lived
in New Mexico for forty seven years,
celebrated his 18th birthday at Las Vegas
on Saturday.
The Lynch mill at the Red Bandana
mine near Elizabethtown is in operation
and is said to be turning ont $1,000 a
week.
Dennis Coffin, of Cerrillos, has been ad-
mitted to the Soldiers home ct Santa
Monica, CAL, and left on Wednesday night
for that place.
L. G. Morris and three sons are work
ing copper mine abupt fifteen miles
from kincon and are siippias ore to the
Deming sampler.
Francisco Ascarate, brother of Guada-
lupe and j. r. Ascarate, died at Las
Cruces, sged 40 years. He leaves a
widow and several children.
len or twelve lots have changed hands
this week at prices from $3.50 upwards.
There are some in good locations which
are now held as high as $500 and $780,
La Belle Cresset.
Rev. Sam Jones will not visit Las
Vegas or Albuquerque on his present
lecturing tour, the Louisville, KY, lecture
bureau having positively refused to allow
him to come this way.
The Albuquerque Fair association has
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: Charles F. Meyers, presi-
dent; w. S. Striokler, treasurer; Wiley M.
Weaver, Thomas Hughes, w. A. Maxwell,
Alfred Grunsfeld, E. s. Stover, and E. l..
Washburn, executive committee. The
secretary will be appointed by the execu-
tive committee.
In the matter of John w. Schofield, re-
ceiver, vs.. Will Spiegelberg, a jury being
waived, the cause WAS tried by the court
and verdict given for the defendant.
This was an action to enforce stock
holders liability. 1t was claimed by the
defendant that he was not stockholder
of the Albuquerque National bank at the
time it suspended. d.-Albuquerque Citizen.
At no time in the history of this section
for several years, if in fact ever, has there
been as much good, active work and pro-
gress in developing mines as at the pres.
ent time. There is not district in this
county in which men are not at work
developing their claims, in addition to the
operations in progress by the various
companies; and an encouraging sign is
the fact that from nearly all come good
reports Deming Headlight
Emilio valdez, one of the most enter
prising ranchmen and agriculturists in
northern New Mexico, located some fifteen
miles west Of Springer, on the Rayado
stream, was met by a Stockman scribe a
few days since, when Mr.. Valdez related
some intended Improvements he will
make on his fine farm. Last spring he
built several miles of irrigation ditch,
also large reservoir; this season he in.
tends raising the bank of the reservoir
about four feet, which will give HIM snf-
fioient water to irrigate about 1875 acres
OF land that has not heretofore been under
ditch. In all Mr.. Valdez intends to plant
large crops this season. He has recently
rented tract of his land TO some German
farmers, and all know their ability as
farmers and what to expect from them.
Mr.. Valdez, we might here suggest, is a
good Democrat, believing in honest gov
ernment rule by the people.