Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-11
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

There is more talk of railroad building
| to Hematite aud Elizabethtown.
Malaga, in the lower Pecos valley, is
building new stone school house.
En-. Sheriff 0. W. McCuiston, of Collar
county, is now located in Union county,
his postoiilce being Exeter.
Roswell has more shade trees set out on
its streets and for miles adjoining the
town on the south than any other town OF
its size in the territory.
Eli Green returned from Trinidad last
evening, but had not the slightest clew to
the mysterious disappearance of his
brother, Billy. John Green remained in
Trinidad.-Optic.
Israel King is very sick at San Marcial
with pneumonia and Tuesday wired for
his wife. Mrs. King, who has been quite
ill herself, left Wednesday to care for her
husband Headlight.
Socorro note: The first cutting of al
falfa will be fully two weeks later than
usual in this locality, owing to the con-
tinued high winds and cold nights.
Usually it is cut between the 18th and Goth
of May.
There will be no fruit in this vicinity
on either side of the river this summer,
except grapes. There has never been
snch complete failure during the sixteen
years the writer has resided here. The
grapes promise full crop, however,
San Marcial Bee.
The mill at Maxwell City was sold on
the 2Sth ultimo by Aug. Wolf d. Co., of
Philadelphia, Pa, to Fulghum, Frazier q
Mize, who we understand will start the
wheels rolling and continue to keep them
on the whr. The consideration was
So ,6OO.--Stockman
Any and every truthful old settler in
southeastern New Mexico will make affi-
davit that this has been the most dis
astrous spring that was ever known
since the fret settlement of the Pecos
valley. As an evidence thereof, this is
the first spring in which the apple crop
has been, in any degree affected by late
frosts.- Roswell Record.
Some fine ore specimens we're brought
down from the Washington mine, Cochiti,
by j. A. johnson, yesterday. The sam
Piles assay 1920 in gold and 1922 in silver.
The mine is shipping every week two car
loads of ore averaging $50 ton. The
vein is twelve feet wide and the shipping
ore comes from six-foot streak 10 the
center. The rest of the vein averages
$40, and there are 1900 tons of ore on
the dump awaiting the building of mill
to work it.-Democrat.
E Roseberry, for himself, W. G. Lane,
Steve Lane and Joe Street, have located
four rock and two placer claims at Tres
Piedras, some twenty miles from the d.
& r. G. track. Steve will leave San Mar
cial about May Is to begin development
work. The quartz is well permeated with
traces of the yellow metal.-San Marcial
Bee.
The mortgages sale of the Moreno
Water e. Mining company, to satisfy the
holders Of two promissory notes given on
August ~, 1863 aud September l6, 1869,
rea pectively, held BY Marcus Brunswick,
was made last week from the front door
Of the court house in Springer. F.A.
Man zanares, of Las Vegas was the pur.
chaser. This property is to-day worth
$4,000 The notes against the prop
erty aggregated $18.265.76, with the at
tor1eys fees, ETC., added Springer Stock
man.
Manager Goetz, of the beet sugar fac
tory, returned last Monday accompanied
by Mr.. James Taylor, president of the
Texas Construction company of Fort
Worth, who received the contract to erect
the foundation and walls of the building.
There were nine bids for the work, rang
ing from $4,000 to $4,000. The mater
ial in the walls is to be pressed brick,
manufactured at Milsap, Texas, while the
foundation will be of nstive rock and ce.
ment. The contractors were below all
others, and the material ia conceded to be
the best to be had for walls. The Acme
Pressed Brick company furnish the brick,
about 1,OOO,O0O, which will require be-
tween 80 and 100 cars.-Eddy Current.