Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1896-09-02


Santa Fe, N. M, Sept. l, 1896.
The week ending August 81 averaged
about normal IN temperature and rain
fall. The precipitation was mostly in
form of local showers and not we'll dis
tributed.
Crops are so far advanced that rainfall
can not benefit them to any great extent
but the rains were of considerable benefit
to the stock ranges.
The greatest total of rainfall reported
for the week was 335 inches at Gallinas
Springs in San Miguel county; next in
amount LAO inches, Hillsboro, in Sierra
Wagon Mound.
The stock ranges have generally i'm
proved during the week and are generally
in very fair condition.
Some localities need more rnin to make
good feed for the winter, while in others
the wild grass is being cut and marketed
for hay. Corn is beginning to ripen and
the outlook for good crop is favorable.
Alfalfa is doing very we'll and the third
and fourth crops are now being cut with
good results. Vegetable gardens are in
good condition and the markets well sup
piled locally. !.
The following extracts from few of
the reports received at this Office will be
found of interest:
Albua uerque-M. Custers-Heavy thun-
derstorm on the 23rd. Total rainfall for
the week O.42 of an inch.
| Aztec-Prof. H. H. Griffin-Temper
ture averaged about 10 degrees lower than
last week. good rain on the 9th. The
corn acreage is larger than usual and the
early varieties are ripening.
| Bernalillo-Brother Gabriel-The week
has been favored by occasional showers
which proved very beneficial to crops in
general. Grapes are maturing very rap
idly; also corn. Ranges seem to improve
and cattle profit thereby. Potatoes seem
to be inferior to last year. Sweet pota-
toes have proved very successful in this
section. Days fairly warm and nights
cool.
Ciruela.-A. M. Hollenbeck-Thls week
has been more favorable, cool and cloudy
with two nice showers the first part of
the week. Grass coming again nicely,
but needs more rain for winter feed.
Early corn is being gathered; owing to
the dryness of the fore part of the month
it has matured early and the crop is very
light. Rainfall 1.12 inches.
Eddy-H. G.. Holabird - During the
past week we have had delightful rains
here. The sugar beets are doing finely
and the outlook very favorable.
Gallinas Springs. q. .Whitmore-The
past week has been excellent for all kinds
of crops and grass. Total rainfall for
the week was 1886 inches. Some thunder
on the 9th.
Las vegas-Dr. F. H. Atkins-A cool,
moderately cloudy week. Crop condi-
tions have remained the same except a
little less favorable for maturing corn.
Remaining crops not irrigated look for
lorn.
| Los Alamos-Wm. Frank-The weather
has been cloudy and damp nearly all the
week. Wheat and oats are being harvest
ed and the grain is good and sound but a
light yield. Corn is doing fairly we'll.
| Lower Penasco--H. Won Bosse-The
rainfall OF the past week too light to be
of any great benefit. Days more or less
cloudy and warm while the nights were
mostly very cool. Crops are now too far
advanced to be benefited by rains. The
ranges are dry and unless we have more
rains soon there will be scarcity of feed
for winter. Grasshoppers are very
abundant and doing considerable damage
to vegetables and corn.
| Hillsboro-R. A. Nickle-The best rain
of this season fell on the 9th, a steady
soak. Wheat and barley is all stored.
Corn, the only remaining crop, was bene-
6ted by the rain. Total rainfall, 1.40
inches.
Rincon-C. II. Raitt-If the rains this
week had been heavier the result would
have been more satisfactory. However,
corn, beans, alfalfa and the grass on the
range have made fair growth. There is
water in the river for irrigation.
Springer-Dr. L. Hines-Two fine rains
during the preceding week on the 22d and
23d, while too late for srops, they were of
benefit to the stock ranges, but the past
week was warm and dry. There we're some
local showers, but extent of territory Gov
cred limited. Most of oats and wheat
does not pay for harvesting and hay in
vegas very short.
Santa Fe-U. y. Weather Bureau-Tem-
perature and rainfall about normal. Feed
on the ranges has improved considerably.
Everything looking we'll. The wild gram
ma grass is being cut to quite an extent
on the ranges and brought to market for
hay.
r. r. HERaEy