Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-30
LAS VEGAS IN THE LEAD.
The Proposition for a South Road
From This City-Some Sheep Sta
tistics-Notes From the Capital
City.

Special Correspondence Of the Optic.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, October 29;h, '97
From all indications there is going
to be q race between Las Vegas and
Santa Fe as to which shall be the first
in the field 10 build a railro d south to
connect with the Eddy. Broe.' enter
prise building north to White 0aks4
A few-very few-Santa Feans are
awake to the importance of the d. &
R. 6. road running south $50 miles to
connect at White Osks with the new
FL Paso line, and they are earnestly
moving in that direction, but they feel
somewhat handicapped since their
home paper has entirely overlooked
this point and comes out with IN cdi-
lorIal suggesting tbattLas Vegas ought
80 build south TO catch the White Onks-
Ell Paso business. With both THE
OPTIo and the New Meaican on the
SIDE of Las Vegas. the people Of Santa
Fe appear to feel. that they
have somewhat Of. an uphill
pull with everything but a
all hold; yet, nevertheless, they sby
hey will make Q scrap 10 induce The
ID. & r. G., to see its own interests in
he premises and they express a reason
sble hope that success may crown their
sfa-i 1Kha4Assr .a.y LvsL r~s.its
your subscriber notes with glee that
,ome attention is being given this sub
ct by the citizens Of both Las Vegas
al .'ye ancient, y aDd be trusts, in the
interests of the Territory at large, that
It will lot ell end in-wind!
Changing the subject abruptly and
speaking CT Territorial assessments
reference to the Sheridan Hobar
charges that have not yet received in
vestigaiion, however-isn't 1t passing
strange that the county assessors have
not done better by the sheep in 1897
han they did in 1862 Were not the
sheep, for tsxabls purposes, worth 9
great deal more 10 March 1897 thnn IN
March 1861 Take The boosted '.Amer
ican'' county of Grant, for instance.
BY an examination Of the official
'eturns to the Territorial auditor We
6nd that in 1896 Grant county
reported ~ $40 head Of sheep. valued
At $12 800. In 1897, Grant county
reported IL 280 sheep, valued 81
SIT. 1901 Then, going TO the other ex-
r.me, take Valencia county, where, ip
1896, there were, according to the
tiiciaI report, 1b6 sl5 head Of sheep,
at 1921 842 while the a~ssess-
nent return for 1897 shows 173, 952
mad, valued at 1884 94z, and ye,
'ome Of the wise newspapers pirate
ibour the la e. increase .'there ought
be" in the taxsble property Of New
When it comes to market
"a %uation, taxable values don't 60 up,
t appears n
CAPITAL NOTES.
Ex.D Delegate Catron and wife and
Miss Walz, their protege, lett for th.
East, last night. Mr.. Catron will shoe
Up in Washington, before long tbt
,thers go to Berlin, Mrs. Cairon look
ng after the finishing touches Of be,
,retty niece's education before shf
veds the. handsome Ben Longwill.
A. F. Wuensch, Of Denver, one of
he most conscientious mining en-.
in the west, stoppad over here
Est night, for q talk with Goyerno
and Ex-Governor Thornton
vuensch and several cap tal,sts we
route to Arizona on mining business.
Since his return from Denver, Super
ntendent Bergman has been laid up
t the p~enitentiary with rheumatism
hat Denver News reporter cruel,
lisrepr' sented the colonel, it is wei
nown here, but the New Mexican
asn't had the good grace to send =
fporter to him and ask for the facts
prefers to ''squib" him %editorially
Surveyor General Vance, who, BY
ie way, is daily making friends Ii
anita Fe, will get q new clerk, to-mor-
wv night, in the person of MIR. Allen
IcCord, of Fort Wipgate. The young
ian is q fine fellow and very COM
You may guess that 1t took
,me clever work by his friends in thu
ates to have him transferred from tbs
ar to the interior department.
PATRICK