Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-16
new MEXICO NEWS NOTES
Gossip from Several Sections of the
Territory Gathered from Our
Exchanges.
FRUIT OUTLOOK In San JUAN COUNTY
A Conservative Estimate Places the
Fruit Crop in San Juan County
This Year at 100000
Pounds.
GRANT COUNTY.

Pounds.
GRANT COUNTY.
Under the new jury law Grant county
contains 2,S17 qualified jurors.
Harry Stine, of Abilene, Kas., has ar
rived at Cliff, Grant county, where ht
takes a position as foreman of the Gill
Farm company.
The Orowfoot Cattle Co., w. H Jack
manager, has delivered 400 head # mixed
cattle to e. W. Holcomb, of Silver City
last Wednesday at the ruling market
price. The stock was shipped to Garden
City, Kas.
Perry q Roberts have purchased SOC
head of one, two and three year old steers
from Stockton, Shirley and others to be
delivered at Silver City May /. The cat.
tie will be shipped to Colorado pasture
for fattening.
Cochran q Bowling have contracted
for the delivery of 5000 head of one, two
and three year old steers from the Lyon &
Campbell company at Silver City May l.
The price paid was the highest of the
season.
/ About 5000 head of cattle from the
Sapello country will be shipped from
/ Deming during this week, on contracts to
eastern buyers. Cattle have been in
such great demand of late that it is
very difficult to find any for sale in this
part of the country.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
let large contract to R. D. Hall, of DEM
ing, for changing the line of the Silver
City branch between Whitewater and
Silver City, and heavy levee work near
Hudson. The work is being done under
the direction of Engineer j. M. Meade.
ooLFAx COUNTY.
John N. Bracket has rented his farm
on the Vermejo to j. j. Heringa and
Peter Van Brieggen.
l.. O'Brien, Of Trinidad, who has ac-
cepted a position with the Red River
Mining News, hasleft for the great gold
camp.
Miss Edwina Dawson has returned to
her home in Ration from the east, where
she had been attending school for the
past year.
Hoober Swezey, who has been writing
up Red River and ad AGENT camp for sew
eral of the big dailies, is taking rect for
few days at Ration.
D. q. Leahy, county superintendent of
schools, advertises that he will conduct a
teachers examination in the public
schools of Ration on April "a.
George Beringer, of the Ration Report
ter, has gone to Red River to set things in
motion for the Red River Mining News
which will make it's initial bow to the
public soon.
Ration now has hack connection with
Blossburg. Mr.. McClain, who opened a
livery stable at the latter place recently,
now runs hack to Ration twice each day.
DoNA ANA COUNTY.
Alfalfa is worth from $15 to $12 per
ton at Las Cruces.
May 6 has been named Field Day at
the Agricultural college this year.
Work on the Selden dam has been dis
continued on account of high water.
Rincon cattle shipments continue to
show large increase over previous years.
Rincon is troubled with petty thieves
who are getting away with everything
portable.
Rincon expects to have railroad shops
and beet sugar factory before the sum-
mer is over.
Crops are reported in fine condition in
the Iona Psrda country. Hay cutting
will commence soon.
Duncan McCowan and James Madison
have been appointed school directors in
the Organ district by Superintendent
Gonzales.
Major John Swartz has been appointed
q deputy by Assessor Prudential, and
will make tour of the county to receive
reports.
H. ID. Bowman, the Las Cruces banker,
went to Ell Paso on Wednesday to attend
meeting Of the Rio Grande Dam COM
pany, and thence to st. Louis.
The ranges 10 the vicinity Of Rincon
will be entirely cleared of cattle this sea-
son. The demand continues to exceed
the supply. Many Of the cattlemen will
restock with higher grade of cattle.
Deputy Sheriff Meadows recently ar
rested Rito Montoya at Iona Parda. He
has terrorized the people of that locality
for some time, an especial object of his
aversion being one Agapito Torres upon
whom be has fred several times from ann
bush. Montoya 10 one of the men ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff Mcleod at the
time Of that officers death.
There remains NO question of the sue
cess Of beet sugar factory in the Mesilla
| valley. Rincon offers special induce
ments for the construction of q factory
here and our farmers should take hold Of
the matter and see that We get the fac
tory. Plant beets, and demonstrate to
capital that the investment would be q
good one says the Rincon Weekly.
sAN JUAN COUNTY.
4 Mrs. Wise of Bloomfield, is visiting viii
her daughter, Mrs. Q. O. Pinkney, al
Pennington.
4 d. M. Scales, U. 8. special attorney, de
partmsnt Of Justice, visited Aztec dur
ing the week.
| MISS Lillia Markley finished her schoo
last week at Jewstt, and is now at HON,
10 Pennington.
Miss Nora and Miss Bertha Whitlock
who have been visiting with their sister
Mrs. e. g. Condit, at Pennington, lef
recently for Durango.
The alfalfa fields are looking we'll, ant
literally speaking, stock 10 in clover
This 10 going to be great year for al
falfa, and 4 fair year for stock.
A conservative estimate places th'
! fruit Drop in San Juan county this yea
at Is 100000 pounds. This is . heav,
advance ON previous years, but the pre-
dictiou sesms TO be fully warranted b,
Ahe outlook q tho present time.