Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-24
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Taos, July 3.-Notwithstanding the
sharp frost of Tuesday night last, which
did great damage to vegetables, our crops
by reason of the light rains of the past
week give every prospect of an abundant
harvest.
Judging from the ever increasing uan.
tlty of supplies which leave this place for
Amizette, that camp is certainly on the
crest of the wave of prosperity.
A party of the bellies of Taos, chaper.
oned by Mrs. s. Fl. Simpson and escorted
by Messrs. Gerson Gusdorf and J,B.
Brooke, are on visit to that altitudinous
camp.
Mr.. Butler, now of Gallup, but formerly
located at Amizette, where he ran two
chair barber shop, is again in the camp
on an anything but still hunt for the
parties who, during his absence, dis
mantled his building and removed his
outfit. 1t is said that one of his chairs,
after having for valuable consideration
changed ownership several times, is now
in shop in Red River City, where Mr.. B.
Will PloCVNu w T6Clblm q.
Percy Roberts of Lumberton, Rio
Arrlba county, is visiting his brother,
VIM. II. Roberts at this place.
COL A. W. Tenant is at Coyote, Mora
county, inspecting, with view to pur-
chasing certain copper mines belonging
to VIM. Hughes of this place, and Robt
Symonds of Coyote.
VIM. Hughes wears paternal air. It's
girl. Under the professional ministra-
tlons of DIR. Helmuth, lately returned from
the east, Mrs. Hughes is doing nicely.
Pensions have been granted to resi-
dents of this section as follows Original
to Agustin Truiillo, Go. E, First regiment
New Mexico volunteers; Ramon Barela.
Go. ID, New Mexico volunteers, and an
increase to Bruno Mata,
VIM. Anderson, the miller and mine
owner of Rio Hondo, is off on horseback
trip to Trinidad, Colo.
The normal institute, under the direc-
torship of Professor VIM. Adair, now of
Antonito, Colo, formerly teacher here,
is now in session with five candidates for
pedagogical (whewD honors. Mrs. Adair,
q Taos girl, formerly Miss Virginia
ClothIer, accompanies her husband.
AS l write, the bells are tolling for the
funeral of one of Taos Oldest residents,
Juan Ignacio Ribal, who had nearly
reached his 90th year. He had been CON
fined to his bed for nearly year, was
formerly member of company G, Third
cavalry New Mexico volunteers under
Captain Pedro Sanchez, and was In the
Valverde engagement.
For quiet agricultural county with no
reputation as mining section, our rec
ord of the past year of 800 lode and 55
placer locations is not bad. In fact con-
sidering the output of Amizette, Red
River, Franklin, La Belle, Rio Hondo, Rio
Grande, Hopewell and Ancones we claim
to be lusty infant as mineral producer
Our climate is everything that can be
desired as we have a variety, from an
altitude of 1000 feet at Amizette to
Judging from the heat of the water and
the sulphurous odof) the opposite OK.
treme at Joseph's Hot Springs. We have
combined advantages possessed by few
localities in the United States, as sur.
rounding our mining localities are broad,
productive, inhabited valleys, which sup.
ply our miners the necessar,es of life at
their doors, while the water and wood
supply is unlimited.
We're our agricultural resources more
generally known our population would
soon be trebled. On the west side of the
Rio Grande and between Red River and |
Oostilla are large tracts of government
land In every way suitable for colonial
tion, while lands now under cultivation in
the valley and adjacent to the county seat
can be bought with a perpetual water
right for much less than the value of the
water alone III other localities.
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