Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-19
TERRITORIAL NEWS BUDGET
Items of Interest from Different Sec
tiOns Of New Mexico As Cleaned
from Our Exchanges.
a BOOM IN REAL ESTATE At DEMIN(
An Early Start Will Be Made This
Season in Hydraulic Mining in the
Hillsboro Gold District.
sOJORRO COUNTY.

sOJORRO COUNTY.
The land outside of the Socorro Gil
grant is being surveyed and thrown ope
to settlers.
The acreage of wheat in Socorro count
is estimated to be so per cent more tina
in 1896.
The infant son of Adolfo Torres die
at Socorro on July IL and was buried O
the following day from the Catholi
church. Mrs. Torres is also quite i'll.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Lit Is again rumored that the Santa f
railroad intends to extend its line fro1
Lake Valley to Hillsboro.
E. Teaford, the Hermosa livery man, ha
settled permanently at Hillsboro, occu
pying the Lannon corral.
D. Dissinger of Hillsboro, sustained
stroke of paralysis recently affecting ths
right side of his face, throat and tongue
He is now improving under the care O
DR.. Given.
The Printer Boy, Golden Era and Blacl
Diamond mines paid off for June on July
10 at Hillsboro. Two Thousand four hun
dred dollars was the amount paid ont.
B. F. Bourne, of the Mesa del Orc com
pany, has rented the Grayson residence al
Hillsboro, and his family will shortly join
him there. The Graysons will probably
locate in Las Cruces.
Several engineers of the Mesa del Orc
company are at work near the site of the
big dam, and everything looks like an
early start in general hydraulic mining in
the Hillsboro gold placers.
Several members of the Milwaukee &
Hlllsboro Mining company are expected
at Hillsboro shortly to examine their ex-
tenslye properties and appoint man
ager for the same to succeed Owen Nc
Donald.
Professor A. E. Bennett of Silver City,
who will conduct the teachers normal at
Hillsboro during August, was associated
with Principal @. M. Light in preparing
the course of study for the institutes of
the territory. The Sierra county normal
will be not only an institute for teachers,
hut school of instruction for advanced
pupils whether they intend to teach or
not.
EDDY COUNTY.
Mrs. Mary Arohy, wife of Kelly Archy
who is employed as fireman on the
Pecos Valley road, died recently at Eddy.
There is little change in the condition
of Mrs. W. R. Owen, who is seriously ill
at Eddy. The question of life or death is
e at undatorpo1na1
Miss Cora Neal and @. H. MCCARTHY
will be united in marriage on Wednesday
evening, July 81. They will reside at
Eddy, occupying The Gilchrist cottage on
South Canon street.
Cantaloupes and grapes are now on the
Eddy market. The quantity is limited as
yet, but another week will see them in
profnslon. The Pecos valley admits no
superior in the production of these luz
1ries.
Manager Goetz of the beet sugar COM
oany, is absent on a trip to California and
Utah. He was delegate to the Trans
congress and at the close of !
his meeting it was his intention to visit
he beet sugar plant at Lehi, going later
10 Chino, Calf, for the purpose of in.
pecting the factory at that point. He
Will be absent about three weeks.
A petition to congress asking it to dis.
pprove the act of the recent legislature
# New Mexico providing chat all insur.
nee companies doing business in the
erritory deposit $4,000 with the terri
orial treasurer, was circulated in Eddy
uring the past week and generally
igned.
Superintendent of Agriculture Nisbet
eports that the beet crop in the Pecos
allsy is coming along nicely. The crop
J much better than that of last year at
lis period. The acreage is double ;
nat of last season, and beets already
nalyzed are running high in saccharlne '
latter, showing that they are storing {
1gar rapidly.
Five cars of wool were sent out by the g
[atheson Commission company of Eddy
st Thursday consigned to Boston via .
le Fort Worth l. Galveston railroad, 70. Il
r from the latter point by steamer. u
be shipment aggregated 100000 pounds q
i'd cleans the wool up in this section, no
ore being expected until the fall clip.
he wool sold at quite an advance of last i
,ar. a
GRANT COUNTY.