Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-01
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
Chaves County.

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Chaves County.
Thirteen miles of the Roswell extern
sion have been graded and the graders
will soon reach the Pecos. October l
has been the day set for completion of
the entire work. Fifteen thousand old
ties have been replaced with new ones
on the Pecos Valley railroad.
Socorro County.
Cattle are selling at $a5 per head, and
sheep at SO per head.
Wheat receipts in the neighborhood
of San Marcial aggregate 400, 900 pounds.
Mrs. Packner, of San Marcial, has
been granted a divorce from her very
much worse half for desertiol.
1t is claimed that the attendance at
the School of Mines at S%ocorro, will be
so per cent greater than last year.
Forrest Macombe and family have re-
turned from California to Socorro to re-
main, as they find New Mexico is good
enough for them.
"Rough Rider" E. G. Piper has re-
turned to his San Marcial home to re-
cuperate from two sunstrokes and one
attack of yellow fever in Cuba.
Five hundred head of stock were re-
Gently sold in the lower ella country to
Colorado buyers at $3.50 for yearlings,
$21.50 for 2-year-olds, and 1874. so for g.
year-olds. The stock was in prime con
ditiOn.
Bernalillo County.
Bland is badly broken up over its late
school election, and it is claimed that
parties who were not elected trustees
are now on the board in order to con-
troll the funds. Local popular feeling |
is strongly against this presumptious
conduct.
San Juan County.
George S. Hood is the new postmaster
at Hood between Pennington and Flora /
Vista.
The Pennington fair will be held Sep
TENDER 14-16, and a great display is
promised.
The big apple buyers in Chicago and
st. Louis are raiding the big fruit crop
in San Juan.
Fruitland, in San Juan county, is be-
ing rapidly developed, and will produce
more than three times as much grain
this year as in any former year.
San Juan county is turning out a fine
fruit crop which is being shipped far
and wide. Durango will be dependent
upon San Juan for the success of its
coming fruit fair.
Grant County.
Judge M. w. Porterield and Miss
Carrie steeley recently took a quiet trip
over to Fort Bayard and were tied up
for life by Chaplain Pilchard.
Charles G.. Bell, of Silver City, writes
to the New York Herald proposing an
Anglo-American fair for 1907, the 30Oth
anniversary of the first permanent En-
glish settlement in America.
Notwithstanding the many new houses
erected at Silver City in the past six
months, it is almost impossible to secure
accommodations there at present. Peo-
pie seem to be moving in from all parts
of the country.
Mayor Fleming, of Silver City, has re-
ceived a letter from Abel Duran, of the |
Rough Riders at Montauk Point, to
the effect that Private Harry Lewis,
who left Silver City with the second lot
of recruits, had been run over by o
train, sustaining injuries resulting in
the amputation of a leg. Lewis is a
carpenter and came from the Mogol-
Ions. Duran reports many of the boys
sick, but non seriously.
Colfax County.
Ration is after a first class fair this
fall. L.
Ration is completing two fine public
buildings, a wing to the school house
and a court house.
Engineer Montgomery, of the Santa
Fe at Ration, who was laid off a month
ago. has been heard from in the noun |
tains of British Columbia.
Mining Notes.l
The Garfield mine has resumed opera
tions.
The Silver City Reduction Works mill
adds two lead stacks to its local plant.
The Snake mine has just made a IS
ton shipment to the Silver City reduce
tion works.
Twenty tons of ore from the north /
drift Of the Richmond mine have netted /
4,27S,65 per ton.
Cochiti and He'll canon promise to
send large mineral exhibits to the |
territorial fair.
The Freiburg mine of Sierra county
Is shipping 80 tons of ore to the Silver !
City reduction works.
Captain Picard, of Albuquerque, has
news that the Water canon mining prop
critics neal Socorro have been sold for
800, 600.
Much development work will be done
in the Kelly mines near Socorro, and 1t
is promised they will boom to the front.
A stamp mill and concentrating plant,
and probably a cyanide plant, will be set
up at Red River shortly.
Pat Breen has bonded the Black
Prince mine on the EAST side of the Or.
gans from 7. Ronault for n year.
The mining interests at Bland con-
tinue to excite attention, especially as
the output and improvements are in-l
creasing. |
The Albcmarle mill has added largely
to its teaching capacity, making 1t now
200 tons every "a hours. The first
bullion shipped from the mill was, sent
IN Roston for ovhihifiou