Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-05-10
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
DONA ANA COUNTY

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at once.
More than 100 families have located i
the Sacramento mountains during tn
past month.
The people of Wills canon in tn
! Sacramento mountains have apple
for a postoflice.
Alamogordo will have new S25, 90
hotel, fine depot, and number of othe
large buildings.
A. E. Chaffee, of Anthony, has opene
a fine vein of Candelight coal near tn
town of La Luz.
Alexander Morrison has filed declara
tion for final proof on his homestead
north of Las Cruces.
r. FL. Pierce will SOW 900 pounds o
Kentucky blue grass seed around hi
Sacramento mountain ranch.
Miss Elizabeth Wickham has been re
elected librarian of the college o
Agriculture at Meslla Park.
One hundred teams and a number o
wood choppers are wanted for work OF
the Ell Paso & Northeastern railway.
The track is now laid on the Ell Past
& Northeastern Ry., to Escondida, q
miles south of Alamogordo. Laborers
are at premium.
A. D. Wallace, of La Luz, has sold his
lumber business to Wayland Bros, and
will devote his whole time to the general
merchandise business.
Six families from Las Vegas have
recently located land in the south fork
OF Cox canon in the Sacramento noun
tains, and will plant crops.
Mrs. Darst, of Las Cruces, presented
her husband with IL pound boy at
Pacific Beach, Calf, recently. They
will return to their home soon.
OEngineer Sumner has force of
surveyors at work plating the town of
Alamogordo. AS soon as this surveying
and work is completed the streets will be
graded. May Goth the railway track
will be laid to the town.
II. Newman, who has been a resident
OF the Upper Penasco for 13 years,
informs us that he has raised 1O5
measured bushels Of oats from one acre
of land and that these same oats weighed
81 pound to the measured bushel.-
Sacramento Chief.
CoLFAx COUNTY.
Volume /, No. 1. of the Ration Gazette
is out.
The Santa Fe railway system employs
over 500 men at Ration.
Grace Hill and William Brannn were
married at Ration last week.
Harry Smith has planted 1000 fruit
trees in his Sugarite orchards.
Ora DeLong is the new chief ma
chinist of the Gardner coal mines.
A new son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Abram Cardenas at Buena Vista last
week
Henry Coke, president of the First
National bank OF Las Vegas. is visiting
in Ration.
S. II. Hancock the Ration undertaken,
is recovering from a serious attack of
infammatory rheumatism.
Captain T. w. Collier, editor of the
Ration Range, is visiting his daughter,
Mrs. q. G. Bryan. at Tularosa.
The miners living at Blossburg and
working at Gardner have been request
ed by the company to move to the latter
place.
Vast quantities of California fruit are
being shipped east and the A., L. G. S. F.
railway are running lots of extra crews
over the hill from Ration.
Cattle are moving in great numbers,
and Inspector p. j. Towner who visited
Colfax county points last week, states
that he is kept on the hustle.
The foundation for the new county
court house at Ration is fairly under
way. The base rocks have been placed
in the trenches and large force of men
will soon be put to work.
A. l.. Conrad, travelling auditor of the
A., 4. e. S. r., was in Maxwell City last
week checking up the loss and investi-
eating the robbery of the depot which
occurred there the night of May 3.
At special election of the directors
of the First National bank of Ration,
held last week, John Jelfs was elected
vice-president and VIM. F. Degner and
T. A. Schomberg directors, vice f. A.
Manzanares and A. NJ. Blackwell, re-
signed.
The Johnson mesa, eight miles east
and 800 feet above Ration, is one of the
most marvellous sections of farm land in
existence. While in the valley below
there is little precipitation there is
abundant rain on the mesa to produce
wheat, oats, barley, grasses and vege-
tables. There has never been crop
failure and in the nature of things there
probably never will be. The ample
rainfall there is probably due to the
vapor in the air condensing on the
colder altitude. The land is o deep,
rich black, and now supports popula-
tion of over 1000 people.-Raton Ga
zette.
ALBUQUERQUE.
Company d, Albuquerque guards, de-
sires to disband.
j. G. Riddle. of Fort Collins, Colo,
is in the city. He wants to buy sheep.
Richard English, ex-master mechanic
of the Santa Fe Pacific railway, is visit
ing friends in the city.
Judge j. w. Crumpacker and Sheriff
Thomas s. Hubbell are enjoying a vaca-
tion at Solomon Luna's ranch near Mag
dalena.
The A., T. & s. F. railway agent has
received transportation for Harry Flynn
to Topeka, and the young man cannot
be found.
Henry Gerpheide and wife, of Belen,
have returned to the city, where they
will reside In the future. He has a
position with the Golden Rule Dry
Goods Co.
Mrs. Isabella M. Butler has filed a
complaint in the District court at Dem
yer asking for divorce from John But
ler. The couple formerly resided in AL
bnquerque.