Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-11
new MEXICO SIF7lNcs.
San Juan County.

J. A. Mccoy. having rented the I. b.
Hart ranch above Aztec. will move there
about March /.
Benito Gallegos. of Largo. has pur-
chased the Aztec mill from j. FL. Aus
tin and will move the same to Largo at
once.
Colonel Williams has taken up 40 acres
of land just below Aztec, under the
homestead law, and is building a house
on the same this week.
w. N. Knight, of Pennington. butch
cred five pigs last week, the smallest OF
which weighed SAT pounds.
Some miscreants have been picking
the locks Oh the doors of the school
house at Aztec and doing lot OF mis-
chief in the school room.
The San Juan County Index. printed
at Aztec. celebrated it's Sth birthday
by getting out an extra good number
under the new management OF l.. G..
Cove.
C. 4. Stivers, of the Pennington
Times, was passenger on the outgoing
stage, on Tuesday, with the forms for
the special edition of the Times, which
he took to Durango to have printed
The edition will be issued next week.
The La Plata valley is one Of the rich
est and most productive sections of San
Juan county. The sale of 1000 or 5000
tons of hay each year, aside from the
other productions of the valley, is suffi-
cient to keep the ranchmcn there in u
prosperous condition.
The Animas River Land & Irrigation
companys important enterprise. where
by the reclamation Of about 10000 acres
Of arid yet fertile mesa land in San Juan
county is contemplated, is attracting
widespread attention. Inquiries con-
cerning the progress of the project are
pouring in from homeseekers in all
parts of the country.
Chaves County.
Roswell is also clamorng for beet
sugar factory.
The Roswell Hotel company declared
a 4 per cent dividend on the lst inst.
Dr. j. G. Bynum, of Stewartsville,
Mo-. who was here and purchased
property about year ago, will soon To-
cate in Roswell permanently.
The regents have notified Contractor
Russell that the New Mexico Military
Institute building must be ready to turn
over on the 26th of this month.
1t is said to be the intention of the
Pecos Valley & Northeastern COnstruc-
ton company to sublet the grading of
the extension to small contractors
A letter received from II. l.. Gill
stated that he expected to finish his
second we'll on the line of the Ell Paso &
Northeastern by the 1st inst. and would
then put down one near Fort Bliss.
r. r. Barnett and Capt. j. w. James
have returned from their Mexico trip.
They say that the cattle men from the
United States are going wild over MeXi-
can cattle and the prices are now too
high to handle them with profit.
l.. O. Smalley, one of the most ener-
getic farmers in the Hagerman neigh
borhood, says he cannot understand
why there is not a better market for
Egyptian and Kaffir corn. He has used
it for a long while and considers 1t a
better feed for horses than Indian corn.
being next to oats In point of actual
value.
The farmers of Chaves county
intend to put in larger acreage
of crops this year than ever before.
This will be justified, from the fact that
there will be much larger local de-
mand, owing to the influx of people oc-
casioned by the building of the railroad
extension, coupled with the further fact
that, with the completion of the road,
there will be good market to the
northeast for all the surplus that is
grown.