Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-03
TERRITORIAL SIFTINGS.
san Juan County.

Many eastern homeseeker-. chiefly
farmers, are looking over San Juan
county this spring.
The recent special illustrated edition
of the San Juan Times, printed at
Pennington by c. E. Stivers, was a
most creditable publication.
Acting under instructions from c. $.
Ford, cattle inspector, Deputy Sheriff
Boone Vaughn this week rounded up 20
| head Of stolen cattle and took them to
| Pennington. where they were sold.
They were mostly Arizona cattle, and
belonged to the bunch that Charles Car
ter is alleged to have stolen. The sani-
tary boards allotment of the cattle were
sold to Cooper & Dustin. of Pennington,
says the San Juan Index.
The warm weather of the past two
weeks has taken the frost out of the
San Juan county soil sufficiently to al
low the resumption of work on the Great
Eastern canal, and the men and teams
that have wintered at Camp Morris We're
yesterday noon started in on the work
of constructing what is regarded as one
of the biggest-as it is considered to be
the easiest and most promising-irriga-
tion projects now on foot in the United
States, says the Index.
The Flora Vista correspondent of the
San Juan Index Sarcasticaly observes:
''Word has reached Flora Vista that
the fruit crop in and around Durango is |
badly damaged from the effect of the
cold weather in January. 1t is said the
orchards on Smelter hill, being more eX-
posed than elsewhere. will be almost an
entire failure This is pointed at Du- |
rango's big blow about the train load of
San Juan county apples that passed
through that city last fall No fruit is
raised at Durango.
Union County.
Dr. S. l. North has purchased the en-
tire brand of the Dyson cattle together
with all horses, wagons and implements.
The commissioners of Union county
have instructed the district attorney to
bring suits for the collection Of delin-
quent taxes.
Socorro County
Dr.. and Mrs. H. L. Donnelly and
daughter. Miss Pauline, and Mrs. J. A.
Bower, of Latrobe, Pa, recently ar
rived in Socorro on visit to Judge
Francis Buchanan and family
The people of the Rio Grande valley
should profit by the example set them
over on the PecoS, and do all they can
to encourage the building of dams and
storage reservoirs, sensibly suggests the
Socorro Advertiser.
Judge A. A. Freeman is now in the (
city of New York taking testimony and
completing arrangements for the final
transfer of the Pecos Valley railroad
to the company proposing to
extend the road to an eastern outlet.
Colfax County.
Judge S. f. Booth and John Pearson
have been appointed as appraisers of the
Golden Ajax Gold Mining & Milling
property at Elizabethtown. !,
AS soon as the property can be sold by
the assignee, the Golden Ajax will start
under new management.
Growing out of the county seat re-
moval contest. the county treasurer has
taken it so to heart that he IL making it |
a personal matter with the First Ma
tional bank of Ration and desires to
the county's funds from the
"bofS c"hh uHN WI Io'it 'iic "ipii |
the American Savings banko of Trinidad,
Colo, says the Ration Reporter.
r. c. Wilson, who has been engaged
in examining the Aztec mine for several
months past, writes that in making the
l00-ton run last week on the mine he
saved S39s per cent and that the
mine is sold if his report is favorable.
Jas. Sweeny, tinancier for Ration
lodge No. 8, A. c. Z. W, on Thursday,
delivered to Mrs. Mary B. Sartoris,
whose husband was killed in the Bios
burg mines short time ago, $4,000, the
of his insurance in the A. 0. L.
w.
Dona Ana County.
Fruit trees are beginning to bloom in
La Luz.
Twenty-Five separate transfers of land
were made at La Luz, on Monday.
w. H. McNew has sold his Sacramen
to mountain ranch to R. H. Pierce.