Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-26
TERRITORIAL TOPICS

Professor st. John. mineralOgist for
the Maxwell Land Grant Company, ac-
companied by Mr.. Van Houten, is max
ing careful explorations in the Badly
district.
The Legal Tender mill will soon be
moved from Grouse gulch to Willow
creek, Elizabethtown district.
The Dewey No. ?, Elizabethtown dis
trict, is gladdening the hearts of the
owners by showing up rock that yields
500 in gold per ton.
The Gallagher tunnel in the La Belle
district has been driven IS feet and the
owners are sanguine of good results
from their hard work.
A nugget of pure gold, worth about
81, was recently picked up in the Bitter
Creek placer fields, Taos county.
Grant County.
The county commissioners will meet
on Monday for the purpose of examin-
ing and approving the annual assess
ment rolls.
The Independent positively denies
that there is now case OF smallpox at
Silver City. The last case has fully re-
covered.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Kellum died at her home
in Gold Hill, on Tuesday, aged II
years.
Numerous transfers of improved real
estate have recently been made in DEM
ing.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the fair in Deming on Septem.
Der "A and "a 1t will be fine agricnl-
tural, mining. mechanical and art dis
play.
1t is reported that DR.. Frank Stovall
will soon resume the practice Of medi-
cine at Deming.
Colonel Richard Hudson has rented
the Walton residence in Deming and
will soon move his family therein.
Colfax County.
Colonel Harry Whigham has returned
to his Ration home from the east.
The park at Ration is being put in
splendid condition under the direction
of Colonel Dwyer.
Springer is justly proud of the fact
that she contributed 3S volunteers to- the
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peasantness with Spain.
Will Y. Black, chief clerk of General
Superintendent Charles Dyer, of the
Santa Fe system, accompanied by his
wife and two bright little daughters,
are in Springer, from Pueblo visiting
friends.
The Santa Fe railroad company will
fup Oh
supply of pure water, which will be
piped five miles from the reservoir of the
Maxwell Land Grant company and
stored in a large steel tank.
Hon. John Morrow, who has been
seriously i'll with typhoid fever at his
home in Ration for several weeks. is
rapidly recovering.
Mrs. j Leahy gave an entertain
iment at her home in Ration, the, other
evening, in honor of her brother in-law,
lieutenant Leahy.
David G.. Dwyer. son of Colonel j. W.
Dwyer, has been appointment L. S.
court commissioner at Ration.
Meadow City Happenings.
Captain J. G. Clancy, the well known
sncep HAL, Vi IucI W ue LUNA, lclt Las
Vegas recently for Roswell to place his
promising son, Charles, in the Terri
torial Military Institute.
Twenty thousand feet of pitch and
gravel roof have recently been placed
on the wool storage houses of Charles
Ilfeld and the Browne-ManzanareS
Company at Las Vegas.
A. j. Stockbridge, one of the first
:Rough Riders" to enlist from Las Ve-
gas, has returned home from Santiago
de Cuba, suffering from malarial fever.
He expects to be entirely we'll before his
30 days furlough expires.
The city council has made satsfac-
tory arrangements with the Aqua Pura
Company for water to irrigatc both east
side parks