Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-15
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. DEC. Is, 1899.


carrying the mail between Lordsburr
and Bedrock.
The Detroit copper company ex
poets to have its new big concentrate
in operation early next month.
Mrs. w. s. Bowman and children
left for Los Angeles yesterday to spend
the winter in hopes OF improving Mrs
Bowman,s health.
r. @. Jones, after a successful
amount of work here as a photo.
grapher, went up to Clifton the first
OF the week.
Kennedy Watts, who has been look.
ing after various interests Of the
Southern Pacific at this point for some
time, left yesterday for Tucson.
When the limited is put on Mr.. Watts
Will have charge Of one end of it.
United States Marshal Foraker was
in the city Tuesday on official bust
ness. The Office seems TO have agreed
with Mr.. Forai;er wonderfully well,
for be has gained about an hundred
pounds in weight since he took PCS
session Of the office,
The plaster work on the new build
ing next door to the LIBERAL office
has been DELAYED by waiting for lime,
and the delay 10 the plastering delays
all the other work on the building.
It viii. not be ready for occupancy by
the 6rst of the year.
Col. M. II. Twomey and Clark
Rodgers were in town again Saturday,
returning from Ash Peak, whore Col.
Twomey had been to look at Tong g.
Rodgers mining properties. Col.
Twomey was greatly pleased with
what he saw, and will probably nego-
tiate an interest in the properties.
Arrangements are being made for a
masquerade dance on New Years
night. AS New Years comes on Mon
day the dance cannot very well be
held on New Years eve. The dance
will be held at the Knights of Pythias
hall and will be the event of the holt
day season. JGet your costume ready.
Word comes from Clifton that Thos.
Smith, the we'll known agent of he
Arizona s. New Mexico railroad, has so
far recovered from his recent attack
Of typhoid fever that he is able 10 be
out. Mr.. Smith can consider himself
lucky, for be is SAID to be the airst
Ottoman who recovered from an at
tack Of typhoid fever.
Last Sunday commenced the first
really chilly weather of the Season,
and it wasudecided!y cold that day.
Reports come from the north that
there is a foot OF snow and good sleigh
ing, something that happily the leople
in this section OF the country are de-
prived OF. Most OF us are willing to
get along without such pleasures, or
else we would not be here.
McGrath Brothers store progresses
finely. ~The.cornices OF che new front
have been put 10 position this week.
They a%ressimilar to-, but higher than
the ones in the LIBERAL block. With
the completion Of this handsome
building it is thought that j. X.
Cauthern, who owns the building be-
tween it andsthe LIBERAL block, will
have TO build in self defense.
Lordsburg has been short on the ex-
change business this week. The sup
ply OF money order blanks at the post
Office ran out before the new supply
ordered came 10, and so no orders
could be sold for several days. This
made a run on the Wells Fargo orders,
and exhausted the supply at the ex-
press office. Yesterday the p~ostcflce
received a liberal supply Of orders.
Col. w. H. Henry was in. from the
Johnnie Bull mine this week. He re-
ports the property as looking better
than ever. J He recently made a fine
strike of carbonate ore on the hum
dred,and lfty foot level. He now has
teams hauling ore from the mine to
the railroad, and expects to ship a
couple of car leads to the Ell Paso
smelter the last of this week, or the
first Of next. The ore will consist Of
c%arbonates and a heavy black snlphide.
Last week ]. n. Wines made a trip
down to Ell Paso and made the last
payment OF $4,000 on the Superior
mine. He has realized enough on the
ore taken from the mine to make this
payment. With the use OF the hoist
purchased from the Weber gasoline
engine company the Superior company
will sink on the mine and open up the
lower workings. 1t expects to get
from them a much larger quantity of
valuable ore than has been found on
the upper levels. AS a producer the
Superior is a great success.
Word comes from Oakland, Califor-
mia, that Jack Prultt, who has been
working in the railroad yard at that
point, inserted the tip of one Of his
fingers into the supposed to be space