Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-10-20

Mexico. Several times they have
thought one would be built. The
roadOed from Deming south to Colum.
bus has been graded and at one time
a large amount of tie timber was shin.
ped In there to be used on the grad
ing. A few OF the ties we're laid and
on q occasion some rails we're spiked
70 these ties. The occasion was a
great one for Deming, and the drst
spike was made OF silver and a great
celebration accompanied the driving.
However, the road was never built,
When 1t got past the initial stage the
money run out. A few months ago
several Deming men were talking over
the matter Of railroads and they con-
cluded TO make a new start. They
organized a company among them.
selves. Messrs. Merrill, Lindauer, OIL.
cult, McKeys, and Clark Of Deming
and Bailey of Columbus were elected
directors. Not one OF the men had
enough money to build a mile of rail
road, but they had something better
than money. They had that old
fashioned enthusiasm that ten years
ago made Deming the leading city Of
this section Of country. They raised
enough money to make a new survey
of the road from Deming to Column
bus. After this was completed and
the company was fully organized Mr..
Bailey was sent to New York city to
interest capital in the road. He was
quite successful. He came back to
Deming a few months ago and at a
meeting OF the directors told what he
bad done. He 1rst explained that he
bad discovered a new drink. 1t was
made by putting some whiskey at the
bottom OF a glass and filing the glass
with carbonated watef. He did not
know the name OF the drink, but since
his return the directors have drank
nothing but thigh balls' made out of
American whiskcy Bailey had for
gotten, or had never learned, that
Scotch was the proper liquor, and
called them 'Bailey's ~izzes." He
also showed them several thousand
dollars ia good money that the New
York people had put up for e1l enses,
and told them he had got to go to
Mexico TO get i concession for the
road. This concession was merely the
right OF way from Columbus to the Pa
cIlc ocean, it carried no aid from the
government, aud when it was granted
the Mexican government had to be
paid for the land conceded to the
road. The New York capitalists had
put up the money necessary for him
to make the trip to Mexico. and had
promised to send him the money neces-
sary to pay for the concession as soon
as it was granted. Last week he re-
turned to Deming with the concession
in his pocket, and nov has gone to
New York to make a report TO the
meO with the money, and with lr-
structiOnS from the directors to learn
about some more new drlnlss, the
Bailey 0zzes" not being adapted for
cold weather. The names OF the men
backing the road have not been given
out, but the LIBERAL has been as
sured by the directors that they rep
resent enough money to build the road
several times over, aud the directors
have every confidence in the world
that it will be built. Every time an
attempt has been made to build l road
out Of Deming the road has been called
the Deming e. something. None
OF these roads have Zbeen built, and
the directors, who are a little super
stitlous, had begun, to believe there
was a hoodoo on the name of Deming,
and so have called the new road the
Columbus & Northern. The LIBERAL
hopes the road will nov be built, and
If 1t is 1t assures the people of the
windmill city that il has been built
because some of the residents OF that
degenerated town have got out Of the
slough Of despond in which so many
Demingltes have been w%allowing
these many years, and got back to the
lrst principles VI citizenship, the
principles which for so many years
made Demiug the city that it Unce
was, the hottest town in the south
west. All hail to the redeemed
DemiDg.
Last Saturday 0. r. Smyth aud
Joseph Raby sold the Dundee mine at
Shakespeare TO Alex. ]. Medbury,
consideration one thousand dollars
This property was formerly owned by
the Humboldt company, and was
abandoned by that company some
years ago, IL then was not con sidered
worth the assessment work. Mr..
Medbury went to Ell Paso Sunday
morning to consult with his brother,
who is interested In the deal. They
Intend to push the work on the prop
erty, and make it a producer. The
Dundee lies parallel with the Eighty
five, which has been worked by the