Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-11
NEWS and COMMENT IN MORA COUNTY.
Jobbery in the Court House Building
Democrats Arraigned.
Special Correspondence.

Mora, December THE quiet county
Of Mora is about to experience a mining
boom. Recent Essays ON prospects have
made returns Of 81 per cent copper,
some silver and gold. Prospectors are
beginning to come in, and it won't be
long before they will be as plenty as
gr%asshoppers were in 1875.
The county commissioners met in spe-
cial session on the 4th Of December to
consider the reducing of the interest on
the court house and Jail bonds, the
books showing that the interest has
since the bonds We're issued in 1889. Aft
er consideration the board made a prop
osition to the bondholders to refund the
bonds at 4 per cent interest. Hopes are
| entertained that the bondholders will
accept.
There are at present four prisoners in
the county Jail. Three are awaiting the
action of the grand jury, and one is rel
ishing the board of Sheriff Rafael Ro-
nero y Lopez ON a sentence of a justice
of the peace.
Public schools are being opened in ev-
cry school district with fair attendance.
Mora residents are anxious for the ad-
| vent Of the proposed new railroad from
Las Vegas to Taos, and are looking to-
ward the east for it, as the Aztecs did
for Montezuma, only with more promis-
ing hopes.
Cattle buyers are scarce, and feeders
will not feed this year as many cattle
as last year, because the price of hay is
too high, and they cannot afford to feed
$12 hay. But still some will be fed.
Snow has not come yet to the valleys,
but is keeping to the mountains. May
be Santa Claus will push it out at the
time of his coming.
The farmers of Mora county suffered
severely from the drouth last summer,
but they are in hopes that mex year
they will play ever Their only cry is
how to meet taxes. Some of the sheep
men In this county are leading Demo-
Gratis, but they hope and wish the Re-
Wv W y y
self at the next election, that their
sheep and wool may continue to bring
good prices. This is what they preach
among themselves, but their practice
and example are otherwise.
A communication to the Texas Re-
publican of Austin, Tex, November .
says: "The distinguished senator,
statesman and true patriot, John C.
Calhoun, long W spoke these famous
words: The Democratic party Is a cor
rupt coalition held together by the CO.
hesive power of public plumber" And
these very words are proved to a 7 right
here in this county of Mora, where the
Democratic administration built the
court house and Jail, which are mere
shells or skeletons Of buildings, at an
enormous expense. With all the money
that was raised from the sales of bonds
there such buildings could have been
built, finished and furnished through
out. But they did altogether differently.
They connived with the contractors, re-
ceived and accepted the buildings, espe-
cially the court house, without it being
finished. The basement has only rough
stairways; not a door, nor was even an
attempt made to put in any joists or
flooring. The loft was left the same
way. The plaster is beginning to come
down because nothing Is there to hold it.
Poor workmanship is beginning to show
itself all throughout the building. But
the Democrats are to blame, and they
think their actions should not be criti-
cised; the Democrats are above re-
proach. But the Hon. John G. Calhoun
had sifted the Democratic party down
to it's true level.
After all this plundering came defal-
cations, and the Democrats are ne rlus
ultra. Oh, Mora, poor Mora! will you
fall again into the claws of the Demo-
Gratis? If you do, what shall be left of
you? Hopes are that you never will,
but keep in right wide-open track of the
Republican party-the only party which
will bring your fair nam from the de-
graded depths to which you have been
sunk by that benevolent (but for the
leaders, liberal Gin the public funds and
moneys) ne plus ultra (but only to the
ring) Democratic party.