Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-05-19

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was pretty high. He returned the
bill for correction. The next thing be
heard of the matter was a suit against
Mr. Duffy for the amount White
was to receive for doing the work,
which he had not done. Deputy
Sheriff johnson came ever from Silver
City and attached the mill and other
property at Pyramid owned by Mr..
Duffy and now has charge Of it. 1t is
probable there will be an interesting
little suit over the matter before the
case is settled.
Engineers are now completing the
surveys for the new railroad that the
Detroit Copper Mining Company pro-
poses building from Morenci. Sur
veys have been made to Guthrie, a
distance of 20 miles and to Solomon
vile 35 miles. II is estimated that
the expense OF building to either
point will be about the same, as the
country between this point aud
Guthrie is very mountainous,
but to SolomonvllIe it is less
81 but a greater distance, although
part of the road will run through
somewhat level country. Work will
commence on the road about July l..
The road has already been laid out
between Morenci and the Frisco river,
back sites taken and complete ar
veys made and locations for bridges
decided upon.-Solomonville Bulletin.
The LIBERAL is informed that the
road will be built from Morenci TO
and that IL will be u narrow
gauge road and will be operated by
the Arizona s. New Mexico road, as a
branch. There is so much Morenci
business that the little twenty-inch
road between Clifton aud Morencl
cannot handle it. With this road
built the freight can be taken direct
ly into Morenci, without being trans.
fered at Clifton, and some OF the very
steep grades into and out Of Clifton
will be avoided.
The coal tlpple built for the purpose
of coaling passenger engines at this
point has been completed, and the
carpenters have been busy this week
building a track for the ceal cars.
which are to supply the tipple with
coal. This tipple is said TO be unlike
any other tipplc of the road, and the
wise ones are trying to find out who
invented It, but the most they can
dnd out IS the plans came from Sacra-
Instead OF having a large
hopper which will hold enough coal TO
load a tender there are eight small
dumping platforms, placed in four
groups of two each, each platform will
hold about a thousand pounds
OF coal. Thus it will be seer that the
engine will have to stop four times to
get its lead of coal, and then will get
only about four tons. The track
that is being built on which the load
ed cars will be brought up 20 supply
the coal is built below the level OF The
platforms, instead of above il. Thus
the coal wiz have to be shoveled up
instead OF being dumped on the plat
forms. The coal will have to be
handled twice, between the cars and
the engine. In thsse elabor saving
days such a tipple SEEMS a strange in.
stitutlon to build, but there may be
some virtues about it that have not
been discovered that compensate for
the amount Of labor required to run 1t.
The Solomonvllle Bulletine says
that the notorious Fred Higgins, who
was with the gang that Killed the
man supposed TO be "Black jack
near Clifton a couple Of years ago, is
trying to get the thousand dollars
which the post Office department had
offered for his arrest, and is trying to
beat the rest Of the party out Of their
share Of the reward. The reward
offered by Wells-Fargo for this mar
was divided equally with all the mem
bers OF the gang and they think the
government money should also be
divided equally. The Bulletin says
thatit was only an accident that Hig-
gins was with the party, and that he
was drunk at the time, too drunk &c
do anything. II the Bulletin had said
that the killing of "Black Jack" was
an accident, and that all the party
had been fred with "Dutch courage.
and that the bottles had been emptied
an hour or so before the accidental
death OF "Black Jack" 1t would have
told more Of the truth.
john A. Martin, accompanied by
Robert Sexton and Richard L. Stan.
ford, was in from the river Saturday.
Mr.. Martin made Anal proof on hi:
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