Las Vegas daily optic., 1899-08-23
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The Laundry at Gallup has been in
operation for week now.
Bidders are invited on a weekly mail
contract between Gallup and Zuni, for
y miles.
Part of the machiLery for the Gallup
electric plant has arrived and will short
Iy be in place.
A party of capitalists recently visited
San Pedro with the view of building q
smelter there.
Pablito Martinez broke out of Jail at
CerilIos Saturday night, and hos not
been recaptured.
The Register is informed that 2il
town lots in Roswell were not on the
tax roll at all last year.
1t is expected that Judge Crum-
packer will appoint a receiver for the
new Opera house in Albuquerque.
Manager Bretherton at Clarkvile is
building three new dwelling houses and
a combination bath house and reading
room for the benefit of the employees.
Messrs. Frank Large and Ii. F.
Smith of Chav,s county, propose to
raise mutton lambs for the market
they recently bought $500 head OF
ewes.
Miss Ellen May Berger has been ap-
pointed clerk in the Office of w. Ii.
Buntain, forest superintendent, who
has his Office in the federal building at
Santa Fe.
Governor Otero has appointed the
following additional commissioners to
the Paris Exposition; Thomas Wilkin-
son, Bernalilo county; H. j. Culley,
San Miguel county; w. Il. Newcomb,
Grant county.
An Albuquerque man has raised to-
bacco plants this year that are between
four feet and four and half feet high.
showing conclusively, the Citizen thinks,
that tobacco can be grown with profit
in the Rio Grande valley.
A special to the Santa Fe New Mexi-
can, dated August 10, says: The track
of the Ell Paso & Northeastern railway
was laid to a mile beyond Nogal, tonight,
nine miles from the Salado coal fields,
the terminus, which will be reached
Saturday night next.
The contract for carrying the school
children between the mines and the
town of Gallup for the coming term
was given to Sam Brown for the Glib
son mines at $40 per month, and John
Rains for three mines at 500 per month.
They had the same contracts last year
ana gave satisfaction.
Alex. Bowie, manager of the Gale
donia company, is building thirteen
new dwelling houses at the Thatcher
mine near Gallup. A number of new
buildings are being built at the Catalpa
mine by Mr.. Weaver, manager of the
Crescent company. In Gallup, the value
of the buildings, now In course of COM
pletion, will aggregate $4,000 to
$4,000.
The Santa Fe Copper company at
San Pedro has decided On several extern
sive improvements at its pump house
1.-Two new boilers, have already been OF
dered, and another engine will be pu,
in for the purpose of increasing the
amount of air in the mine. A substl-
tute for the pipe line will also be put in,
much larger pipe to be used than the
present pipe.
John w. Walton, a me- mber of the
local lodge of Odd Fellows, mining
man of the Sulphurs district and for
mer emaloye of the Gallup Coal Co.,
was drowned at Oakland the other day.
The deceased left Gallup about two
weeks ago for the coast, and sailed on
the 18th from Port Los Angeles fol
San Francisco where he went on trip
combining business and pleasure.
Two writs of error were filed in the
Territorial supreme court Monday
morning. They are in the suits of An
tonic Torres VS.. the Board of County
Commissioners of Socorro county
brought to recover salary which Torres
claims is due him as county school
superintendent; and Marcus G. de Bacs
VS.. the Pueblo of Santo Domingo which
was brought to restrain the Indians Of
Santo Domingo from using the surplus
water of the Pena Blanca acequia.