The Delta independent., 1899-10-27
WESTERN NOTES..


Twenty-Five houses are being built at
Hartsville, Wyoming.
The old Brainard & Beebe hotel at
Creede burned on the 21st.
successful autumn festival last week.
s. P. Graybill. Rio Grande fore
man at Pueblo, was run over and kill
ed on the 10th.
The cattlemenof of Chaves county have
raised fund from which they will pay
special bounty on coyotes and wolves.
Fourteen carloads Of machinery
Santa Fe railroad at San Marial have
been placed In the Ration car shops,
where the force will be greatly in
creased.
John Baldwin, a wealthy ranchman
Of COlfax county. New Mexico, believes
the greater portion Of that part of the
territory Is above an underground
stream, and will drill several artesian
wells to test his theory.
The Indian Office is preparing plans
and specifications for a school on the
Jicarilla reservation, New Mexico. to
5000 children of school age on the res
ervatiOn and no school facilities.
Game Commissioner Johnson has re-
ceived a letter from the ''fish king
OF Durango, who says that next year
his fish hatcheries will be much en-
larged and that he will be enabled to
donate 100000 fish to the state.
Sheriff Layne Of Ogden has captured
one and probably two of the robbers
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
ger train at Wilcox. Wyoming. on June
2nd, at which time they blew two Of
the cars to pieces. and escaped with a
large amount Of booty.
The circumstances surrounding the
escape Of James X. StrattOn from the
penitentiary on the night Of October
10th Will be sifted to the bottom. Both
Warden HOyt and the board Of peni-
tentiary commissioners have decided
upon an investigation.
Senator Clark Of Montana has de
cided to increase the output of his coal
mine at Clarksville, New Mexico, fully
75 per cent. The force now employed
at the mine numbers $50. but by spring
will be increased to 800. There IL not
n saloon at Clarksville or within q mile
Of II.
An accurate test made Of the nov. OF
the large artesian well recently bored
In the Pec0s Valley 4 Northwestern
yards at Roswell shows that the well
discharges 26Ga gallons a minute, or
has velocity Of Zoo feet per minute.
making II BY far the largest and most
powerful artesian well in New Mexico.
Years may eiapse before the provis-
Ions In the will Of the late George w.
Clayton, who bequeathed . million dol
lars for the esta blishment OF an or
phan boys school in Denver can be
carried ont: Litisation viii BE- insti.
tuted which promises to continue ut
length and possibly through all the
courts Of the state. A brother Of Clay
ton intends to contest the will
A phenomenal onion yield In report
ed from Greeley. On the farm Of
Charles Camp, consisting Of thirty
three acres. In Pleasant Valley, 1900
sacks Of onions have been gathered.
1893 Of which were grown ON five
ceres. These onions bring on an av-
erage 30 cents a sack. The waste In
the culling alone would supply a le-
giOn Of rain belters with fine onions
for the winters use.
n Iurt II Ucink IOruie'u 10 COutIO4 tue
output Of all the turquoise mines IN
New Mexico. Hon. J. r. Victory Of
Santa Fe Is working up the combina-
ton. to which most OF the turquoise
mine owners have already subscribed
and which will practically control the
output Of the world. ms the turquoise
mines In Saxony. Egypt and Persia
have pinched out. The headquarters
Of the trust will be at Boston.
Southern Santa Fe county mining In
terests are enjoying q boom such as
they have never experienced before.
II has been known for years that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron COmpay held
q controlling interest in the coal mines
at Cerilloe. and II Ii now stated upon
reliable authority that the company
will expend e1.OOO.OOO next year in I'M
provements and that there will b. .
complete change In management and
that work win be prosecuted upoa Q
much larger scale than heretofore.
There 10 great indignation among
the miners In the MOgolIon district %
account Of IN order Of the DepartUeof
Of the Interior limiting the cuttiss Of
timber on the Ola river forest reserve
to 500 worth for mining PURPOSES.
Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut al the timber necessary for the
development Of the mines. The miners
will coutinue TO cut timber freely for
that purpose and II arrested will make
q test case. which. " necessary. viii
be carried TO the United States So
preme Court
The beet sugar plant at Grand juno
tion In TO be started In . few days.
All the machinery has arrived on the
grounds. according 10 latest reporta.
and men arr eugaeesi night and Aay II
puttinR the intfseate parts ouUveAes.
The delay wss occastooed BY dl0-
Guilty In having orv9erp 0lDed by the
eastern manufactures cUmpantrs.