The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-04-28

W. ~ Right o. Farmington. L. W.
Steinboch Of Flora Vista aud n. j.
Kitten and s. NJ. waggener Of Astee
have creditable exhibits Of farm pro-
duets On display With thn Bureau Of
Information ia Durango.
Linn Page has recently attained his
majority and he celebrated the occasion
this week by making entry on aH 30 acre
tract Of Ban Juan's fertile soil near Flora
Vista. Next q house, and next, a house
keeper. Maybe SO. Quien sabe.
The Mormon elders returned from a
visi 10 tina W, stern portion Of the county
along the lover San Juan river Tues
day. where they held meetings and re-
port a he-rty welcome. They are hold
ing services at Cedar Hill today aud All
be 10 Aztec Sunday.
fred Bunker, proprietor Of the Aztec
hardware store. has al advertisement
elsewhere in these columns. This hard
ware establishment il q great help to
our farmers and citizens generally, for
It sells at Durango prices in ell cases.
A full line Of hardware 10 stock,
John j. Harrison and Mary J. CIVIL
foile Of Silvsrtun, Colorado, woro married
ia Aztec last Monday, April oath, Justice
OF the Peace Walters performing be Ger
emony in his thoroughly satisfactory
manner. The joyful couple returned
north. presumably ia the direction Of
he mining ~mstropolis on the upper
waters Of the Rio Las Auimss.
~ Joe Martin, the Largo mail carrier,
WAS suddenly taken III while 10 town
tuesday, and the alarming report gained
credenoe that he had an attack Ot small
pox. But the report was false, We such
reports usually are. Joe is at home at
Largo aud writes that he has chills and
fever and has 'em bad. As for smallpox,
however, he had it once, down in the
West Indiea, aud "onos is a plenty,
thank you" says Joseph.
Rev. VIM. Eadie is home from the
meeting OF the Presbytery at Ration.
where he was chosen one Of the two
delegates from New Mexico to The gen-
eral assembly which meets ia Minneap-
ollie next mOHth. He took his wheel
with him and after crossing the noun
tain range made part Of the remaining
distance on the silent steed. He states
that the meeting Of the presbytery was
quite satisfactory and the trip a pleasant
one.
Several thousand neat and attractive
folders telling ia condensed form the
many reasons why reservation boomers
should prefer Aztec and San Juan
/ county to the reservation itself, have
! been issued by the San Juan County
Board Of Immigration, lately organized
4 in Aztec. The folders are for gratuitoul
distribution and can be obtained Of tn,
officers Of the buEeau upon application
Get some OF them and send them awal
to your friends. They will do good, eysI
after the reservation is opened
, On a journey to Durango one sees nu-
merous evidences Of thrift and prosper
ity along the Animas alley from Azter
to the state line. New houses aud 10
creasing acreage under cultivation be
token a hourishing state Of affair."
Among the ranchmen who have jus
completed or are engaged in buildlul
new houses, are S S Graham and Pei
COrt, between Aztec aud the bridge, an,
A. d Mcintosh. who has put up 4 nsV
dwelling pa his raUch near Cedar Hill
, And by the way, 10 the vicinity OF tina
= place, many newcomers are buildiul
and preparing to farm lands heretofor
given over to the desert but now uude
ditch. The Hendricks boys. beyond
the big bill, have recently finished
neat dwelling. All this simply serves t,
demonstrate that the settlers 10 tn,
valley north of Aztec are in good shap,
and keeping abreast of the times, whili
. others are finding that the quantities 0
fertile lands under ditch in that part o
the county and yet unused, are a splen.
did field for settlement.