El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-12
SOUTH SPRING, N. M.
Round Up in progreSs-HOrse Thief
Sentenced to Five YearS-pros-
peCtive $4,000 Ranch Sale.

Special Correspondence of the Herald.
SOUTH SPRING, Oct. 9.-The Tur-
key Track and the Diamond A cattle
companies are holding round ups here
now. They report their cattle in fine
condition.
ponys from the Chisum, ranch, has been
sentenced to five years Improvement
and $500 fine. The pony was recover
ed near Four Lakes after hot aud
exciting pursuit of over one hundred
miles. Wood was just out of the pen
itentiary for an attack made on Mr..
White, of the L. F. D. Cattle COM
pany.
Boston have been driving through the
South Spring orchards and ranches the
past week. Mr.. Fitzgerald with Her
bert Fitzgerald of Roswell expects to
purch ase the Garrett ranch for S25, 900
from the RoswellLand and WATERFRONT
pany and will stock 1t with fine cat
tie.
Miss Alma Richey assisted Miss
Hamilton, of Allegheny city, Pa, in q
unique song and drill entertainment at
Roswell last Thursday evening.
John Baker, the section foreman, has
little station house of the P. V. & N. E..
road.
Miss Cowen OF Hagerman is visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. J. Wilson.
Mr.. Page of Roswell took q fine ex-
hibit of apples from South Spring to the
Kansas City carnival last week. They
were tho regular Pecos valley beauties
and came from the Chisum ranch, Mr..
Hsgerman's big orchard and the L. F.
D. stock farm orchard.
]. S. Dicus has moved his family and
hrnnrro f0 h nj aip Ho
man.
J. r. Slease, the "bee man," is
building comfortable fve-room adobe
house for his family and is increasing
his business. The delicious honey
from hi ! bee farm is becoming a noted
Pecos valley product.
Harry Thorne, with the Circle Dia-
mond cattle outfit, visited his homo peo-
Pile two days last week.
Augustus Swanson has been very
successful with his garden product this
year. An abundance of tomatoes, egg
plant, caulif1ower, potatoes and onions
have supplied the home markets and
haze found q good market in Dallas
and Fort Worth. The onions cleared
him 300 dollars per acre and his toma-
toes will sell readily till frost at %
cents per pound.
M. U. era wford, superintendent of
the Pecos Valley Orchard company,
has just finished building cold storage
packing house, in which he will keep
part of the crop from the large $50
acre apple orchard.
The building is of adobe 60 feet long,
80 feet wide, plastered and oiled inside
and out, on sand stone foundation. 1t
has too rooms lone for storing the fruit,
which is kept cool by system of ven
tilations at the floor and roof. The
openings are protected by heavy saw
Justified doors and windows; the
is for storing box material
and packing the fruit. The building
has capacity of 10 car loads. About
3 car loads have already been picked
and stored This is the orchards first
bearing year, and according to the in
dications of the fruit spurs, next year
will gield 20 or 80 car loads.
Up to this time the orchard has been
kept carefully cultivated and free from
weeds. but now the experiment will be
tried of having an alfalfa crop. "a bout
half the orchard has been this fall
sowed to alfalfa, the rest will be put in
during the early spring.