The silver lance., 1899-10-06
WESTERN NOTES.

S25O,O0O. Whichever site is selected.
the citizens Of Florence will donate
the ground.
During the past year 200 miles of
new railroad have been built In New
Mexico. The El Paso and Northwest
ern has constructed 1872 miles Of this.
the Pecos Valley and Northwestern 100
miles, the Alamogordo and Sacramen-
to Mountain railroad twenty miles. and
the Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe
branch eighteen miles to Hanover,
Grant county. A number of new lines
have been projected and 1t Is estimat-
ed that fully 500 miles of new line will
be built during the coming twelve
months.
Extensive Improvements are being
made all along the line of The CnIon
Pacific, both on the Colorado aud Wy
oming divisions. Two gangs of masous
are at work on the Colorado division,
replacing all small wooden bridges
with stone culverts. These will arch
over the small gulleys and dry creeks.
More than a hundred are being put in
on the system. This. the officials say,
will improve the safety and the
smoothness of the roadbed. On tue
larger bridges masons are putting in
new stOHt dDull1tutS. IL IS Will make
the washing out of bridges much less
frequent than heretofore Several new
bridges are being built, and for the six
already begun in Weber canon. Utah,
the steel is already on the ground.
The Colorado roads are suffering
from a scarcity of freight cars. There
has been such heavy movement of
freight that every road has run short,
lint Ctt f,l ,tt,a is fDfV fxad
The grea test scarcity is Of ore cars. 1t
is said that at Aspen alone there is a
demand for 300 cars and that Leadville
would like an equal number. Other
mining towns are reported proportion
ately short and the roads are endeav-
oring to relieve this pressure. Shelters
have orders to rush the unloading of
ore cars and send them back.
The final New Mexico crop report, Is
sued recently, says: Wheat and oats
generally are cut and are being
threshed. Both crops are very irregu-
lar, and, with the exception of the bet
ter watered sections of northern coun-
ties, the yield was far below the av-
erage. Corn and beans and late garden
truck are maturing under favorable
Conditions; as a rule, corn will be
poor crop. principally on account Of the
August drouth. The third growth of
alfalfa will soon be ready to cut In the
northern section. In central counties
the fourth cutting promises to be quite
irregular. Stock is in good condition
and. as rule. good fall and winter
feed Is assured"
The New Mexico grand jury, by q
vote of 8 to 5, decided at the last mo-
ment not to bring in wholesale indict-
ments against merchants and others
for violations of the Sunday law. 1t
looks now as If after court adjourns
every thing will be wide open as for
merly. No indictment has been found
in the alleged penitentiary poison con-
spiracy case and it is said that none
will be. The ex-convict, W. H. Garner,
upon whose statement the cases
against o. L. Morrill, of Monero and
Henry Bergman of Ration were held to
appear before this grand jury Is still
in Jail at Santa Fe, and is believed to
be insane. 1t is believed that Judge
McFie will order a medical examina-
tion Of his mental condition.
The following letter was received at
Trinidad Friday, from resident Of
Stonewall, regarding the situation In
that valley: "Stonewall is quiet to-
day. The deputies are at the Torres
ranch on South creek. The whole Mex
lean band Is in favor of resisting the
serving of wrfts of eviction by United
States marshals, but the Americans are
keeping them in check. Only one ar
rest has been made up to this time.
The prisoner is a Mexican living on
South creek, who resisted being driv-
en- from his home. The people here at
Stonewall are outwardly unconcerned,
but think there is a prayer going up
from many a heart to God for help to
protect the homes where they have
lived SO many years, and have done
all that has been done to civilize the
St0newall country"
Some of the sheep owners Of Wyom-
ing are annoying the Colorado sheep
inspectors. They have hit upon nov
el and successful plan of avoiding the
inspection laws. DIR. Solomon Book,
the state veterinarian, was in confer
ence with the chief cattle inspector at
the state capitol Friday as to the best
method of bringing these offenders to
book. Several of the larger Wyoming
cattle companies have leased Colorado
land just across the Wyoming line in
Larimer and Weld counties. Unin-
/ spected sheep are allowed to simply
| roam" across the state line from land
owned by these concerns in Wyoming
to the land of the same companies in
Colorado. Then from Colorado land to
Colorado markets the trip is easy. The
inspector stationed on the line at this
| point has been unable to accomplish
much In preventing the trouble. al
though he has done as much in the ser.
vice Of the State Veterinary Board az
he could.
e. A. Schomburg of Ration, New Mex.
leo. superintendent of the Maxwell
Land Grant Company, says in refer.
epce to the evictions now determined
on: "All this talk about a thou
sand families being rendered homeless
through the efforts of our company Is
pure nonsense. In the whole Colorad
| portion of the grant there are not
more than 300 squatters, including
men, women and children, and 1t ID