Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-23
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
The Peach Crop In 0tero County
Has Not Failed for Twenty
FIVE Years.
BANK ROBBERS ARRESTED
Prospectors Found the Skeletons of Two
Giants In the White Sands-A Cali
fornia Colony Intends to Settle
At Alamogordo.
OTERC, COUNTY.

The ranches around La Luz all give
promise Of good crops.
James Bullard, of La Luz, died of
paralysis a few days ago.
DR.. and Mrs. S. T. Pulliam, from
Louisiana, have decided to make Tula-
| rosa their future home.
The prospect is that the Baptists Of
New Mexico will soon decide to estab-
| lish denominational college at Alamo-
! gordo.
f. NJ Romberg, the pioneer jeweler Of
Alamogordo, has been appointed official
watch inspector Of the Ell Paso & North
eastern railroad.
DR.. Bryan, of Alamogordo, was taken
to the Hotel Dieu hospital at Ell Paso
suffering with serious attack of ty-
| phoid pneumonia.
Judge A. B. Fall and r. Y Anderson.
Of Las Cruces, recently passed through
Tularosa on their way to San Andreas
| to Inspect some copper properties.
The present indications are that the
fruit crop at Tularosa will be abundant.
The schools of Otero county are in
tiourishing condition and are justly the
pride of the people.
Last year the peach crop of one man
at Three Rivers was worth on the mar
ket $4,000. There has not been fall
ure of the peach crop on the plains of
the county for rs years.
Alamogordo boasts of one Baptist, ,one
Presbyterian and two Methodist
churches. The Catholics have no
church as yet, but Father Midgeon, of
Tularosa, holds frequent services there.
On the eve Of their departure from
Alamogordo for Ell Paso, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Smith were agreeably surprised
when few of their many friends called
without an invitation to bid them
good-by.
The last number of the Alamogordo
News contains readable and instruct
i've article on 1.-THE Remarkable Growth
of Alamogordo," accompanied with por-
traits of Major w. H. H. Llewellyn,
district attorney, and w. r. Baker,
sheriff of Otero county. One year and a
half ago Otero county contained pop
ulation Of 800 and Alamogordo consist
ed of water tank. The population of
the county is now estimated at 5000
and that of Alamogordo at 1000.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Dunn, Of Long
ing at Alamogordo for some time, are
so well pleased with the climate and re-
sources Of Otero county, that they are
seeking locations for themselves and a
colony Of friends with view to engag-
ing in the fruit business. Mr.. Dunn is
convinced that flowing artesian wells
can be secured at comparatively small
cost.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The trees and lawns at Earlham all
wore green on st. Patrick's day.
Refreshing rains have very much i'm
proved the ranges of the county.
Daura V. Peacock and Miss Clara
Cuniffee were married at Las Cruces
last week.
The welcome rains last week caused
rejoicing among the stockmen and
farmers around Earlham.
Clint Llewellyn, of Las Cruces, has
gone to Ell Paso and Galveston on q
pleasure trip.
Some Deming men, in making a ship
ment of guano from Portillos, unearth-
ed the skeleton Of an Indian and some
pottery in the cave.
The peach blossoms at Las Cruces are
SO far advanced that there is danger of
| their being nipped by frost.
Attorney j. F. Bonham has decided to
move from Las Cruces to the new town
of Captain, in Lincoln county.
Business at Organ is reported good,
particularly on the regular pay days Of
the Torpedo Mining Company.
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