El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-31
Neighb0r-
hood Notes.
NEW MEXICO.


Ration will reorgauize its commercial
club witt . hope of securing something
Ii &c cooperation among the business
men In building up the town.
RosweII's Arteslan Wells
Roswell aud the vicinity have now
som eshing like $50 flowing wells, |
averaging from 400 TO 500 gallons a
minute Each we'll will irrigate from
40 to 100 acres.
Rain hpIenty.
The counties of Colfsx, Mora and
San Miguel are not complaining OF
their portion of rain. The country
from Ration to Santa Fee is green and
prosperous and the cattle and sheep
are fat.
Sl25,OOO Worth of Apples.
New Mexico will have rank as an
apple state If she is not careful; BID
600 worth of apples have been shipped
from San Juan county alone.
Judge Leland Resigns.
tits reported that Judge Charles A.
Leland OF the fifth judicial district
has resigned his position as presiding
Judge of the district and ss associate
Justice of the territorial supreme
court. Ill health is stated as the reason.
Attorneys w. E. Kelley, Elfego Baca.
and S. Alexander are understood to be
candidates for the judgeshtp.
Hot Politics In New Mexico.
New Mexico has begun the campaign
with unlimited ammunition of all poll
tical denomination. The Optic saye.
Zion o A Larrazols, of Las Vegas.
will constitute the democratic sacrifi-
clsi Offering upon the altar OF the
delegsteship this fall. -
Solomon Luna who is the probable
repu blicsn candidate for delegate Is
one Of she territory's most successful
sheep raisers. He Is the republican
leo.
FL paso's Mineral Exhibit.
FL Paso Is gathering splendid min
tl.I exhi DIT from southern New Next
CO. The chamber of commerce of that
city is going about Il the right way to
encourage mining within the domain
whose trade the city hopes to control.
A competent man has been ent out to
visit every camp, to interview every
mine owner, to write up the mineral re-
sources of southern New Mexico, and to
collect mineral specimens. The New
Mexican says this is good hint to AL
buauerque and to Santa Fe.-Albu-
Querque Citizen.
Better Watch d Little Out
The Santa Fe New Mexican is never
still about She dam question for long,
which is very prsiseworthy OF the
paper TO be sure. In the last issue there
is solemn warning to New Mexico,
reading thus: 1t 1s we'll to keep an
eye on the promoters of the internatio-
nal Gam scheme. There is evidence
,nat they are quietly working up sem
timent in its favor in erdor TO have q
good start when congress meets again
in December. New Mexico must con-
tinue wide awake and active in assert
ing its rights to the waters of the Rio
Grande and its tributaries as far as
they are situated In New Mexico.
Stock Interests In Northern New
Mexico
The Red river ranges in the Catskill,
Vssques and adjacent vicinities have
been heavily restocked from southern
New Mexico and Arizona, and 1t is esti-
mated that so, 900 head of cattle can
now be counted on these ranges, where
three Yeas aiace 5000 could not be
Tailed. tn present season for both
sheep and cattle has been the best in
years throughout northern and north
eastern New Moxico. The little rs
well as the big outfits have made good
money. Among these are Colonel
head, Captain French, Wicks & Brig
ham, the Aureus, Charles Sprin 9er,
Michael Stockton and the Abbott Flo
ersheim outfit.
In northern Colfax county Governor
Richards, of Wyoming, has q sheep
ranch from which he will in October
ship j, COO lambs. These 60 to Colo
rado alfalfa farms first, thence to mar
ket st Kansas City and Chicago. II.
M. Porter owns several fine ranches
in Colfax county, and he has made a
mint of money out of them. He ha:
just sold from his Hereford grades
old 2 900 head Of yesrling steers to A.
D. Spaugh, the cattle to be delivered
81 Folsom, between the Goth of July
and the 7tb of August. The consider
alton was S25 per head for the 2-year
Odds and $50 for the yearlings, making
total purchase price of 800 900. II
transit the stock will be unloaded a
after which the steers will BIT reloaded
for Mr.. Spaugh's Converse count.
(Wyo. ranges, where they will be ma
rured into 4-year-old beeves.-EA
change.
A Great Ruin Near Bland.
A Santa Fee dispatch in the Nev
York Times Gays: DIR George L Cot,
and Fay @ Cote. of Los Angelica, Cal &.
Professor r w Bullock, of Greeley
Col, and the Rex. G s Madden, o
Bland. who arrived here today, report
ed that in the e1cavatinR of numbe
OF large stone ruins situated In Psi srst,
canon, between Bland and Espan oil q
they made startling discoveries. Thl