Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
IN MORA COUNTY
Personal and Business big
Railway Tie Contract New
Store Established.
PEOPLE FAVOR STATEHOOD
Under Republican Management the County
Paid It's Debts In Full and Has Money
Left-0ontrast With Conditions
Under G Democratic Ring.
Special Correspondence.

special Correspondence.
Mora n. M, january 26.-John r.
Strong, a bright young business man,
and son of Richard P. Strong, Of Ocate,
will shortly marry Miss Belle Calm, Of
Mora. The bride is very pretty girl
and highly esteemed by all who know
her.
Lewis Stern and Saul Harris have
opened a general merchandise stock at
Ocate. They bought the store of Man
uel Chavez and restocked and improved
it greatly. They are young men who
will make a success Of the business.
Ocate has now five stores, all doing
good business
great many sheep men live in the
valley Of the Mora. They are all pro-
tectionists, and the precincts of late
years have given steady and good Re-
publican majorites.
Lewis Leonax has moved his sawmill
ten miles farther up into the noun
tains, and is kept very busy filling or
ders.
Paul st. Vrain has contracted with
the Atchison, Topeka &, Santa Fe rail-
way to deliver 100000 railway ties this
spring.
Joe Harberg and genial Simon Goren-
berg are looking after the business of
NJ. Strousse, and are doing we'll.
At Cleveland, three miles from Mora,
there are two stores, one belonging to
M. Strousse & Co., and the other to Joe
Doherty G Co. Dan Cassiday is asso-
ciated with big-hearted Joe Doherty,
and they are doing a smashing busi-
ness
Last fall Joseph Fuss, the miller, put
in new machinery Of the latest roller
pattern into his -four mill, and although
crops were poor he has been kept busy
all winter grinding grain. He will add
a gasoline engine this spring to his
equipment. This is the only roller -four
ing mill in the valley; there are also
three grist mills.
People are beginning to talk politics.
The Democratic bosses, who owned this
county years ago. are again endeavor-
ing to get hold Of the county offices in
order to rob and plunder, as they did
when they were in power, ran the coun-
ty into debt and hroul hit it's finances to
bankrupt state. TneNa Is quite q con-
trast between the present condition and
the condition under Democratic rule.
For the year 1899 the Republican county
commissioners, with Judge E. H. Biern-
baum as chairman, paid all the county
expenses in full and had little money
over for the year 1900 to be added to the
taxes collected for the year 1900. Under
Democratic administration the county
treasury was always empty, the colec-
tor usually was a defaulter, and the
Mora Democratic ring" handled coun-
ty funds for the benefit of its members
only.
The better class of the people and the
more intelligent citizens in this section
are all in favor Of statehood. The DEM
ocratic bosses and their hangers-on op-
pose statehood, and say that the people
of the territory are unfit to govern
themselves. have recently taken quite
a trip through Mora county, and I am
confident that when the statehood ques-
ton shall be submitted 1t will give a
majority favorlng statehood. also
think, judging from what I have heard
on my travels, that, with good nomi-
nations, the Republicans will carry the
county at the coming elections by a
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