Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-02
APRUITEVAPORATOR
Pennington Has Secured One and
Will Operate 1t in Connection
with a Creamery.
PLEA FOR BETTER ROAD LAW
Lake Valley People Raised a Neat Amount
for the India Famine Fund-Artssian
Wells and Reservoirs Needed in
Taos County.
SIERRA COUNTY.

SIERRA COUNTY.
The drouth is at an end in the region
about Grafton.
Peter Gales has the contract for re-
painting the court house.
Thomas Whitley and Miss Elsie Yea
ger were married at Grafton.
j. D. Taylor, a horse buyer from
Iowa, Is buying ponies in Sierra.
w. A. Akers, Denver mining expert,
has lately visited many points in the
Black Range.
Many stockmen in northern Sierra
county have sold their cattle, to be de-
livered August 10.
Judge Sollenburger died July 10 after
a short illness. He was an old and re-
spected resident of Lake Valley.
Through the efforts of the Christian
Endeavor society of Lake Valley $3.50
mas been collected for the India famine
iund. The society donated Sc, and the
balance was raised by private subscrip-
tions.
Omer Franks and wife, of Fairview,
sued one of the Tafoya boys of Month
cello for the sum of $50 for dog that
Tafoya shot while stealing his grub.
The case was heard in Judge Holmes
office in Chloride before a jury. II took
about seven hours to get a jury and
two to try it and render a verdict. The
evidence proved that the dogs reputa-
ton was below par, and the jury
thought that Tafoya only performed a
long delayed act of justice in removing
nuisance from the community.
TAOS COUNTY.
Stewart & Campbell, of Cripple Creek,
have examined Gusdorf's Shoshone
mine at Gold Hill and are on a trade
for it.
Guillermo Martinez and family, for
merly of Taos, have come back from
Colorado and located at Arroyo Seco
Abajo.
DR.. T. D. Davis, of Menewa, o, and
DR.. Sheldon G. Davis, of Washington,
d. c., are summering in the Amizett
mountains.
Mable Schurch, of 1928 North Third
street, Coshocton, O., has written the
editor of the Taos Cresset to find her a
husband. He recommends her as the
best looking strawberry blonde in the
Buckeye state.
Mrs. Alice Heck and family, of Cim-
arron; Mrs. Thomas Boggs and family.
Miss Della Bent, Otto Menger and Mer-
rill Burch, of Clayton, are on a camp
ing trip at Taos.
Capital for the building of rese' voirs
and the drilling of artesian wehs in
Taos county can find investment that is
as sure as government bonds, and will
pay IL per cent on the investment. Over
800 900 acres of arid land in that county
can be irrigated with the water that
flows to waste every spring.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
James Jarvis and Miss Ida Ferguson,
of Aztec, were married last week.
C. M. Butler late Of Oklahoma. has
purchased the Ben Bragg place at Flora
Vista.
Mrs. Jenkins and Miss Hubbard, of
San Elizario, Tex, are visiting relatives
IN Pennington.
The necessary apparatus for the man.
ufacture Of peach brandy and apple
jack has been ordered by J. c. Olney, Of
Aztec.
The Porter Bros. Commission Com
pany, of Chicago, now has agents at
work contracting for the San Juan val
ley apple crop.
s. r. Fulcher, of La Plata, has con-
tracted his years output of honey to a
Durango firm. The crop will aprroxi-
mate 10000 pounds.
The Mercer residence property at
Pennington has been sold to G. F Es-
tes, of La veta, Colo, who will :ocate
in San Juan county.
The Revenue Ranch and Stock Com
pany has purchased the two ranches of
James McDermott Of 100 acres each, on
the La Plata. Consideration, $1,000.
The Aztec Index trusts that the plat
forms adopted by the coming county
conventions will contain planks com.
mitting the legislative nominees to ar
honest effort for the betterment Of the
road laws.
c. T.. Brown has sold flfteen-acre
tract north Of Aztec to Herman F.
Lange, including the dwelling now oc-
cupied by Mr.. Brown, who will at once
build new residence for the occupan-
cy of his family.
The queen of the San Juan county
fair is to be selected by popular ballot
and she is to receive" on opening day
at the fair grounds attired in roya
robes with her maids Of honor. Score
one more for progressive San Juan.
D. K. B. Sellers, late of California
has let contract at Pennington for 6
large building, in which he will operate
a creamery of 300-cow capacity and IS
fruit evaporator, the machinery fol
which Ia now on the way from Chicago
Windfall fruit will be preferred for the
evaporator. leaving the fancy fruit fol
immediate market. Boys and girls vii
be utilized in preparing the fruit fol
evaporation. The entire product will b.
freighted to Durango for shipment. Tht
creamery will be source Of daily rev
enue to the farmers, as negotiable cou
pons will be given for every pound O.
milk delivered at the creamery, ant
which will be accepted by any and al
merchants in trade. On the 18th of ev
cry month these coupons will be takel
up by checks ON the First Nationa
Bank Of Durango.
DONA- ANA COUNTY.
Hon. Numa Raymond Is making ex
tensive Improvements on his Mali
street property at Las Cruces,
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