Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-03
GROWTHONA ALLSIDES
Progress, Prosperity and Improve
ments in Socorro and Otero
Counties.
HARVESTING And THRESHING
The Hsssian Fly has Made Its Appearance
in socorro Oounty-A stabbing at
Tularosa-The Summer Season
at Oloudcroft.
SOCORRO COUNTY.

Magdalena is erecting a number of
new buildings.
The second crop of alfalfa is being
| cut. The yield this season will be i'm
! mense.
Orrin Rice and wife left for the City
| of Mexico, where they will enjoy them
selves for month or So
The new water tank at MagdaleIla Is
now completed. 1t Is "a feet 81 dame
| ter " feet in circumference and 20 feet
high.
The harvesting and threshing OF
wheat is in full swing about San Mar
cial. The yield and quality are above
| the average.
George Cook has taken the contract
! from the Santa Fe company to furnish
pulverzed Stag. He has quite force
of men at work.
Hermenas Baca, the county clerk, re-
ports that the business of his Office has
increased to such an extent that it
keeps three men busy recording
surveying party was seen about
twenty miles east Of Carthage. in So
corro county. They are looking over the
county for easy grades, they said.
The steam whistles of the several
threshing machines added to those Of
the fire clay, -four mill and ice factory.
remind one Of days Of yore and great
activity in Socorro.
The fruit orchard Of w. H. Byerts is
n 1Ivith Hxr foh oil
counts resembles the Hessian fly. 1t Is
doing great damage to his young trees.
He has also lost severely on account of
a lack of water.
OTERO COUNTY.
A normal school project is being agl-
tated for Alamogordo.
Mckinley buttons are very much in
evidence in Otero county.
At a dance in Tularosa a young man
named Clifford shot and wounded one of
his companions named Cooper IN the
arm. Clifford was arrested but man
aged to escape.
The FL Paso & Northeastern road had
made 10000 badges, which were distrib-
uted among the convention visitors to
Ell Paso. They were of satin, golden In
color, and bearing the word Cloudcroft,
together with the symbol of the road In
purple letters. .....a
Rev. ]. L. Walker, of Waco, Tex, ar
rived In Alamogordo Monday, ana will
hold protracted meetings in various
places in the county, as we'll as do other
field and mission work in the interests
Of the Baptist church and Alamogordo
Baptist college.
The new depot at Cloudcroft is now
occupied. The improvement company
has recently added twenty tents to the
large number already in use. and will
put in more as rapidly as necessity re-
quires. An excursion of 400 visitors
from Ell Paso spent several days there
last week.
The Cloudcroft summer resort Is
building up rapidly. A great many fam
lilies are moving into their new cottages
for the season. Messrs. Matthias. Penne-
baker. J. A. Eddy and Alexander are
already at home. In the surrounding
villages, at Smithville, are Judge Fal-
vey and Judge Stanton; at Pump
Spring Judge Hawkins and Waters Da-
Wis; at Deer Head Lodge. Judge Town
send. Mrs. Lakeland and others.
President Eddy, Of the Ell Paso and
Northeastern road, has returned to AL
amogordo, having been east to buy cars
for the road, and placed an order with
the American Car and Foundry Com
pany for 100 pressed steel coal cars.
These cars are made entirely Of steel.
will have a capacity Of forty tons, and
were made at the companys plant In
st. Louis. They will be shipped at an
early day. The traffic Of the FL Paso &
Northeastern Is in an exceedingly
healthy condition, and the output and
demand for Capitan coal Ia heavy