Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-27
A Paean Of Prosperity is Sounded at
Roswell, Carlsbad and Their
Surroundings.
A COLD STORAGE PLANT
Oattlemen Must Take Down Drift Fences
The Artesian Water Country Carlsbad
Bought Municipal Building
Grant County Items.
EDDY COUNTY,

Is IN session at Carlsbad.
: Carlsbad has bought the Krau!
building for $1,000, and will convert
into city hall.
The year 1900 will be remembered b
old and young as the most successfl
year In the history of the Pecos vale,
Felix Foex, for six years resident
Eddy county. writes that he is prosper
ing in the distillery business at Tol
reon, Mex.
Fencing material will be cheap in tn
lower Pecos, now that cattlemen al
compelled to pull down drift fences O
government land.
j. M. Jump has purchased the corne
opposite the court house at Carlsbad
and will shortly commence the erectio
of fence and sheds for feed and Ii,
cry corral.
DR.. William Reed, of Buffalo, N, Y
came to Carlsbad to remain for som
time, and will probably become assc
ciated with his old-time school chun
| DR.. Whicher.
| N. w. Weaver, Of Malaga, announce
his candidacy for county commission
ership on the Democratic ticket. Georg
date.
Business Is better in Carlsbad thar
at any time since 1894, and continues t.
increase. Carlsbad is destined to be tn,
home of more wealthy cattlemen thar
any other town in the west, and tha
means that business will be good.
J. B. Cricket has leased for three
years, with privilege of purchasing, the
building and lots on the corner Of
Green and Canon streets, Carlsbad, anC
will erect a first-class stock sale anG
exchange depot.
Following are the teachers employed
by the board of education for the term
commencing September 2: H. ]. Fry
Weatherford; Professor Ellis, Hope
Miss Eftie Williams. Houstonia, Mo.
Miss May Woodward, Decatur, Tex.
The new executive committee of the
Democracy of Eddy county consists OF
the following: J. l.. Emerson, chairman
j. 7. Cooper, district No. l; IT, j. Fletch-
er. district No. 2; w. l.. Whitaker, dis
trict No. 3; r. w. Cole, district No. A.
and Ed Ramsey, district No. S.
Robert Thompson hired horse and a
saddle from the Hess stable at Carls-
bad and traded horses with Dock Reed
in Dark canon without Reeds knowl-
edge. Mr.. Reed brought In Thompson,
who was placed in Jail in default Of
$1,000 bond.
Lincoln Freeman left Carlsbad in
February for Washington, from which
point he went to the Norfolk navy yard.
There he was accepted as an apprentice,
from which place he enlisted on the re-
ceiving ship Franklin. He is expecting
every day to be consigned to some of
the outgoing cruisers bound for China.
Joyce, Pruit & Co. contemplate estab-
fishing bank incorporated under the
laws of the territory with paid-up
capital of about $4,000. This will make
three banks for Carlsbad, two terrific
rial banks and the First National.
Quite change from three years ago.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
A. M. Coe and Tom Nicholl have been
in the valley lately rounding up their
,attle which have scattered in the past
month or two.
The long continued drouth Is telling
on ranges and crops about Earlham.
The wheat crop is nearly all safe, and
is Of excellent quality. d. J. Jones and
John Morse have threshers in compe-
tition with the Biblical OK who treads
out the grain, and the OK is not in 1t
any more.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The fruit crop is good; there will be
plenty of pears, apples, peaches and
plums.
The river Is almost dry, and unless
rain comes soon the corn and alfalfa
crops will suffer.
The Mesilla valley stock ralsers held
a business session of their association
at Las Cruces last week.
At Paraje the wheat is nearly all
threshed, the yield is good. and quality
s. better than in average years.
Charles Lewis, foreman of the 7TX
outfit, was in Paraje. He reports the
'ange very dry, and in some localities
stock is suffering for want Of water.
cHAvEs COUNTY.
J. P. Church has completed fine new
esidence in Roswell.
Godair, the sheep man, has contract
d for the building of a $4,000 store
louse at Roswell.
Miss Grace Adcock has been employed
o teach the school in district No. 2, |
he. Farms" the coming term.
G. w. Burkett, Of Brown county,
Texas, has bought out J. N. Bailey's |
business, and will locate in
BOSWELL.
J. P. White, manager Of the l. F D |
took farm and ranch, will soon begin |
he erection of a 5000 house on the Poe
arm.
Mrs. B. F. Hammett, Jr., and son
3uell left Roswell for a few months
ravel on the Atlantic coast and in Eu-
ope.
The Pecos Valley railroad now runs a
weekly stock train to Amarillo to con-
lect with the Santa Fe's special stock
rain for Kansas City.
Roswell is to have her first labor pa
ade and picnic September 2, under the
luspices of Fountain City Lodge of
carpenters and Joiners Of America.