Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-23
TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Silver City Is Being Connected by
Telephone with Surrounding
Mining Camps.
GRANT COUNTY TEACHERS
They Reorganized and Elected Officers
The School Of Mines Is Being Repaired
and Remodeled News Items from
New Mexico Counties.
UNION COUNTY.

I WOol 10 COIulH6 lutO Sldy tOL tHeSc
days in great quantities. The price is
satisfactory to the growers. 1t looks
like old times to see the wagons come
in loaded with wool and go out loaded
with goods. Everything in town in the
way of storage room is full of wool. The
clip marketed there will probably be
larger this year than ever before.
| GRANT COUNTY.
The new store of the Santa Rita Store
Company at Santa Rita has opened for
| business
| Old-timers do not like the high winds
which mark the commencement Of the
| rainy weather in Grant county. They
fear it augurs a dry season.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Jack have re-
turned home from visit of several
weeks to Mrs. Jacks old home in Hol-
lidaysburg, Pa, and eastern cities.
The management of the Silver City
baseball team is arranging Il match
with the Tucson club. Silver City VS..
Central is the schedule arranged for
next Sunday.
| Miss Belle Forsythe and Reginald
Platt, both of Silver City, We're united
| in marriage. The bride was attended
| by Miss Ida Hooker and the groom by
Mr.. Henry Forsythe. Rev. j. G. Ruoff
performed the ceremony.
| The work of installing the new tele-
phone system at Silver City is pro-
yp acSin rNt1 hoxv
been placed on all of the principal busi-
ness streets and in large portion of
the residence section. The Silver City
plant Is expected to be in operation by
August 1, and the Santa Rita, Hanover
and Fierro connections shortly there
after.
Maj S. M. Davis, of Ell Paso, is in
Grant county, representing the Ell Paso
| chamber of commerce, for the purpose
of investigating the mineral resources
of this section, and also to interest
mining men to have specimens and data
concerning their properties placed with
| the chamber so that intelligent infor-
nation can be obtained by investors
/
The Grant county teachers associa-
ton was reorganized at the meeting of
| the county institute at Deming, with
| the following officers: President, w. H.
Decker, of Pinos Altos; vice president,
Miss JAMIE Robertson, of Deming; Sec
retary, Clarence w. Link, of Silver
City; treasurer, Miss Ida Hooker, of
Cliff. The following members were ap-
pointed by the president as an execu-
| tive committee: u. +. Duff, Miss Mary
Schaeffer, Mrs. w. L. Jackson and Miss
Myrtle Decker.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The town of Socorro is improving
steadily.
Several families have been added the
past week to Socorro's population.
Silbestre c. Abeyta and his crew are
cutting alfalfa by the light of the
moon.
p. N. Yonker, the fruit man of Socor-
ro county, will ship about thirty tons
of prunes this year.
The Magdalena district was visited by
a good rain lately. 1t was welcome, as
all needed 1t very much.
The farmers are anxiously awaiting
| a good rain. 1t is time now to plant
beans and other fall crops.
The school of mines is repairing, re-
modelling and adding new apparatus to
it's laboratory and class rooms.
The wheat yield this year in this
| county has been most bounteous one,
and the largest for many year.
The Crown, Blacl1ngton and Abeyta
flour mills are buying large lots OF
wheat. They will all be able to run for
several months.
Several eastern capitalists were in
conference with Frank Andreas, Of So
corro, regarding the sale of his Rose
dale mining property. ....
Socorro has one of the most beautiful
and delightful parks to be found in the
territory. Just now it is clothed in 8
suit of green, the trees are shady ones
and the walks and rose bushes are al
in apple-pie order. The park is nov
some six or seven years old, and 1t I:
the work of the ladies of the town