El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03
NEW MEXICO.
BAD POTATOE BUGS.

AIR. Paul. who has charge of the w.
| A. Hawkins farm three miles east of
| Cloudcroft. reports that last year he
raised $1,000 worth of potatoes on
small lot and planted the same plot
again this year but the potatoe bugs
destroyed the entire crop.
STREET CARS FOR SANTA FEE.
Electric street cars are expected to
\ he running nj Santa Fe by Christmas.
! There will be nine or ten miles of
track and will extend to the fire clay
pits near Ihe city and to the Santa
Fe depot which is located mile from
town. The new line will do a freight
business. having the contract to haul
clay from the pits to the penitentiary
and to haul the brick manufactured in
| the pen to the depot. Nine cars of
equipment for the line have already
arrived and six passenger cars are on
| the way from Chicago. The company
will put $50 men to work at the con-
struction of the line Monday.
MAKING A FORTUNE.
Geo. w. Stubbs. of the New Mexico
Mining Exchange. returned to Albu-
Querque from the Cooks Peak mining
district the other day and among other
things concerning the district he said
that the Ell Paso company operating
the Othello and Desdemona mines has
thirty or forty men at work and is
making a fortune. There are a num-
Der of other good properties in the
camp and capital invested can get
sure return.
BIG MINING DEAL
The rich Summit group of mines.
known as the Teel & Poe property,
in the Cooks Peak mining district have
been purchased by F. A. Fuller and
brothers. of Chicago. for $50. 900. The
ore of these mines is sand carbon
ate. with considerable galena. which
insures easy working. At single
shot in one stope fifty-siX car loads
of ore. running more than 30 per cent
in lead and carrying seven and half
ounces OF silver to the ton. were
knocked down. The deepest shaft is
but 40 feet and a great deal of pay
ing ore has been taken out. Electric
drills will be used and machinery up
to date in every particular will be
put in. A tunnel which will strike the
vast ore body several hundred feet
lower than the present workings will
be run and the most scientific meth
DDS of mining will be employed.
POPULATION OF NEW MEXICO.
The population of New Mexico has
been announced and the citizens of
the territory are kicking. The figures
are too low. they say. and give reasons
for their claim. Owing to the difficult
ty in reaching many small settlements
they were entirely left out of the
count. But even with the figures that
are given as the population the terri
tory has nothing to be ashamed of
While the United States as whole
increased in population not quite 81
per cent. New Mexico's increase was
more than 20 per cent. Colorado and
Ctah's increases were only little larg-
large amount of tourists within their
borders at the time of the taking of
the census.
A CANDIDATES. FALL.
J. V. Conway the republican can
didate for school superintendent of
Santa Fe county. fell from the second
story window of a hotel in Cerrillos,
Tuesday night while asleep. When he
lit he woke up and felt of himself
but found he was unhurt except a few
scra tches. His room mate says that
he must have been dreaming of the
majority he would get next Tuesday
and in leaping for joy he leaped out
the window. Democrats say it was
only a sample of the drop he will take
him solid with the voters of Cerrillos.
They think that a man that can take
tumble like that and come out I'M