The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1901-06-06
NEW MEXICO NEWS


The assessment OF Grant county for
1901 will show substantial gain over
that of last year.
Boring on the oil land located in the
vicinity of Captain, Lincoln county,
will be commenced shortly.
\ project has been started to connect
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas and
Denver with long distant telephone.
Jose Maria Rivera will be hanged in
Lincoln county on June II. He was
convicted OF the murder OF Jose Leal.
The grand jury at Socorro has indict-
cd William Hoffman alias Pad Hill
man for the murder of Bruce Weaver,
at Alma, last April.
Valentine Schwain, charged with
murder, sawed his way through the
bars OF the doors of the Mckinley
county Jail at Gallup last week and is
still at large.
The grand jury Of the present term
OF SocOrro has large amount OF work
before it for disposition, Not less than
fifty or sixty indictments will DO re-
turned, two OF which will be for murder.
5dones company, which is to
build a smelter and Establish town
above Albuquerque, has been capital
lied at $500, 900, the money Corning
from the Peoples Trust company of
New York.
Louis Dorsey, a Silver City boy, who
has been in the Philippines for the
past two years, writes that he is acting
as corporal on the metropolitan police
force in the city OF Manila at a salary
Of 875 per month.
AS usual Grant county furnished an
other killing last week. Monico Bar
oula was stabbed by Francisco Medina,
and died few days later. The killing
occurred at Fierro and is said to have
been justifable.
Grading on the III Paso and Rock Is
land extension to meet the Rock Island
system proper on the PecOs river in tho
vicinity Of Santa Rosa, is progressing
rapidly. 1t looks now as if within the
next six months regular trains will run
over tho Rock Island from Chicago to
FL Paso.
Otto Schocnrich, who is well remem-
bercd in Dcming, as a tutor for the
children OF the late MIR. Mergenthaler,
the inventor of the linotype typesetting
machine, has been appointed by Presi-
dent Mckinley as district judge of the
court of Arccibo in the island of Porto
Rico. Mr.. Schoenrich is said to be the
youngest judge in America.
The oil excitement has again famed
up in Carlsbad. There are several par
ties of oil experts in the town, the Cal
ifornia parties having returned after
locating claims west of the town, and
it is said they have drilling outfits on
the way and will be at work within
three weeks. Besides the local excite
ment, number OF Carlsbad citizens
have been affected .hy TBS, fever raging
In and about feuvo CIV.
One Of the richest gold strikes eyer
made in New Mexico was made in the
Rosdale group near San Marcial last
week. The ore assays $4,000 per ton
and seems to be in great quantities.
&. Ii. FcatherstOne, one of the owners
OF the mine, says that he does not ex-
pect to find the ore in large quanti-
q. Int f., Z.
has been taken out and it all assays as
given above. The Rosedale is one of
the old mines OF that section and has
been worked for years. If the new
as ono of the richest mines in the
United States.
This time it is in Valencia county for
the development OF mining and timber
properties. A company to be known
as the Zuni Mountain Copper company
will be incorporated shortly, it having
already been organized. The capital
stock OF the company amounts to $780,
600, but there is no stock for sale as all
of it has been subscribed already. The |
company has acquired some very valu-
able copper mining locations and claims
in the Zuni mountains in western Va
loncia county, twelve miles south Of
Bluewater station on the Atlantic &
Pacific railroad. There is also much
valuable timber on the property.