The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1901-07-11
NEW MEXICO NEWS

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Machine sheep shearing is proving
successful in the northern part OF the
territory.
The business establishment of St.
George Robinson, OF Silver City, was
destroyed 10y fire one night last week.
The United States geological survey
expects to measure the Rio Grande
this year and survey one or two res
o. eryoir sites at its head.
a branch line OF the FL Paso and
Northeastern is TO be built from Santa
Rosa in Guadalupe county due north
TO Maxwell City on the Maxwell land
grant.
The new discovered gold field be-
tween La Luz and Lava City canyons
in Otero county is attracting much at
tention and some good fields have been
reported.
Within tho last five years Sierra
county has seen one Kingston plant re-
moved TO Cooks Peak, a second to
Deming, third TO Stems Pass and a
fourth TO Santa Rita.
The bricks are being brought on the
ground for the rebuilding of Tom
longs restaurant. Work will be
pushed on it as fast as possible. II. l..
Cannon, the contractor, is anxious to
get brick masons, there being a short
age OF masons in this vicinity.-Lib-
eral
The stone, FOR the foundation and the
window and door stills OF the new school
house are on thee..:Sund. and Contra"r
r. i ~. o4fss,9yrS -esCting these stones.
Lime will be received this week and
work on the foundation will be pushed.
The board expects to have the house
in condition for use by the time the
fall term Opens.-Liberal.
Sometime since Prof. Cross OF the a.
~ NJ. college at Las Cruces took a
lease on the Little Buck mine at Or
gan TO commence work after the term
of school should conclude. He com
mcnced work last week and has run
into vein OF gold running from 81, 600
TO 50, 900 per ton. The Little Buck has
had Il great reputation in years gone
by as silver producer.
Grant county, New Mexico, sold
$21S, 900 in refunding bonds last week
at par. The bonds were bought by G..
II. Fcatherstone, of Ell Paso, for Nc
Donald, Mccoy & Co., Of Chicago,
through a. II. Grayham, OF Silver
City. This was one Of the largest
sales ever made at one time by a county
in New Mexico and the price paid for
them was entirely satisfactory.
The 5. +. gang of tank builders have
a. rived at Lordsburg and commenced
work on the new oil tank 1t will be
located near the roundhouse and will
have capacity of a million gallons.
When completed all tho engines be-
tween Los Angeles and FL Paso will be
changed from coal burners to oil burn
crs. Small tanks, having a capacity Of
some $4,000 gallons, will be placed at
such points as Cambray, Deming and
san Simon, from which oil can be
drawn in case of an emergency.
On Tuesday the Crowfoot Cattle
company shipped 567 head OF stock
cattle and 81 head of horses to its
range up in Colfax county. On Friday
the Lyons d Campbell company ship
ped 700 head OF cattle to pasturage in
Colorado. with La Junta as tho desti-
nation. In the early part of the week,
the Alma pool" sold and delivered to
John kilburn here 700 head of one, two
and three-year-old steers. Mr.. Kill
burn shipped to La Junta, Colorado,
Messrs. Hoffman, Lee, Sipe, Fritz
Bros. and other cattle owners in the
Mogollon section were the Sellers
Enterprise.
Two wounded men, one fatally in
jurcd and The other shot through the
leg, arrived at Albuquerque on the
soldier train passing through to the
east. Near Holbrook discharged ne
gro soldiers got to shooting promis-
cuously through and out Of the cars.
Frank Phillips, colored, received
bullet in the abdomen a white SOL
dier named Eversol was shot through
the leg aud woman living in small
town west of here was shot while stand
ing at the entrance of her house. At
Winslow citizens armed themselves
With, sh9tguus and rifles and refused
the solu.-. to leave the train.
The irrigation commission approved
the contract OF the land commissioner
with \. X. Burkdoll OF Haywood
Springs for $4,000 acres OF land. for
building of irrigation works and res
crvOirs along the Mimbres river The
capitalists represented by Mr.. Burk-
doll have already expended 1925, 200 in
together $500, 600 in the work. They
will receive 10 per cent of the pro-
cceds from the sale of the $4,000 acres
of land, ut minimum price of 81. p
per acre. The works must be approved
by the Irrigation Commission before
the title to the land is transferred,
The amount to b. allowed projectors
i not to exceed the cost oil the irriga-
tion works nor is it to be more tnan 40
per cent OF the proceeds from the sale
Of the $4,000 acres.
Some of the people of Clifton and