Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-13

tuth udH ueultu n IeiiedIlhk anu re-
view Of the homestead contest Of the
Benigno Padilla vs.. Martin Barerras
Of Puerto de Luna, Guadalupe county,
and has closed the case. It having been
decided i'm favor of Padilla, who had
rented a school section from the ter
ritory of New Mexico upon which Mar
tin Barerras had made a homestead
which he claims to have occupied
since 1867.
The Washington Times says: "rhe
P~OstOtfice Department receives tele-
grams almost daily reporting the rob
berry Of p%ostotiices in various sections
of the country, but n dispatch received
from a postmaster in New Mexico is
unique in that 1t reports the theft of
an entire postOffice. 1t is as follows:
The Postmaster General: l notify you
on the 23d day Of December a gang Of
four humanitary men assaulted me
and my deputy on that day at noon
The Santa Fe railroad is now in pos
session OF the largest locomotive in the
world. 1t is destined for the noun
tains of New Mexico, and If it does the
work expected of 1t forty-nine more
like 1t win be built. The engine is
guaranteed to haul 1000 tons on a fifty
foot grade. 1t is it's motive power that
has been one Of the weak, if not the
only weak point of the Santa Zee sys-
TEN, but as soon as the orders placed
by the Santa FEES management are
filled the system will be second to none
in equipment as far as motive power is
concerned.
H. .,v.o 4fv,U v,rA - hoe Iaon SO
mOred that the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad will construct a broad gauge
line from Fort Garland to Costilla and
thence to Taos. Such a line would
open a very rich agricultural and min
ing section and would be profitable
from the day Of its beginning. Engi-
neering difficulties are not great and
in these days are easily overcome.
There are vast bodies of low grade
mineral in Taos and ColfaX counties.
These deposits cannot at present be
worked with any profit for lack Of
transportation.-Santa Fe New Mexi-
can.
DR.. c. f. Blackington, sheriff of So
zorro county. had a narrow escape
from drowning in the Rio Grande. The
doctor left SOcorro to visit a small
town just across the river. and was rid
ing a fine horse. He started in at an
old ford and when half across the ami
anal suddenly stepped into a hole be-
yond his depth, passed from under the
doctor and never came up to the sur
face, sinking into quicksand. The doc
tor kept himself on top and was finally
rescued by several Mexican woodchop-
pers, who were on the bank and no
ticed the accident. They threw out a
ROPE and pulled the sheriff to the shore.
At that particular ford in the Rio
Grande several %drownings have occur
red in the past few years.
An important meeting of the Albu-
querque guards was held on the Sth in
slant, and the matter of forming a
stock company and building an armory
suitable for all kinds of entertainments
was discussed. Plans and specitica-
tions will be drawn in a short time
and estimates will be obtained from
the contractors. The annual election Of
officers took place and the following
were installed: President, Harry Ben
jamin; first vice president, James Tier
ney; second vice president, Forrest
Parker; treasurer, ]. E. Elder; COM
pany clerk, Bert Drury; historian,
James Tierney; board of directors. John
II. Single. j. e. Elder, Charles Whit
ing, Sol Benjamin and James Voor-
hees; recruiting committee, J. e. Elder,
j.. II. Drury, Charles Watkins.
PresidenhW. II. Andrews, Vice Pres
ident and Manager w. S. Hopewell
and Chief Engineer A. G.. Kennedy of
the Santa Fe Central company recent
ly returned to Santa Fe after a salts
factory conference with General Man
ager II. U. Nudge, Chief Engineer
Storey, Superintendent j.. e. Hurley
and Division superintendent f. c..
Fox of the Santa Fe system. A trip
was made over the Santa Fe line from
Lamy to BernalillO ana return and the
matter of the crossing of the Santa Fe
Central tracks was discussed. An un-
derstanding which is mutually salts
factory was arrived at. At the point
selected for the crossing the Santa Fe
will lower its tracks and the Santa Fe
Central win build a viaduct across the
Santa Fe tracks. At the intersection
of the two lines a union station is to
be maintained. II will be named Ken
nedy in honor of State Senator Ken
nedy of Pennsylvania. The Santa Zee
Central officials were entertained at
dinner by the Santa Fe officials on
their private car.
The spring months promise much in
the way of development for this
country, says a Pennington On. NJ
special to the News. Some big irrigat-
ing ditch projects viii then be fairly
under way. 1. N. Pepper, an irrigation
enthusiast and capitalist Of Kansas
City, No., visited this section about
two months ago to locate some ditch
lines. He has selected a line that
heads about three miles above BlOnco,
on the San Juan river, and will spend
$4,000 in the construction Of a ditch.
1t win be about twenty miles long, and
cover fully 10000 acres Of land, most
of which is now dry and unoccupied.
These lands will offer homes for fully
$50 families. The survey has been
completed, and map and filings made
this week. The ditch will be twenty
feet ON the bottom, and carry three feet
Of water at low water mark. On the
opposite side o6the river the work Of
excavation is already under way on
the Hammond irrigating ditch. This
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