The Lamar register., 1902-01-22
albuquerque has new fire engine.


Rock Island railroad to Santa Rosa.
February LIST is the date now set for the
completion of the railroad.
For the first time in its history of
over 300 years have the Pueblo In
dians of Taos pueblo consented to send
their girls out of the pueblo to be ed
ucated. A number of them will arrive
| at the United States Indian school in
| Santa Fe in n few days.
The Albuquerque Board of Education
| has adopted n report asking the City
Council for an appropriation to erect
additional school buildings, costing
$50, 1000, before next year. The schools
are at present crowded beyond their
limit. and the halliday system is EN-
ployed in the lower grades.
Alamogordo. like other New Mexico
towns, complains of II shortage in
available modern houses for new COM
ers and healthseekers. For each de-
cent house that is vacant there are
four applicants. The demand for fur
nished rooms at Alamogordo also
greatly exceeds the supply.
1t looks as If New Mexico would soon
ndd n good sized annual cotton crop
to its manifold products. Plans are
maturing for the erection of n cotton
gin at Carlsbad and the planting of
several thousand acres in Eddy county
in cotton. New Mexico is n new re-
cruit for the cotton states.-Santa Fe
New Mexican.
Santon Lopez has come in from
Chaferito, seventy-five miles from Las
Vegas, and reports the finding of n
skeleton of a human giant on the Mesa
Rica near there. Five men, under Lu-
ciano Quintana. organized the search
ing party. The skeleton was fifteen
feet long and the grave was marked by
roughly carved building stone. Other
graves are found in the same vicinity.
Secretary of the Interior T.. A. Hitch
cock has denied n rehearing and re-
view of the homestead contest of the
Benigno Padilla VS.. Martin Barerras
OF Puerto de Luna. Guadalupe county.
and has closed the case. II having been
decided in favor of Padilla, who had
rented school section from the ter
rtory of New Mexico upon which Mar
tin Barcrras had made homestead
which he claims TO have occupied
since 1867.
The Washington Times says: "The
Postotiice Department receives tele-
grams almost daily reporting the rob-
berry of postotiices in various sections
of the country, but dispatch received
from n postmaster in New Mexico Is
unique in that it reports the theft of
an entire postofiice. 1t Is as follows:
The Postmaster General: l notify you
on the 23d day of December n gang of
four humanitary men assaulted me
and my deputy on that day at noon."
After two days session the conven-
ton of county officials of New Mexico,
,t..I s.K.I .Nf
cation, adjourned. The convention
was called by Governor Otero to con-
slider the matter of assessment and tax
reform, and adopted n schedule of val
ues to guide the assessor of each coun-
" in making the annual assessment
Every county except Bernalillo and So
corro was represented.
Lyman NJ. Parke of Detroit, Michi-
gan has completed the purchase from
Frank Springer of Santa Fe and \.
Schneidlcholz of Denver, through his
attorney. w. G. Hayden of the Glen
mora ranch. situated in Cherry valley.
The ranch includes about one-half of
the Cherry Valley lake, and is one of
the finest ranches in northern New
Mexico. containing about 22,ooO acres.
Mr.. Parks will stock 1t with cattle and
expects to make his future home there.
The assessors. collectors, county COM
missioners and other county officials
of New Mexico met in Santa Fe on the
18th, in the council chambers in the
capital and organized by electing w.
NJ Atkinson of Roswell. chairman, and
II. Z. Ervien of Clayton and Bias Sal
azar of Taos. secretaries. Every county
was represented at the meeting. Soli-
citor General Z. l.. Bartlett attended
the meeting, as did the members of the
board of equalization. Addresses on
the subjects of assessment and tax re-
form Were made.
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 IL it does the
work expected of it forty-nine more
like 1t will be built. The engine is
guaranteed TO haul 2,Ooo tons ON n fifty
foot grade. 1t is its motive power that
has been one of the weak. If not the
only weak point of the Santa E'e sys-
TEN, but as soon as the orders placed
by the Santa Fe's management are
filled the system will be second TO none
in equipment as far as motive power is
concerned.
For some time past 1t has been ru-
mored that the Denver X Rio Grande
railroad will construct n broad gauge
line from Fort Garland to Costilla and
thence to Taos. Such n line would
open 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 tolfaN counties.
These deposits cannot at present be
worked with any profit for lack of
transportation.-Santa Fe New Mexi-
can