The copper era., 1902-07-10
NEW MEXICO NEWS

ed postmaster at santa Fe.
 c. C. WhitehHl has purchased George Bells interest in the whosesale liquor house Of Golding S Bell, al 5.l- yer City.
 The farmers Of the Rio Granae val Icy will lose million dollars worth or crops this season from lack Of water for irrigation.
 Dr. l.. F.. Kitrcll La- been appointed postmaster at Socorro and the appoint ment seems to give entire satisfaction to the residents of that toru.
 Humor ha5 il that Judge 4. E. Fall Of Las Cruces has been offered IGds- ship in the Philippines, but it i= be- lioyed that he will not accept the offer.
 The manager Of the Mc-ii!a Valley Fruit association reports & better de- mand for Las Cruces peaches apples and other fruits than has been known for many years.
 There will be millions Of pounds oi Pennington peaches. pears and apples this year. The eyaporator and diotil- lcry will both run from the beginning to the end of the season.
 The postonicc department has desiG- mated the Las Cruces postoflice a. an international money order office. After July 1st roney orders will be issued to forty-two foreign countries.
 Mrs and Mrs. F.. W. Clapp returned from lheir wedding trip Sunday. and have been busy every since settling down to housekeeping. in their Hat in lLo depot building.
 A 47,OOO pound boiler was received ! at Albuquerque last week to furnish ! 200 horsepower, it being one Of the 1. largest boilers in this section. It will . be put in place in the electric light plant.
 Several wood cutters of the Modoc . Mining company unearthed lot of . silver Mexican dollars in the Fillmore . canyon near Las Cruces. These coins . must have been buried there for at . least fifty years. The money was . found buried in tho shape of q cross.
 Mrs. J. F. Sheridan, and daughters, Miss Lillian and Margaret, returned to Silver City from California, where they have been for some months past 1 for the benefit of Mrs. Shcridan'a health, which has been much i'm proved by the change.
 Tho Amethyst Mining & Milling company has filed incorporation papers, the incorporators and directors being Charles $. Bell Fife x. John son and Alvin x. White. The capital is s25O, ,OOO, divided into 0,00O sharee. The headquarters of the company are at Silver City.
 A cattle shipment Of some l.40o head was made Sunday from Deming. The stock belonged principally to the N A x Ranch X CatCTo company and Mrs. 4 O. C. Carpenter, although number of other cattlemcu contributed to the total. The Denver Live Stock & Loan company was the purchaser and the stock went to Colorado.
 A suit involving the title to 23.000 ] acres of land in New Mexico just north of Fl Paso has been decided in the su- premo court Of the United States The ! most notable thing about tho land Is | that the title was granted to one Gar cia by the king Of Spain d. long ago as i the year l7OO.
 Since the passage oE the irrigation . bill, by the provisions of which d large ! fund is now available for the reclama- ton Of said lands, it has been suggest ] cd by territorial papers that an irrl- gation convention br held by the peo- plo of this territory and plans for mulatcd for getting q portion of the i benefits under the new law.
 There has been considerable typhoid 1 fever at both Morenci and Clifton. 1 If Arizona had n territorial board of | health it probably could save good 1 many lives by cleaning up those two towns Typhoid fever i~ always 1 caused by dirt. Liberal. The Liberal ! IS prOOdnlN correct. lc SNultdl ' N'u- i ditious of Clifton are most shockin%ly : bad. Talk about the odors of Venice, ! why. it would be like gentle zcphyrs . from tho garden of Eden. compared . with somo sections of Clifton. The 1 wonder isn't that we have typhoid l fever, but that the people don't all die with it.
 Col. ]. C. Rutherford. superiuren- dent of the Wilson mining company at Stein's Pass informs the Liberal that the report that the Wilson company had sold out was incorrect. He says it has not been sold, is not for sale and will not be sold. He is having trouble with the water question. When he dug his well he struck q heavy body of water. but constant pumping on it has exhausted it. He put d drill in the bottom of the well, but a. yet has not reached strong body of water. but undoubtedly will for no one has gone deep enough in that flat without get ting an abundance of water.-Liberal.
 Mrs. Armour. residing near Lake i Valley in Sierra county, owns herd of ,,,ora .bop o5 OOl Ap,Ora ,roa-s