Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-16
THE CITY OF
THE WINDMILLS
Signs of Steady Growth on Every Side
The Ell Paso and Southwestern Rail-
way Will Build a Handsome
Depot at Dsnling.
The WElDENBERC AND DISTRICT Of
COLUMBIA MINES ARE SOLD
Deming, N. M, July IA, 1902


al rain fell in southern New Mexico,
Luna county which was getting pretty
dry being especially favored. The rain
lasted about two hours. 1t was follow
ed by another on Saturday evening.
The sky is still clouded and further
precipitation is anticipated. AS con-
sequence cattlemen and farmers are
jubilant
Peaches, apples and plums of an eX-
cellent quality from the Mimbres river
valley are daily offered for sale upon
the streets of Deming. Ranchmen
state that the fruit crop in that valley
was never before better. There will be
an enormous quantity of winter apples.
Luna county is now little over one
year old, having been organized on
April /, 1901. Since the date of organ
ization it has advanced steadily in ma
terial prosperity and today ranks
among the first counties in the territory
for prompt collection and return of
taxes, and for it's financial condition in
general.
Deming is not having a boom in the
generally accepted meaning of that
word, it is simply growing and work.
ing out and fulfilling its manifest des-
tiny, namely, that of being the princi-
pal business center OF southern New
Mexico. improvement is the order of
the day in all portions of town, the kind
of improving which indicates that citi-
zens are satisfied that prosperity rests
upon a really solid foundation.
The town is looking we'll and every
fruit tree in it is bending beneath its
load Peaches and grapes do well here
as we'll as all other sorts OF fruit
The following persons have recently
laid cement sidewalks around their res
licences: Lou II. Brown, J. p. Byron, N.
A. Bolich, John Corbett and H. Nord-
haus. Besides these many business
houses have had this sort of pavement
laid in front of their buildings, thereby
greatly improving the town.
Captain John II. Lester, who some
time ago lost his dwelling house by
fire, is putting UP 1I-room alobe
house to be used in part as a rooming
house..
Some Is or 20 of our people are spend
ing the summer on ti2g Rsastic coast.
Among these may be ue,tioned the
family OF Hon. ] A, Mahoney and COL
onel Richard Hudson and wife.
The wife of Attorney Amos w. Pol
lard, accompanied by her brother, has
just returned from visit to. her par
ents who live at Portage, Wis.
Four new buildings are now in pro-
cess of construction and Il number Of
property owners are building additions
or are renovatng their houses.
The board of education is having the
high school building repainted and gen.
orally renovated. A new we'll is also
being dug on the school premises.
Miss Pansy Smith, daughter of Colo
mel P. r. Smith, who has been attend
ing vassar College, returned to Deming
a few days ago.
DR.. S. d. Swope and family, James
Tracy and Henry Meyer, left for resorts
on the Pacific coast today. Mrs. Meyer
and son who have been at one of the
resorts for the past two months will re-
turn with Mr.. Meyer in a couple of
weeks.
Assessor Edward Pennington says
that Luna county will return hand
some tax assessment this year.
The Weldenberg mine owned by Ste
phen S. Birchfield and George Wesley,
and the District of Columbia in the
Tres Hermanas mining district, were
today sold to George L. Rood, a min
ing man of Terre Haute, Ind.
l.. H. Brown, manager of the J. B. l..
Cattle Company, left yesterday for the
home ranch to be absent three or four
days.
The Adelphi Club is in a fourishing
condition. There are more than 100
| members and the income is about $125
| month. The executive committee is
considering the advisability of putting
in a ping pong table in addition to the
present billiard and pool tables.
Professor John W. Barton of Chilli
cothe, Mo-, has been elected principal
of the Deming public schools for the
ensuing year. Professor Barton comes
we'll recommended. He will arrive in
| Deming about the 18th of August. Mrs
Barton and her son Claude have beer
here for a couple of weeks.