Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-19
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Las Cruces Business Men Have Organized to Boom Tho
IoWn.-Sad Deaths.

Special Correspondence New Mexican
Las Cruces, Sept H.
The Las Cruces Chamber of Com
merce has been fully organized ant
has taken it's place among the CONNER.
cial bodies of the land. The following
are the officers of the organization: e
| e. Day, president; Fl. d. Bowman
treasurer; e. C. Wade, secretary: anG
Messrs. Day, Bowman, Martin Lob
| man, Henry Stoes, Hiram Hadley. Sam
Bean, DR.. j. Frank Mcconnell, R. L.
Young and Nestor Armijo, constituting
the board of directors. The organiza-
ton starts with a membership of over
50, and promises to become widely ex-
tended A committee of the chamber
has taken hold of the proposition to
secure the so-called California cutoff,
that is, the construction of railroad
from Alamogordo via this point to
Deming, the same to be operated in
connection with the Rock Island road
and the Bisbee road, and has gotten it
self in touch with certain financial in
terests whereby it feels greatly encour-
aged,
Within the past week Louis w. Len
cir, an old timer and practicing at
torney we'll known throughout the ter
ritory, passed away. Mr.. Lenoir was a
brother in-law of D. M. Kee of Tennes-
see, who held the position of postmas-
ter general in the cabinet of the late
President Hayes. Mr.. Lenoir came to
the territory in 1880, and successfully
became stage driver, cowboy, miner,
postmaster, clerk of the district court
and lawyer For the three years pre-
ceding his death, he had been afflicted
while rather sudden, was not uneXpec-
ted. He left no family.
Another death which occurred dur
ing the past week and which has cast
a shadow over the community was that
of Mrs. Emma Barker, wife of the
well known horticulturist of this place.
She died of cancer Of the liver at FL
Paso, after an illness covering some
three or four months.
Sam'l Bean, Sr, is seriously sick, and
the gravest apprehensions. are felt for
his recovery. Mr.. Bean is now SO years
of age and is one of the most pictur-
esque characters in this section. He
came into the territory with Doniphan
and was with that celebrated rough
rider on his raid into Mexico. He was
also the first sheriff of this, Dona Ana
county, apd at time when the county
seat was at La Mesilla and the county
extended from the Panhandle of Texas
to the Colorado river at Yuma, Ariz.
At meeting Of the Chamber of
Commerce on Tuesday last DR.. S. M.
Woodbridge of South Pasadena, Calf,
but now the owner Of the bat caves at
Lava, N. NJ, made an address upon
the subject of irrigation as developed
in Southern California by the use Of
pumping plants. The doctor showed to
his audience that not only fruit and
but alfalfa was being prof
itably raised in the hottest and sand
lest parts of that section with the sole
use of pumps for irrigation. His dis
ertation upon the means used there to
prevent the evaporation of the waters
and thus to economize the same was a
revelation to his listeners.
This subject of pumping plants is
still engrossing public attention. The
experiments at the Agricultural col
lege under Professor Vernon are con-
tinuing, and the bulletin to be issued
giving the results of the experiments
is awaited with much interest. During
the past week the F. Fl. Bascom Co., Of
this place, has completed a gasoline
pumping plant for Mrs. Boyer. The
pump is worked by 12-horse power
engine and throws about 1000 gallons
of water minute. Some six other
plants of this nature are in contempla-
ton.
Nuna Frenger and BRIDE nee Clara
Jacoby, returned the past week from
California. Mr.. Frenger is nephew
of Mr.. Numa Raymond; Mrs. Frenger
is daughter of Mr.. A. Jacoby, a pros
porous merchant of this town. The
young couple were lately married in