The copper era., 1903-06-25
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NEW MEXICO NEWS

A. F. Witzcl has secured a lease on the old Baltic mine at Silver. Ii was q heavy producer in past years.
 Lyman Garrett has been appointed manager of the Lyons & Campbell in- terest- al the Red Barn near CliT.
 The Lyons & Campbell company will make d shipment Of 5OO head Of cattle . to La Junta, Colorado, about June 9th.
 Consumption hospital, and -ani,ar- ium7 are being planned for several citles-in both New Mexico and Ari- zona and the latest according to the Denver News. will be located on a site already selected near the boundaries Of the two territories.
 ShcriG Blair of Grant county cap turcd at Chihuahua. Mexico Am- bro-ia Mcndo-a, Mexican, who, after attcmpting assault. murdered l3-ycar old Julia Werner near Silver City in 1897. Hc murdered the child by shooting her twic. in the breast, then he disappeared and wa- not heard from until Sheriff Blair trajlcd him To Chihuahua and finally effected his capture.
 X I.a7 Cruces -pondcnt sends the following: The proposed railroad from Alamagordo to Deming. known d. the cut-oI. is taking d very dciinalc form and shape; the final survey be- tween the two places named has been completed and the line definitely staked out. It will cross the Mcsilla valley about seven miles below Las Cruces. The company lately purch- a-.d 5II acrc- along it- line in the BraZIto Grant. which caused many person, To ~urmi-c that the company has in contemplation thc establishing of a now town in the valley. The land is admirably suited for such purpose.
 John W. Childcr-. who killed Attor- nry IIc0in in Silver City, was recently arrested in Fl 'a-o on a charge of d. sault with intent to kill man ir Dem ing. He wa, taken 10 D.ming for trial. but managed to get d change Of venue to Sierra county. IL will bc re- mem mbcrcd that Childcrs got into some very serious trouble in DaminT some months ago. almost killed d young man by beating him up with q six shooter, aud then made his escape into Mexico. There are several indictments against him besides the one on which he will be tried. His bond was placed at 5000 which he was unable to give, and therefore remains in jail at Dem ing.
 A Denver attorney has filed in the santa Fc i,tnd office coal locations coy cring about nine thousand acres Of coal land, north of the Mogollons, and south of the A. & r. road. IL has long been known that there were immense coal deposits in that section. Some ten years ago the country was pros pcctcd for coal by silver City people, and an abundance of it found. The Silver City, Piuos Altos and Northern road was to be built to open up the fields. but as it. was not built the coal was not brought into market. It is supposed that the land is being To- catcd in the interest of the people be- hind the Clifton and Durango road. This road will be built and it will open up that country. There will be d good market for this coal in southern Ari- zoua and northern Mexico, and it can be put into that market by a much shorter haul than any other coal.- Liberal.
 Fortino Gonzales came in from the Mesquite district last sunday, and re- ports thv recent di-covcrcry of some rich new placer digging, in that vicin- ity, in which he and .; number of com plnions have for several days been making from 92O to $IOo per day each. The extent of the pay dirt has not yet been a~ccrtaiucd, but it i~ believed to cover quite a large territory that has heretofore been overlooked by the man with the dry washer. Mesquite district k in san Diego county, about twenty-five miles northwest ol Yuma. Yuma Sun.
 The Arizona proepcctor has rem cdy for all ailments. Sores, bruises and burns arc cured by natures rem cdiCs. innamutory rheumatism has no tcrrors for the prospcctor, which he declares the leaves of the prickly pear will cure, and it stands to reason that there are many virtues in the plant, owing to it's slow growth and the absorption of the soil and elements. Whcn the prospcctor suffers with rheumatism he takes a leaf of the pricllly pear and holds it over the fire to burn tho thorus thcrcfrom. Then it is split in half and mashed to a pulp; the pulp is heated to degree that tho sufferer can stand and then placed on each side of the inflammation. All old prospectors declare that two or three applications Of this remedy will cure the most obstinate case.
 Banking is generally regarded as profitable business. and Chicago banks certainly get their full share of profit Here. then. is fact to reflect upon: One mine in Colorado is paying as much aS all the banks in the city of Chicago put together. Never in the bi-.or,- of ,ba world has the interest