Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-09
CLAYTON COURT.
Items Of Interest Concerninu the %
ings Of the Court and Other
Things.

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the court output consisting Of Chief
Justice Mills, Clerk S%ecundino Romero
District Attorney Leahy, Stenographel
Gortner Attorneys Long, Fort
Gonzales and Bunker, arrived al
Trinidad at ten o'clock that night.
The Columbian hotel, which usually
accommodates those enroute for ths
Clayton court, was found to be full tc
overiowing, SO that a number OF the
party sought quarters elsewhere.
The Colorado Southern trains south
bound were unable to get to Clayton
among the snow drifts, SO the entire
court party were detained until near 4
o'clock p. m. Monday, waiting for the
snow plows to clear the way for trains
going south.
This delay gave good opportunity to
observe the business conditions OF
Trinidad.
There is every evidence that this
busting little city is enjoying a lucra.
tive trade and that prosperity r. !,
substantial kind has come 10 ,ra neon,a,
The streets are tb,songed with be,
d~estrians, new buildings are being
erected and business is evidently &C.
tive. \ III
A large number of coal camps are
tributary and connected by hacks con
tinually passing and repassing, crowd
ed with passengers.
A good proposition for this city
would be an electric line connecting
Trinidad with the coal camps.
Such an enterprise would be profit
able to the owners, and as well to the
city.
The business men would advance
their interests by securing the early
construction of such a line.
The future of Trinidad is encourag-
ing. With mountains of coal
in inexhaustible quantities. u
ficient to ISL req SUI
freight rates. an excellc AonaDl'
a good business popr' -at Climate
every reason to + 4,ation, there Il
become DOR ! .elieve Trinidad vii
thousands city of twenty to thirt,
The of people.
oc1Eft crowd reached Clayton OF
, Monday night in time for a hot sup
| per at Rotel Eckland.
Carr Hck'""s the proprietor OF thi
Known hosiery, is one OF TN
-nioneers. who has made his ior'un'
here. and aided in the upbuiidins .
the place. His hotel Is always crowoe'
10 its full capacity, and is in eyer'
respct an up-to-date institution.
CLAYTON shows evidence OF thrill
and progress.
II is a trade center for a larg
area of country and the home OF man
men OF wealth who nave grown rlc
in the stock business in the surroune
! ing region.
{ with churches and schools, q ban
and fourishing commercial house
the future of this town on
is very bright. ne plai
The recen'
ever + SHOWS are the larg'
..,own here and the slush and
make conditions very uncomfortet
ID Stock men report the losses In car
will be from twenty to thirty per &c
at Tuesday the pannell Of both Pr
In and grand juries was completed
ly, the judicial mill began to grind
he the semi-annual grist.
ca The docket in this county is in
cellent shape, as it is in all the co
OF ties of he district, except Guadalu
he where court cannot be held for W
ne Of funds.
ed The holding Of court by Judge M
Ion at the regular times provided by
and the quiet yet effective dispatch
business, has relieved the conges
" condition in which he found the d.
ny ct in the several counties at the c
mencement of his term OF ONCE.
Much disappointment exists am
the influential citizens, over the
les IRE of the statehood measure. n
m -concensus of opinion is that
re- battle should be renewed at the
les Hest possible date of the next ses'
the of congress.
rye The merger of Arizona mi J
be Mexico is very favorably spoken
lew 1t is mentioned that as one state
aid two territories would almost 9
ON Texas in territorial dimensions, tn
lew would nave far more than the r.
OF site population that the expens'
and the state administration would %
the duced one-half.and the new stat
own its extent would be safe-gua
;om- against combinations and cliquef
Of The feeling for joint state'
With ! seems to be growing, especially AZ
x..-s-~.. ~non onA large f0X-O0