Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-01
The TERRITORY.
Brief Resume Of the Important
Doings In New Mex
leo Towns.
MINES, FARMS, RANGES, ETC,

WlNLoj ThnWoi hHNuLo. LlO.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. w. Porterfield cele.
brated their wooden wedding last Fri.
day evening.
People are beginning to wonder
when the National sanitarium at Dem
ing will be built.
The prospects for the A. & NJ. col.
lege at Mesilla Park seem excellent
for the coming year.
D
People In Albuquerque are begin
ming 70 fear that president Tight has
fallen or Mount Sorata.
II Is probable that the September
term Of court for Grant county will
be postponed until some time in the
fall or winter.
o
Miss Ruth Human has left Silver
City for Chicago where she has enter
ed the Western Conservatory Of music
for the coming year.
---u
John T. Burnside has purchased the
| Bantz residence in Silver City. This
Ii one Of the handsomest houses in
the town and belonged to the Bantz
estate.
M. Keenan, ~ Springer claims tAlat
he has discovered a large deposit OF
tin within two miles of the town. He
Is exhibiting b fine line Of specimens
OF that mineral.
William II. card, son or John Card
Of SiiYcr City, has received al APP
pciaiment as a cadet from Gran couu-
III 10 the New Mexico Military insti-
lu.s IL Roswell
Annie Woods, aged tw~enty-threa
years. died suddenly In Silver City on
the % Of last month. She was born
in Pinos Altos where her parents re-
sided for many years,
The Pecos valley fruit crop is now
marketing, Apples, pears. pfumz,
cherries and melons have done we'll.
Feaches are poor. Alfalfa and vege-
tables are an average crop.
TheAlbuquerque school OF music has
renpened up with u member OF the
faculty Of five on hand. The others
will come in within a few days. or as
soon as they can be secured.
The Colorado Telephone company
began to string its wire near Springer
last Tuesday and expects to reach
Wagon Mound early this week. The
line from Springer to Cimarron has
been completed.
Miss Bella Gaddis. for several years
a teacher In the public schols OF Sil
yer city, and who was elected In May
for the coming term, has resigned hel
position and will go to Clifton wher.
she will have charge Of n OF thu
grades In the public schools of thai
place. !.
A, ID. Hawkins. Burlington, Iowa
made a flying trip o the Black rang
last week. returning Saturday. Mr.
! Hawkins Is d chief director In thl
Minnehaha and Great Republic enter
prises. Recent assays OF the ore Q
the later mine showed 1861 ounce
gold and 5000 ounces silver.
, The Mine Development association
WV
Is driving The tunnel on the Key niue
{ New Mexico. in the Magdalcna min
ing district. The property has d grea
prospect to become a rival In produe
ton Of any of the famous producer
' ~ the district. A portion Of the prot
erty has recently been leased to "
Il. Gordon. the zinc operator from Jot
lin, Mo.
II regular attendance on the par
of The teachers and lively interest /.
the work assigned them signify any
thing, the socorro county normal Z
! stituto just closed was remarkabl
successful Even u such Institute
serve no other purpose than TO enll'
Ell the teachers Interest In his wof
( hey lack much VI being IN vain 81
J ocrro Chleftain.
A