The copper era., 1903-12-17
NEW MEXICO NEWS

 tory is l3,OOO, Of whom about 5000 are Pueblo l 1000 Apache and 5000 Navajo.
 A party Of Roswell hunters went up the Hondo and in cave near the river bank they caught six lobos on Thanksgiving.
 A fire broke out at the old Kelly mine in the Magdalena mining dis trict Of SocOrro county last week. The hoisting works Of the mine and several adjoining buildings were com pletely destroyed.
 The grand jury at Socorro has re- turned an indictment against 4 bran Abevtia, formerly county treasurer of Socorro. who, it is alleged, embedded SEQ, GOO of county jail school funds during his incumb bency of the office. He was indicted for the larceny Of the public records Of his office, for which bail was fixed at B 900.
 Pcrfecto Rodrigues, who was sen . tenced about a year ago 10 eighteen months in the penitentiary, was par doned by Governor Otero last week. IL is said that during the year he was in the penitentiary he learned two trades, brickmaking and stOnemasOn, and now bas gone to work laying stone.
 The coal strike in southern Colorado has caused the closing down of the big steel plants of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Go. at Pueblo and this in turn, has resulted in the temporary closing down of operations at Fierro, Grant county. where hundred and fifty men are employed by the company in digging out iron ore from Union Hill and surrounding properties.
 The Santa Rita Mining company is continuing active development work, the principal operations at the pres cnt time consisting Of work in the l5O foot level Of the new No. shaft, out of which good ore is being taken, and also on the 3OO-foot level of the Hearst shaft, which is likewise producing high grade stuff. In all the company has work going in seven drifts. The concentrating mill was run about half of the month of November, and the same average will be made during December About 70 men arc being employed in the different operations.
 w. C. Chandler, owner of the Noun tain Key mine at Pinos Al tos. is ship ping from nine to ten cars of high grade ore every thirty days to the Fl Paso shelter. He has force of twen- ty-fve men employed in developing 2 the mine and taking out ore. This force, Mr. Chandler says, will be in creased to fifty men, as soon as the de- velOpmcnt in the mine justiiies it, which he thinks, will be very soon. As development work progresses, the ore bodies are being opened in excel lent shape. ln the last six months on the 1OO-foOt level has shown the vein of ore to be continuous and Of nearly equal value. The copper, sil- yer and iron being about equal to the gold it. contains. Smelling or mat ting seems to be the right treatmen, for this rc.-Entcrprise.
 It is custom of many cowboys in q JoshinG way tO eXaGgcrate their wick edncss, and often thus cunfess great crimes which they suppose their audi tors know it was impossible for them to have committed. There is one cow boy, Jake Mccain by name, who is pretty well broken of this habit He was at the \ l. ranch in the lower Nnimas last mon ,h and on the fifteenth rode up to Rodco. During the night of the fourteenth the railroad water tank at Rodeo had been blown up by dynamite. Some one at RodcO asked Mccain why he blew up the tank, and he said he did it to make noise. That afternoon he rode over to Para disc. There he was asked by d friend where he had been, and what he had been doing. and he replied ho had just come from Rodeo, where he had blown up the railroads water tank. Some days later notices were posted offering d re- ward for the arrest and conviction of the person who had blown up the tank. Some ono remembered the story Jake had told, and repeated it to the rail road officials. They secured war rant and caused his arrest. Jake says that after Ec gets out of this trouble he will be very careful with his talk, and will never again confess to any crime. e.-Liberal.
 A dispatch from Washington. states that the Secretary of the Interior ha. decided that all withdrawals of land for forestry purposes made in the past shall not affect tho right to make min cral locations of entries thereon, and all withdrawals hereafter will es pecially except mineral entries.
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