Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-24
THE TERRITORY.
Brief Resume Of the important
beings IN New Mcs-
ieO Towns.

MINES, FARMS, RANGES, ETC.
The people of Roswell will send
their fair advertising car to the Albu-
qnerque fair with a bunch Of cadets
and the institute baseball team.
Another best weekly paper in New
Mexico IA 10 make ils appearance
October 1, when the Deming Head.
light Is TO be enlarged to eight pages.
And IL is d patent inside the Dem
ing Headlight Is to wear. Better
stick % the old form. Patent insidcs
either for people or papers are obi
Gus.
Reports from the Mimbres river
report the best crops and grass for
several seasons. Nature is making mp
for the destruction wrought BY the
great flood d year ago.
W. III. CaIuthers Of Moriarity went
down the Santa re Central al far rs
Estencia 10 look after the adobes he
Is having made there, for a dwelling
he proposes % erect for Ills family 1T
Moriarity.
Owing to the fact that Judge Frank
Parker ii holding court lii Lincoln
county al the request Of the depart.
ment 81 justice, the term Of court III
Grant county will not begin Until No.
yember 2.
Prospero Sanchez. brother Of Az
SCISSOR Benjamin Sanchez, died at So
zorro last week. He was born at
Polvadcro IN 1876 and was married In
1910 W IlIlIuoih DdillItIs WluoW
and two children survive.
Leo L. Killing, gardner at the Unit
ed States Industrial Indian school at
Santa Fe has resigned his position.
He will be succeeded BY James ID.
Porter OF the Nambe pueblo, who was
formerly a gardening student at the
school.
A corps Of Atchison, Topeka &
Santa ne engineers is at work at So
zorro for the purpose OF making the
preliminary surveys for the building
or a dam or embankment which will
divert the food waters Of the arroyo
from Socorro.
Willard v. King. vice-president Of
the Continental Trust company, OF
New York City. who is touring New
Mexico and Arizona. spent the day n
the capital city. He Is a warm per
sonal friend OF Manager w. II. Fritch-
man or the Santa Fe water and light
company.
Last week Birch Twig," q horse
owned by II. L. Gill. on the track at
Roswell broke the territorial record for
a mile and a half-mile track. The pre-.
vious record, 2.14 3.4. was made by
Robert j. Birch Twig made the mile
In 2.12 liz and then making another
attempt. broke his own record In 2.09.
The Silver City Independent says
that Albuquerque and Roswell are the
only towns OF New Mexico which
make an attempt at enforcement OF
the law requiring tho vaccination OF
children attending the public schools.
The Independent is another. In Las
Vegas the law is effectually enforced.
Il
Edgar Fuel has sold his ranch in
Socorro. 10 the CarrIzozo outfit. He
says that the terms were made on
the cattle on range and that no den.
mite price was stipulated. as Il was
impossible TO tell how many cattle he
had The sale is thought TO aggre-
gate upwards OF $50 5000.
II Is reliably reported that the Su.
perior mine. In the Shakespeare dis.
trict OF Sierra county. New Mexico,
has been sold TO Boston parties for
almost 100000. This mine Is owned
by d w. Rcckhart and others Of FL
Paso and will net the stockholders
about 80 cents a share for their stock
most OF which was bought at Is cents
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Work was resumed Tuesday on the
construction OF the Rock Island e