Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-22
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

at the surveyor generals Office. Th,
grant is situated in Bernalillo am
Valencia counties and includes 25,42l
acres of land.
The wool securing mill at the plant
OF the Rio Grande Wooden Mills com
pany of Albuquerque is almost com
pieted AND makes q substantial addi
ton to the main establishment. The
new building is about one hundred by
two hundred feet and is entirely OF
new material All the machinery for
securing and cleaning the wool, which
was in use in the old building south
OF the present site. has been placed
in position.
c.. C. Hall has returned from a two
weeks trip to Missouri. He was in st.
Louis for -four days and in that time
made a long visit to the grounds in
Forest Park where the Louisiana Pur-
chasis Exposition is building. Mr..
Hall is impressed with the Worlds
Fair buildings. He believes they are
to be al once the most extensive and
The most artistic exposition buildings
ever projected and the fair as a whole
he thinks will be a very wonderful
exposition OF the Of the
world, civilized and otherwise.
Work on the construction OF a large
stone dam just above Fort Bayard.
New Mexico, is being rapidly pushed
= tie contractors, Laird & Matthews.
This is only the beginnir Of a number
OF extensive improvem IT'S the gov
eminent will make at the post. The
has been increasing to such an extent
during the past year that il was found
that the water supply was not
enough for all the needs, consequently
a contract was let for the construe-
ton of a large storage dam.
Seventy-five young Catholics receiv-
ed holy communion for the fir-t time
at the Santa Fe cathedral ST lday
morning at first mass al 4 the service
was very impressive. Tt little girls
were dressed in white, wit wells and
wreath and carried lighted candles in
their right hands while the boys wore
black suits, carrying boquets and can
dies. In the afternoon in the pres
ence of the Very Rev. Antonio For
chegu the same children renewed their
baptismal vows and later were con-
ffrmed by the Rt. Rev. j. B. Pitaval.
A number of others were confirmed.
A recent dispatch from Hi;lsboro,
the county seal of Sierra county, an
nounces the sudden death of Thomas
c. Hall, probate clerk of Sierra coun-
". at that place. Deceased was a
of Brooklyn. y. Y, about So
years of age, a mining engineer by
occupation, and came to the territory
in 1880. Although an uncOmpromising
republican in politics, he had been
for four different terms to the
responsible Office of probate clerk and
.x-oficio recorder in the Democratic
county Of Sierra by handsome major
tiles and was serving his fifth term.
ucOISG IL. DaSios 6CACA0i SuRSA
tendent for the American Lumber
has gone to the timber lands
Of hat company at ThOreau. He
says that things are moving fast out
here and that steel is being laid ON
company's lines out that way.
The spur tracks to the mill site here
has been laid for about a hundred feet
and the grading is all completed. Sew
eral teams are at work with plows to
begin the excavations for the big
buildings. 4 space about 200 feet
square has been plowed up and the
scraper are now at work on the grad
ng- sA4
The contest of Melton Garcia YER
sus Antonio Cordova. involving home
stead entry No. 5000, which includes
northwestA of the southwest u
Of section 5 and the north " of the
southeast u and northeast n Of the
southwest " of section 6, township IL
north, range "a east. located in Mora
has been decided by the regis
and receiver of the Santa Fe land
office in favor of contestant. The de-
cision rcsommends that he entry OF
Cordova be cancelled. The causes Tor
this decision are that Cordova has o
complied with the homestead law and
has 0 lived upon the land as re-
The Headlight of Deming claims TO
have the most reliable Information
that Deming is to have in the near ID
ture two new railroads. The Alamo
gordo short cut 10 Deming is nov an
assured fact, the surveyors are
present west OF Las Cruces making
permanent survey and heading
Deming. On the heels of TINS
goo6 news comes the most positive
from inside source caaS
The Durango road OF Colorado has de-
cided to extend to Deming. This road
will pass through the finest timber and
coal lands in all the great west anu
will tap the immense mining DIS
tricts OF the Black Hills, Kingston,
Santa Rita and Cooks Peak.
Articles of Incorporation have Deen
at the office of the territorlai
secretary for the Ration Green House
and Nursery company. The company
is authorized t. carry on a general
green house AM nursery business n
to do all TIL. ,g which may be prop
arlv Incidental 70 the above business.
1t is capitalized at $500 oo to be d.
into shares of the value OF !
- The form Of nxiSfnncp is II be