Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-04-08
Mineral Hill
Happenings

Grand weather We are having in
spots.
Election day passed very quietly
out here.
George Williams left for the me
tropolis.
N. NJ. Mcschooler was q visitor TO
the Hill.
s. L. Fisher is getting out some ties
these days.
John Furth was 4 visitor 70 the City
OF Meadows.
The building boom has suDsided for
the time being.
Lee Muir contemplates IN early Wis.
II to Las Vegas.
w. Rowley is q new ward in the
woods, getting out logs.
Frank Thrower has been under the
weather for q day or two.
Jefferson Hill and Boomer hit the
trail for Santa Fe yesterday.
Chas. NJ. Jordan and J. X. Tyler
iropped oyer from the Bell ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. @. Adams are ex-
pected home from Las Vegas today.
Al dance Is one Of the future events,
but when or where as yet unsettled.
Polito Mares ID driving the Thrower
team during the illness Of Frank
Thrower.
w. G. Bauer continues to imbibe
ozone and grow with each day in
and weight.
Theo. Parker drove to town yes
terday, accompanied by the Misses
Ida and Ella and Master Willie.
John Sheridan has recovered from
his accident and is back again wrest.
ling with the merry o cut saw.
The surrounding country Is TO be
planted in spuds and green tops ga
lore will greet the eye--if 1t will only
rain.
The evidence Is on hand that there
IL quite q loss Of young timber. Dead
and dying are many 81 the young
trees.
There Ii quite a bit Of snow back IN
the range. and the outlook appears
to be promising is to water In the
streams.
The Mineral Hill section will have
some nice ore specimens for the New
Mexico exhibit at the st. Louis ex
position.
The twin babies OF Nj. and Mrs. H
Trujlllo, now nearly o month old, wa,
fat and healthy, the pride OF the faith
er.s heart.
Henry Brisman is very busy improv
ing his property and turning the sol
In preparation for a bountiful croI
that ia to be.
Chicken farming has some the bes
OF II IN the way Of recreation up here
but the per cent Matched 80 far hal
only been middling.
Road Boss Parker has had a gam
at work the past several days opening
up an aperture through earth AM
stone for logging purposes.
Captain Donohoe has struck anothe
bonanza, and the ore will assay som
higher than the returns OF last weel
Deponent sayeth not much, but listen
exceedingly, for he Is OF the specie
tenderfoot.
Al deficiency In the supply Of bear
has been commented upon. Havin
lost no bear, the shortage had not a
pealei 70 ye scribe. But the fact \
mains that bruin has not appeared 9
per schedule.
The atmosphere has been very =
silent Of late. and the musical hum
tho whistle at the round house In Il
Vegas has been heard and timepiec'
regulated thereby.
Have had considerable moisture
late, but It did not tarry. the rays
the sun and vigor OF the wind dryir
the ground in short order. The gral
Is peeping and the buds are buidin
and spring time is coming.
The merry music Of the axe ava
ems the echoes and the Ito man
shipping many ties. There are 7
ties that grower dcarer. day BY do.
This may sound q trife poeticai, ,
there Ii a good big hunk Of fact 6
taincd therein, and to the think
person a regret or two embodi'
Vale, the timber, and then-whatl