Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-03-09
To Commence About June Lone
Hundred Men Employed on
Railroad Bridge Across
Rio Crande at BeIen.
STOCKMEN DIG WELLS
0riest Weather in Many Years in Man
zano Mountains...Stock, However,
Still Doing Well.
Special to the New Mexican.

Mountainair, N. NJ, March Work
will not begin on the cut off until May
and possibly not before June Bridge
work in Aba Canon may begin earlier.
The work on the Rio Grande bridge
will be pushed as fast as possible for
fear of high water. There are now
about 100 men employed on the bridge
which number is about all that can be
employed to advantage. When the
work along the line is resumed it will
be pushed rapidly. This information
is reliable.
The present drouth is unprecedent-
ed in this section. There has been no
snow this winter and but little rain
last summer, but in spite of dry wealth
er and short grass, stock never looked
better at this time of year. This is
due largely to the increase in the num-
ber of wells. Stockmen are sinking
wells at different points in order to
utilize the grass removed from sur
face water and the results justify the
expense
W. J. Lightfoot, government inspec-
tor of U. S. surveys, has finished the
inspection of the three townships sur
veyed by Wendall " Hall, U. S. deputy
surveyor of Santa Fe, last summer.
The inspection demonstrated that Mr..
Hall did good work.
A. E. Lichty has returned from a
business trip to Belen.
w. M. Brown was in Estancia one
day last week.
Robert Locke was up from Belen on
company business this week.
F. D. Carpenter is enjoying visit
from his father whose home is in
South Dakota.
w. r. Green writes fsom Albuquer-
que that he expects to begin improy-
ing his claim near here in few days.
A change has been made in the star
route plans for this section. Under the
new arrangement Mountaineir will be
supplied from Willard and fatigue.
Manzano and Eastview from Estancia.
the change to take place March 81.
The postofice at Torreon, has been
discontinued and Punta de Aqua and
Gran Quivero have applied for postof-
fees, both to be supplied from Noun
tainair.
John w. Corbett will open real es-
tate and abstract Office in the new
town of Estancia in the near future.
He has offered a cash prize OF IS Tor
the two best watermelons grown in
the new county of Torrance this sea-
son. The melons are to be delivered
at the Estancia Office September 1o
and it is expected that enough farm
ers will become interested to make the
event rival melon day at Rockyford.
Colorado.
On account of the land in the Es-
tancia Valley being unsurveyed, the
new settlers are having all kinds OF
trouble. Those near Estancia located
their claims with the railroad COM
pany's lines, which according to the
new government survey in the town.
ship south and east are not correct. AS
result but few of them are on the
land they claim and in many instances
two are on the same claim. They are
doing a wise thing in signing an
agreement to submit all questions OF
dispute relative to their claims to ar
bitration rather than go to- law. Ihe
first dispute Of the kind has just been
settled by arbitration and unless some
of them get contrary the tangle may
yet come out all right and every one
get his quota of land without fighting
for it.