The copper era., 1905-08-03
NEW MEXICO NEWS 1

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 The PecOs Valley Echo states that there are enough artesian wells in the Pecos Valley in radius of ten miles of Dayton to irrigate 100000 acres of land, if properly handled.
 The A. T. & s. F. will build tun- nel nearly one mile in length on its main line in New Mexico and through Raton hill, IA feet below the present tunnel, at cost of S1,OOO,OOO.
 Sheep growers in New Mexico are fairly wallowing in prosperity. After two or three more or less sue cessful seasons, they have come upon a season which is all success. Pros perity and high prices have been thrown at the sheepmen in punches, and the end is not yet.
 The Windsor hotel at Socorro was totally destroyed by fire last week. The greater portion of the contents were saved. There was no water in the mains and the hose company was powerless. The loss is about S1O,OOO. The fire is supposed to have started from carelessly thrown cigar.
 The Riverside Irrigation company, a firm of five Kansas City, Mo-, capi- talists, has bought $500 acres of land on the Pecos River forty miles north of Roswell, and will start one of the greatest alfalfa farms in the United States. The entire tract will be planted in alfalfa, and it is hoped to obtain from three to five cuttings each season.
 Cattle shipments from the territory during the past few months have been enormous. The shipments from Deming alone during May and June amounted to 43, 781 head, the value of which was at least S1,OOO, 900. Owing to the sinability of the Santa Fe to furnish cars, all the Grant county shipments were made from Deming and are included in the above num- Der. Last year the shipments from
  head, the year before to 185, ,0O0 head, and the year before to 134, 1000 head, but this year they will be almost twice that number.
 w. s. Hopewell, vice-president and general manager of the Albuquerque Eastern Railroad company's, return ed recently to Santa Fe, N. M., from a months trip to New York and other eastern financial centers. MT. Hopewell authorized the statement that the Albuquerque Eastern rail- road would be completed and in run ming order by January l. The con- tract for the completion of the line from Moriarity to the Hagan coal fields and to the city of Albuquerque has been let to contractors from Binghamton, N. Y. In a short time the Santa Fe Central railway, the Albuquerque Eastern and the Hagan branch will be merged into one cor poration and will be under one man. agement.
 New Mexico has in the person of Maria Rosa Gallegos y Hernandez woman who is 103 -Year5 Of age, who can sew, thread a needle without the agIasses, who has never had tooth extracted, whose hair is as black as any 16-year-old maiden's, and who does not look to be more than fifty years of age. The woman in question resides in Alamogordo and has been a resident of this terri tory since 1865. She has been mar ried twice, her first husband having been captain in the army of Mex ico under the old regime. Her pres ent husband, although fifty years her junior, looks to be at least twenty years her senior. By her first mar riage she had eight children, and the mother has survived them all.