Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-04-07
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsDURe, APRIL 7, 1905.

Ira Baker, one of the Baker brothers
who have great herds OF cattle IL
southern Grant aud Luna counties
was 10 the city the arst Of the week.
Frank Hudson was in the city Wed.
nesday, coming down from Clifton
where he had been telling his friend:
about the famous St. Elmo cigar.
MIS-. B. W. Randall, who has been
visiting 10 Silver City, returned tC
L~ordsburg Wednesday. She saw more
sncw while 10 Silver than she evel
wants to see again.
Chinese Inspector Bonner, like all
the other Chinese inspectors, has bios
somed out in a fine new blue uniform
with big brass buttons. This helps tC
give him an air of distinction and
authority when he goes through a
train looking for Cinnamon who have
no right to be 10 this country.
John X. Ersklne, Jr., Of New York,
who was one of the original promoters
of the Shannon company, and Thos.
+. Vahey, a prominent lawyer OF Bos-
ton, were in the city Wednesday, en-
route to Clifton. Mr.. Erskine is now
largely interested 10 the Standard con.
sOlidated company, of which he is a
director. His trip up there is to look
over the affairs OF the company.
1t is reported that cattle buyers
have contracted for some twelve thou
sand cattle in the northern part of the
county, and that most of them will be
shipped from Silver City. The cattle
men in the southern parto Of the county
shipped most Of their stock last fall,
and now there not left enough ship
ping cattle to make much OF a deliv-
cry. With a cattle buyer nothing less
than a train load counts.
A dozen men 10 the employ Of the
steel bridge company which has the
contract for building the new bridge
across the San Francisco, at Clifton,
for the railroad company, went up to
Clifton Monday, to start work on the
bridge. From now on the work will
be pushed as rapidly as possible, and
such care will be taken with the foun-
dations that it is hoped there will
come no flood that will move it.
John Wilson, a former member OF
the English parliament, a director of
the Arizona copper company, and W.
Exley Miller, secretary of the com.
pany, are at Clifton. John Gill, Mr..
McNab, and j. G. Hopkins, all direc-
tors OF the company, are expected
from the east Sunday, aud President
ColquhOn is also expected from Cali
fOrnia. They will spend some days at
Clifton, looking ove the property of
the company. All of these gentlemen
have visited the property before, aud
are familiar with it.
Lester L. Robinson, secretary OF the
Hughes lumber company, of Los An
geles, arrived 10 town Friday night on
the west bound limited. Mr.. Robin
son is familiar with the town, having
often visited here, but when he got off
the train there was such a heavy snow
storm that he could not tell whether
he was 10 Lordsburg or Labrador. He
had been on a trip through Mexico,
looking at timber lands for his COM
pany. He stopped off here on his way
home to visit his brother at Steeple-
rock, where he also found plenty OF
snow, which had not yet melted when
he left Wednesday morning for his
Los Angeles home.
The weather report for March made
by e. w. Clap, voluntary observer,
shows that on an average the ther.
mometer went up to SO degrees every
day, and on one day, the 10Th, 1t went
to SO, while on the Sth it only got as
high as As. The average minimum
temperature was 3S, the highest mini,
mum was So on the Goth, and the low
est temperature was 30 degrees on the
18th, that being the only day the mer.
curry got below freezing point. The
total precipitation, including melted
snow, was 3.34 inches. There were
eight clear days In the month, twelve
cloudy, and eleven partly cloudy. Pre-
calling direction Of the wind west,
AS reported in the LIBERAL last Fri
day, 1t TaIned Thursday night after
ten days OF fine weather, there was a
precipitation measuring Al inches.
Friday night a new combination was
observed in the weather, and we had a
snow storm. 1t showed all night, and
most OF Saturday, but in this valley
the snow melted as fast as 1t fell. The
melted q and rain amounted to SO
inches. In TIE mountains the snow
did not melt. At Bedrock there was
some twenty-one inches, according to
the record kept by Louis Champie, a
voluntary weather observer, and Green
Wright, who brought 10 the mail Sat
urday, said the snow vas belly deep to
his horse. South of town, 10 the bills
beyond Shakespeare, there was at