The copper era., 1906-03-22
! NEW MEXICO NEWS



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The well drilled for the city of
Gallup by Gus Mulholland has been
completed. 1t is down Lip feet and
flows 1000 gallons an hour. The
artesian flow is led into a cistern
from which the town is supplied.
The annual convention of the Cat
tie & Horse Protective Association of
New Mexico will be held at San
Marcial, Socorro county, March p,
and the attention of all the stock
men in the territory is called to the
meeting.
During the month of February, PSI
homestead entries were made in the
Roswell land district. The Clayton
land office has done more business
since the 1st of December than any
other land Office in the United States,
and entries at.that Office have run as
high as 1O0a day.
Judge Louis 1. Marshall, well and
favorably known in Deming, having
resided there a number of years, and
who married wealthy widow in Cali
tornia about three weeks ago, passed
through last week en- route for the
east with his wife's remains, she
having died suddenly.
Robert Redding, a resident of
Grant county for thirty years, COM
mitted suicide at Deming last week.
He had been in bad health for some
time. Deceased was member of
Silver City Lodge No. 8, A. F. & A.
M. Mr.. Redding was an honest and
an upright man, good citizen, and
his sad death is a source of the great
est regret.
The board of county commission
ers have elected Edward S. Andrews,
democratic assessor of Santa Fe
county, following closely upon the
filing of the same Office by Governor
Hagerman, who appointed Chenille
A. Collins, republican and former
resident of Colorado Springs, Colo
RADIO. This was the result of Judge
John r. McFie finding Assessor An
astacio Gonzales guilty of the charge
of incompetency preferred against
him by Travelling Auditor Charles
Stafford and removing Gonzales from
Office. A long drawn out legal battle
between the two claimants to the of
fee is now expected.
The Lyons & Campbell Commission
company have made contract with
the Fleming Cattle company, S. T.
Toney, Frank NJ. Harper, M. r. Bal
Ion and other cattlemen in the Man
gus, Burro mountain and ella river
sections for the delivery of one
thousand head of range stock to be
made in SILVER City on or about May
1st next. The prices were S12, SIS
and S18. 1t is understood that the
purchasers are on the market for
ten thousand more cattle, providing
that the same can be had at the
right price. The stock will be ship
ped to Colorado pastures.
With the addition of two new recla-
nation projects on the part of the
government, one in Texas and New
Mexico, and the other entirely in
New Mexico, the total number of
projects has been increased to TWEEN
ty-four, which provides for recla-
nation of nearly 100000 acres of
arid land, at cost of more than
49,, 100000. According to the geo.
logical survey, work on eleven of
these projects are well under way,
and already seventy-seven miles of
main canal and ffty-four miles of
distributing canals have been con-
structed, in addition to 1856 miles of
bitches and 147 bridges. Tunnels
have been driven to a length of
three and a half miles.
There was more trouble out at
Granite Gap last week. Superintend-
emit Whiteman discharged a number
of Mexican miners, and as there
was no other work for them to do at
the place intimated they had better
leave camp. Half a dozen of them
interviewed the superintendent, and
advised him to leave camp, empha-
sizing the advice with big six
shooter. Mr.. Whiteman went to
Stems and telegraphed to Deputy
Sheriff McGrath. Mr.. McGrath went
up to investigate, and arrested six of
the men. They were taken to Stems
and tried. Five of them were fined
So and costs, and the man with the
sixshooter was fined $50 and costs.
All fines and costs were paid.-Liberal.