The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-03-08
NEW MEXICO NEWS


The new American National Bank
will open its doors in Silver City
about the 18th of March for business.
The institution is now having a fire.
proof vault constructed and other
necessary improvements made. The
stock in the bank has been over sub
scribed considerably and it will" be
necessary to refuse number of APP
plications for stock.
The governor has appointed How
ard II. Belts, of Silver City aid-de
camp, on his staff, with rank of colo
mel, commission to date from Feb.
"a, 1906-New Mexican. Members of
the staff of governors are always APP
pointed because of their pulchritude.
AS Col. Belts was the first appointee
of Governor Hagerman it naturally
follows that his pulchritude exceeds
that of any other men in the terri
tory. The Liberal would greatly ap-
preciate a photograph of the colo
mel, clad in his full uniform, to adorn
the walls of its office.-Liberal.
The colonel is not only noted for his
pulchritude, but also for his recti-
tude, and perhaps that had some
thing to do with his appointment.
A. G. Spaulding, the noted sporting
goods manufacturer of New York and
Chicago, is going to reclaim the
largest acreage of arid lands ever
put under irrigation by private ir-
rigation scheme in the United States.
Spaulding has acquired 104, 900 acres
of rich land in the Mimbres valley,
twenty miles north of Deming and
five miles south of Haywood Hot
Springs and is going to build a dam
across the Mimbres river and will sell
the land in small tracts to farmers.
The land has been purchased and
work will start Immediately on the
dam which is to cost one million dol
lars. Several months will be re-
quired to complete the work.
Last week stranger dropped into
a Lordsbnrg store and bought a small
article, rendering twenty dollar bill
in payment, and got most of his
change in silver. He did not like so
much silver, and pushed back ten
dollars and asked the cashier to give
him bill for it. When the bill was
produced he discovered he had
enough small change in his pocket to
pay for his purchase, SO he handed it
over, together with the ten dollar
bill, and the pile of silver and asked
for his twenty back, which he got,
and the cashier did not discover that
he had been fim-famed until he made
up his cash account that night, and
found he was just ten dollars short.
A similar game was tried in a saloon
the same day, but the barkeeper was
on, and it did not work.-Liberal.
While here last week Surveyor
Powell ran the line for a tramway to
connect Pyramid with the railroads
in town. Some of the people inter
ested in the mines at Pyramid con-
template the building of a narrow
gauge railroad from Pyramid into
town, for the purpose of transport
ing ore from the camp to the rail-
roads. The survey showed it would
be down hill pull all the way, and
with properly arranged loading bins
and dump cars the matter of getting
the ore to the railroad can be eco
nomically managed. Surveys were
also made to various mines along the
line, as they get to be producing
properties tracks will be built to
them, and their ore handled by this
company. The company to build the
road has not yet entirely perfected
its organization, but the Liberal is as
sured that as soon as the prelimi-
naries are arranged work will begin
on truction-Liberal.