The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1906-02-02

Dr. McEWen OF - tuugo JAu others |
were looking alter business OF the
mesa Thursday, :
Reports say Free Townsend viii !
move onto his mesl rarch Potter |
ranchl about March
New Mexico has iled on nearly all |
the availaba land on the Salmon |
mesa for territorial purposes.
So much Improvement that Mrs, !
LIE Clegc, who has li' ed here p wears,
got lost while returning from the post !
office the other morEing.
George Adair, ID. i. Hutsman and
others Of the Hammond settlement
are figuring on trying the Blue Wat
er country down in the Zuni noun
tains.
Three below zero on the night of
the second was rather strenuous for
the Sunny San JUN, but 60 in the
shade on the 9th was just little
ike spring,
There is said to be a plan on tap to
make q wholesale business Of claim
jumping on the mesl. 1t may take
more than fifty dollar lawyers fee
for the ''iumpists" to make such
work stick.in this corner.
Now if the Senate grants us a vote
on that statehood business and we
can't make good TIRE anJis will be
morally entitled to receive an iniunc-
tion for boosters to ,hut up and also
to use red fire and rockets to finish.
Walter Mcclure, with ReagRns sur
vey corps has been uuite sick in Old
Mexico and from accounts quite sick
of Old Mexico. Walter is no devotee
TO rural pursuits but without doubt
longs to circulate again with the Ami
mas valley Farmer He has re-
turned to Nogales, hriz., to try to re-
gain his lost health
The first scheme to irrigate the
Bloomfield mesa daI es back to II,
nearly 20 years aaa 1t will not be
idle another 20 year. and we feel safe
in laying that it viii not be 20
molkhs moro until The blows will be
tIp over some the best land in
i1lgSolthMeSt = La come noor
land on the mesa but it hardly con
stitutes one-tenth O I've area
The doctors seem to he getting
quite numerous on the Animas and we
feel grateful that we nave something
in the aqueous line that is far supper
tior to the Animas juice. During our
three years residence here | only re-
member of one case of typhoid fever,
and none of pneumonia. In fact the
! sickness has been practically confined
to colds, swlll poX none here now
and old chronic complaints or have
been the result of accidents,
There are certainly no flies on the
citizens of the lower San Juan but
there is difference of opinion as tC
whether they have Il cinch on the
main line OF the c. & A. The route
via. Gallegos canon and the upper
San Juan has few merits of its own
among others a water grade dnC
shortest route. However the Fruit
land country is evidently flush with
natural resources and besides hav,
a bunch of boosters that could not b,
kept down without being hit on IN,
head with an AK. They have ou
best wishes for their future success.
and a great city, but as to the mali
line of the c. & A., we would rathe
prefer to see that come this way.
We notice some OF the cattle of Bro
ther Tinker's neighborhood have con
tracted the "disappearing disease.
We have had the came contagious
disease among unbranded stock her
for some time. A noted peculiarit.
OF the disease is that the animal van
ishes and leaves no remains. Tht
microbes causing the disease may b.
seen without the aid Of microscope
but SO far most of the remedies ap
piled have proven Intellectual, Scien
lists have only discovered two infalli
ble cures for the malady, one com
pound of hemp, the other pills mad
! from a well known mineral foun
among the Ozarks. However, LETT
hope that class of parasites may b
found that may eradicate the pes
without recourse to private treatment
o.