Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-29
SUGAR FACTORY TO
Be BUILT At
LAS VEGAS
SANTA FE ROAD TO
HELP ENTERPRISE
Farmers Required TO Plant Five
Thousand Acres in BeetS to
Insure Inauguration of Vast
Industry in Meadow City,

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Especial Dispatch TO the Morning Journal
Las Vegas, Nov. 2S.-The Santa Fe
Railway company will cooperate In
every way possible with Las Vegas to
ensure the building near the city at
as early a date as possible of a sugar
beet factory Industrial Commission
er Wesley Merritt has taken the mat
ter up actively and in letters written
to the city expresses the opinion that
in no part of the west are the condi-
lions for the raising of sugar beets
better than they are on the mesas
near Las Vegas. He points out that
lands in Colorado, less fertile than Las
Vegas lands. are yielding from $50 to
$3.50 yearly an acre and that the es-
adjustment Of sugar factories has
very materially enhanced the impor-
lance of a great many Colorado COM
munities.
Mr.. Merritt goes so far as to say
that when 5000 acres Of beets AVE
been placed under cultivation, a SUI
gar beet factory for this section may
be assured. He urges the farmers to
plant beets and refers to the rate given
by the Santa Fe to the Las Vegas
beet raiser, a rate which enables the
Colorado factories to give the same
price for beets grown here that is
given to the Arkansas valley farmer.
namely. IS a ton AS a result a large
acreage of sugar beets Is certain to be
planted next spring. Tests made dur
ing the past season have amply proven
that sugar beets of large size and run
ming very high in percentage of sac
charine matter, can he grown on the
mesa lands without irrigation.
A double wedding was solemnized
in the city this evening. the parties
being Mr.. Newly, of Las Vegas. and
Miss Happy Heath, of Kansas city,
and Mr.. Melvin Bernhard, of Las We
gas, and Miss Dollie Rush, of Louis
Vile, Ky. The brides arrived together
on one of the passenger trains Tues
day evening. Boil are uncommonly
good looking. but Mrs. Bernhard is a
Kentucky beauty of the attractive type
for which the state Is famous Mr..
Newly is physical director of the To-
cal Y. NJ, c. A, and Mr.. Bernhard Is
secretary of the Southwestern W.
ings. Building and Loan association.
The district court is taking a vaca-
tion today. but will resume il. sitting
tomorrow. Saturday will in all prob
ability be another court holiday, as
Chief Justice Mills and nearly all the
local lawyers. together with a large
dlllb VI ~ 80
zens. expect to go to Santa Fe TO at
tend the statehood doings.
The amount of business on the
crimina side of the court is lighter
than usual. Judge Mills yesterday
complimented District Attorney Davis
upon the satisfactory condition of the
criminal business. When the docket
was called it was found that with the
exception of two cases set for trial,
all business had been disposed of right
down to the indictments returned by
the grand jury now in session.
In all probability only one murder
ease will be tried. In court yesterday.
Long & Ward. attorneys for j. 1. Nor
ris, the Santa Fe and Southwestern sec
ton foreman who killed a native who
attacked him with a knife, asked the
court to dismiss the case. The dis
trlct attorney said, that IL YOU be
impossible to secure the witnesses de-
pended upon by the territory. as they
had fled, and II Is probable that the
case will be dismissed before the court
%adtourns.
The case of the territory VS.. Ga
brlel Gonzales. charged with killing
Adolph Harmon. a saloon keeper at
Springer last summer will be on for
trial next week. Bunker & Lucas
represent the defendant. For Friday
is set the case OF the territory VS.. Jose
Martinez. who is charged with having
tut a large piece OF iron on the track
just in front OF No. 3 passenger train.
Long & Ward are for the defendant.
In court yesterday. after several
witnesses for h prosecution had been
examined. Patricio Macs and S~ilvario
Macs pleaded guilty to an assault upon
Juan Perea with a rock. w J. Brew
er pleaded guilty TO having used a
forged railway pass.
A native by the name of Fidel
Coriz has been bound over TO the
grand jury on the charge Of being
the one burglar who terroriZed Las
Vegas so long. II was important to
ar arrest made 90 allay the large
fear that exists in the Las Vegas fe-
male breast, and there are circum-
stances hat point to Coriz as the very
desperate. notably the Identification
of the woman from whom the pocket
BOO was snatched. However. az a
crowd OF witnesses will testify that
Coriz was at a dance at the time the
was robbed, he is not likely to
be convicted. Mr.. c. de Baca appears
him.
The appointment OF Captain David
J. Leahy as United States district at
has been received in Las We
with much appreciation. Not only
is Mr.. Leahv considered an able. care
full and conscientious attorney. but Is
uncommonly popular personally. and
Il would have been with regret that
Las Vegas would la seen hin &C
the attorney generaiship. which
have taken him away from the
city.
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