The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-09-24
@ DAM SPUR
TO BE IN
NINETY DAYS
Steel Trust Backing Go. De-
veloping Rich vanadium
Deposits at Lead Camp in
the Caballo.
BRADY HAS
IN LABOR

niiihDoro, ~. M, sept sos-AHe sun
shone on this section Of Sierra county
for the FIRST time in four days today.
Tuesdays showers fell all around Hills
boro. Since then it has rained every
day and yesterday when a steady driz-
zle descended from morning until night
from the Caballos mountains to the
Black Range. The country received
a good soaking and the grass which
is good in most localities will have a
chance to mature. The rains were not
accompanied by thunder and tightening
and are said to be good samples of
the fall rains which have not been seen
here for many years.
O. ]. McCorkle, the banker, Sheriff
Kendall and z. ID. Tittmsn, delegate
to the constitutional convention, visit.
ed Palomas and the country around the
Elephant Butte Dam this week. They
report that crops are good in the valley
and that there is much activity at
tho lead camp in the Caballos and the
Elephant Butte Dam. At the lead camp
the vanadium mines company, back.
ed by the United States Steel corpora.
tion, is working 16 men developing the
deposits Of vandanite, which is associat-
ed with the lead ore but which has only
been discovered WITHIN the last year.
The company Is also building q camp
for the men at the mill where the ore
is to be concentrated, and is further
erecting q power plant to develop cleo.
tric power.
At the three railroad construction
camps work Is steadily progressing and
IL Is believed that Contractor Brady
will be able TO finish up grading the
branch line from Engle TO the dam
site within the 90 days allowed by law,
although he is having some trouble in
getting laborers. At the Elephant Butte
camp there is general activity and by
the time the railroad Is in operation
the officials viii be ready to proceed
with the actual construction work. Mr..
McCorkis was especially interested in
this work as he viii visit the irriga.
tion congress rs delegate from Sierra
county.
At the Palomas hot springs there
were many patients but the place
needs IN appropriation from the nation.
al government and competent superin.
tendents to improve its possibilities and
TO better sanitary conditions. With i'm.
proved conditions there Is no reason
why the springs should not achieve
international reputation and bring
wealth to the territory as well as to
the locality where they are located.
Jim Ross, the boss Of the springs
pulled on q mock election there last
week, and the joke was entirely success.
full. Two delegates to the constitu
tional convention were chosen by the
residents Of the springs, and At least
onw of the men, whose home Is In Rose
dale, took the matter 80 seriously thaI
he left the springs AZ once for his hom,
from where he saio he would 60 straight
TO Santa Fe. One of his platform pledge
Wns W kot = SoogvVv PPf"PfAesioh ~
the springs. Nineteen votes were cast
q. n. Mighell receiving eight and J. N
Marshall eleven. The returns wer
placed In a cigar boz and sent ON I
County Clerk Kelly.
The returns from the regular eles
tion show that the vote was very ever
~ divided. +. II. Winston r~eceivin
2l4 and T. ID. Tittman 22s votes. tn
greatest differences were In ouchiIl'
whore Winston received 20 TO l2 "a
Tittmann and in Engls and AFRO,
where Tittmann led eight to ons an
hftssn to nine. Precincts Faulkner an
San jose held NO election
Jaznss Latham, dsneerstie esntrs
committeeman was q visitor on busins'
matters from Lake Valley.
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