The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-20
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences of More Than Ordi'
nary interest.

Tucumcari has purchased the city
water system for $65,000.
Santa Fe is preparing to have big
Fourth of July celebration.
The Aztec Irrigation Company will
begin work in the near future.
The cotton planting in the Carlsbad
project is going with rush.
According to the last census, Wagon
Mound has population of 1873.
The Modern Woodmen held their
triennial conclave at Santa Fe.
The Santa, Fe railroad is erecting
three more water cranes at Willard.
The building trades during this
month are extremely active in Dem
ing.
The Silver City Postal Savings
bank was opened for deposits Monday,
May 1st.
Charles w. Snyder has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Mineosa, Quay
county.
Frost practically killed all the fruit
in the Springer section of Colfax
county.
Chas. Smith of Albuquerque has
been granted an original pension of
500 month.
Barring unforeseen calamity, the ap.
pie crop of San Juan county this year
will be big one.
The growing of canteloupes will be
an important thing in the Pecos val
ley this season.
The Roswell Presbyterian church
has secured the services of DR.. D. B.
Simpson as pastor.
Frost in the Mesilla valley dam
aged strawberries, early grapes, can
taloupes and small fruit.
Artesia has voluntarily imposed
upon itself tax levy of twenty-five
mills for its public schools.
Every one about Iaelrose is busy
getting ready for the big crops that
are now confidently expected
. The May term of District Court
opened at Roswell with the heaviest
docket in the history of the court.
Col. James w. Wilson was unani-
mously reelected superintendent of the
New Mexico Military Institute at Ros-
well.
Roswell was selected by the Mod.
ern Woodmen of America as the place
for holding the territorial camp in
1914.
Recent wet weather caused loss
of 700 lambs to Walter Long and $50
lambs to Carlos Clancy in Guadalupe
county.
The Foley ranch house near the
Ozark mill, Socorro county, an old
land mark, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently.
The reservoirs of the Carlsbad pro-
ject are still practically full with the
planting season more than half fin
ished.
Miss Celsa Wagner, employed in an
Albuquerque laundry, had her hands
uIdWH lulo uOHlIS lOllS anu lcillply
lacerated.
The Wayside Oil & Gas Company
was recently organized TO drill in the
Rad Lands, sixteen miles east of Tu-
cumcari.
An oil well drilling outfit has COM
menced drilling on the property of the
OIL
at Albuquerque.
Thomas R, Taylor is getting 400
gallons of water per minute from
five-foot stratum in his well nine
miles south of Deming.
DR.. R. Herman of Roswell will
pump water eighty feet with 20
horse power crude oil engine and ir-
rigate 100 acres of land.
The shortage of County Treasurer
c. B. Chenault of Quay county was
found to be $4,000 and is said to
have been due to loose bookkeeping.
The tri-state scenic highway is now
open from the Texas line at Anthony
On the south to Dona Ana, five miles
north of Las Cruces, a distance of
twenty-eight miles.
The United States Copper Compa-
ny, capitalized at half a million dol
lars, filed incorporation papers at
Santa Fe. Headquarters are at Han
over, Grant county.
The new tipple at the mine now be.
ing operated in the north side OF
Blossburg canon, opposite Gardiner, is
rapidly nearing completion and will
be ready for business within the next
two or three weeks.
Several hundred acres of canta-
loupes have been set out in the Pecos
valley around Roswell this spring and
the crop, which reaches the market
between the Rocky Ford and Califor-
mia output, will have a clear field
The Albuquerque Gas, Electric
L.