El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-08
.CAMPsITE WORK IS
MAKING 4 TOWN
At THE DAM
Postoffice and Store To Be
Moved to the New
Townsite.

Elephane Butte, n. NJ, June S-Dan
W Taylor, who has been superintend-
ing the grading for the site for thu
concrete track and also for the concrets
mixers. has completed the work and il
now working on excavation prelimin-
airy TO the opening of a stone quarry On
the south side Of Ash canyon and close
TO the railroad near the high railroad
bridge across the canyon
Mr. Welsh better known as Mickey
who for some time has had a gang OF
men at work grading a road out to the
proposed embankment about a mile
above the damsite, viii complete this
work this week The road may later De
extended beyond this The embank-
ment is TO be built TO keep the water
from the proposed reservoir from flow
ing out through a pass
Miss Catherine Boland, OF the town
site, has a position IN the postoffice
here and began work on TUESDAY Mrs
Grace E. Wells, the postmaster. has
done the work herself since the es-
tablishing OF the postoffice here about
six months ago. The postoffice at
the present time is In the mercantile
store on the flat The plans are said
TO be TO move II to the townsite in the
near future, thus accommodating a
greater number OF people, as in a very
short time the people living at the up
per camp viii be few when compared
to the number at the townsite. The
store here will be moved into the new
building being erected at the tovnsite-
No store will be maintained here, bur
goods Will be delivered daily to the
cottages on the hill.
Several people Of camp are suffering
from the bite OF some insect and are
under the doctors care. The name or
the insect is not generally known
Work has begun upon the new DORM
itory for single men Of the office force
The building viii be large and contain
an assembly hall on first floor
Chris Kitchener has had gang Of
men at work on the side tracks A
track has recently been laid up to the
new mess building which is nearing
completion In this building can be
stored about I Z cars Of Ice. 8 room
having been especially prepared for
the storing Of ice therein Adjoining
the ice room is a cold storage room
The people OF camp are hoping to Sc
cure ice at a lower price when It can
be shipped in by the car load Ice
has been selling here this summer for
two cents per pound, consequently
many people have been unable to uss
ice even in the hottest weather.
w NJ Reed, Of FL Paso, vas here
over Sunday, returning Monday He
Will move his family here in few days
the new cottage erected for him on the
hill being ready for occupancy.
The Coghlan cottage is being pebble
dashed The Montieth cottage viii be
done in the near future
A large number of men are at work
on the new mercantile store at the
tovnsite.
4 meeting Of the women's aid society
was held at the home OF Mrs Earl Phil
lips at the townsite on Tuesday after
noon
Rev w c. Buell. is here from MesiIla
Park and is holding services at ina
townsite each Sunday evening at
o'clock and in the upper camp at about
s o'clock.
Y. J. Rose. Of Kansas City. Mo-. was
here Wednesday in the interests OF the
j. S. White Lyceum agency OF his home
city It is his purpose TO place here
the same series Of entertainments as
the nearby towns of larger size are 10
receive the coming winter. There were
however, no definite arrangements
made before the departure of Mr. Rose,
but these may later be made by cor
assembly hall TO hold entertainments Of
this character in. However. it is the
desire Of many that Elephant Butte
may be able TO secure this lyceum
course. The people here are already
beginning to hunger for high class
Of this kind. The series
OF entertainments which are offered
and which have been booked for Las
Cruces and other nearby towns are as
follows:' Lecture BIZ Homer T. Wilson.
Neistersinger's male quartet, Halle
Gasaw ay, the character study woman;
lecture by Lucian Edgar Follansbee and
the Imperial Concert company com
posed OF Mrs. Ethel Lee Buxton. So
prano; Estella Franklin Gray, violinist,
and Lucille McVey, reader.