The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-27
LITTLE NEW MExico ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences of More Than ordl'
nary Interest.

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month are extremely active in Dem
ing.
Cutter is suffering at present from
the closing down of the Vanadium
mills
Willard now has full fledged base
ball team with Joe Howell as captain
and field manager.
This will be the banner year for
Los Lunas and Valencia county for
all kinds of crops and sheep.
The river at Elephant Butte is very
high and there is considerable rear
felt for the safety of bridges.
The entire apple crop of the Pecos
valley for this year is estimated all
the way from 1000 to 1900 carloads.
The Wayside Oil & Gas Company
was recently organized to drill in the
Rad Lands, sixteen miles east of Tu-
cumcari.
AS a result of an effort on the part
of the government to economize, Gus
tom inspector Briggs of Tucumcari
has been let out
The public highway from Albuquer-
que TO Santa Fe is practically blocked
bya lake in the road between Albu-
querque and Bernalillo.
The State Line Oil Land Company
of Tucumcari, has let the contract
to put down deep we'll on their land
near the east New Mexican border.
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.
Emil Dominek, the Dawson wrest-
Ter, has posted $100 with the Morning
Journal to meet Roy Mabee, the Albu-
querque mat artist, in the near future
The heavy SHOWS of the past winter
in the mountains of Colorado and
northern New Mexico are just now
causing steady rise in the Rio
Grande.
DR.. E. McChesney, appointed agent
for the Pueblo Indians, has been in.
structed to make Espanola, Rio Ar
riba county, his headquarters for the
northern district.
The citizens Of San Juan county
have organized and started a CAM
paign for good roads and have gone
down in their own pockets and raised
$4,000 for this purpose.
The oil field near Algodones was
visited recently by party of Albu-
querque and Oklahoma oil men, who
have returned with glowing accounts
of the prospects of the field.
In an uninteresting ball game in
Santa Fe the japanese Baseball AS
sociation team from Los Angeles,
were defeated by the Santa Fe aggre-
cation by the score of s to 8.
At the special election held in Las
Cruces the voters almost unanimously
carried the proposed $4,000 water
and sewer bond issue, the vote being
100 for and 8 against.
The Territorial Grand Jury for
Chaves county made it's final report
and returned thirty-nine true bills
and five mo" bills and completed all
it's labors in six days.
The United States Copper Compa
ny, capitalized at half million dol
II lars, filed incorporation papers al
Santa Fe. Headquarters are at Han
e. over, Grant county.
The farmers living along the Ric
an Grande north of Dona Ana in the old
70 bosque lands have been trapping and
killing large number of coons dur
~ ing the past few weeks.
he Engineers are expected to arrive il
Tucumcari soon to finish preliminar!
surveys of the big irrigation projec
of the Pajarata Irrigation Company
Id Work will soon be commenced on thu
reservoir.
ne The fourteen-inch drill well of tn,
n ~ Silver Valley Water Company in Sill
yer City, in which an artesian FLOW
was struck several weeks ago at lao
Sc feet, is now down 1850 feet and tn
flow has been greatly increased will
the additional depth
. The Tucumcari Elks laid the col
\ nerstone of their new home recently
Governor William ]. Mills has i:
sued his formal proclamation desis
mating Tuesday, May 30th, as Memol
lal day, and urging the suspension
business and the observance of al
patriotic citizens of the day in tn
proper spirit of reverence.
The big irrigated land merger in Co
fax county, which has been hangin
fire for several months, and compri'
ing the lands of the French Land
Irrigation Company, the Syringe
Ditch Company, Maxwell Irrigate
Lands Company, and other holding
being about 100000 acres of irrigate
land, it is learned, is about to b
consummated.
The Santa Fe by the completio
within the past few days of the lonl
est and most important section of ii
Texico-Coleman cutoff has opened u
new trans-continental line from th
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