El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-08
PROGRESS IS MADE
IN ENCHANTING
FOR FLUME
New Mess and Store House
at Elephant Butte AL
most Completed.

Elephant Butte, N. NJ, Aug s.
Work here has progressed at a good
rate during the past week. Progress
| has been made on excavation for the
flume and considerable progress has
been made on excavation for the pow
er mousse Most of the work on build
fngs has been confined to the new
mercantile store and the mess at the
new town.
On the former the warehouse part ia
nearly finished and two carloads Of
groceries are stored therein The store
room proper is being rapidly finished
by half a dozen or more carpenters.
The new mess at the new town is
a frame building, and is the only one
OF its kind. All others are adobe and
pebble dashed. This is nearly com
pleted.
Jack Phillips has put up the new
postoffice building within the past few
days This is located at the upper end
of the new town and opposite the
pumping plant This will be much of
an Improvement over the present quar-
ters.
Smallhausen will be finished this
week.
One of the new foremen is Mr.. Tee
pie, who has charge of the power
house excavation. Mr.. and Mrs Tee
pie and daughter occupy a tent in
Quality Row
trail from the pony corral to the
cottages is being made
Mr. and Mrs Wallace FARMLAND have
returned to FL Paso
Carl Vogle, head bookkeeper has
returned from Mineral Wells, where he
spent couple of weeks for his health
The two men who were burned by
acetylene gas have nearly recovered
Edwin Blatt. of insurrecto fame.
has resigned and has left for Cali
fornia.
Mrs. w NJ Reed entertained in honor
of Mrs. Wallace FARMLAND, of Ell Paso.
Refreshments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wells gave dinner
party, the guests being Mr. and Mrs
Wallace FARMLAND, of Ell Paso; Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Brown and Mr. Herms.
of Elephant Butte, and Miss Wells
of Pueblo, Colo.
couple Of men have been in camp
selling peaches which they had hauled
from Tularosa- The camp has been well
supplied with fruit and vegetables by
ranchers from about Los PoIomas and
Hillsboro.
Because OF late rains the range
about here is SO good that the animals
which are not in use are taken out
HSl ucO QuIInS the Jay and brought
back to camp at night
Ed James, who lately started a hack
line from here to Engle, lost one
of his fine black horses by death.
In the game of baseball between the
Paper Collars and the Rough Necks on |
Sunday morning the former won by a |
score of 13 to 9. |,
The tennis tournament for this /
month is now well under way Messrs |
Olsen and Coughlan are the captains. i
The teams are known as the taran- |
tulas and scorpions.
The new jail at the new town was
dedicated last week by the incarcera-
ton of Jim Rivers. 1t is charged that
Jim sold some Of a camping outfit to a
Mexican, collected in advance and fail
ed to leave utensils for the Mexican.
Sheriff Putnam overlook Rivers before /
he got to the railroad and he was
brought back and had to pay S13 in |
fine.
Up to August l there had been 20
600 cubic yards of excavation for the
flume The amount excavated daily at
the present time ranges from 500 to |
1000 yards. There are nearly 10000
cubic yards yet to be excavated
w. e. Anderson, contractor for the
electrical equipment for the power
house, and w. c. Beatty, superintend-
ent of construction Of the electrical
and mechanical section have arrived in
camp.