El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-02
OONA ANA BUSHES
GAMING REAL WORK
Road Torn Up Between An
thOny and Las Cruces;
Driving Difficult.

Las Cruces. n. N, Sept 2.-Half a
dozen grading gangs are at work be-
tween Las Cruces and the Texas state
line building the Canine Real the
first piece Of permanent rOadwOrk re-
sulting from the recent Dona Ana coun-
ty bond issue.
the road between FL Paso and Las
Cruces is almost impossible. From
Fort Fillmore 70 Las cruces almost
every foot Of the way has been freshly
graded and on some Of il the gravel
topping has been piled. This is very
hard pulling and heats up an automo-
Berino and Fillmore several gangs are
at work grading and several have fin
1shed other stretches, making some
more very poor places
Until this work is completed and
the surfacing is done, travelling by au-
tomobile between Las cruces and FL
PasO is going to be far from pleasant.
but when the new road IS Enlsned ana
asphalted. the drive between FL Paso
and Las Cruces can be made easily IN
The road is being built in a very
substantial manner Where the OLD
grade was high enough to serve the
purpose, it is being used as q base Tor
the eight inches Of gravel ana tar
that are 70 form the driveway new,
fresh earth being scraped up on each
side to widen the thoroughfare Tor
passing But where the old road was
too low. complete new grades are be-
ing thrown up In one place, WneIe d
very sandy hill was crossed by the old
road. near Fort Fillmore, cut is pc
Water Users Hold Ell PasO Conference.
The meeting q of the Elephant Butte
Water Users association, which was
held in this city yesterday, is being
continued today in FL -PasO where
conference with the Il PaSo Nalley
Water Users association will be held
E B. Vuillaume has sold MS rancn
near DOna Ana to Anna lie Baron, o.
Tony BarncastIe has purchased a.
house from .AdolphO Gonzales. in East
The next meeting of the Tuesday
Bridge club Will be held at the home
of Mrs. R. H Simms-
Edward c. Wade, jr-, has gone 10
Santa Fe and taken the oath OF ONCE
IS assistant omitted States attorney.
Clyde Walters has returned to MS
work at Cauutillo. Texas, after a brle1
visit with his family IN Las cruces
The Las Cruces Lumber company mas
practically finished the new engineer
ing building at State college
A L Hurley manager Of the Organ
Mountain Mining company. has gone 10
Denver, on a months vacation
Returns From Europe
Miss Beth Foster. one of the Las
Cruces party which toured Europe TINS
summer has returned home
A meeting of the Eastern Star VIII
be held this evening for the initiation
II IA. Hannum. of San Miguel, was up
association at Las Cruces yesterday.
Lafayette CIapp, OF Hatch, was here
Not Observed.
Labor day. was not marked by any
celebration or ceremonies at Las
Miss Lizzie Bryan and Miss Lupe
Radela, of FL Paso. came up sunday
and visited Mr. and Mrs Frank Lucero.
They returned Monday
Mr.. Jamison, of the Peoples drug
store, is visiting in Ohio HIS wife ano
child, who preceded him. VIII return
K B. Ogilvie, of Roswell, and William
GoebeI. of Santa Fe, were here TINS Z
morning on their way to state colleSe-
The former is a senior and the latter I
SchuIIer Wolf. son Of c. Wolf, went |
to Ell Paso this morning to enter school' /
after two weeks spent here with ms |
s Ouisenberry went to e. PasO ]
this morning to attend the joint meet
ing Of the Elephant Butte and Fl Paso !
Water Users associations
Miss r. c. Chisholm VINO mas DeeH a
guest Of her friends Mr.. and MIS- A;
J. Hunter, returned TO her home IN ii I
Paso this morning
Mrs. Chester Roberts ana cnlIorel, /
Lois and Roy. went to their home IN II /
.PasO after a three weeks visit Win hef 4
sister Ms. Guy Hudspeth
L, c. Clapp. of Hatch, was mere yes
terday and went to Fl Paso TINS MORN
Herald item Reunites Comrades.
J J. Lee. a former confederate sol /
der who has been here three weeks /
. rI,es+ of n L Nichols on the Ala
media. went to FL Paso this morning:
Mr. Lee and Mr.. Nichols were old
friends in Marshall county, Miss, and
had not seen each other for 10 years,
An item in the FL Paso Herald cor
resDondence concerning Mr. Nichols was /
seen by Lee and in this way a happy /
reunion was brought about
c. p. dickinson went to ii FaSO TINS !
morning on business