Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1913-12-12

made an El BaSo trip the nrSb OF the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Murray, Of
Central, arrived in town Sunday
night, and we're driven out R. Fl.
Woods place by B. B. Ownby. Mrs.
Woods and Mrs. Murray are sisters,
and MI. and Mrs. Murray were called
on account OF Mr.. Woods sickness.
Messrs. A. P and O. H. Warner and
P. B. Yates, all stockholders Of the
IS company, are here this week, hold
Ing the annual meeting of the corpor-
alton. James Barclay, the other
stockholder, expected to be present,
but is tied up by the floods, and can
not get across Texas.
Word comes from Redeo that at a
depth Of 900 feet a we'll that is being
drilled at public expense proved to be
artesian, and the water came to the
surface with a fine flow. This means
the making Of a large and prosperous
community in the southwestern part
of the county.
Foster & Day this week received
two car loads of bulls from Texas.
They are full blood white faced Here
fords, which is the best stock for this
section Of the country. The bulls
will be kept up and fed during the
winter, and turned on the range in
the spring.
Young Willard, Lordsburg's ban
tam weight boxer, has received IN Of
fer for a return match with Gus Flo
res, Of Silver City, to be staged at
that place on Christmas night. Will
lard has accepted and entered train
Ing. The LordsbuTg fans can see him
go through his workouts afternoons at
half past four, at the Star theater.
All are invited to warm him up with
the gloves.
B. B. Ownby and G. w. Marsalis
spent last week in the Burro noun
tains, hunting for a mine that has
given out some fine float. The float
has been found by several people, but
none Of them have been able to trace
it to the ledge. These men thought
II they went at it carefully and spent
enough time on it they could be able
to discover the ledge. They put in a
solid week of intelligent prospecting,
but found 10 gold mine.
The wise men and the biologists
have long claimed that in the Shakes
peare camp the c~arbonates and oxides
were confined to the surface; that at
the permanent water level the sui
phides are encountered, and they
would continue below. This week in
IS mine, $50 feet below the surface
there was found a body of ~carbonates
and oxides that equaled the richest
ore found on the surface. How did
they get thereP is the question that
Is bothering the wisest OF the local
biologists. II does not bother Messrs.
Ritter and Jackson, who have charge
of the mine. With them good ore is
good ore, wherever 1t is found.
The sale of state land at Deming
last Monday proved to be a great sue
cess. There we're sold 9O91 acres,
which brought Sl36 ,4SS. Some land
offered which was outside the proved
water belt was not sold, there being
no bidders. One section, half a mile
east Of town was bid in by Sigmund
Lindauer for S36. so an acre. Another
section two miles south OF town was
bid In by ]. A. Mahoney at the same
price. The buyers were all local peo-
pie, although there we're many from
outside attended the sale and bid on
various pieces, but they we're outbid
by locals, who knew the property. II
Is thought that the total of the sales
would have been larger II the bidders
could have bid on some of the large
pieces and then taken only as much
as they wanted, leaving the rest to
be bid on by others. There were not
many men In Deming who could
swing a section at $3.50 an acre, but
there were many who had enough
capital to have bid $50 an acre for 20
acres Of the section.
There was a storm last week that In
some sections OF the country nearly
equaled the n reported by Noah. In
northern New Mexico and Colorado it
was snow. The Santa Fe road re-
ported snow fifteen feet deep In some
favored localities. Saturday morn
Ing, after a long siege, the weather
cleared up. and the sun again was
shining. In Denver there was AS 1-2
inches Of snow on the streets. The
street cars were tied up, and many
people we're suffering from lack Of
coal, n large hotel being entirely
out. The police and street depart
ments put IN a strenuous day, but by
night all distress was relieved. In
Taxaa the storm took the -chona ~