The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1914-11-13

many settlers are tillng on ihnu AT
the Fort Sumner land office.
Seventy men and teams are at work
rebuilding the Hebron dam at Max
well.
Deming people will have their mail
delivered by U. s.. carriers after
Jan. l..
Grant county reports a considerable
gain in It's school census. mainly due
to the growth OF the mining camps
around Silver City.
The Colfax county road board has
had n force OF men constructing and
repairing bridges II that county.
The Mimbres Valley Farmers Asso.
citation has under consideration n
plan to establish a cooperative cream.
cry at Demlng.
Candidates for tho State Legisla-
ture have filed their affidayits with
the state secretary. giving statements
OF their campaign expenses.
OF the $50 life insurance agents in
the state OF New Mexico quite a mum
her may face a fine OF 500 to $500 for
granting rebates In selling insurance.
II is authoritatiyely reported that
$4,000 head Of southern New Mexico
cattle have been contracted by Los
Angeles buyers for that California
market.
Goats are being used as pack ami
mails in Dona Ana county. Twelve OF
them are now at work packing the 275-
ton silo on the Turney ranch, a mile
south of Las Cruces.
Water application No. 93G has been
filed by G. G. Clemans Of Artesia, with
the state engineer for So second feet
from Cottonwood Draw TO irrlgate
forty.three acres. This Is a flood wa.
ter project.
Carl Scholz. mining expert OF the
Rock Island lines, has called 20 the
attention of the United State Geologi'
cal Survey the recent discoveries OF
potash and salt in the Rock Island and
Carlsbad districts.
ID. S. Martin threshed 5000 pounds
OF beans In the Venus district, The
heaviest yield a raised on the Orr
ranch, 2i,700 pounds from twenty
acres, while the average yield would
be between 700 and 500 pounds,
Seven sections Of Santa F6 railroad
land, known as the Oliyiera ranch,
twenty-four miles northwest OF Clovis,
have been purchased from the Santa
F6 company by the Shipley Brothers
Cattle Company. The price was S26,
600.
The United States Geological Sur
vey Is authority for the statement
that the production OF mineral In New
Mexico last year had a value OF $l7,
S62. 1863. as against st4,39l, 1855 the
year before. and more than double the
figures Of two years ago
Jim D~ellehunte. a cowboy in the EN-
ploy OF the II. Slash outfit, about ten
miles west OF Blue Springs, ran down
with a horse and roped an immense
deer recently. The animal was 30 fat
II could not run any distance and
: Dellehunte easily roped II.
e. c. Lamb is feeding two carloads
Of steers at his ranch near Artesia.
, Santa Rosa, in the county OF Guada
lupe. was incorporated with the fol
. lowing officials al the head Of the mu
, nicipality: Mayor. julius More; clerk
/. joaquin 4. Bazan: aldermen, a. a. TIP
ton, George Macs, Simon Cerrano an'
Urbano Lucero.
A tract OF $4,000 acres OF state lan'
has beer sold to John T., Muir o
Lordsburg, an extensive cattle raiser
He paid s3.0i an acre. or $4,000. Tn
n land Is situated In Playas valley, soutI
$ of separ, and especially adapted 70
grazing purposes.
The harvesting OF beets at Maxwell
10 well under way, and armer ar
y expecting bic returns.
G Although the farmers in the Ran
g district raised and properly harveste
considerable broom corn, they seer
70 have Il hard time getting a marke
e Alleging that he has been mad
II lame for life by the negligence Of tn
a company that employed him, Georg
. sares, aged t~wenty-one, a Gree
!, brought suit In the Federal Court
= santa F6 for $500 damages again.
" the Stag Canon Fuel Company.
Hagerman now boasts the dIstin
ton OF being the only town In Il
United states with W. postmaster
,S T.. II. Plat, Republican, has refuse
10 turn over the office 10 c.. NJ, Sta
- ford. the Democrat recently appoint,
ID by President Wilson, and a pretty mi
ne up has resulted.
~ After working for the past four
20 five months IN the state penitentiaI
garden among the cabbages, d..
n. Mlers. a convict from Quay count
I'd took French leave and now the a
na thorities are hunting him with bloc
NJ hounds. II is thought that he will
easily identified as he shutters al
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