The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-03-29

vicinity met In the rooms OF the Ala
magordo Commercial club saturday
afternoon aud perfected an Otero
County Fruit Growers association.
1.-THE fruit growing Industry In Otero
county has assumed considerable Inn
%portance.
The board OF trustees Of the New
Mexico reform school az Springer n
advertising for a tract of land which
" 90 he purchased for use as an in.
dustrial tract to be farmed by In
mates OF the school Provision was
made for this land In the a%ppropria-
tion bill passed by the recent iegisla-
ture. $4,000 OF an extra appropriation
OF $4,000 a year being set aside for
fthe mnd purchase. The balance OF
the appropriation. $4,000. In To pro-
vide n new buiiding.
one hundred and fifty land filings
were made In the United states land
office at Tucumcari during February
and SIXTY from March ! TO March 10,
showing more activity IN and filing
than for many months past.
!. Thursday. April 1, Quay county
people will vote on a proposition 10
issue $50. 900 In, bonds for county
road construction There In an ac-
tive fight FOR and against the bond
issue and the outcome n In consider
able doubt.
A telephone line II being built from
P0trillO, Guadalupe county. 10 santa
Rosa. the county scat.
Cautions and instructions Of 20
spraying are being sent cut To Pecos
valley fruit growers. The Chaves
county horticultural board IN advising
orohardists to see that their sprayers
are in first class condition. Cooper
alive purchase n use of spraying
machinery Is being urged.
A n well fire department horse
has been stricken with paralysis and
the city government II considering
purchase OF motor fire apparatus TO
( do away with the use OF horses.
Cases OF crook-neck are being re-
! ported In Roswell by csttlemen from
! the eastern plains.
The Roosevelt County Teachers
association will meet in Portalcs April
E 9Th and 10th.
Work on the Hebron dam OF the
Maxwell Irrigated Land company In
Conax county Is to be resumed Au-
gust LIST, according 90 an announce
ment made last week. Work on the
e dam was stopped because u was seen
INLau - - - " AAAAA
p OF this springs high water period,
. ana damage TO the partly completed
% work was feared n effort was made
? TO hold the water without the COM
r pietcd structure. There Il no par
%ticular need Of the dam this sum
mer there being enough water In
the eompany's lakes to supply all
, land under cultivation.
Negotiations are said 10 be under
[ way for the sale OF 5000 acres OF
|, land near Maxwell by eastern men
who expect 10 cut Il into small tracts
I for summer sale 10 colonists.
Fort Sumner district farmers have
) signed a a contract with the arm
! OF q, NJ. II. Wagner OF Chicego for
I, for the districts cantaloupe crop.
Two hundred and twenty-five acres
have been signed up.
From two 10 four seekers after
land locations are reported arriving
in O summer every day. The enst-
ern New Mexico town generally re-
port more inquiry for land h has
occurred during the past two years
-
State senator Arthur 3. Evans OF
Eliza assumed charge as register OF
the Fort Sumner land office last
I week. a position 10 which he was ap-
pointed by President Wilson in Feb
ruary.
The Lake Arthur Times aseris that
: the Pecos Valley Oil company, now
DRILLING for oil rear that town. -
going to make a thorough test Of the
! district, being prepared 10 continue
drilling until the preaeQee or ahaence