Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1916-08-17
LOCAL MATTERS
Of INTEREST


W. ID. Leeper, daughter.
Mrs. Buchanan's baby has been quit
sick, but is reported better.
Word comes from Mr.. Kirk at Emf
Oklahoma, that Mrs. Turk is very il
Lost, child's beaded pocketbool
Finder please return to Ira l.. Ludwicl
R. L, Hit and family of Willar
visited Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. William
yesterday.
Andrew Eblen, who lives in the Si
verton neighborhood, reports his bea
crop very good.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Patterson cam
up from Willard Tuesday and remaineI
several days visiting friends.
Mrs. j. W. Wagner has been on tn
sick list for the past ten days. Sh
was improving at last report.
Willie Elgin and family returned
Tuesday from an outing at Jeme,
Springs. They had a good time.
A brother of C. M. Douglas with hi
wife and son came last Saturday from
Fort Worth, Texas, for visit here.
r. J. Finley came up from Corona
last Friday, to look around with view
of filing on an additional homestead.
w 7. Ware of Albuquerque, who
owns the Kiser place west of town.
came over last Saturday to look after
business and visit friends.
]. A. Hobbs and family returned last
Friday to their home at Bisbee, Arizo-
ma, after a visit with Mrs Hobbs pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Crawford,
and family
F. Q Imboden was over from Noun
tainair last Saturday. Mr.. Imboden
has l8O acres of very fine beans on his
farm northeast of Mountainair. He
says it would take $50 per acre to buy
his land.
J. w. Mason of Wiggins, Colorado,
father of DR.. Mason, came last week
for visit with his son, and plans to
stay till November. Mr.. Mason is
eighty-three years of age, but is hale
and active.
Mrs. Geo. Terrence returned last
week from Kansas, where she had
been with her father who is i'll with
paralysis. She hopes he will be able
to come out here soon, as she thinks
the invigOrating climate will be bene-
fetal to him.
p. A. Speckmann was here Tuesday
and Wednesday on business He is
still working in Albuquerque, but NAV
not stay there long, and has under CON
sideration proposition to start pa.
per at Mountainair.
Rev. N. W. Bard will return to
Illinois at the end of the conference
year, which will be in next month Mr..
Bard has made many friends during
his residence in Estancia who will re-
gret his departure.
Van Lane is bringing in hay this
week which he has sold to the Estancia
Lumber company for shipment to
Madrid He will deliver sixty or sew
enty tons 1t is what is known by
many as Mexican blue grass. If we
have it correctly classified its proper
name is galleta grass, scientific name
hilaria gamesii. 1t is clear of weeds
and is very fine hay.
L. A. Tudor was before Justice Rob.
erson's court last Saturday on com
plant of A. A. Hine, charged with
larceny of gasoline to the value of
Sl.20. from place where the COM
planning witness had been pumping
water. The court found the defend
ant guilty and imposed fine of S35
and costs, from which finding the de-
fendant appealed to the district court.
The month of July was rather
warm month in the Estancia valley.
There were two warm periods, the 1st, |
Ind, 3rd, 4th and 9TH, and the GOTH 2lst, |
22nd and 23rd, when the temperature |
vent to 80 or above; the highest was 81 |
IN the End. The lowest night tenn
1erature was AZ. There was rain at |
1stancia on the 9th, 7rh, 10th, 11th,
9th, 18th, Goth. oath, 29th and 30th,
2,22 inches There was
rain at some point in the valley on
every day during the
month.
A daughter of Mr.. Barron living
vest of Estancia near the mountains |
evening. She was in a wagon going
lown rather steep hill, and at the
POTION it was necessary to make a
sharp turn to enter gate Approach
ng the turn the team broke into trot |
md at the turn she was thrown out |
md the wagon wheel passed over her
)reast She seemed to be severely in.
ured, and a doctor was summoned. At |
md it was hoped she would soon re-
,over.
Here is something for the weather
,harps to talk about: I he theory has |
0een propounded here that the creation
If the Elephant Butte reservoir would
Increase the rainfall in the Estanca
valley, because during the months of |
greatest evaporation the winds are al
most continuously from the southwest |
and would carry the moisture taken up
from the reservoir surface over this
valley, and in passing through the cool
air above the mountains it should form
clouds and under proper conditions pre-
,ipitate in the valley, According to
statements heretofore. printed in re.
yard to the extent of the reservoir, the
surface should be near one hundred |
SQUARE miles. According to the gov
ernment report from which extracts !,
are printed elsewhere, the evaporation
at the dam during June was slightly
above one and one fourth feet This
amount of water lifted from a surface
,f one hundred square miles is some
water. But there is some country east
and northeast of the reservoir. For
example, Torrance county alone is
more than thirty times the area of the
reservoir. And there are many other
factors entering into a problem of this
xind, making it complex one. And
as for the month of June, the rainfall
IN the Estancia valley was not in
creased, because there wasn't any.
Mrs. Gutterman, who had been
her son, Charley Gutterman,
returned this morning TO her home in
Santa Fe.
Raw Burrus was taken sick with APP
nendicitis in Colorado last week. His |
father went up and brought him home,
and he is reported getting along all |