Taiban Valley news., 1918-01-25

TEN.
A road from Roswell to White Oaks
is said to be assured.
The sale of Red Cross seals at AL.
buquerque totaled $427.
Deming trustees have placed an or
der for a new fire truck.
A mess tent at Camp Cody at Dem.
ing was destroyed by fire.
The Sacred Heart parish at Albu-
querque will erect $4,000 church.
The Estancia chapter of the Red
Cross society now has 168 members.
The new addition to the Loretto
Academy at Las Cruces has been
completed.
New Mexico has contributed 5000
men to the army and navy of the
United States.
At the advanced age of eighty-nine
years, Jesus Carreon died at the home
of his son, Juan, in Springer.
According to State School Superin-
tendent Wagner, a $4,000 consolidat-
ed school will probably be erected in
Mora county.
Incorporation papers were filed by
the Carrizozo Development Company,
capitalized at $4,000 of which $2,5O0
| is paid up.
The mercury reached its lowest
mark for two winters when it dropped
to zero at the government station at
Albuquerque, Jan. IL.
The Albuquerque Chamber of Com
merce has pledged $1,O00,0OO to sup
port a proposed railway connecting
Durango and Albuquerque.
The Mutual Coal Company's mine
at Gallup is producing once more, af-
ter having encountered trouble for
several weeks with break.
Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other
cities of the state are observing the
"lightless nights" and the movement
is to be started in Las Vegas.
Through the action of the county
commissioners Magdalena became an
incorporated town, such action having
been pending for some months.
At Mogollon concrete work is being
put in for new seventy foot steel head
frame of Socorro mine. Steel has ar
rived and erection will soon start.
Senator Jones has received his al
lotment of flower and vegetable seeds
and will be glad to furnish a quantity
to those desiring same upon request.
Provost Marshal General. Crowder,
in telegram to Governor w. E. Lind
sey announces the early issuance of
an induction manual by which men
will be taken into the military serv-
ice.
Mrs. r. e. Twitchell has been
named publicity chairman of the wom-
ans auxiliary of the State Council of
Defense to succeed Mrs. w. P. Hen
derson, who resigned on account of
i'll health.
The Lagunita Canal and Irrigation
Company of Albuquerque, originally
incorporated for twenty-five years,
has had it's corporate existence ex-
tended fifty years by the State Cor
poration Commission.
Cattle, horses and hogs to the num-
ber of 479,940, belonging to 3,429 cat
tlemen, and 882,5S4 head of sheep and
goats, owned by 692 sheepmen, were
provided with forage last year on the
New Mexico and Arizona national for
ests.
Until absolutely reliable data is OBJ
tanned on the cost of production of
coal in New Mexico it will be diff
cult to arrive at what is a fair price
to the consumer. This is the state
ment of State Fuel Administrator w.
O. Mcdonald.
Sitting up straight in bed with his
eyes staring, Catarino Franco, a ma
tive of Mexico but of Indian origin,
who had lived in Cloudcroft for many
years, was found dead by neighbors.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
of natural death.
Held to the federal grand jury at
Santa Fe under $3.50 bond, James C.
Lucas Is not only charged with selling
liquor to United States soldiers in
uniform, but it is said it was dena-
tured alcohol which he sold, the vii
famous stuff being known as white
mule" in the parlance of the camp.
The Albuquerque papers state that
Col. D. X. B. Sellers, receiver for the
Dominion Construction Company, will
bid on the Albuquerque Eastern when
that road is offered at public sale
Feb. 5, following the auctioning of the
New Mexico Central. 1t is declared
the road will bring bid of $1,000
For the quarter ending Dec. 81,
1917, the amount of business done
through the money order department
of the Deming postoffice was $751;
271.62, which compares with $4,000
for the same period last year. The
stamp sales for the same period
amounted to $65, ,SS8.86.
The Palomas Land and Cattle Com
pany, a California company, has been
granted permission to operate in New