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LA (SOo WD o VOL. 49 SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO. SATURDAY. JANUARY 41, 4902 NO. 52 Fen nErar, $17.007 room, modern brick residence in first-class condi tion, repair, &c. $10.00 H room adobe, shingle roof, city water. Wantk r Houses to rent. We are having many inquiries by letter and in jorsoit tor modern collates of 3 to ( rooms. Í 22- 1 l:irgo rooms, furnished. $17 all of first story, four large rooms, furr.ishcd. Fon SALE. $0005 rooms, modern adobe cot tage, shingle roof, bay-window, 2 porches, large garden, 35 fruit trees, citv water, stable, &c. $2."0--new 4 room adobe cottage, iron ami composition rcof, gar den, fruit, stable, &c. Cdí',0.) - loo acres, .V miles from Dor. ver, Colo., fcic.-d. house, sprifi, well, farming land, hay Luid, ;;rass land, outside range. Will exchange for So corro property. $100 10 acres bottom land, under ditch, 3-4 mile from postoflice Socorro. SOO 5 acres, house, barn, fruit, well and wind mill, city water etc., close in. $225.003 room, adobe house, 2 rooms new, tar roof, 2 acres, fenced, fruit, shade trees, stable, city water. $350 40 acres, more or less, bot tom land, fenced, under ditch, one mile from Socorro county court house. $350 1U) acres, patented stock ranch, rover failing water, foot hills San Mateo moun tains, good cattle, horse, sheen or goat ranch. -SI, 300 Modern cottage, brick linish, repair as good as new, beautifully furnished, two porches, large and hatidsonio grounds, tin roof, city water and well, nicely furnished throughout, line piano. $1,500 7 room, adobe dwelling, shingle and iron roof, city water in house and grounds, house well and substantially furnished, including one grand square Emerson piano, 3 acres, 315 fancy assorted fruit trees in bearing, 228 fancy assorted grape vines in bearing, 25 ornamental trees, shade trees, shrubs, bulbs, roses, straw berries, etc., close in. $7,500 paid net $2,500 in l.S'JO. 80 acres 9 miles from county seat, li mile to post office, one. mile to station, including 7 acres prunes, 7 acres peaches, ( acres apples, plums &c, all in bearing. 35 acres alfalfa, all fenced and cross-fenced. Good home, large barn and out buildings, best of soil, no alkali, good water right on one of the best of acequias; steam juir.ip with abundance of water in case of necessity. Will sell all or part, will tal:c part trade, slock of goods, live stock &c. Also 1(0 acres adjoining the above will b.; sold if desired. id. C00 30 acres, more or less bot tom 'ami, 5 actei above acequia with iirst c!a.;s well, wind mill pump, iiorse power pump SOCORRO COUNTY Pos3osscs Groat Mineral Riches, Stock Ranges aa Larsre p.s a European Kingdom. Fertile Yalloya and Mild and Entablo Climate. The Nov.- Mexico Bureau of Immi gration is dtirg sne excellent work in the interest of thi various counties of lite territory as well tis of the terri tory at large. Idilletin number eleven lias just been issued utuW the super vision of Hie Itnrcatt' rl'icieut secre tary, Col. Mux I'ro.st. This bulletin is a complete coiiiieii(liiiiu of the Condi tion and resources of Socorro county. Facts concerning the topography, soil, climate, productions, business enter prises, industrien, educational advan tages, and other attractions ot the county are presented in a concise and attractive form. If this bulletin is ge-.irr.iüy distributed it can ivt fail to be í gp-.it value to the county. Col. i'rost lias favored Til K CuiEK Tain with a considerable number of the bulletins, which will le distributed gratis to subscribers. To (five an ade quate idea of tin- character of the work done by the Uureau, the following passage from this bulletin are repro duced: AC.uieCt.TVRK AND HORTICULTUHK. Socorro county cannot be called an agricultural county, only a very small part of its area being under cultivation, but in the broad valley of the Kio Crande, along other river courses and in a few isolated valleys, farms and orchards give indications of the possi bilities in the agricultural line. Around Socorro, San Marcial, San Antonio and other settlements there are beautiful orchards in which the fruits of the temperate zone reach a perfection not attained anywhere ele ouiside of New Mexico. The wheat raised in the Rio (rande valley in Socorro county is of excellent quality and vegetable gardening yields rich returns. Owing to the small area under cultivation and the prosperous mining camps and cattle ranches in the county there is always a good market for orchard and garden products. IHKIOATIO.V. Socorro county has no extensive irrigation systems. The ditches and laterals which served their purpose a hundred years ago are still doing service. There is room for the invest ment of capital in storage reservoirs and irrigation canals as well as in the development of water by means of pumping. In the American valley, a large storage reservoir is to be built, and a considerable area is to be brought under cultivation. There are about 25, C0Ü acres under cultivation in the County but there is water supply, if carefully husbanded and distributed, to irrígale 20 to 30 times that area. LIVESTOCK INTEKKSTS. It Is in the livestock industry, how ever, that Socorro county is one of the leading counties of New Mexico. Its ranges are vast in extent and upon them graze 1-0,000 head of cattle, 50, OoO head of horses, 15.C00 goats and some TcO.OOO head of sheep. The mikt winters and the abundance of grass the year around make the livestock industry very profitable. r. j:: cemcut tank, 4 room ik v adobo, 2 room old adobe house, well and hand pr.r.ip, Hew corr.il, stable and hay barn, chicken bouse, bee house, wagon shed, 350 assorted fruit trees mostly lien Davis apples set out live 3ears, 1000 grape ines and about 2000 sprouts; balance of land is below acequia, much of it adapted to growing grass, hay, alfalfa without cost of irrigation, all fenced with three and four wires, 2 native marts, 2 American mules, 2 sets double harness, farm wagon, mowing' machine, horse rake, plow and all other implements and tools on the place. One span horses, set harness and side saddle. 100 two year old steers.. i65 long yearling steers, 75 per cent white faces. 116 heifers ones and twos. 100 cows, twos up, northern New Mexico. 45 early calves. Undivided ) j interest i:i general merchandise business, good paying mining and ranch trade. Notwithstanding live stock matters are quiet, v.e are receiv ing inquiries about same. Tell us what you have for sale. It costs you nothing if not bene fited. HARRIS A. SMITH, VIXKKAI, KKSOL'HCUS. It is probably as a producer of mineral wealth that Socorro county is best known. 1 he names of tin principal mining districts are: Socor ro. Water Cation, Magdalena, Cat Mountain, Kosedale, Black Kang' Andreas, I'ueblo, Oalhna, Santa Kita, 1 iausoiiburg. Abbey and La Joya. I lie principal mining camps are: Magdalena, Kelly, Kosedale, Mogollón, Cooney, Graham and LUtey City. Ihere are nine ttainp nulls, two concentrators and three reduction wcrks in the county. The city of Socorro was at one time a great smelter center of New Mexico, although in late years its wnelter has been idle. The vast bodies of freo I'uxiug silver-lead ores in the Kelly and Mogollón districts have become lamous in .vcw Mexico luiiiin hi-ilory. Large deposits of Hold ore, much of it tree, in U ater Cuíioii, K sédale and in the Black Kunge, as well as rich copperdi.sCoveries in the Black Kange, Oscura and San Andreas mountains, have added to the fame of Socorro county as a mineral producer. ( nit or the Mogollón district t 'j.OOO.OtiO in gold have been taken and one or two of the best paving mines i.l New Mexico are in that district despite the fact that it is further away from railroad facilities than any other min ing district in New Mexico and that it became famous first as a silver producer. Several fortunes have been made by the mines at Kelly, 30 miles west of Socorro. Magdalena district, too, has been worked for quite a number of years and has produced a large amount of ore. Yet, the mineral wealth of Socorro county lias scarcely been touched. There exist splendid chances for the in vestment ot vast sums of capital and good rewards for the intelligent prospector and miner in every mining district of the county. COA I,. Coal exists in vast quantities in Socorro County, but it is only at Carthage, near San Antonio, that coal is being produced at present. The Cnrthage mines last year produced 13,000 tons of coal. This year an additional new mine that was opened last year is being worked to its fullest extent and about 150 men are now given employment. In northwestern and southeastern Socorro county there ore coal beds from six to 12 feet thii k. Onyx, alum, salt, kaolin, besides gold, silver, copper, lead, are among the mineral products of Socorro county and will tome day be great sources of wealth to those wljo will exploit them. SCHOOL OF MINKS The New Mexico School of Mines is doing great work not only for tlis mineral resources of Socorro county but of the whole territory. It offers a course in chemistry, metallurgy, min ing and civil engineering equal to that of any other school of mines in the Country. Short special courses are a'so o tie red and they have much to commend themselves to the busy young man or to the pnvqiector and practical miner. The board of regents of the college is striving to make the school the best mining college in the west and has succeeded so far that no better school of mines is to be found in the Rocky Mountain region. The main building is very substantially built of stone and is modern in every respect. One wing of a new building has been completed to he used as a metallurgical building. I liecollege possesses modern machinery for testing ores and treating them, modern apparatus for assaying, ore furnaces and other equipments of an up-to-date school of mines. It is well endowed with public lands, the revenue trom which in addition to an nual appropriations from the territory are used for the maintenance and jwr maneut improvements of the college. The school strives to attract especially the promising young men of the terri tory in order to make good chemists, assayers, mine superintendents and managers and geologists out of them. lor there is no more promising field than New Mexico for the trained ex pert in mining. CLIMATE AND SCHMC ATTRACTIONS. Like the rest of New Mexico, Socor ro county has a peerless climate that is of special benefit to persons suffering from throat and lung trouble. Its summers are never oppressive and its winters are milder than those of the counties to the north and therefore to be preferred for certain cases of pul monary complaints. The scenery of the county is beautiful and oilers many attractions to the tourist who believes in traveling off the beaten tourist routes. Ancient ruitis, cliff dwellings, canons, rock formations, toreáis, lite among the cowboys and in typical western mining camps are all had in Socorro county. The water found in the county is good, frjcr from alkali than in most other New Mexico coun ties. Some of the springs have health giving properties, especially the warm springs at Cherryville, at the head of the falls of the Alamosa. They are on the eastern slope of the Black Kange at an altitude of 0,540 feet. The tem perature of the water is 130 degrees as is mar ox a group oi springs west oi the Gila river, at an altitude of 5,545 feet. These springs are highly min eralized andaré specifics for villous chronic ailments. TOWNS AND CITIKS. Socorro, the county seat, is also the largest town in the county. The cen sus gives it 1,512 inhabitants, but in years gone by, when the large smelter was in operation, it had three times to four times that number of inhabitants and indications are that the day is ap proaching when it will again be one of the leading cities of tt'e territory. The country round about is rich in mineral and other resources. The water of the Kio Grande which flows by near the city is ample to irrigate a large area, the waters of the I'uerco and the Salado augmenting its volume considerably 20 to 30 miles north of Socorro. The Carthage coal fields are so near to Socorro that they may be called tributary to the city and the mining camps of Kelly, Magdalena and Water Cañón, and, after the con struction of the Black Range railroad, the Black Range mining districts are also tributary, making Socorro a favor able smelter site. Socorro has large brickyards and three Hour mills. The city is beautifully situated on a table land at the foot of the Socorro moun tain. The Rio Grande is about two miles from the city. The city owns and controls its own water works, the supply being derived from warm springs of exceptionally pure water flowing from the base of Socorro moun tain. Socorro has two banking institu tions, two weekly newspapers, two substantial school buildings, churches and good business houses. The New Mexico School of Mines is located at Socorro. The elevation of the city is 4,5o7 feet. Good sport can be had in the country round about ar, the rivers, lakes and ponds abound with wild geese and ducks, while quail and grouse are plentiful and in the mountains larger game is found. SAN MAKCIAL. San Marcial is a prosperous railroad town and the second largest town in the county. There is an old town and a new town, the latter having WW inhabitants and the old town 425 inhabitants. San Marcial is one of the gardeu stops in the Rio Grande valley. Its avenues are lined on either side with rows of large cotton wood trees. A beautiful park, in which a fountain and a baud stand are located, is one of the features of the town. Railroad repair shops and a roundhouse are located here anu give employment to quite a number o men at good wages. The town is the headquarter for hui plies of a large area of country includ ing the mining camp of Rosedale. A modern llouring mill is kept in 0era tion day and night bv the grain raised in the Rio Grande valley. A good weekly newspaper is published at San Marcial. Beautiful orchards surround the city which is the center of a rich agricultural, horticultural, livestock and mining region. SAN ANTONIO. San Antoniu is the third town in population in Socorro county, the census giving it 042 inhabitants. It is the center of a farming and stock country. It is situated on the Santa Ke railroad and is quite a trading cen ter. Kight miles east of the town are the Carthage coal fields. and has a smelter. Magdalena, another mining and smelting point, Is four miles north of Kelly and is the terminus of the Magdalena branch of the Santa Ke railroad. It is also a hipping point for cattle, sheep and wool. Its population is 30. The mrroiinding country is rich in coal, go'd. copper, silver, lead, timber, building stone and onvx. THE CimTlMNCES. Report of Mayor and I'lnnncp Coin nili(e for Fiscal Year Kmllng Jan. 1, 190.!. The following report for the fiscal year ending January 1, l'W2, is handed to Tim Chikhtain by Mayor M. Cooney. The idea of letting the tax payers of the city know what becomes of their money is greatly to be com mended. C.l'NKKAL FUSO. Collections from April 1 to Jan. 1, 1"02 From taxes 1V00... From taxes 1'H.d , ..$ 306.20 . . . 200. 2.H Total 500.48 Warrants, l'X)0, paid. .$274.00 25 per Cent of s'XX.5d accounts, salaries, &c. paid 226.64 Total. .5504.64 $504.64 Balance S 1.84 INTRKKST FUND OK 1897. Collections $ 223.61 Paid T. U. Catron $ 100.00 ." G. Tolman 100.00 $200.00 200.00 Balance $ 23.61 WATKK Fl'Nn. Collected from S. A. Baca, treasurer Collected from V. R. Galle gos, collector Collected from R. T. Collins, collector Collected from Abran Abeyta taxes Collected from City Attorney, rents $ 20.83 108.' 119.04 303.17 55.90 Total $1742.74 Paid Expenses $ 3'1.93 " J. i. Fitch, int. 1247.05 " 1). M. Farson, int. 103.76 Total Í1742.74 $1742.74 Attest: M. Coonkv, 11. A. Pino, Mayor. City Clerk. W. G. Hammkl, Ch. Finance Com. :t,.00 Saved to Socorro. A U'i?dnesd;t v's session of the supreme court, in the case of W. II. Miller, pl; íií7 in error, vs. The City of Socorro, John II. McCutchen, James M. Hill, de fendants in error, the judgment of the lower court was affirmed. This means a saving, including interest, of about $3,500 to the city. The circumstances of the case are these: In 1S97 the plaintiff applied to the city council to have certain city warrants of 1SS3 and 1SS4 funded into city bonds under the law of 1SJ7. The council at first refused to fund the warrants and the plaintiff took the case into the district court. After the appeal was taken some of the members of the council re scinded their action. Thereupon J. II. McCutchen and J. M. Hill, members of the council, inter vened on behalf of themselves and other taxpayers of the city and filed a plea of the statute of limitation on the warrants. The district court decided that the statute of limitation had run and dismissed plaintiff's appeal. Plaintiff then took an appeal to the supreme court. This court affirmed the judgment of the lower court but afterwards grant ed jdaintiff a re-hearing. It is upon this re-hearing that the supreme court has just handed down a decision affirming the de cision of the lower court. KKLI.Y AND MAl.DAI.KNA. Kelly is the largest mining camp in Socorro county and has (do inhabitants. t is th center of rich miuing region V4Uj4aJU. AiiofcU. - I Of HOME INTEREST. X i r r f t m t t t r f 1 t t f t (iood C.illectleiM. Collector Abran Abeyta states that his collections thisyear have been better than ever before. During the months of November and December the collections amounted to $25,000 for 1901, or about 75 per cent of the taxes assessed. This would show a train of from five to seven thous- and dollars over last year if the railroad company and two or three other heavy tax payers had paid all their taxes at this time, as they did last year, instead of paying only only one-halt. ('(unity C'ommlsiddiuT .Vert. The board of county cotumis' sioners met yi regular session Monday morning. Bills for the quarter ending January l were approved but because of lack of fund:i none were paid. The proceedings could not be gotten ready for publication this week but will appear in next week's issue ot Tuii Chieftain, Candies at your own price at Katzenstein's. Nathan l'ricc has been visiting relatives and friends in the city this week. Katzenstein has the finest and freshest line of candies in town. It now appears that Socorro will send a large delegation to the Kl l'aso carnival. Candies, nuts, orauges, and applca at Katzenstein's. Col. K. A. Levy expects to leave Monday for a visit of a few days in Kl l'aso. J. 1J. Squires is assisting Price Iros. & Co. this week in taking their annual inventory. Mrs. U. S. Ilammcl and in fant son returned to their home in Magdalena this morning. C. T. Drown is now working a force of men in the old Torrence mine at the foot of Socorro moun tain. Attorney Jas. G. Fitch was in Santa Fe this week on important professional business before the supreme court. Tin; Chieftain office force is indebted to J. S. Fullerton for a bunch of as fine celery as ever grew auywhere. Paul J. Terry left home a week ago for a point in old Mexico where he has accepted a position with D. II. Harroun. Don Luciano Chavez, merchant of Polvadera and prominent citi zen of the county,, was in the city Monday on private business. Work was resumed at the school of mines Monday morning with a good attendance and everybody refreshed by the holi day vacation. At a special convocation of So corro lodge No. 9, A. F. and A. M., Monday night Carl F. Dun negan was initiated as an enter ed apprentice. Sheriff Cipriano Baca of Dem- mg is reported to nave been threatened with pneumonia a few days ago but happily is now out of danger from that disease. For sale: One Smith-Premier typewriter, stand and extras; one fiat top desk; one cylinder desk; one book case; one iron safe; other office furniture. Apply to J. 1'. Chase. The following case has just been filed in the office of District Clerk John K. Griffith, viz: Coon ey & Morrow vs. the Kat and Kittens Mining and Muling Co., attachment. A. D. Coon has for several days been numbered among those sorely afflicted witli the grip. Mr. Coon seems inclined to at tribute the epidemic to the pre vailing warm days and cold nights. Professor F. A. Jones has just been elected associate member of the American Metrological So ciety. This organization has for its object the promotion of a universal system of weights and measures. Those fines that were imposed bv the supreme court upon Dis trict Clerk John K. Griffith were promptly remitted by the honora ble body when it was learned that Mr. Griffith was blameless in the matters in question. Five weddings were celebrated in a single day this week at the church of San Miguel. Kight proposed weddings were announo ed Sunday. 1 he lenten season is near at hand and those dispose ed to commit matrimony are im proving the shining hours. Postmaster Kstevan Baca had an experience with a runaway horse Monday that resulted in his being laid up two or three days for repairs, The horse demolished the buirgy and dragged Mr. Baca some distance bruising him quite severely about the shoulders and hips. Introduced 1) Ih-lctcute Koiley. Delegate Rodey has introduced a bill in concress to create a fith iudicial district in New Mexico and for the appointment of an additional justice of the supreme court of the territory. Hest Two la Tliree. Baseball enthusiasm reached Socorro late in the season, but the tardiness of its arrival has been fully compensated for by its intensity. The Mexicans and the Americans each organized a team and each team had a game to its credit when they met on the diamond Sunday for the final struggle. The game was wit nessed by a large crowd of people and was a red hot one from start to finish. The score was 10 to 9 in favor of the Mexicans when the Americans came to the bat in the final inning. The latter had three men on bases, when a batter whacked the ball way out into the center field. It looked for all the world as though 4 would now be added to the Amer icans' score, but the Mexican cen ter fielder made a long run for the ball, caught it beautifully, and the game was over all but the shouting. Important Litigation. An infringement patent suit over the Stockheim process for filtering beer has brought to the city Mr. Fred Uhlmann of New York, manager of the German American Filter Co., the complainant, and his counsel Mr. Clarence K. Sexton of New York; also Mr. Chas. II. Loew of Cleveland, secretary and treasurer of the Loew Filter Co., the defendant, and his counsel Mr. Wm. Kaimond Bairdof New York City. They are taking the testimony of Wm. G. Hammel and of his brother Gus. A. Ham mel of Kl Paso. It appears that in 1885 Mr. Ilammcl used a filter at his brewery which defendants allege anticipates the Stockheim patent. Mr. Sexton took his testimony ten years ago in a suit on the same patent. The litiga tion is an important one and has attracted much interest in the brewing trade. Look Out For Hoboes. A considerable number of the citizens of Socorro have felt some concern for the last three or four days on account of the presence of a dozen or more hoboes along the railroad near the city. A vigilance committee in Denver recently purged that city of va grants and the unusual amount of petty thievery that has been committed in the northern towns of the territory would indicate that a swarm of Denver's out casts is making its way south ward. It would be well for everybody in the city to be on his guard and to be ready if nec essary to assist in gently per suading this nomadic gentry to move on. Subscribe for Tn Chieftain A Triplo Trugt'dy. M. W. Philips of West Union. Iowa, who with his wife and sou are spending the winter in Socor ro for the son's health, received the news this week of a terrible triple tragedy in his home town. t rom the account received by Mr, Philips it seems that II. M. Neff, ex-county clerk and civil engin eer, in a fit of insane jealousy shot his sweetheart, Miss Koso Falb, and his rival, Kmmet Sul livan, and then turned the fatal gun upon himself, Sullivan alone survives. Only those fa miliar with the quiet, law abid ing life of a town in the north west can appreciate the conster nation created by such a tragedy, Mrs. 1'rcemuu lo Sene Ten Years, It now appears that Mrs. Anna Freeman, the woman who escap ed from the custody of Sheriff Blackington in this city last fall, is doomed to serve a terra of tea years in the penitentiary. SUo received that sentence in Judgo Parker's court in Doña Ana coun ty in October after trial on a charge of arson and larceny pre ferred by the Santa Fe railroad company. Her attorneys took an appeal to the supreme court and that body has just dismissed the appeal and affirmed the judg ment of the lower court. Still Another Notlco. A large number of those to whom bills have been Rent for subscription to The" Chieftain have responded promptly and cheerfully. There are some, however, from whom no acknowl edgment has been received. It is hoped that these will give tho matter their immediate attention. Business is business, in a news-. 1 paper office as well as elsewhere.! \n\n Cooney, Mogollón, Kelly, Oscura. San