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METKROLOGICAL.
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SIMM ON S
Are you taking Simmons Ltvek Reo-
rLATOB, the "KING OP LIVER MEDI
CINES?" That is what our readers
want, and nothing but that. It is the
ftiime old mend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recom
mendation for it is, that it is better
than Pills, never gripes, never weak
ens, but works in such an easy and
natural way just like nature itself, that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new ail over. It never fails.
Everybody needs take a liver remedy,
rA everyone should take only Sim
inona Liver Regulator.
Be sure you get it. The Red V.
i,B on the wrapper. J. JJ. Zeilin
Q04 Philadelphia.
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J. T. FORSHA, Prop.
(4 nil fl. fl.n Located tn the ti
4t.iUU f USVi ns portion of
Special rates by the week or mootfc
for table board, with or without
room.
Clothing .Wade to Order
Sol. Spiegelberq,
CLOTHIER.
Carry a full and select line of HATH,
OAPS, VLOVKH, etc., and every
thing found In a Outclass establish
ment. HENRY KRIOK.
ROI.E AOENT FOll
Letup's St. Louis Beer.
A 1.1 lilXHNOK MINKKAI. WATKII
The trade supplied from one bottle to a
carload. Mail orders promptly
tilled
GUADALUPE ST.
SANTA FE
SOCIETIES.
A. F. It A. M.
Montezuma Lodge, No. 1, meets on the
first Monday evening of eaoh month at
7:30 o'clock, in the Masonic hall, in the
Kahn block, San Francisco St. Visiting
brethren aro frnternally invited.
W. 8. HiBHOON, W. M.
F. 8. Davis, Beo.
WOODMEN OF THE, WORLD.
Ooronado Camp No. 8, Woodmen of the
World, meets on the second Thursday
arming of each month at 8 o'clock, in
Aztlan hall, I.O.O.F. Visiting sovereigns
are fraternally invited.
J. B. Bbadyi Consnl Oomdr.
t. B, ttr.oAN, Clerk.
Fin MoBrayer whisky at Colorado sa
loou. m
Yon can get engraved visiting cards at
. the Niw Mmioan, or have them printed
from yonr plate if yoo have one.
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HOTEL
BEITS
FURNISHER
T03I CARBERRY SUICIDES
A Citizen ot Golden Does the Act with
a Itasior A Sad Story from
the Mountains.
Correspondence New Mexican.
Golden, Santa Fe Co., Sept. 14, '95.
Tom A. Carberry committed suicide at
San Pedro this morning about 4 o'clock,
by cutting his throat with a razor. About
3:30 a. m. Joe Machetta, who lives in the
adjoining house, hearing groans, weut to
Carberry's rooms and found him very
sick with cramps in the stomach. Mach
etta gave him a doBe of "pain-killer,"and
went down to oonsult Mr. Jaycope, who
nas considerable knowledge of medioine.
He was only absent about fifteen minutes.
Upon his return he found Carberry had
out his throat. Greatly alarmed he ran
to oall Jaycope, and when they returned
together Carberry was gasping his last.
Mo cause lor the rash not is known, unless
it was poor health.
Tom A. Carberry was a citizen of Mary
land, bat was born in Bermuda, while his
parents where there on a visit. He was a
confederate soldier during the war and
lost a leg at the battle of Chancellorsville.
He has been a resident of this camp for
the past eight years and was respeoted
by all.
The justice of the peace Bummoned a
jury and a coroner's inquest was held
over the body ut 9 a. m. to-day. The
verdict was, suicide by cutting his throat.
The remains will be interred at San
Pedro to-morrow. .
Kamona Indian School.
Mrs. E. Brown's official bond for $20,
000 as superintendent of Ramona Indian
school was accepted and approved to-day.
Mrs. Brown will now undertake to All the
school with pupils at ouoe, but her friends
are greatly exercised over the arbitrary
requirement of the Indian ofUce that only
girls shall be enrolled at this Bchool. It
has always been conducted as a school
for both boys and girls. It is a notorious
fact that it is much more difficult to secure
from Indian parents consent to send girls
alone than to send both sexes, where
brother and sister may be together, and
it is feared Mrs. Brown will be put to an
unreasonable hardship in securing pupils
it tne order is not modified. The atten
tion of the trustees of Whitin hall is
oalled to the matter iu hopes that they
will lay it before the India;, offloe in its
proper light.
I'naliatea Confidence In Cochiti.
Mr. J. C. Holt, having completed his
assessment work in the Cochiti mining
district, will soon leave Santa Fe for a
visit to Cripple Creek and other Colorado
mining camps. His confidence in the
Cochiti mines is nnnbated. He says the
camp will certainly boom when convenient
transportation and reduction facilities
are provided. He adds that the Beolcman
mill is all right so far as process is con
cerned, bnt that its capacity falls short of
tne requirements of the camp.
HOUND ABOUT TOWN.
Remember the regular meeting of the
city council at 7:30 this evening.
Mies Petrita Gutierrez and Mr. Nicolas
Gonzales were united in marriage at the
cathedral at 6:30 this morning.
Mr. Rivenburg is to-day paoking a
superb display of Santa Fe fruit, of some
2,r00 pounds, to be sent to-night to rep
resent Santa Fe county at the territorial
fair.
Ou complaint of the chief of the Santa
Clara Pueblos, Dolorita Silva, an Indian
woman, was this morning bound over to
the next U. S. grand jury in the sum of
$300 by U. 8. Commissioner Pope. The
charge is adultery.
Louis Rocas was, on Thursday, granted
an absolute divorce from Jnana Rael
Rocas. The testimony was taken before
Mr. Reneban, special master, and Mr. W.
H. Pope acted as attorney for Rocas.
The territorial fair literature announced
that the Wells-Fargo Express oompany
would ship exhibits to Albuquerque at
one-half the regular rate. Relying on
this offloial statement many exhibitors
have gone to work and prepared dis
plays, but upon going to the express
offloe they were required to pay the full
express rate.
The many ministers who have been in
attendance at the 11th annual conference
of the M. E. ohuroh closed their labors
yesterday and most of them departed to
day for their respective homes. Thanks
to Rev. Mr. Madden this conference was
one of the most successful ever held in
the territory.
A New Mexican scribe had the pleasure
of a look over the orchards of Mr. Edward
Miller in Tesuaue valley yesterday. A
marvelous display of fruit it is. Apples,
pears and plums hang from the bending
branches of the trees like clusters of
grapes. Mr. Miller's fruit harvest this
season will amount to about seven car
loads.
Santa Fe will this year, as usual, send
more visitors to the fair at Albuquerque
than any other community in the terri
tory. Last night's trains on the A., T. &
S. F. took down forty passengers and on
the special oar this morning there were
twenty-five more. All trains leaviug to
night and to-morrow will be orowded
with Santa Feans.
. Mr. S. E. Rannheim, of Boston, returned
to the city last night after a five days' in
spection of the Santa Fe Copper com-
IN THE WORLD
OF BEAUTY
IS SUPREME
Not only Is it the most effective skin puri
fying and beautifying soap in the world, but
it Is the purest, sweetest, and most refreshing
for toilet, bath, and nursery. Itstrikesattbe
cause of bad complexions, falling hair, and
simple baby blemishes, vie. : the Clogged,
Inflamed, OvBawoRKED,or Sluggish Pork.
Sold MlrotHhmil the world British dtpoti ffmiRT,
. wi a u. titiH. vuir., notion, U.B-.
pany's mines and mill at San Pedro,
south Snnta Fe county, in company with
Prof. W. R. Rothwell. The latter took
the train at Cerrillos for Colorado Springs
and will shortly present to the stock
holders an elaborate report on the prop
erty. Mr. Rauuheim feels greatly en
couraged over the outlook. He says there
is more pay ore in sight at the mines
than ever before.
T. A. Goodwin got horn last night
from Winsor's rauoh on the upper Pecos,
where he had no difficulty in landing 150
trout per day. Many of them verged on
a pound in weight. A curiosity of the
catch was a "silver trout," ten inches
long, probably the first of the kind ever
taken in the upper Pecos. Mr. Goodwin
says the Santa Fe mountains piomise
great sport for deer hunters after Ootober
1. He saw four deer while out on this
trip.
FRUIT SHIPMENTS.
A Practical Orchardist Analysi.es the
Santa Fe Situation Express
Companies' Policy.
To the Editor of the New Mexican.
Santa Fe, Sept. 16. Sir: Yonr re
mark in Saturday's issue about a
boom in the fruit business in Santa Fe
and that Mr. Boyle is shipping 250 pounds
of pears daily,'gives a very erroneous im
pression. The fact is I am shipping and
doing my very best to fill a standing or
der for l.fiOO pounds daily, and was
obliged two weeks ago to refuse an order
for 15,000 ponuds of pears per week for
the rest of the season. This latter order
was offered after receiving a sample of
500 pounds of pears from my orchard
There is a large quantity of fruit in Santa
Fe but the gardens and orchards are too
small and too scattered for it to be han
died at a profit with the present low
prices in the only markets within reach,
The greatest drawback is the enormous
rate oharged by the express companies
There is not one-fifth of the fruit shipped
out of Santa Fe that might be sold if the
express charges were more reasonable,
The experience of growors this year has
been in several instances that the express
rate of $1.50 per 100 pounds has not only
taken all the proceeds of the sales but
has left a deficit so that the shipper has
lost his fruit, his boxes and his labor, and
remained in debt. Until these heavy
charges for transportation are reduced
the fruit business can not thrive. Larger
orohards-and more of them would bring
about thia change sooner than anything
else. Shipments by the car load and by
the train load would find a ready market
at more distant venters of population,
where our fruit is already known and has
the highest reputation. I have been writ
ten to for quantities of apples by the
train load from Minneapolis and further
east, smaller quantities not wanted, and 1
do not hesitate to say that we shall ex
perience a real boom just as soon as we
are able to till all the orders for fruit
which are offered to us. Abthub Boyle.
Sentence Commuted.
Some of the Grant county papers are
wrought up over the action of the gov
ernor in the case of Davis, a oonvict
ent to the penitentiary for seven years
for killing a man at Finos Altos. They
treat the case as if it were a full pardon for
the prisoner, which is not the oase at all.
His sentence was simply commuted to
five years and three months. This ao
tion was taken at the earnest solicitation
of many good citizens of Grant oounty.
The Silver City Eagle says the 'people of
fin oe Altos acquainted with the facts in
the oase approve the action of the execu
tive.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Jas. II. Pntdy, of Denver, is at the
Palace, coming on a visit to her husband
and son.
Mrs. Chapman and son, Mr. Geo. John
son and sister, left last night for Albu
querque.
Miss Mamie Morrison leaves for Albu
querque to-night to be the guest of her
brother, Hugh, during fair week.
Rev. Frank M. Day, the printer-preach
er, from . the Kingston and Hillsboro
charge, will be sent to Blossburg for the
coming year.
Mrs. Maria Maxwell, of Indianapolis, is
visiting her daughter at the sanitarium,
She expects to remain in Santa Fe for
about two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Stevens were
among those who enjoyed the cool
breezes and refreshing shade at Mono
ment rock yesterday.-
Mrs. J. L. Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Marsh, Miss Laura B. Marsh, and George,
Elmer and Lewis Marsh, enjoyed a family
picnic dinner at Monument rook yester
day. Gov. and Mrs. Thornton, Solicitor Gen
eral Victory, wife and boy, Mr. Arthur M,
Maltby, wife and daughter, and Mr. Fitz
hugh Thornton, formed a pleasant picnic
party np the Rio Santa Fe to Monument
rook yesterday. ,
V. S. District Attorney Hemingway and
his assistant, Mr. Geo. P. Money, returned
last night from Silver City. The latter
has recently returned to the territory
after a delightful vaoation trip to his old
home in Mississippi. Mrs. Money will
return here October 1.
Gov. and Mrs. Thornton, Mr. and Mrs.
Maltby and little daughter, of Sedaha,
Mo., ex-Gov. Prince and Col, Frost were
among those who left last night to attend
the irrigation convention.
At the Exchange: Hugo R. Buerger,
Denver; Marie Roy, Las Vegas; Mnrray
Aoklin, California; A. A. Klosky, New
Vork; Mrs. P. H. Gold and son, Wingate;
Geo. P. Money, Silver City.
At the Palace: Venonslado Jarnmillo,
T. K. Sargent, El Rilo; (!. S. Dowling.
wife and child, Rowo; Miguel Salnzar,
Las Vegas; S. S. Kengen, Dallas; G. H,
Adams, Creston, Colo.; Mrs. James H.
Purdy, Isidore P. D. Purdy, Denver; S. E.
Rannheim, New Vork; J. B. II. Heming
way, Santa Fe.
A good appetite and refreshing sleep
are essential to health of mind and body,
and these are given by Hood's Saraapa
rilla. The U. S. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior to all others.
Continued from First Pajre.
Vermejo, Van Preman, Corososo and
other streums, storing it iu a system of
lakes and reservoirs already oompleted
sufficiently large to reclaim 160,000 aores.
But in no place throughout the length
and breadth of this territory, and I be
lieve at no place thronghout the arid
region of this continent, has there been
suoh marked advancement along the line
in this direction, and in fact in everything
that tends to the future welfare and pros
perity of the people, as is found in the
Peoos valley.
The conception of this great enterprise
reflects honor upon the originator, while
its completion in so methodioal a manner,
in the lace of the great financial orisis
and the many difficulties that oonfronted
it, speaks volumes for the grit, enterpiise
and courage of those who had the work
in hand. There is found a great sys
tem for storing the flood waters,
nnder.'aken by the Pecos Irrigation
fe Improvement company, began only a
few years ago and well nigh completed
during the past year, so far as present
operations are concerned, which now
embraces over 1,200 miles of mains, canals
and latterals that receive their supply of
water from a series of reservoirs. One of
these just oompleted and put in service
is worthy of notice. It is the largest
irrigation reservoir ou the continent. Its
storage oapaoity is 138,000 aore feet, a
body of water submerging 8,100 acres of
land to a depth of fifty feet in plaoes.
With the exception of a similar reservoir
on the river Periar, in India, with a oa
paoity of 160,000 oubio feet, there is no
where the equal of this reservoir, whioh
stores 6,000,000,Qpo oubio feet of water.
The supply for this and other reser
voirs is obtained by damming the Pecos
river, an nnceasing stream fed by the
snows of the Rooky mountains and in
numerable springs that gnsh forth from
the limestone bed of the stream. By this
method the rains and snows of the great
watershed are saved and utilized when
needed in dry Beaasons.
COM OF PECOS VALLEY IRRIGATION
These Works, together with the rail
roads built iu connection therewith, have
cost something like $3,000,000, counting
the expenditures of the corporation alone;
while nearly as muoh more has been spent
by private enterprise in improving the
lands reclaimed. They have made avail
able to farmers half a million acres of
land that, but for the way being pro
vided to supply water and reach the
markets of the world, would not have
been claimed from the governmect by
the settlerB.
The immediate result has been the
bnilding np of two comparatively new
and prosperous oonnties, now well sup
plied with civic institutions, public build
ings, schools, chnrohes, prosperous towns
and progressive communities, having
railroad facilities, telephones and tele
graph lines thronghout the valley that is
200 miles long with nn average width of
ten miles, while in the principal towns
are found electric lights and all other
conveniences possessed by older com
munities. An important subject, and one that is
now attracting the attention of those in
terested in irrigation, and one which
should receive the most careful considera
tion from you, is that of legislation; the
enactment of the laws to facilitate re
clamation of the desert lauds, and at the
same time fully protect the owner in
the water rights acquired. It is especial
ly important that the investor should
know just what right he is aoquiring and
that he will at all times be protected in
the right acquired.
Capital is always timid, and must have a
guarantee of perfect protection before in
vesting; safety of the principal and cer
tainty of the interest are the two salient
points never overlooked by the oareful
business investor.
How to do this is a question of grave
importance. Certain it is, that our pres
ent land laws, national and state, are entire
ly inadequate; the present land laws were
not framed to meet the conditions found
here; they were enacted at a time when
the arid region was never thought of as
an agriculturrl country, and to suit the
conditions arising in the great temporal
regions of the Mississippi and her tribut
aries. The law for the acquisition of the
lands from the government, in the arid
regions, should be changed to meet the
conditions existing here. It would great
ly aid the settler, and in many instances
prevent the appearance of fraud, whioh is
bo frequently oharged against the settler
when he is honestly trying to comply
with the requirements regulating the
performance of aots absolutely useless
for the pnrposes to whioh he intends to
apply the land.
WATEB BIGHTS SHOULD BE DEFINED.
Not only does the law need changing as
to the mode of obtaining title, but the
right which the settlers acquire to the
water should be definitely and dearly de
fined, so as to eliminate that uncertainty
now so often found among olaimauts, who
obtain their supply from the rivers and
streams that traverse two or more states
or territories.
Take for example the Rio Grande,
whioh traverses the southern part of Colo
rado, all of New Mexioo, and forms the
boundary for many hundreds of miles be
tween the great state of Texas and the
repnblio of Mexioo. For more than 1,000
miles, it passes through a oontry where
its waters are used for - irrigation, and
those nsing them are the citizens of two
great republics; those of one obtain their
rights from three separate souroes, the
state of Texas and Colorado and the ter
ritory of New Mexioo; and those of the
other, the republio of Mexico, from the
states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tama
ulipas. The waters being in sufficient to
meet the . necessities of all,' it can
readily be seen how intricate the
problem presented and how diffioult of
adjustment in inch a manner as to do
exaot juBtioe and protect eaoh proprietor
in his holding. This is a diffioult task,
where the stream is wholly in one state,
where one cods of laws regulates the
rights of of all; bnt here we have the citi
zens of two nations, governed by six dif
ferent law making bodies, eaohaoting in
dependent of the other, to increase the
difficulty and make "eonfasionjworse con
founded."
It is true, the law gives to the partv
first appropriating the waters of a stream
the proprietorship for the quantity ap
propriated, bnt the oonstant oonstrnotion
of new ditohes at various points np and
down the stream, distant from eaoh other.
often renders it difficult to determine
who has the prior right, and in seasons of
drouth to properly distribute the water
between those standing npon an eqnal
footing, even when all the parties are
subject to the same Jurisdiction, and the
matters in dispute ean be submitted to a
a single tribunal for adjustment; bnt the
difficulty is inoreased when state or na
tional lines intervene whioh limit the
jurisdiction to only a portion of the liti
gants.
INTltB STATE AMD ISTEBNATIONAL QUES
TIONS.
The first settlements upon the Rio
Grande were made in Texas and in the re
pnblio of Mexioo, where labor and money
were expended improving the farms and
appropriating the waters of the streams.
Vested rights were aoqnireu to the waters
thus appropriated; bnt, as years went by
settlements were made higher up the
river in the territory of New Mexico suffi
cient in extent to largely consume the
waters of the stream unless some means
were taken to save the Hood waters; and,
still later, settlements were made in the
state of Colorado and extensive ditohes
constructed, and such quauties of water
need as to interfere with the rights of the
settlers lower down, and the farmers in
Texas, Mexico and lower New Mexioo are
beginning to feel the effeots of an occa
sional water famine.
The first proprietors have the better
title and should be protected, but how
this is to be done is a difficult qnestion
to be solved, and presents one of the
most complicated legal problems of the
age. It requires the most careful con
sideration from those who have the wel
fare of the country at heart. Have the
proprietors of the water rights in the re
publio of Mexioo, or the state of Texas,
any remedy under the existing laws, that
can be praotioally enforced? Must the
citizens of the republio of Mexico and the
state of Texas submit to the unlawful
taking of water to which they, as pro
prietors, have the first right, or is there
any way of enforcing their rights, and, if
so, before what tribunal can they be en
forced? The difficulties presented here
are repeated in every instance where a
stream crosses the line of two or more
states or territories.
Another subject, which has for some
time attraoted the attention of those in
terested in irrigation, is how and by
whom the flood waters are to be con
served? Who shall formulate the plans
and furnish the oapital required for the
extensive improvements necessary to this
end?
Three plans have been suggested: First,
that the general government do it; second,
that the lands shonld be turned over to
the states and .reclaimed by the states;
third, that it be done by private enter
prise. Eaoh of these three plans has some
features of especial merit; bnt, in my
opinion, the first is the better one, and
the only way to save all the flood waters
oheaply and apply them justly to the re
clamation of the desert lands. There are
many reasons why this plan shonld be
adopted and this work perfeoted by the
general government; as I have said be
fore, the policy of the government's
present land laws is detrimental to the
reclamation of the arid lands by private
enterprise.
THE UTILIZATION OF WASTE WATEBS.
In A large majority of oases, under ex
isting conditions, the utilization of the
waste waters is impracticable by private
enterprise, and the instances heretofore
mentioned as being successfully realized,
are in connection with large properties
privately owned (with one exception) by
titles derived from the Spanish and Mex
ican governments. The policy of onr
government is to prevent the acquisition
of large bodies of the pnblio domain by a
few persons, and tn see that it is reserved
for homestead and pre-emption rights
for her citizens, believing it to be better
that eaoh man should be the owner of his
own home. Where the waters of great
rivers like the Pecos, Rio Grande, San
Juan and the Colorado of the west, with
their tremendous annual floods, are to be
controlled, plaoed in reservoirs and con
served for the redemption of large bodies
of arid lands, it must be done by an ag
gregation of capital working to a single
purpose, directed by men of ability, aided
by experienced engineers, possessing
great technical knowledge and oapable of
oalonlating accurately the results to be
achieved.
It is certainly on a line with the pres
ent policy of the government that the
work should be conducted by the govern
ment to prepare homes for her oitizens
that eaoh individual may be the owner of
his own homestead, and look to the gov
ernment for his water supply and not be
subjected to the grasping avarioionsness
too often found to exist where private
corporations own the water.
It has been the policy of the govern
ment, as I interpret it, from the passage
of laws preventing aliens from acquiring
property in the territories and even from
preventing a corporation or aggregation
of individuals from acquiring more than
4,000 aores of land under one ownership,
as well as by many other aots of oongress
with reference to the sale of pnblio lands
to bona fide settlers, to preserve the pnb
lio lands for their use and benefit, and un
less this governmental policy be changed,
and the public domain be disposed of in
large blocks to be under the control and
management of one direoting head, it will
be impossible to get that oonoertof aotion
required for successful reclamation of
these lands by individual enterprise.
SHOULD BE CNDKBOOVIBNMENTAL OONTB0L.
Almost from its inoeption the doclrine
of internal improvement has been ad
opted and followed; millions have been
expended in the oonstrnotion of levees,
in the improvement of rivers, the
bnilding of oanals and railroads for the
welfare and convenience of the people,
and why shonld not this same liberal
polioy be extended to the reclamation of
the arid lands? The same amount of oap
ital, honestly and jndioiously invested for
the conservation ef our flood waters and
the reclamation of these lands, will fur
nish more homesteads to the people of
the nation than has ever been done by
the polioy of building levees and drain
ing the swamps of the great rivers, and
will be of more benefit to the people of
this nation than any pnblio improvement
ever entered npon.
Another reason why the reclamation of
the desert lands shonld be under the con
trol of the government is from the stand
point of economy. The government oan
raise the required funds to do this work
at a less expense than oan be done either
by state or private enterprise. Money
raised by private enterprise would oost
at least 7 per eent, by the state from B to
e, wnne tne general government could
obtain it at a rate not to exoeed 8 per
oent, and, as the cost to the farmer wonld
be governed by the interest upon the
money invested, his water rate wonld not
be more than one-half as muoh when the
improvement was made by the govern
ment. PBOFITS IN FATTENING OATTLB.
It is a oonoeded faot, that the most en
thosiastio advocates, of irrigation, that
the conditions of the Rooky mountain
regions, are suoh that only a compara
tively small portion of the land oan ever
be reolaimed.
A writer in the North Western Magazine
for the month of Jane last estimates that
"if a furrow be run aoross a twenty aore
field the space occupied by the farrow
would bear about the same relation to the
whole field, that the area reolaimable by
irrigation bears to the whole of the arid
region."' N
All who have given thia matter any at
tention will agree with me, that this is an
exaggerated statement, and that a muoh
larger portion onn be reolaimed.
We must admit, however, that the por
tion reolaimable is small as oom pared
with the whole, bnt this is one of the rea
sons why more care shonld be given to
the subjeot, and a greater effort made to
reclaim all that is practicable.
Nearly every acre of the arid land is
covered with native grasses, the black
and white gramma, and the bnnoh, or
what is known as the Buffalo grass, whioh
grow entirely without irrigation, cures
in the sunshine, and famishes food winter
and summer for the great herds of range
cattle sot sheep, that have for years
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been the principal soprce of revenue to
the ranohmen. Those best informed es
timate that the arid region will as a
whole, in its natural condition, sustain
one steer for each twenty-five aores of
land. These native ranges furnish the
great breeding grounds for large herds,
and must ever be principally devoted to
that purpose, bnt the native grass is
not sufficient to fatten the stock and pre
pare it for market, and during serious
and protracted seasons of drouth great
numbers die from starvation.
In my opinion, the most important
measure to be accomplished at this time
is to provide means here at home to pre
vent the groat suffering to the range ani
mals, and their death from starvation,
and to furnish the food for their fatting.
In the past, the profit of the cattle
business has gone largely to the feeder in
the states, while the breeder has reoeived
a very small portion.
A few moments' examination of the
facts will show the magnitude of this
Iobb. Take as an example, this territory,
whioh oontains an area of over 78,000,000
acres of land, and allow that it will sup
port one-half of the estimated average,
and it will sustain 1,500,000 head of cattle,
and of those we should send to the
market at least 500,000 per year.
I believe the territory of New Mexioo
oonld be made to send more than this
number. As a matter of faot, from sta
tistics obtained from the railroads and
others best informed, on this subject, I
learn that there has been shipped this
year from this territory something over
200,000 bead of cattle.
Range steers, at three years old, have
been bringing upon an average $16 per
head, while the same cattle bring, a few
months later in Chicago and Kansas City,
not less than $50 per head. This, after
allowing $5 per head for freight, wonld
give to the feeder $21) per head for his
labor and feed, all of which would be re
tained here, add to the local revenue, and
give employment to our people, if one
half of the flood waters now going to
waste were saved, without interfering
with the other branches of agriculture
and horticulture.
VALUE OF ALFALFA AS FEED.
I have made oareful inquiry from the
ranohmen of every connty within the ter
ritory relating to the oost of producing
the various kinds of feed for stock and
the quantity to be produoed per acre, and
they agree that alfalfa is the most profit
able food to be raised; that the average
yield is about three and one-fonrth tons
at a oost of $6 per acre for water, culti
vation and harvesting. Those who have
had large experience in feeding it to
cattle, and who have made oareful esti
mation of the quantity required to fat
the average steer, and watched the daily
increase in weight, estimate that two and
a half tons are sufficient to the
animal, and that the steer will take on
from 175 to 225 pounds in abont two and
a half months, and would at the present
prioe bring in Chicago or Kansas City
abont 1 cents per pound or $50 per head.
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If this estimation be correot, and there
is no reason to doubt it, it will be seen
that 200,000 nores pnt in alfalfa would be
more than enfticient to fatten the 200,000
head of steers shipped annually from this
territory, to be grazed and fed in other
localities, and wonld bring to this terri
tory over $5,000,000 in addition to that
now received.
The Pecos irrigating system as now
completed will be able to supply this
acreage, and we are informed that it is
the intention of the promoters, in con
nection with their other enterprises, to
make it a great feeding ground for the
range stock.
The waters of the Rio Grande are suf
ficient to more than quadruple this, while
those of the Cimarron, Red River, Rio
Pnerco, Blue Water, Mimbres, Las Animas,
La Plata, San Joan and other streams in
the territory, are sufficient to enable the
reclamation of at least 2,000,000 of the
78,000,000 acres contained in the terri
tory. I have no time to refer to the many
other importaut industries to be promot
ed as a result of this enterprise, as I have
already oconpied more time than I should
have done.
In conclusion, I again wish to extend
to yon a hearty weloome to the territory
of New Mexioo, and to give yon the free
dom of the territory daring your sojonrn
in onr midst.
Manta Fe'a Base Ball Team.
The names of the club which leaves for
Albuquerque on the 6:20 train this even
ing are: Lamkius, oatoher; Jones, pitch-,
er; Chas. Parsons, first base; Clarke, sec
ond base; Webber, third base; Crawford,
short stop; Will Parsons, left field; Ash
ford, center field; Estes, right field; San
chez and O'Brien, substitutes, and Har
man Wynkoop, spb-pitoher. This is con
sidered the strongest team sent from
Santa Fe since the days of the territorial
league,
Attention Ladles.
While in Denver I learned the only
genuine Improved Tailor System of
dress-fitting. This system drafts on the
same principles as the merchant tailor
uses and with the same results. By this
method every seam is in the proper place;
the garment maintains a perfect propor
tion to the figure, and perfect ease is se
cured. I will oat and guatantee an abso
lute fitting pattern. Mbs. C. A. Haynes
r ft f f One Nlckel-ln-the Blot machine
L II L L with every 1,000 Mexicana or Meclian-
fll I ic8' Pride, the best nickel cigar on
I IILltlie market. Price $30. All the latest
slot machines a specialty. Agents wan
ted everywhere. S. Kahn & Co., 220 California
street, San Francisco, Cal.
To the Bicyclists of Santa Ve.
Buy one of our all-wool sweaters at
$1.50 eaoh. They are beauties. All-wool
bicycle hose, the best made, at $1,25 a
pair. Gusdorf & Dolan.
Notice.
I offer fruit, etc., at the following
prices in lots to the amount of 50
cents or more:
Fine large pears per lb 2 l-2c
Fine large apples per lb 2c
Large Siberian crab ap
ples per lb 1 l-2c
German prunes per lb 4o
French prunes per lb 5 c
New Santa Fe honey. . per lb 15c
New sweet cider per gal 25c
Leave orders with E. ANDREWS.
Milk Punoh 10 ots a glass at the Colo
rado saloon.
Special Trains.
For the aooommodation of parties from
Santa Fe who wish to attend the territo
rial fair at Albuquerque the A., T. &, S. F.
R. R. will rnn a speoial train leaving San
ta Fe at 8:20 a. m., arriving at Albuquer
que at 11:30 a. m. Returning leave Al
buquerque at 9:20 p. m., arriving at
Santa Fe at 1 a. m. Goaohes will rnn '
through and no change is required at
Lamy. This speoial service will com
mence Monday Sept. 16, and continue
daily until after the close of the fair.
ABB ALWAYS VBEfSB.
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BICYCLES.
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Sterling bearings run true,
Sterling rider never change mounts,
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