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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Santa Fe New Mexican, 1883-1913 New Mexico Historical Newspapers 1-15-1904 Santa Fe New Mexican, 01-15-1904 New Mexican Printing Company Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/sfnm_news Recommended Citation New Mexican Printing Company. "Santa Fe New Mexican, 01-15-1904." (1904). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/sfnm_news/1858 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Santa Fe New Mexican, 1883-1913 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ANTA FE NEW MEXICAN VOL. 40. SANTA FE, N. M., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1904. NO. 279. TWO MILLION SUNMOUNT AN ELEPPJUT BUTTE VACANCIES HAVE NATURAL POUNDS WOOL IDEAL RESORT BEEN FILLED RESERVOIR RESOURCES Opinion Voiced by the Rev. A. M. On Republican Territorial Central And Head of a 180,000 Sheep. and Harkness, Methodist Minister Committee by Chairman Of New Mexico Should Insure Its in South Dakota. Hubbell. 10,000 Cattle Were Shipped Be Admission to Statehood From This Year. C. H. Dow, of firm of Gibson & Would the and Most Clayton the Largest to the New Mexican. A. R. Gibson. Dow, of Special Says proprietors Sunmount Tent 15 is in of Albuquerque, Jan. The City, receipt the following let Useful on Rio Grande If Con members of ter from Rev. A. M. the the Territorial Repub SETTLERS IN UNION the Harkness, pas- lican committee were tor of the M. E. Church at today appoint- CLIMATE UNSURPASSED Arlington, ed Chairman A. South which for by Frank Hubbell Dakota, speaks itself. structedExaminations by Recla from the new counties created the Desirable Class Coming in According Mr. Harkness has been holding a ser- by Thirty-fift- h to Sunmount Tent as a Health Resort ies of lectures at St. Legislative Assembly City to Receiver Thompson of Clayton stereopticon fill E. M. Sando John's M. E. Church mation Division of the United vacancies: Sandoval, Capital Light and Power Com- during the past E. A. Land Office. two weeks. The follows: val, Miera; Quay, T. W. Heman, letter M. C. pany Meeting. "In this as well as a Machem; Leonard Wood, C. P. previous visit States so Celso W. E. to the I have made it a Geological Survey Show Jones, Baca; Roosevelt, "The Lawrence Mercantile Company southwest, and C. O. Leach. Several va- "Our has erected a storeroom point to investigate the different Lindsey Territory, New Mexico, wants just $19,000 cancies exist in the of the to be admitted union at built of French health resorts California, of the membership into the at once, Clayton, brick, with throughout Gigantic Project Greatest committee from other these and well we should for we steam heat and New Mexico and Arizona with the view counties; be, have a plate glass windows, will be filled by the committee at its of and feel satisfied electric said Alfred W. of making mention of the most worthy population 275,000, lights," Thomp Benefit New If in Santa Fe 30. that the number will be son, receiver of United States land in my lectures on my return home, and to Mexico Carried meeting January increased to the double the in five office at in the of the it gives me great pleasure to state number years should Clayton, lobby our be A. Palace Hotel last that Sunmount Tent City is the ideal Out. request granted," said R. evening. Gibson of Santa Fe, New to "A half dozen very fine new res! resort of them all for those afflicted LIVESTOCK Mexico, the Toledo Times at the yes dences are going up in Clayton at the with bronchial or pulmonary affec- Boody tions. Pure water and wholesome terday. present time, and the town has a gen- food Arthur P. Davis and W. M. en- for this the devel- combined with Reed, purpose, and power CONVENTION "Besides," he continued, "we have eral air of thrift and prosperity. the climatic treatment gineers of the U. S. reclamation ser- be utilized in at Sunmount mean restoration to oped might pumping within our borders more natural re- Union County, itself, of which Clayton vice, have submitted water from the to ex- health for those who are reports covering beneath, valley sources than ever existed in any Is the county seat, is one of the rich- fortunate their work in New and samt3 tend the area. Until bor to be able to Tent Mexico, irrigated the An Elastic Advocated and state west of the Mississippi River est per capita in the Territory on Its enough give City will shortly appear in the second re- ings for foundations have been com- Currency a trial. Matters Dis- before its admission. These natural taxable returns. clamation report. pleted the feasibility of this Transportation would Wool and project cussed opportunities bring capital, and Large Sheep Shipments. The work of Mr. Davis and his cannot be determined. The reservoir, at Closing: Session. millions of acres of land owned the about 2,000.000 pary Jan. 15 The ses by "Clayton shipped has been wholly in the basin however, has a much greater capacity Portland, closing government would be and pounds of wool this the MACHEN TRIAL drainage sion of the National Livestock Conven- purchased year average of the Rio work than any other on the river, and is The cattle-raisin- g 1-- Grande, the being developed by irrigation. 13 2 cents a tion was devoted to price being pound. to that of ample to store the floods of wet years today the comple is and less the of largely supplement previous tion of a amount busi- industry thriving, Clayton being shipping point investigations made bv the bureau. Mr. i and to hold them to reinforce the sup- large of routine percentage of loss is recorded from Union County, about 180,000 head of CONTINUED ln ness. Addresses were listened to on Davis had under considera I Piy tinies of extreme drought. It is this section of the than from I were shipped the particular various of the and country r sheep average price tion the international dam and ine only Proposed reservoir with a ca phases industry any other cattle district. The $1.75 a head wethers. reseat' there was a continued discussion of raising being including voir above El Paso and the ElephaV pacity large enough to utilize the en mining is on the boom at the About 10,000 cattle were also First Assistant Postmaster General railroad and forest reserve matters. industry shipped, Butte reservoir site. tire flow of the drainage basin. It is time, and miners are at from $15 to $16 a head. Admits He Was of A was present flocking Ignorant situated sufficiently low enough in the resolution passed advocating there from all over We "The is now one of the most ine nrst project involves the con an elastic the country. county Many Details of Service. basin to intercept practically all the currency. President Spring have the celebrated Elizabethtown and law of 15 struction of a masonry dam to reach er abiding sections the Territory, Washington, Jan. Robert J. waters, and yet is sufficiently high to explained that the object was to get,Gold GuIch ld mine s. about 60 feet above low water in the Mi a c tsti f - I a The latter nf en al tr VifU Justice is dispensed in Union County Wynne, first assistant postmaster gen- command enough land to consume all P!irronrv V. UUVU VIHOIIVII-- Ilia ore Im- Rio Grande. Such a dam would form yields which brings $20,000 a ton. by CMef Justice W. J. Mills, whose eral, who was on the stand when the available water ex-- t stock man would not have twelve per a reservoir about 15 miles in fie supply. The "The climate of this Territory is un- partial, fair and honest decisions have court Wednesday, con length. cent money and Wall Street gamblers adjourned today four miles in width, emely great capacity here proposed surpassed, and outdoor games can be made him so popular with even the tinued his in the postal greatest covering is intended for solution have four per cent money." In rela- testimony 26,000 acres, and a of largely the of played with comfort every day of the Democrats?, that in convention assem- trial. On cross examination he admit- having capacity the which is tion to transportation matters a resolu about 540,000 acre feet. The sediment problem, the year. As to Insects of all kinds. Santa bled endorsed him, and regretted ted that there were con- estimated most tion was passed upon the trans- they many things cost of the entire is difficult and serious obstacle to calling Fe is an exception, and we are free he was a Republican. The Republi- nected with the project $2,300,00u, of flood portation committee to meet as soon postoffice department of which a is due to the utilization the waters of from all mosquitoes and insect pests. cans of Clayton County consider it a that he knew about. "I am large proportion Rio Grande as possible and demand the transporta- nothing the of sixteen miles the basin. The scenery is delightful, and there that their to re- expense moving cov- tion companies, "to cease their abusive great compliment presiding trying learn," he sarcastically , The proposed reservoir will not are scores of of historic and es- of railroad line above the reach f treatment of places judge should be held in such high marked, "and am doing the best I can." er any large area of valley land, but the livestock Industry." scenic interest within a short distance was calcu- high" waters in the reservoir.