The Socorro Chieftain, 1884-05-29

can Iks raisod iu the teinprtc xoim and eHix-cmlly to that of the grape which is grown in this valley although only the native or miHHiou urnpc introduced by the mission fathers hundred of years' ago, is cultivated r-ifl said to , bo supe rior to anything in thin line produced on the continent, in point of sweetness and flavor. The fig also flourishes in this valley. Irrigation is everywhere necessary, put whereverthe waters nf .' the ' liio 2 iv. It ... viauuq nc carnea over t mt - lanfl; Dy means of acequioa or ditches, the most abundant crops of all kinds are raised, including besides fruits, all of the grains and grasses. Alfalfa is the most profitable crop iu this valley, whoro it can bo cut from four to five timos a year which will avorago $20 per ton in the local market. There is no place in the world where farming can be made more profitable than in this rich valley, adja adjacent - cent adjacent to extensive mining regions which assure a firm home market for every everything - thing everything which can be raised. i -r But -wveo thin Jong category .of re- sougcvsjaofa.nog exhaust ioflorjo jad jad-vantages. - vantages. jad-vantages. Hundreds of stock lanch lanches - es lanches are located through the mountains and on the plains in every direction where tens of thousands of cattle, hor horses, - ses, horses, and hheep range, . and vbjch pay tribnteto Socorro. I It w already an important1 wholesale center ,"the old style of doing business iu tho West having been to a great extent revolu revolutionized - tionized revolutionized by the advent of the railroads. The country merchants and ranchmen find it more advantageous to buy sup sup-pi - pi sup-pi ios often, near at hand on thirty days time at a small margin over Ne York quotations, than to buy immense stocks as formerly ou six months time and pay virtually fifty per cent profit ou their goods, as they were obliged to do in the old duys, when it took mouths to get an invoice into thecouatry from East Eastern - ern Eastern headquarters. A great many or orders - ders orders are received by mail from all the outlying camps iu the mountains. Influence of Woman. Tho well-being of society rests ou our homes, and whut are their founda tion stones but woman's enre and de devotion - votion devotion ? A good mother is worth an army of acquaintances, and a true- hearted, noble sister is more precious than the" "dfearfive "hundred friends." The love.&e ÍxpiV(íorth( dorueB. tío blesnlpgs j$crR itnanufl nite goodness, and it is a foretaste of a better world tocomcTTyJU Q! t Our homes, as oue nail observers, are the church, iiMj , al) ( t iLtions and b'rgabfzktioDS t'liat give.'bfcusings all. vitality ' to.Cijíal ' tiMtimce aré herein originated aud fuutered.' Those who haVSpicfei-'aroHrtd'trie' sjijne doorstep, baiked' motner miíé, in 'whósé v in the a.rae veins the same Hevciiles ui:::afú.;jl: r. u

TEXTIL ti" . . .taarm:u. l, ifKUUKS blood flows, are bound by a sacred tie that can never be broken. Distance may separate, quarrels may occur, but those jvho have a capacity to love any thing must have at times a bubbling up of fond recollections", and n yearning aitjrthe joys of by-pwednjs.. Every woman has a miHsion on earth. Bo sh high or low degree iú singlo blcmed new or double she is lecrennt to her duty if hesita with foldod hands and empty head aud heart, and frown ou all clainii to her benevolence or efforts for th welfare of others. There "something to do" for every one a household to put in order, a child to attend to some parent to -are for. 8uie class of unfortuuato, degraded, or homeless humanity to befriend. -'To whom much is given, of them much win oe required. , 1 hat soul is poor imieodjtbat leaves the world without having exerted an influence thut will be( felt for good after she Las paired away. There is little beauty iu the lives of those women who are drawn into the circles of fashionable life, whose arena is public display, whoso nursery is their prison. At home does woman appear in her true glory; in the inner sanctu ary of home life can she bo most like those who walk above "iu soft, white light," and follow the Lamb whitherso ever he gocth ? Clereluud Leader. How Long t would take. The project lor filling the Desert of Sahara with water is creating a great deal of discussion amoug foreign, espe cially rranoh journals. Natnrully tho question has arisen, how long it would take to fill the-whole basin of Sahara. and some startling figures are given in Connection therewith. Five thousand years, li is claimed, would be required to fill up that vast sea of saud were the water to flow through a posriogij ono hundred feet wide and twenty -five feet deep, with the velocity , of fouf miles an hour. TJudor the same conditions it would take four thousand years for the waters of the Mediterranean to fill L itl iL. T. ...... mo iii-j ui me iioruan. utu a channel one hundred times greater ca capacity - pacity capacity it would do the work in forty years. ;) At tho same rate it would take 400,000 years to fill tho Caspian Sea to the level oi the AlediUaranean. Vor. I Juiately, it ijjoBly J potion o Sahara wnicii can t niad int a Ukn nr n. land sea, and doubtless thore are mid- iiT i 1: s 'l T. '. , . ííiXW'ií.S0-1"! w&o will live to ace the feat accomplished. Demorcst MoithijqrnoJ OscárXNIld says that living in Eng Eng-láixí - láixí Eng-láixí 4 iubh-rjrpér 'than W'this country. "For instance," he sayO'ybu I eadLnuaf ttfleoltiren England for weiity-fiye ceqta. cosfs á dollar.

i Tb train from El rnso,duc at tha C. of Mexico on the rooming of tho 7th, ...i:: i iv. ... . I was maliciously thrown off the track aul the agent wna reported killed There were no other casunlties Thieves fired on the train, but flod without mo lesting tho pasaeiigeiii.Tka wrecking , of Una train gava riso to a report that the special traiu from Topeka, convey conveying - ing conveying directors, had been wrecked, and that Uvnernl Manaeer Robinson had " ' . ' " One of our young men went iuto a .t. ik .ul i... r . . , r : " v '" OI( nis favorite brand, aud as tho dormán I Countess handed him his "Henry Clay" ' over tlio counter he observed: "Henry t lay Ls dead." "Isli dot the teudi-r hearted girl. Hoy" replied i vos so 8or - ry, for lis did mako goot cigara." 0 City pirrick. There is no class of workmen in the ' country, so miserably fed, clothed and paid as the clergy. Thore is no class of men to whom others, high or low, rich or poor, faithful or unhelii. uniformly go, nud fmm whom they eo uniformly receive help in nhysiciU a well as mental suffering aud need. N, Y. Journal of Commerce. At the sale of youngsters at Elmen- dorf, Ky., on the 14th of May, James . Jveene, the busted speculator,', suld tn yearling colts, the prices ranging from :if)0 to l'.tiOO. PltOFKSSWX.ll CARDS JOHN Y. HEWITT. Attorney-at-Law Wn'iTK Oaki '. .- - Saiw Mxi( o. W. K. KELLY, ' ' i ' ' " , i Attom'y and Cbunsek r V V.'.Ür'at Law And,' Notary Public. Will attend to Miuinjr aud Land Litiga , . tlou ana Collections. . IV n .Liif. . CHLU)ElK FElKiUSijVr Attorneys" at Law,' Albu'nuerque, M. M. w ' rJ: . y.l'rompt Attention given vlo legal ,UidiieM iii a3 the courts in th( r: j-rjjtory, C Mwtna riniuwr William WAtum ,. M'jurj ruble . PattersqS &;Watson, Mjjiing Brokers JT Real Estate Agents. WmtkOaks. ,i- NawiUxuo. n

f The T !í1i1 IUvímw cunhMiis an ar ariete - iete ariete ton Sort nhd it5 advantages. r.vbicliuwa rthat Üín.bcutijiíiírTBoa pcopforonghout the country are' bo bo-ginning - ginning bo-ginning U pndt'n.'Und and concedo the future importance of our young city and from which we make the following - titttact: .. . . . . . . '"The opening up of the vast mining region to the M'es pf Socorro by the BilstrtidiiiK.fwthe bra jh tumí, added to its present resources in that direc' &i anxfo rcjit! rjaturaPauiUges rom Ruagri(:n1titrHl ajd fruit-growing standpoiotituatod' iih it In, in the wiJst of the fci'tfle valley of the Rio Grande, rendering it. both a profitable ani -" pleasant place of residence, cannot fail Iup milfMhi'on onc-of th host and finest id .Now Mexico ; tor mining ro ro-giona - giona ro-giona like agricultural regions., dovel dovel-op - op dovel-op with be.dcfeloptucnt of railroad fa facilities, - cilities, facilities, mines which it would not pay to work 'while remote from railroad liueH, often becoming immensely profit ' able'when such lines'are brought near to them, as exemplified in all portions . of the now West. , , ( . Thére is also a swelter' In operation in the Magdalena), "about 30 miles to the Went of Souorro, making three - smelters undone stamp will for this immediate section of country. .There , injooal an d-lfim IKitlJu! tLreo Stilus of the town. At San Antonio, a dozen mileü South, there oro seventy coke

ing brought fnnu Carthage, twelve uiilenJiAst oiSan Autuuio, and con nected with it by a branch railroad, wiicre aro " very éiteusive coal mines, operated "by the railroad company; bo mat iuci tor reduction purposes as wen &s domeHtiu uso i abundant and cheap. With i u six iuik'8 of Socorro are ex ex-;thij - ;thij ex-;thij bcjla sof ,tÍt 6if st marble of remsrkable beauty and the most dur dur-''able'rju'ñlity,' - ''able'rju'ñlity,' dur-''able'rju'ñlity,' for the' Vdrking of which . i a very Ux scale, arrangements are now being perfla ted. Soe6it6ia the" éenUT of no lew than fifty important wining district, abound abounding - ing abounding in gold,' silver, copper and lead, and rich in other minerals, such as fire-clay, alum, üitj puiioj-'si cjaj kaolin nd other rocks of decorative value, which will in, time;.tnake the town a great m'unufictirrmg center, as well as a smelting and mining center; 1 .. 'V .The valley of the Uio Grande itself, affords a vasl "area of agricultural lauds, afnll profJrti)U?orw4i)liisfci yet 'under cuitivttli'ui, winch invite the fa favorable - vorable favorable atfeution o'f the farmer and hortiu4uv-Nwih lhuft vvodrful ca ca-lites, - lites, ca-lites, í is s iliioutite 'wljurever thV hUii.i eiltivaUj.i iTbíU val valley - ley valley lauds are e.sjiociiilly adapted to the cultivation of fruits of all kinds which I nimnninifi )P9 i 1 Í V I

Irtmffim andTW0"arlHoifT,1,TrSt0Ck 8ífe- Miss"': Heifers Corn-Fed Beeves, Mitch Cows. Cow Ponies, -orou-h-Brea .t,.l ... and High-Grade. Bulls, Merino, Cotswo'd and S uthdown Bucks and Angora Goats. ' ; -Contracted and Delivered at finykPoint in NEW MEXICO,, ARIZONA and Southern COLORADO - : '