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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1905
Page
6
The Evening Citizen announces subscription rates and delivery options for Albuquerque and surrounding areas. It lists daily, weekly, and carrier plans with monthly and yearly pricing, plus advertising rate notes and a reminder to report nondelivery.
A garbled sports brief outlines games across cities including Minneapolis Milwaukee and St Paul with scattered team mentions and unclear results. A separate item reports a fire at the Las Vegas Telephone offices damaging switchboards and the building, with $1,200 coverage and immediate replacement planned, noting Meadow City service disruption.
Staff Corr reports all Kansas faces wheat harvest strain with labor shortages and fast ripening grain. Pratt, Great Bend, and St Johns seek hundreds of workers as farmers rush to store grain. Harvest hands toil fourteen hours daily from early morning, with transient workers from eastern states and Canada. Kansas farms show rising wealth and modernization, with banking deposits up, land values up, and widespread home and telecommunication adoption. average cost to produce wheat about six dollars per acre yielding around 15 bushels per acre.
The Headlight notes Deming as a major cattle shipping point in southwestern New Mexico, publishing total shipments this year. May shipments brought 91,600 cash in one city merchant’s activity, with 43,780 head moved in May and June at an average of 15 per head, totaling about 656,715 in cash. The year’s totals lag past years due to last year’s drought reducing cattle available for shipment. R D Y Coxin of Kingman Arizona bets 200 that no Arizonan can drill a fifteen inch hole in fifteen minutes in the Clack Alger contest on Fourth Street. Three fourth inch steel used.
Denver secured the next grand lodge meeting of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with Buffalo, N Y, this year. Western lodges plan an elaborate 1906 gathering as many branches pledge large delegations and Albuquerque projects two thirds attendance.
Pearce and Bixby, the lowest bidders, won the contract to build the Roswell canning factory. Work has begun with the foundation laid and boiler setup. Machinery shipped and expectations point to completion as soon as possible, aiming for readiness by tomato harvest.
Ernest Saunders, a cowboy for the outlet on the upper Gila, died Tuesday evening at 6 46 while being brought to town for treatment after an accident Sunday. He was thrown from a broncho, fracturing the skull base and brain tissue. Dr J Westlake traveled 65 miles in ten hours to treat him, but no operation was performed. Also noted is Paul Walter of the New Mexican surviving a nights trek after misjudging his horse in the Pecos region.
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