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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
2
The Sierra County Advocate owned by Q Thompson is entered at Hillsboro post office New Mexico for transmission through the United States mails as second class quarter.
Local items report plans for a new hotel, dyke talks, and a busy week with stockmen mining men in town. Post office inspector visits, injuries and a birthday supper, and a market named the Palace. An ore strike at the American mine boosts company prospects amid earthquakes and social happenings.
Socorro experienced a severe earthquake the strongest in forty years. Homes and businesses suffered extensive damage including cracked walls, fallen adobe structures, broken glass and collapsed chimneys. The quake disrupted the railroad between Socorro and Magdalena with rocks blocking tracks and ties broken, as far north as Albuquerque towns felt shaking.
A report states last Monday's shock was far more severe than the prior Thursday event, wrecking the courthouse and many other buildings. It says citizens are panic stricken and many are leaving the city.
A plea seeks Charles Roberts address from about 1885 in Sierra County or Dona Ana County. A small recovery may be possible. Contact Harvey Spaldwin & Sons, Washington, D C. Joe Dw.
For sale a GOAT RANCH suitable for 6000 head with water and orange resources. Includes 1000 goats with the ranch. Advertises as best ranch in Territory with a barain. Inquiries at the office. Janel 4w prospective examinations of mines reported on. Sampling and saying a specialty by J M Smith dated June 18 06 Hermosa New Mexico.
W 8 Appew heirs administrators or assigns are notified that J W Stook has expended 100 in labor and improvements on the Golden Courier mining claim in the Las Animas Mining District Sierra County New Mexico to hold the premises under federal law If no portion of the expenditure is continued within ninety days after this notice the interest of W 8 Appew and heirs will become the property of the undersigned under section 2324 dated June 29 1906 First pub Jus 29 06
C W Scerann states he expended 100 dollars each in 1904 and 1905 on labor and improvements to the Emperor mining claim in Las Animas Mining District Sierra County New Mexico to hold the premises under section 2344 Revised Statutes. If others fail to contribute their proportion within ninety days after publication the claim will become the property of the undersigned. First pub Jan 12 06.
Notice from Las Cruces land office dated May 10 1906 states Juan Analla Arre is filing final proof for SE and SW Section 25 T16N R?W with Entry No 3234. Witnesses Bojorquez Arrey Trujillo y Sandoval and Aualla, all of Arrey NM. Protests and cross examination allowed at Arrey on June 16 1906. first publication May 1806.
Notice of final proof for Homestead Application No 4683 by Teotilo Garcia Engle Sierra County New Mexico. He plans to prove residence and cultivation before the Probate Clerk in Hillsboro on June 11 1906 with witnesses Serafin Gonzales Jose Jesus Martines and others.
Department of the Interior Las Cruces Land Office issues notice for James P. Nunn of Lake Valley New Mexico to file final proof for Lot 2 Fig B in Section 13 and other parcels, before Probate Clerk of Sterm County Hillsboro on April 9 1908. Witnesses listed include James W Mackey James Tador Guy W II Thomas Richardson Bruno Carabajal and others with first publication dates in March 1906.
Faint notice to J W Henley heirs and all claimants that F Hivracuen has earned $100 in 1905 labor on the Peter Vorahh mining claim in Las Animas Mining District Sierra County New Mexico. If within ninety days after publication you do not pay your share of expenses and costs of publication, your co owner interest may vest in the undersigned under Section 2824 Revised Statutes. First published January 1906.
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