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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
2
The Sierra County Advocate credits Thompson as proprietor and notes mailing entry at Hillaboro Sierra County New Mexico for transmission through the U S mails as second class matter.
Framed as a Friday report from Fairview, the notes recount a week of local activity including a Santa Fe Sisters' School pupil Rebecca Havill's death at St Vincent's Hospital and funeral at Chloride Cemetery. The piece also covers church and firefighting efforts, a new Agricultural Station near Socorro led by Judge Leigh Clark, and vast engineering details for a Rio Grande dam project with storage capacity millions of acre feet, plus community updates on residents and cattle concerns.
An ad offering Hunt's Cure promises rapid relief from itching and bodily discomfort with a single application. It claims post office drug store availability and emphasizes strength and immediacy. The text also features a local legal note about mail thief Chas. Mehan awaiting sentencing and a benign promotion for Hunt's Lightning Digestive aid.
In the District Court of the Territory of New Mexico creditors of Sierra Consolidated Gold Mining Company are notified to file verified claims within sixty days with referee George T. Miller at Hillsboro Sierra County. Failure to comply bars participation in distribution of assets. Published March 1008.
Land Office at Las Cruces New Mexico announces Ruben J Bryant of Lake Valley NM has filed intent to prove up his Homestead Entry No 3528 dating July 5 1901 for the NE and SW quarters of Section 13 Township 18 South Range 8 West. The proof will be before J M Webster in Las Cruces NM on March 20. Witnesses M Nunn Ed Latham RL Rice and Ed Patte all of Lake Valley NM. Eugene Van Patten Register
Notice to C T Burs and Mary McA Beaver heirs assigns and administrators that the undersigned has expended 3100.00 on each mining claim in Carpenter Mining District Grant County New Mexico for 1907 to hold mining claims under 28 U S 2824. If not within days after publication you fail to contribute your portion, your interest will vest in the undersigned under 2924. First publication January 1908.
Notice from the Department of the Interior Land Office at Las Cruces New Mexico dated December 26 1907 for Jose Nevares of Garfield to make final proof on his homestead entry number 8028 filed February 20 1899 for the NE by SE of section 28 township 175. Proof to be made before Probate Day Hillsboro New Mexico on February 10 with five Arrey New Mexico residents Susano Gomez Elpidio Bencomo Juan Duran Bruno Carabajal acting as witnesses Eugene Van Patten first publication January 3 1908.
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