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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1888
Page
4
The issue lists a March 2 1888 timetable for Magdalena Branch No 1 Accommodation leaves at 10:00 am and arrives 7:45 pm with freight trains 83 and 3. It notes post office hours and mail cuts with northbound at 7:09 pm and southbound at 9:0 am.
Notices announce that Socorro County 8 percent Funding Bonds Act of 1882 numbers 6 through 13 each $6500 are called for percent payment with interest to May 1, 1888. Treasurer William Feeney states payment at his Socorro office in N M and calls for claimants to present bonds by that date.
Mountain Mail excerpts report Magdalena coal and kiln accidents, hotel congestion, new tree plantings, and rising ore yields at Stonewall with J P Wells superintendent injury. Also notes Ida Hill Co annual meeting May 18, shipments totalling about $3,000 in circulation, and a long list of uncalled letters. District court actions include mortgage foreclosures and an administrator’s notice to creditors for Andrew Naw estate, with Spanish notices and political convention remarks.
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