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Xmas Books at Curran s
The Largest and Finest Selection of
Books Ever Displayed in El Paso
NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
By Harrison Fisher, Henry Hutt,
Christy, and others.
Beautiful Illustrated Books—
Description of France,"Venice, Lis-
bon, Holland, etc.
Other Beautiful Illustrated Books,,
from $5.00 to $12.00.
James Whitcomb Riley Books. /
Books in sets.
Books in leather bindings.
Books-fo^he latest fiction.
Books for the Girls
Little Colonel Series.
Betty Wales Series, and many others.
Books for the Boys
Famous Barbour Books.
Airship Series.
Motor Boy Series, and many other in-
teresting books for the boys.
Books for the Littty Folks
Wizard of Oz Series.
Live Doll Series.
Fairy Tales.
Muslin books in fast colors.
Bibles—In all Bindings
Temporal Blessings Bibles.
King Tames Version, Red Letter K.
Bibles.
Christian Workers’Bible. -
Religious Books—
By all'the well known authors.
Prayer Books
Catholic and Episcopal in all bind-
ings.
LEATHER GOODS
Address Books, Writing Desks.
Games—such as Bridge, etc.
Bill Books, Letter Cases, Purses and
many nice gifts too numerous to men-
tion.
XMAS LETTERS
We are showing Xmas Letters that
are artistic and beautiful.
BEAUTIFUL CALENDARS
Our Calendars consist of novelties
from Japan m water color.
American water colors and mottoes.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
On water colors and embossed.
Xmas Boxes, Tags, Seals, etc.
con ACTIVE
Progress in That Section is Con-
tinually Being Made
SHIPPING ORES TO SMELTERS
Development of Graphite Mine* i« Being
Pushed in the Yaqui Valley DU- ‘
trict of Sonora
CURRAN’S BOOK STORE
108 MESA
PIONEER REMINISCENCES OF
THE EARLY HAYS IN EL PASO
Written for the Times By L. H. DAVIS
One of the most unique and interest-
/ ing records in the archives of the
county celrk's office of El Paso county,
and one that should bo of especial va-
t-tie in pioneer history is Rook B of
!Deeds of Bi Paso county. The first
half of this aged volume teas used to
record deeds, deeds of trust, mort-
gages, oaths of office, affidavits for
claims for bounties and pensions, uf-
— fleial bonds, etc. The last half of the
volume was used to keep the. records
of the famous California Volunteers
during the Civil War. Among the
- records of mortgages is a noteworthy
interpolation, made, by one of those
soldiers or the officers which illus-
trates the, strong partisan feeling of
the old war times. Another peculiar
thing is that of all the instruments en-
tered for record in the volume, only
two have the clerk’s certificate of of-
ficial filing for record. v
Record Shows Wonderful Changes in
Property Values.
Acting on this suggestion, the writer
examined the -unique "volume of for-
gotten lore,” and found several rec-
ords worth mentioning. Among them
I , -As a deed of trusts February 9. 18 60.
I Henry and John Gillette conveying
the undivided half of the "Ponce
Ranch,” 300 acres, and three acres
with store, warehouse, dwelling and
corral, to H. S. Cuniff to secure the
payment of a promissory note to Si-
meon Hart In the sum of $5,000. An-
other was the sale of the site now oc-
cupied by Krakauer, Zork & Moye on
June 20, 1860, for $975; another was
the sale of two acres in the heart of
the present city of El Paso adjoining
Vote 182 and 183. block 30, Mills map;
another the conveyance by deed of
trust from Albert Juch, father of Em-
ma Jueh, now the block in which the
Olty National bank and Fewell build-
ings are, for $5,788. These records
and several others show what wond-
rous changes in real estate values havo
taken place.
Great Difference in Commerce Tlnen
Hnd Now. \
On page 180 is a mortgage from
Ruiz to Simeon Hart of his entire
freighting outfit, 103 mules, six large
wagons, harness, etc., for $5,000. This
freighting outfit hauled all the freight
between El Paso and Albuquerque. To-
day the same freighting is done by the
Santa Fe - railroad with an outfit of
rolling stock valued at several million
dollars, which shows the marvelous
growth of commerce ofEl Paso.
Another entry Is the conveyance by
Gregorio Garcia, special commission-
er for the town of San Elizario, to ,T.
F. Crosby, of 260 acres of. town lands
in 1885 In consideration of one dollar
and services rendered. Then there is
the conveyance from Hyde to Hubbell
of 640 acres and 320 acres of land oc-
cupied by the Union and Confederate
forces and known as old Fort Quitman,
July 4, 1862, for the sum of $5,000.
General Anson Mills’ Official Oath.
Sandwiched among these records of
conveyances is Anson Mills’ oath of of-
fice as deputy surveyor of El Paso and
Presidio counties, made before B. W.
Hillock, justice of the peace, Novem-
ber 25, 1858; and also the affidavit or
proof of military’ service of Albert
Kuhn, Co. R. 3rd Regiment U. S. In-
fantry, against the "Copper Mine In-
dians" (Apaches) in 1S49.
Mortgage of Negro Boy slave.
On page 179 is a record of a mort-
gage executed by Henry C. Cook on
May 7.1861, witnessed by A. B. O'Ban-
non, "on one negro slave, named Ar-
thur. about seven years old and of
‘black complexion.' to secure the pay-
ment of the sum of eight hundred dol-
lars loaned to said Cook by Simeon
Hart.” The mortgage has a covenant
of warranty of perfect title to said
slave. Just above this genuine record
Is an Interpolation of spurious entry
reading as follows:
Union Soldier Interpolates the Record.
"The State of Texas, County of El
Paso:—Know all men by these pres-
ents: That I, Henry C. Cook, of said
state and county, for and in considera-
tion of the sum of eight hundred dol-
lars have this day bargained grid sold
mv wife to “a big buck negro.” On
the preceding and opposite page in the
same handwriting as of the Interpola-
tion aforesaid Is the following scrawK
Richard R. Pierson. Company C. 3rd
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SOUTH EL PASO STRtfcl
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WE MAKE 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT!
El Paso Tent & Awning Co.
312 South El Paso St. H. J. COLLINg. MGR.
Phones 2044
GRAIN, SEEDS and
Poultry Supplies
W. D. WISE & Cl
Second and Cluhaohna
Phone II
Inft., C. A'.” Pierson was evidently an
Inveterate abolitionist and so placed
himself on record in the county rec-
ords. The "C. V." above does not mean
Confederate Veterans, but California
Volunteers, and the entry was made
after they captured the record book.
The District and County Officials.
Along in the later 50s and early 60s,
as shown by this record book, Joslah
F. Crosby was district Judge of the dis-
trict court; John L. McCarty, chief
justice of the peace (as the county
Judge was then called); William Watts
and A. Kune, sheriff: J. W. Cook, dep-
uty shertff: J. M. Lujan, county clerk;
and B. W. Glllock. justice of the peace.
These record j/covcr 231 pages.
Records of the Army of the California
Column.
On page 231 of Book B is the fol-
lowing entry:
"Know all men by these presents.
That I, John Dusenbery, of the city of
Placeryille, California, hereby pledge
myself to support the president of the
United States, all his orders, and fur-
ther do all in my power to support the
Union.”
The balance of the record book Is
filled with the reports of the military
officers. The first entry on pages 23 1
and 235 is: "Report of the guard,
mounted at Franklin. Texas, on the
24th and relieved on the 25th of June,
1863, and shows: 1 lieutenant 1 ser-
geant, 1 corporal, 1 imisieian, 28 priv-
ates, aggregating 32; also 20 prisoners.
The record is signed: '‘■Edward Pome-
roy, 2nd Lt. i. C. R.; James B. Whltte-
more 1st Lt., Inft.. C. V.: John Qualey,
1st Lieut., 5th Inft., C. V„ officers of
the day.”
M auric in Lujan's Story on Book B.
"I remember that Book B very
well,” says Mauricio Lujan, the oldest
ex-rourity clerk of El Paso county. 'I
was clerk from 1858 till lSOfTruuder
both the Confederate and the Union
regimes. In 1863 the California col-
umn invaded this section and took pos-
session of the records of the county.
The Confederates took me along with
them tw southern Texas to act as inter-
preter under Major Brotherton. 1 did
not care to go along, but my father
made me go. Afterwards I left, cross-
ed over into Mexico through Eagle
Pass to Monterey, and worked my way
back to San Elizario and resumed ray
office as county clerk. We were un-
der military rule. Afterward the war
Book B was returned lo me by the pro-
visional governor of Texas."
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
VISITING IN FRANCE
Associated Prcts fMapatch
Paris. Dec. 9.—The Temps today
prints an interview with the Russian
foreign minister. M. Sazonoff, whose
visit here is regarded by the French
press as a kindly reaffirmation of the
Russo-French entente.
After saying that the European sit-
uation in his opinion was not serious,
Sazonoff declared that Russia's dem-
onstration oj^good will toward Persia
had not been reciprocated and that
Russia had been obliged to ask for
complete satisfaction, il was not the
intention of the Russian government
to permit the national dignity or the
commercial interests to be compro-
mised.
Russia, Great Britain and France,
the foreign minister said, were unan-
imous in their decisions not to take
any imprudent Initiative relative to
the situation in China, This also was
the attitude of Japan, with whom
Russia's relations regarding China
were in accord
M. Sazonoff denied that Russia haij
eficiaily proposed opening the Dar-
danelles to Russian warships. In con-
clusion. he referred to the unity and
solidity of the triple entente, declar-
ing that his country’s alliance with
France continues to be the basis of
Russia’s foreign policy.
GRA NTEB I .IFF. 4 ERTII K ATES.
Special to The Time*.
Silver City. N M.. Dec 9 -The
New Mexico board of education hrts
granted life certificates to Professor
E. L. Enloe of the New Mexico Nor-
ma! of thia place, and Superintendent
W. B. McFarland of the Silver City
publje achool.
Special, to The Tima.
Parral, Chla., Max., Dec. $. — Fol-
lowing is the report of mlnihg oper-
ations iu iho Parral district for tho
past week:
Capitancua Mine.
The.construction work on tho now
ten-stump mill on this property -is
going forward rapidly. The mine la
held under option by Mr. D. H. Brad-
ley Jr. and was recently brought to
notice by a strike of free milling gold
qre. The ore was of remarkably
gpod quality, and some of It was of
such high grade as to cause consider-
able .excitement among mining men.
The mine is one of the most promis-
ing in the district and is of interest
as proving the district to contain pay-
able gold ore.
Da Cunibre and tat Bulk.
M. Georges Chabrier. the popular
French engineer, who has leased
these properties from the owner, Mr.
Phelan, has been doing development
work on them tor the last three
months, apd now reports that a large
body of shipping ore is blocked out.
One. shipment has been made al-
ready.
Marla Mine, Ronecsvoiles.
The body of high grade ore from
which one carload lot has already
been shipped, Is improving with fur-
ther development. The last lot ran
over $100 to the ton. U. S. currency.
The mine is under lease to San-
tiago ilambletoii. R. J. Ward is
superintendent.
Guadalupe y Calvo.
It Is reported on good authority that
the properties held on option from
the Calanistu Mining company, by
an English syndicate, havo been
taken up.
The option holders havo been de-
veloping the mines since the end of
January, and the ore encountered Is
said to be so good that they have
decided to purchase them outright
and proceed with the construction of
a forty stamp mill.
The properties are situated at San
Manuel do la Pumbre, two days’
journey to tho northwest of Guadu-
lupo y Calvo.
Jesus Marla Mine.
The owners of this Parral property
are examining the workings with a
view to starting up again. The mine
is elose to tho railway station in Par-
ral itself.
Santa Eduwkds.
Work was commenced , this week on
this property which belongs to the
Parral-Chihuahua Mining Co. J. F.
Johnston Is in charge.
Pittsburg Mining Co.’
The group of properties held by
this company, and which Includes the
famous Perros Bravos mine, is work-
ing a force of over 200 men now, and
the outlook for these mines is also
very good.
<>ver 1000 tons of ore a month are
being shipped to custom smeltera.
P. B. Butler, the lease holder. Is
personally in charge of the opera-
tions.
Mining Men’s Movements.
Mr. E. H. Webster, formerly ore
purchasing agent for the American
Smelting and Refining company in
Parral, recently passed through on
his way from Guanacevl to his homo
in Han Antonio, Tex.
Fred Mitchell has bee.n transferred
from the Veta Grande of the A. H.
A R. Co. to tho Reforma luino in
Coahulta.
W. J. Deavitt takes the place va-
cated by Mr. Mitchell »» superintend-
ent of the Veta Grande.
Don Artifro Longega, of Cuane-
civi, Is expected to pass through In
the near future on his way hack to
Cuanacevl. Three of his mines are
reported to bo in bonanza,
R. J. Ward, superintendent of the
Maria mine, came in on Wednesday
to send his wife, and family off io
El Paso.
K. A. O. Shearer of the West
Mexican mines at Gualalupc y Calvo,
has been over in Han Manuel do la
Curnbre doing some surveying for
George Holmes and associates.
New Automobile Stand. Phones 510
and 1321.
See Laurie Hardware Co.
For Coffee Percolators.
Put Your Foot in Sam Gold’s Store
111 San Antonio St.
RIGHT NOW
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Do not wait until a later date to purchase your SUII, OVERCOAT and
GENTS FURNISHINGS. DISAPPOINTMENT IS YOUR POR-
TION if you do. Our stock is yet complete with the finest goods and lowest
prices in the city. Every one who comes to Sam Gold s store will put money
in his purse by the process. YOU CANT GO WRONG here. We PRO-
TECT YOU in the quality of your purchases and take every precaution to see
that your Christinas problems are solved ADEQUATELY, SATISFAC-
TORILY and ECONOMICALLY.
COME AND SEE US. We are sure you will enjoy your visit.
SAM GOLD
111 San Antonio Street
Next to American National Bank.
GRAPHITE MINES IN
FAMOUS YAQUI V ALLEY
Sprrial to The Timet.
Guaymaz. Hon., Mcx., Dec. 9. —
Eugene McSweeney, president of tho
United States Graphite company of
Saginaw, Mich., has been spending
severs I days in Sonora, where he has
closed a deal by which his company
will get control of a large body of
land in the Yaqui valley which they
intend to develop up for the extrac-
tion of graphite ore. From surface
indications it would appear that they
Heve a very valuable tract of land.
The graphite mine that this com-
pany has been operating for a. num-
ber of years Is located twenty miles
south of La Colorada to which place
they haul their ore and deliver it to
the Southern Pacific company at
Torres.
In speaking of graphite mines yes-
terday. Mr. McSweeney said that they
were putting in a lot of new- work at
the present time. There arc graphite
miijeg in Ccyton that are larger than
this one )p Mexico in thai they turn
out more ore. The Ceylon graphite
is what is known as the flake or cry-
etallne graphite, while the Mexican
<tr Sonora graphite is what ie known
as amorphous, without form. So that,
the mine near La Colorado is the
largest mine in the world jurning out
an exceptionally good grade of
amorphous ore. Mr. McSweeney
slated: "We mine a great many dif-
ferent grad'-<- of graphite, hut. w-e
have a grade that it peculiarly suited
for lead pencil making. Until the
time that we made this discovery in
1595, almost all of the graphite that
was used in the manufacture of lead
pencils ame from a mine that Is
located near Budweis in Bohe.mls.
i That material wag mined in a wet
I state and furnished to the pencil
I makers. In the shape of briquettes.
J They then crushed and ground It,
Following experiments made with
our ore In J895, our company began
to furnish it to (hern in a dry pow-
der. thoroughly pulverized and air-
floated to an impalpable atom, which
made It possible for them to take, it
Just as we shipped it to them and
mix It then with the clay that i»
used as a binder. By the way, this
is also a peculiar clay, found only in
two places in the world, one place
near KHngonbergcr near Frunkfort-
on-the-Malne, and the other place is
down near the other graphite mine
near Budweis. In regard to the for-
mation of graphite, scientists are not
decided as to Just how It is formed,
but the latest opinion is that it. was
first vegetation, then coal, later coke,
and that ’lastly a tremendous heal
and pressure was brought lo bear
upon it which turned It into its pres-
ent. state. When the ore is first
taken from the ground it is in great
chunks that look like coal, but are
soft enough that they may be crush-
ed in tho hand. We find graphite
extending in an almost vertlcle vein,
and ai*e now down 200 feet in our
mine. At this depth the heat from
the interior of tho earth Is so great
that tho men could not continue
working were it not for our use of
compressed air. It might be of in-
terest to state that there is one pen-
cil factory making 20,000 gross of
pencils each week. Tn one gross are
144 pencils, thus you will sen that
this factory turns out 2,800,000 pen-
cils each weqk. They make enough
pencils in a year so that every man,
woman and child in the United States
could have one—and this is only one
of many factories."
Mr. McSweeney left last night for
the states, but expects to return to
his new property sometime after the
first of ,the year.
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
IN MOGOLIAIN DISTRICT’
Special to Thu Timet.
Silver City, N- M„ Dec, 9. Follow-
ing Is a review of mining operations
for the past week in the Mogollotia.
Dcadwood Mines.
Drifts on the 400 and 500 levels
were advanced 35 feet during the
week, and the mill handled 115 tons
of ore in adttlon to considerable ore.
The Oaks Company.
Regular ore shipments are Doing
made to the Dead wood mill from de-
velopment °n the Pacific, on which
mine the tunnel was advanced 35 feet
during the week.
Socorro Mines.
The new power plant building at
this mine is rapidly nearing Comple-
tion. Home of the machinery for the
same has been delivered and more la
en route. The. company Is selling
many of Its pack burros used In the
handling of wood, which will be dis-
continued when the new oil installa-
tion is made. The mill Is running reg-
ular on an average ore treatment of
ISO tons dally.
Ernestine Mine.
Ten of the new AUiS-Chalmers
stamps will be dropped tills week and
the erection of ten more will he start-
ed. Mine developments continue to
show up ore above the average value
in this camp. The mill bullion re-
covery for the last ten days of Novem-
ber was 9480 Troy ounces gold and
silver and 4 tons of concentrates. The
last week’s ore reduction was C'0
tons.
Treasure Mine.
The plant at this mine has lately
had an abundance of water for-power
generation and the mine and mill j
have been operating at full capacity-
About seventy tons of ore are treated j
dally. The ore haulage crew will som !
be equipped to transport between 80
and too tons per day from the mine ;
to the mill.
....-—.—-$—- —
' New Automobile Stand. Phone", 5JO j
and 1321.
GIFTS FOR ALL
Useful, convenient and attractive electric appliances.
UTILITY OUTFIT
FLAT IRONS
HEATING PADS
HOT WATER CUPS
FOOT WARMERS
DISC STOVES
TOASTERS
CIGAR LIGHTERS
SEWING MACHINE MOTORS
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT STERI-
LIZERS
Special Xmas Offerings
6-lb. G. E. FLATIRON...............$2.00
G.E. TOASTER.....................$2.75
You surely make a mistake if you do not put
some XMAS MONEY in these electric ap-
pliances.
Come in and let us demonstrate them to you.
EL PASO
ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO.
Trust Building Phone 2323
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Special to The Timet.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 9.—The Depart-
ment of Extension la collecting some
miscellaneous pamphlets on the sub-
ject of the Initiative arid Referendum,
which it will loan upon application
to those schools that are entering the
del,ale contests of the Debating and
Declamation League.
The Department of Extension has
recently issued, a supplement to bul-
letin No. 166. This new bulletin eon-
tains a fairly complete bibliography
on the initiative gnd Referendum,
which Ik the subject for iho state
contest in debating this year.
Ho great has been .the demand for
bulletin No. 186 of the Department
of Extension /at the University that »
second edition is being printed. This
bulletin contains tho affirmative and
negative articles on tho subject of
the initiative and Referendum as
given In the University Inter-colle-
giate debates of last year by F-ugerie
L, Harris of El Paso. K A. Eubank
or Austin, Alvin 0#!ey of Denton,
and ii. H. Pcrkinson of Wharton.
Schools that, arc entering the state
contest in debate, held under the aus-
pices of tho Debating and Deelama-
tinn. League of Texas schools, may
secure Copies of these .'.■arguments by
applying to the Department of Ex-
tension of the University, Atoirtin.
Upwards of fifty students at the
State University have entered the pre-
liminaries for the Inter-collegiate de-
bates. The subject for the debates of
the Southern Pentagonal League for
this year ia, "A Federal Progressive
Income Tax." This league is com-
posed of the state universities of Ar-
kansas. Tennessee, Louisiana. Missis-
sippi, and Texas, Each university
furnishes an affirmative and a nega-
tive team- debating the same ques-
tion on the same night. In the de- a
bates last year, the University of M
Texas teams won on both the affir-
mative and negative sides. In addi-
tion to these inter-collegiate debates,
the university will also have its aa-
n'ual debate with Missouri at Colum-
bia, Mo. By winning the debate last
year, Texas broke even with Missou-
ri, so that each institution has now
won four of the eight debates that
’have i,p°n heir), Missouri has always
been one of the strongest rivals in de-
buting. and the students In the uni-
versity arc manifesting much interest
in this year's contest.
TEXAS STATE TEACHERS.
K; colal to TI'O Timrt.
cietnirno, Texas, Dec. 9.— The Tex-
as State Teachers’ association meets
in Waco or, the 37th..28th and 29th of
this month, and the central theme for
discussion. 'Teachers for Texts
Schools." Is evidently one of the. most , |
important ih it can engage the atten-
tion of patriotic people.
Great crowds are attending the
Juarez Fiesta, street cars run all
night.
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