The alfalfa crop is a great one in the Rio…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

ngas, caught a mon- ster female mountain lion last week at his ranch. It was brought into town and put into the same cage with the male lion captured by “Uncle Jim Metcalf” some weeks ago. The two play together like kittens. From Ihe July 13, 1888, Issue of The Enterprise The alfalfa crop is a great one in the Rio Grande valley just at present. It costs $4 per ton to produce and lay alfalfa down at the depot, baled, and the price is $11.50 in the sum- mer, and $14 in the winter. The net profit is from $7 to $10 per ton. Already two cuttings have been made, the first averaging two tons per acre, and the average yield of the valley will be seven tons per acre, or a net profit of from $50 to $60 per acre. Liberal : An article is printed on our first page about one El Paso man killing another. Since that was printed he has had his prelimi- nary examination and the justice of the peace turned him loose on $50 bail. As $10 or ten days is the extent of the law for this offense in El Paso, there is considerable hard feeling against the justice — who has just been ap- pointed— for demanding excessive bail. Citizen : A wagon load of native salt from Manzano was being sold upon the streets today, at fifty cents per one hundred pounds.