BUILD IRRIGATION DAM
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

n average corn crop, Nebraska will require 100,000 feeding steers this year in ex- cess of what she now has within her borders. This will mean good prices for all the steer cattle of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah without sending them to the market centers. BUILD IRRIGATION DAM The farmers surrounding St. Johns, Ari- zona, have built a dam about fifteen miles south of St. Johns, that will insure them all the water they want after this year. The reservoir which is created by this dam will be twenty-five feet deep on 640 acres and from three to six feet deep on about 3,000 acres more. TELEGRAPH OPERATOR Geo. A. Elsworth, an old time friend of Billy Sanguinette, arrived in Albuquerque last Thursday. Mr. Elsworth will locate at Laguna, New Mexico, as telegraph operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1863 he served as telegrapher for John Morgan when he made his raid through the northern states. ( 17 ) That Indian Hoax Tucson Citizen. A few days since the following telegram to the Associated Press went over the country, regarding the San Carlos Indians: Santa Fe, April 11. — The New Mexican is in receipt of news from southwestern Arizona that the White Mountain Apaches are very uneasy, and it is feared they will go on the war path. They are having much trouble among themselves.