There are seven saloons in the camp, three…

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usiness. The Colonel is something of a rustler himself. There are seven saloons in the camp, three stores, one hotel, one school house and no churches. The two companies pay out $10,000 per month. Mrs. Kate Rutherford runs the Mogollon house, and is doing a splendid business. Harry Hermann, the wild Dutchman of the Mogollons, is coining money in the lumber business. The people of that section are very anxious for a bridge over the Gila, as they expect the annual spring floods to cut them off from their base of supplies for several weeks. It has been estimated that a bridge could be built for $2500, and certainly the vast business of that section would justify our business men in mak- ing an effort to have the bridge put in. The county could certainly assist in the erection of the bridge, and the balance could easily be raised in this city and the Mogollons if some good man would only take hold of the enter- prise and give it some attention for a week or so. Freighting to the Mogollons continues with- out interruption, and Bullard street is so block- ed as to be almost impassable. From the Albuquerque Democrat. Twenty-six White Mountain Apache Indians arrived in town yesterday in charge of Colonel E. C. Cooley, to attend the government Indian school. They are the first members of this tribe to enter school.