| Show i harl hard times in new mexico A correspondent of the stlouis Re republican publik a n writing from albuquerque depicts a sarrow sorrowful condition of affairs in new mexico he says the general opinion is that there Is not on the tb e most extravagant calculations more than a half crop wheat in this vicinity is already selling at five dollars per pel caniga a very high P price r ic e the crop of grain corn as well vell as wheat w h eat it lt is thought by calculating men will not be sufficient for f or the demand and that thit floun flour flou i r will have to be b brought from the states 0 on r 1 the plain between this and the mountains 0 on a the earth for some ten or twelve miles there is not aa as much green grass as would fill a pil 01 low case Is 12 the tho mountains I 1 am told there is some gras grass s but the danger of indians indiana has caused the cattle to be kept in the valley of the river until even there every edible green thin thing 11 is shorn even with the ground in all these thebe statements there is no exaggeration we have no doubt however that our friends in st louis and missouri generally will sympathize with us from whom they have a handsome annual income and that they will do for us as prof silliman promised to do ifor for mr buchanan with but little effect it is true that is pray for us 21 |
