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By Kelly W. CauffmanAnimals being groomed, vegetation being

pruned, projects being completed and drifting thoughts of cotton candy and sno-cones are going through the minds of hundreds of Sierra County children as the 72nd Sierra County Fair is about to begin its excitement.According to Dee Wear, Sierra County Exten-

sion Agent, “More then two-hundred kids from around the county will be presenting in this year’s Sierra County Fair.”The fair, which began around 1941, will be

held at the Sierra County Fairgrounds along South Broadway October 13-14.As the fair proceeds, youth exhibits vary wide-

ly from arts and crafts that clubs can complete in an afternoon to yearlong projects like raising, taming and training a 1,250-plus pound market steer, explains Wear. “Most of the indoor home science projects are shorter projects, but some can take months to complete like growing a pumpkin, or designing and sewing an apron. 4-H and FFA kids will typically buy their baby

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With the responsibility of nine clubs and nearly 200 youth, Matt Welty finds time in his busy schedule as President of the Sierra County 4-H Council and the Winston Leggins 4-H Club to look over the condition of cotton plants outside his grandmother’s home in Williamsburg. Welty, who has shown pigs for nine years and steers for the past five years seems to carry the responsibility with pride.

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hogs, sheep and goats starting in April, and care for them mornings, days, and all hours of the night for five to six months.”There are several dozens of classes in which

youth and adults can compete. Some of the more popular categories include photography, quilting, art, crafts, home-science, baking, the horse show, other large animals and plenty of small animals as well. Regardless of the project youth are challenged to perfect their skills and put in big hours working with their animals, taming, training and caring for them.“Youth under the age of nine years are con-

sidered Clover Buds, and generally can do anything older 4-H members can but partici-pate in the Livestock Auction,” Sierra County 4-H Council President Matt Welty explains. “Right now we have approximately nine clubs with over one-hundred youth, including three younger brothers of Weltys.”Welty, also President of the Winston Leggins

4-H Club, believes he has learned valuable leadership skills that he never dreamed he would learn. “No way five years ago would I think I would be President of my 4-H club, let alone the Sierra County Council.” He continued to explain that he takes his responsibilities very seriously. “I understand that a lot of the kids look up to me, and I strive to be worthy of the respect.”


SIERRA COUNTY FAIR • SCHEDULE OF EVENTS • 2012SEPTEMBER 15

4:30 P.M. Livestock & Horse Entries Close. Entry fee and forms for livestock entries must be in the Cooperative Extension Service Office at 2101 South Broadway, TorC, NM. Late entries accepted through Sept. 25 with a late entry fee of $25 per entry. NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 99:00 A.M. Building open for booth construction9:00 P.M. Building closed

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 109:00 A.M. Building open for booth construction3:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. BEGIN RECEIVING LIVESTOCK/HORSES – DO NOT UNLOAD UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED INSPECTION FROM ONSITE VETERINARIAN.9:00 P.M. Building closed. (Booth construction must be completed)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 117:00 A.M.-10:00 P.M. Receive all Livestock & Horses (includes Rabbits & Poultry)DO NOT UNLOAD UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED INSPECTION FROM ONSITE VETERINARIAN.8:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Receive Department Exhibits (Home Science, Home Arts, Crafts, Agricultural Produce, Arts, Decorative Arts, Ag. Mechanics, 4-H Projects, and (Flower Show-Potted Plants only)10:00 A.M. All livestock must be on the fair grounds.12:00 P.M. Booth displays must be completed.1:00 P.M. Exhibitors meeting followed by Weigh-in and Classification of Market Lambs, Steers, Swine & Meat Goats.3:00 P.M. Entries Close for ALL DEPARTMENT EXHIBITS. (Close Exhibit Building for Judging)4:00 P.M. Horse Show – Halter, Performance and Gymkhana Classes6:00 P.M. Rabbit Show

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 127:30 A.M. County Bred Barrow, Market Swine, Breeding Gilt, Showmanship8:00 A.M. DISPLAY OF EXHIBITS (Building Open)8:00-10:00 A.M. Receive Flower Entries10:00 A.M. Close Flower Entries for Judging11:00 A.M. Market Meat Goat Show, Showmanship12:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Rope–A–Goat Event1:00 P.M. Pee Wee Chicken Scramble followed by Poultry Show6:00 P.M. Breeding Beef, County Bred Steer & Market Steer Show, Showmanship8:00 P.M. Close Exhibit Building

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 138:00 A.M. Display of Exhibits (Building Open)8:00 A.M. County Bred Lamb, Market Lamb & Breeding Sheep Show, Showmanship10:30 A.M. Breeding and Pygmy Goat Show11:00 A.M. Pee Wee Pig Show12:00 P.M. Deadline for pulling animals from Sale (4-H & FFA)

Deadline for Packer Listing (4-H & FFA)1:00 P.M. Set up for Junior Livestock Sale (MANDATORY FOR SALE EXHIBITORS)2:00 P.M. Annual Ranch Rodeo @ Punk Greer Memorial Arena2:00 P.M. Rabbit Showmanship Contest7:30 P.M. JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SALE8:00 P.M. Close Exhibit Building

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 149:00 A.M. Display of Exhibits (Building Open)12:00 P.M. Dog Show – Pet Show Following3:00 P.M. RELEASE ALL EXHIBITS (Indoor exhibits released between 3–5 –p.m.)3:00 P.M. Begin booth breakdown/removal in fair building

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BEST FRUIT PIE TO WIN $50Entries will be received on Thursday, oct. 11, between 8:00 a.m. until

3:00 p.m. at the Sierra County Fair.The purpose of this added feature is to recognize indivudal Pie Bakers

for their acvcomplished skills as well as support to the Junior Livestock Program. After pies are judged, the remainder of the pies will be sold through the Kitchen in the Fair Barn with proceeds going to our local 4-H and FFA Programs!• Pies must be Fruit Pies only (pies needing refrigeration will NOT be

accepted) and be made in “approximately” a 9-inch disposable pie plate (no plates will be returned) to be eligible for the awarded premiums of 1st $50, 2nd $30, and 3rd $20.• Pies will be entered in Lot 9, Class 2 of the Home Science Depart-

ment and must follow these guidelines; CRUST: golden brown, flaky, hold shape when served, pleasant flavor. FILLING: whole fruit or size of pieces suited to fruit, hold shape when se4rved, flavor characteristic of fruit used. No starchy taste. judges discretion and decisions are fi-nal.Start now planning to boast about winning the 2012 Sierra County

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The projected cost to put on this popular event is hard to calculate in dollar and cents.According to Wear, “I’m not sure which costs

to include, but for the most part, the fair is made possible largely by our amazing donors, spon-sors and a whole lot of volunteer hours!”The Junior Livestock sale raises close to

$100,000 each year to help encourage youth to participate in animal projects and grow as responsible, hard working members of our community.That support in itself is testament to the power

of these projects and positive impact they make in lives of those willing to put in the time.As far a direct costs go, community members

from Winston to Arrey, and from Engle to Hill-sboro come out and take part in the fair’s only annual fundraiser, the Sierra County Pickup Party. That event usually helps raise about $10,000 that goes towards paying judging, fa-cility upkeep, ribbons, and other non-sponsored items.“We can’t forget the county either!” says Wear.

“Although the grounds are maintained and man-aged by the volunteer-comprised Sierra County Fair Board, the actual property and buildings belong to Sierra County. Without the support of our commissioners, the road department, and the county manager, it would be very hard to make the fair happen!”“It makes my heart happy to know we are help-

ing to develop strong working ethics and solid character in today’s youth and tomorrow’s lead-ers,” states Wear.

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Savannah Harris (7th grade member of Mud Canyon Colts) also appears to have a bit of a dance with one of the “Double Trouble” as she calls them. Lacy and Annabelle, sisters, have two very distinct personalities. One is more docile and pleasant, while the other, Lacy, loves to karate kick off from the wall and do various other acrobatics.

Savannah Harris raises two rabbits, Diamond and Emma. While these rabbits await their turn to be petted and carried for, Harris, her mother (Cindy) and another member of the Mud Canyon Colts work on various other 4-H projects, such as roses made from duct tape, and bird feeders uniquely decorated.

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By Kelly W. CauffmanTemperatures dropping and leaves changing colors

means the big fall carnival, known as fair or in early time “fayre,” is about to occur. Hundreds of children and adults throughout Sierra County and the rest of the United States prepare livestock, crafts and foods in hopes of having recognition for the endless hours of preparation. But is the history of the county fair known by these dedicated fair competitors?According to Wikipedia; “Fair (archaic: fayre) is

a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods, to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated carnival or funfair entertain-ment.” This definition is as relevant today as it was in the early nineteenth century when agricultural re-formers in the northeastern United States organized local exhibitions of livestock and new agricultural implements and techniques, such as plowing con-tests in order to promote modern farming.The Union Agricultural Society members from

counties throughout northeastern Illinois held its first annual county fair in Naperville in 1841. Nu-merous county agricultural societies were organized a decade later. Each of these societies soon began holding annual fairs and acquiring land for perma-nent fairgrounds. In 1845, The Chicago Mechanics Institute organized a state agricultural and mechani-cal fair, which drew tens of thousand of visitors to a 50-acre plot of prairie near Bridgeport, Ill.Entertainment was added to fairs in the early 1870s,

as national expositions became major competition to the local county fairs. This all occurred during 1870 and 1910, which is considered the golden age of agricultural fairs.Horseracing was so popular by 1900, that 80 of

the 102 Illinois county fairs featured trotting and pacing competitions. Bicycle races, balloon ascen-sions, and eventually automobile races and airplane demonstrations were common features, while plow-ing competitions and evening lectures were replaced with pyrotechnic displays.Throughout the country, many county fairs spend

their evenings with audiences shouting for their fa-vorite tractors and automobiles during tractor pulls and automobile races, and derbies.Eventually, the Illinois State Legislature decided to

bring the winners of each county fair to one place for competition at the first state fair in the United States. Throughout the next two decades, county and state fairs spread across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.But fairs do not have their origins in the United

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States, nor did their origins begin in the 19th cen-tury. The fair is an ancient tradition, and many communities have long had dedicated fairgrounds, while others hold them in a variety of public places, including streets and town squares, or even in large private gardens.Fairs are often held in conjunction with a signifi-

cant event, such as the anniversary of a local histori-cal event, a seasonal event, such as harvest time, or with a holiday, such as Christmas.In Roman times, fairs were holidays on which

there was an intermission of labor and pleadings. In the Middle Ages, many fairs developed as tem-porary markets, and were especially important for long-distance and international trade, as wholesale traders traveled, sometimes for many days, for pre-arranged fairs, where they could be sure to meet those they needed to buy from or sell to. They were usually tied to a special Christian religious occasion (particularly the anniversary dedication of a church). Tradesmen would bring and sell their wares, even in the churchyards. Such fairs might then continue an-nually, usually on the feast day of the patron saint to whom the church was dedicated. This custom was kept up until the reign of Henry VI, by which time there were a great many fairs kept on these patronal festivals, for example at Westminster on St. Peter’s Day, at Smithfield on St. Bartholomew’s Day (the famous Bartholomew Fair, celebrated in Ben Jon-

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son’s play of the same name), and at Durham on St. Cuthbert’s Day.

The Kumbh Mela – held every 12 years at Alla-habad, Haridwar, Nashik and Ujjain – is one of the largest fairs in India, where more than 60 million people gathered in January 2001, making it the larg-est gathering anywhere in the world.According to fair records, fairs in the United States

draw in as many as 150 million people each sum-mer.According to Dee Wear, Sierra County Extension

Agent, “The Sierra County fair has a history that leads back 90 to 100 years.” Wear continues, “The fair is just a great time of year. The atmosphere is fun, and the weather is usually really nice. It is simply beautiful to see community members and old friends from around the county come together to celebrate a year’s worth of hard work. It’s kind of fun to get to show off a little, too!”With the enthusiasm and thrill of county and state

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board of directors who serves as overseers of the organization (the chairman is elected by the board); (2) a slate of officers (president; vice president; sec-retary; and treasurer) serve as the NMOTFA board member officers. They are elected by the members-at-large in December of the calendar year, and they take office in January of the following year. All committee positions are appointed by the president and/or filled by member volunteers. The NMOTFA Board of Directors meeting and the NMOTFA board member officers meetings are held on a quarterly basis. Meetings follow the Robert’s Rules of Order, and decisions are made based on the NMOTFA by-laws and NMOTFA Policy & Procedure Manual. Meeting date, time and place are published in the legal notice section of local newspapers in compli-ance with the state’s Open Meetings Act.

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at 6 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Saturdays at 10 a.m. All levels are welcome. Bring a sticky mat and towel. A discount is offered

for monthly passes. Instructor: Mario Portillo. Cost: $10 for drop-ins. Contact La Vida Yoga Studio, Ma-rio Portillo, (858) 736-4425, [email protected]. http://lavidayogastudio.com.3: Free Cooking & Nutrition Classes: 4-5:30 p.m.,

Sierra County Events Center, 2953 S. Broadway, Truth or Consequences. Sierra County Extension is offering free classes for adults: Wednesdays, from August 22 through October 3. Topics will include food budgeting, meal preparation, food safety, nutrition, using commodity foods and strate-gies for eating well on a budget. Participants will receive a gift at each class, as well as a certificate after four classes. Youth/teen classes are available. Call for more information. Contact Sierra County Extension, Jessica VanDerVeen, (575) 894-2375, [email protected]. http://www.sierracountyevents.com/flyer/CookingClass-EatingSmart.pdf.6: Tour of the Trinity Site: Approximately 8 a.m.-2

p.m., 75 miles northwest of Alamogordo. On July 16, 1945, Manhattan Project scientists detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the Jornada del Muerto desert. The Trinity Site, as it was named, is closed to the public except for two open houses each year. Drive there and walk around unescorted, or join a caravan from Alamogordo (approximately 145 miles round trip). No reservations are required, but the gates close at 2 p.m. so get an early start! Cam-eras are allowed at the site during the tour. Cost: free. Contact White Sands Missile Range, (575) 678-1134. http://www.wsmr.army.mil/PAO/Trinity/Pages/default.aspx.7: Hot Springs Festival: 2-8 p.m., Downtown Truth

or Consequences. In 1914, the town of Palomas Hot Springs formally changed its name to Hot Springs. To celebrate its history as a hot springs destination for almost 100 years, the City of Truth or Conse-quences, MainStreet Truth or Consequences, and the Historic Hot Springs District hosts a street fair-style block party featuring live music, vendors, a spa poker run, and an opportunity to dangle your toes in our famous hot mineral springs. Musical entertain-ment for 2012 includes “24/7,” 2-3:30 p.m., and The Yarborough Band, 4-8 p.m. Cost: most events are free. Contact Steve Buckley, [email protected]. http://www.hotspringsfestival.com.7-28: Square Dancing: Weekly on Sundays, 2-5

p.m., Moose Lodge, 202 E. Smith St., just off North Date Street in uptown Truth or Consequences. You don’t have to be a member of the Moose to attend this fun, weekly event! For beginner and main-stream dancers. No partner needed, couples and singles welcome. Angels are available to help you through the steps! Cost: $3 at the door. Contact Si-erra Twirlers Square Dance Club, Carole Wheeler, (575) 313-9971.9: SCRTAB Monthly Meeting: 9 a.m., Main Street

Gallery, 108 Main St., Truth or Consequences. The Sierra County Recreation & Tourism Advisory Board meets on the second Tuesday of every month. Cost: free. Contact Sierra County Recreation & Tourism Advisory Board, Kim Skinner, (575) 740-1777. http://www.sierracountynewmexico.info.12: Black & White Bazaar: 7-10 p.m., Rio Bravo

Fine Art’s Ice House, 110 Broadway, Truth or Consequences. Come enjoy yourself at our fall bash – the Black & White Bazaar. Wear black and white costumes and dance to the music of El Paso-based band, “Twisted Hams.” Enjoy your favorite local foods and drinks. Entertainment includes a costume contest, vendor tables, silent auction all in the open air environment of the Ice House. Exotic lighting included! Cost: $10. Con-tact Sierra County Arts Council, Rebecca Speakes, (575) 894-0615, [email protected]. http://www.sierracountyart.org.



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Truth or Consequences. Galleries, studios, shops and restaurants are open late on the second Satur-day of every month. Check the MainStreet Truth or Consequences website for information on open-

Continued from previous page ing exhibits and special events. Cost: free. Contact MainStreet Truth or Consequences, [email protected]. http://www.torcmainstreet.org/events/monthly-events/art-hop.13-14: Sierra County Fair: 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Si-

erra County Fairgrounds, south Broadway, Truth or Consequences. Arts, crafts, livestock, food vendors, community groups and fun. Cost: free for specta-tors. Contact Sierra County Extension Service,

(575) 894-2375.13-14: Annual Autumn Simply Silk Workshop: 9

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Senior Center Meal Site, 360 W. Fourth Ave., Truth or Consequences. Sierra Joint Office on Aging, Sierra Vista Hospital and Sierra Healthcare Center have joined forces to bring you the best in senior information. Come for lunch (be sure to RSVP for lunch) then stay to take a look at the booths in the senior information fair. It’s a great way to find out what Sierra County has to offer our seniors. Cost:

free and open to the public. Contact SJOA/SVH/SHC, Sharon Finarelli, (575) 743-1272, [email protected]. http://www.svhnm.org.20: Walk In The Park: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Ralph Ed-

wards Park, Truth or Consequences. Sierra County Cancer Assistance (SCCA) is having a fundraising walk to honor survivors, caregivers, and those we have lost to cancer. The cost is a $5 donation to walk in the park and support SCCA. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all funds raised stay within Sierra County. There will be a raffle, mu-sic and food. This year, we have an exciting walk planned either around the park or a route we have developed through our downtown. Find out more, or join a team. Contact Steph for more information and a walk packet. Contact Sierra County Can-cer Assistance Inc., Steph Ross, (575) 740-3971, [email protected]. http://www.sierracountycancerassistance.org/walk-in-the-park-2012/.20: Gathering of Friends Craft Show: 9 a.m.-5

p.m., Lee Belle Johnson Rec Center, 303 S. Foch St., Truth or Consequences. Handmade art & crafts, baked goods, metal art, home decor, Christmas,

Halloween, primitives silver jewelry, ceramics and much, much more! Cost: free. Contact Gathering of Friends Craft Show, Jackie Hall, (575) 894-2468, [email protected]: Desert Diamond Casino Night: 6:30-11 p.m.,

Elephant Butte Inn, 401 State Highway 195, El-ephant Butte. Join us for an evening of fun at the Eighth Annual “Desert Diamond Casino Night,” a fundraiser for the activities of the Elephant Butte Chamber of Commerce. There will be great prizes and games galore! Roulette, Craps, Poker, Black Jack and more! Play is by donation only. Cash bar with drink specials all night. Cost: donation only. Contact Elephant Butte Chamber of Commerce, (575) 744-4708, [email protected]: Free Class: Natural Alternatives for the Top

10, Most Prescribed Drugs: 6-7 p.m., Agape Chi-ropractic, 402 Broadway, Truth or Consequences. Learn how to take care of yourself without pre-scription drugs and their side effects. There are great natural alternatives that really work. Class size is limited. Please call and register for this free class. Look for our ongoing health series, to be held once monthly on Wednesday evenings Contact Agape Chiropractic, Sinead Marron, (575) 894-9355, [email protected]. http://agap-echiropractic.com.26-28: Old-Time Fiddlers State Competition: (ten-

tative date) 1 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Truth or Consequences Civic Center’s Ralph Edwards Audi-torium, 400 W. Fourth St., Truth or Consequences. A wonderful weekend of fun and fiddling, food and dancing. The event begins with a jam on Friday, 1-4 p.m. Dances are held Friday and Saturday, 7-9 p.m., with music by lots and lots of fiddlers! Saturday’s contest begins at 10 a.m., and ends at approximately 4 p.m. (break for lunch, 12-1 p.m. Lunch bar on-site). Immediately following Sunday’s 9 a.m. gospel program, the state championship commences. Cost:



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Written by former Herald EditorCharles Kreher in 1984

In the 1850s settlers in the foothills of the San Ma-teo mountains, about 25 miles northwest of Truth or Consequences, decided the hot waters of Ojo Caliente were going to continue running, so they established a town.They were right.Now, nearly a hundred years later, the spring is still

running and it had probably been there hundreds of years before the settlers came.The town was called Alamosa at first. Later the

present name, Monticello was adopted. Around the town grew other settlements and villages with such names as Las Placitas, San Albino, Cuchillo, Win-ston, (formerly Buena Vista or Fairview) and Chiz, named for the Apache chief Cochise, who used to frequent the area.The Apaches were still all around the area when

the settlers began to build camps in the San Mateos and the foothills below, ever since an early French colony had been massacred along the Black Range in 1657.The U. S., which had taken over the country from

Mexico, which in turn had years ago declared itself free of Spain, built a fort at Ojo Caliente to protect settlers and travelers. The famed “Buffalo Soldiers,” were stationed there for protection against frequent

Monticello is Quiet ReminderOf Historic Frontier Days

Indian attacks.Geronimo, the feared Apache chief, was captured

by the U. S. troops at Ojo Caliente in 1880, and was later released, only to be captured again later in Arizona.The U. S. Government established the Warm

Springs Apache Indian Agency at Ojo Caliente in 1874 and it operated until the early 80s.By the time the War with Mexico had settled the U.

S. boundary, several families had dug in and estab-lished themselves.The names of Sedillo, Montoya, Torres and Sul-

livan were already well-known.Helping the farm-ranch economy at that time

was the Interfort Wagon Road, set up by the Army, stretching from Ft. Selden near Las Cruces, north-ward and connecting with Forts Fillmore, Thorn, Craig and others. The road went north past Ft. Ojo Caliente at San Mateo canyon, crossed the San Au



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Continued from previous page-gustin Plains and extending into Navajo country be-yond.By 1867 San Ignacio parish had built a Catholic

church at Monticello. The original building still stands although the front indicates it had been converted into a garage at a later date. The present San Ignacio Church building was built in 1908 and stands gleaming white on the village square. It is still used for monthly worship services.The parish seat was moved to Hot Springs (Truth or

Consequences) in 1939.Mrs. Amelia Montoya recalled some of the early days

of Monticello and Las Placitas, as told by her father;

Fields were cultivated and orchards planted, all nur-tured by the warm waters of Ojo Caliente. Many va-rieties of fruits and vegetables were grown. Excellent grapes were grown and equally excellent wines were made from them.The Indians were fond of the fruits and wines and

would come to town to trade for them. One trading party seized a young boy from the village, taking him with them into the hills.He was not heard from for years, but when he was

about 18, he decided to come to the village and do some trading of his own. He exchanged his supply of jerky with the townspeople until he had gathered a large quantity of wine. When he returned to the

Apache camp he was given a hero’s welcome, and soon everyone around the fire was feeling happy, con-tented and so euphoric they didn’t want to, or couldn’t move. That was when the youth acted. He returned to the village and asked the townspeople if they would help him escape.Two men, one of whom was the late Sierra County

Sheriff Charlie Sedillo’s great grandfather, quickly saddled horses and took the boy to San Marcia. They left him there and hurried back to Monticello the same night. They knew the Apaches would come looking for the young man, and they would count noses, for they knew everyone in the village. The next day the Indians came and searched every house and building in town. The villagers all were present, but the boy was not, so the Apaches admitted defeat and gave up the search.The story doesn’t end here, however. The one-time

Apaches captive returned to the village, married a lo-cal girl, Roque Ramos, and homesteaded a farm at Las Placitas. The house he built with his own hands still is occupied, not far from the Placitas village square. Mrs. Montoya is his daughter, Charlie Sedillo, her nephew.The Rio Alamosa, or Cuchillo Creek, which runs

from Ojo Caliente to the Rio Grande, brought life and prosperity to the town but it also brought tragedy.Disputes over water rights and floods have swept

away property and taken human lives.A corporation was formed to manage ditch affairs.

Mayordomos were elected who allotted water time to each farmer or ditch subscriber in relation to the hours of work they put into the ditch. Now the corporation is run by a board of commissioners. A ditch rider and contractor was hired who works on salary. He does all the ditch maintenance and allots water to the various acreages as it is required.The spring still runs 365 days a year. It serves the

people living in the area as faithfully as it served the Apaches, the early Spanish and perhaps French travel-ers who passed this way and the nearly 1,000 persons who lived in Monticello and Las Placitas in the boom days.Schools were built at both Monticello and Las Placi-

tas soon after the area became United States Territory. The Las Placitas building is still standing.By 1935 the area was still large enough and important

enough to have a high school. The Monticello High School building was built just off the village square and served the area until 1956. Buses ran into the area and pupils attending the school were brought from nearby Los Alamos, which now has disappeared, Chiz, Winston, Chloride, Cuchillo and neighboring areas. In September 1956 the school was closed and its classes were consolidated into those at Hot Springs High School in TorC.In the summer of 1969, fire gutted the old high school

and destroyed many antiques stored there. It had been purchased from the school district by Art Sullivan who later had sold it to Bill McNutt.As in any long period of history good times followed

bad in Monticello, and the cycle would repeat itself.As the town grew, large commercial ranches bor-

dered it. The HOK Ranch, owned by the Wilsons of Chicago’s Wilson & Co. packing firm, the James & Co. ranch and the Ladder Ranch, owned by Robert O. Anderson of Roswell, who is one of the largest land-owners in the U. S., were nearby spreads.Farmers used to take their fruit, vegetables and wine

and their syrup to Buena Vista, or Fairview, and trade them for staples at the store. Frank Winston had come out to this country from the east and established a mercantile or general store there. Through the years he made a fortune and instead of sending the money back east and fleeing there after it, he invested it in his store, his lands and the surrounding area. He became so much a part of the region he was elected to the leg-islature to represent this area. In appreciation the name of the town of Fairview and the name of the post office were changed to Winston.Wheat grown by the Monticello area farmers was




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Continued from previous pagetaken to Engle where they would trade for flour brought to Engle on the Santa Fe train. Two hundred pounds of wheat would bring 100 pounds of flour at the railhead mart.A feature of Monticello life which became a house-

hold word in Sierra County as well as a top attraction throughout southern New Mexico, Arizona, West Tex-as and Colorado, was the annual rodeo and barbecue.Sedillo Brothers rodeo grounds, on the hill overlook-

ing Las Placitas was the focal point of attention. Top rodeo riders thrilled the large crowds.Barbecue tables supplied thousands with some of

the finest New Mexico beef to be found. The concrete dance floor, brilliantly lighted at night, felt the tread

of many cowboy and cowgirl boots as the top Western and country music bands played in the band shell at the end of the floor.The rodeos and the dances were not the only social

affairs of the community. A number of buildings in both Monticello and Las Placitas, some now used as dwellings, others unoccupied, were built originally as dance halls. Large rooms and patios of the early Spansh-style houses built there also were scenes of bright and happy social affairs.Annual two-day rodeo events, which included dances

and barbecues, were also sponsored by Victor and Frank Sullivan and Elijio Nuanez, with barbecues being staged by Victor Sullivan, Joe Pankey and Bob Boles. Well-known Monticello names associated with

the frontier days celebrations, were Chris Trujillo, So-fio Lucero and others.The Sedillo rodeo was a traditional part of San

Lorenzo Day (August 10) in Las Placitas. The Sullivan rodeo was held each February 5, which is San Ignacio Day at Monticello.On each feast day part of the ceremonies included the

procession in which the statue of the patron saint is carried around the village square. In 1954 the statue of Our Lady, La Conquistadors, which had been in Santa Fe since 1963 was brought to San Ignacio church and carried in the procession around the plaza.San Ignacio celebrated its centennial with appropriate

ceremonies in 1969.Religio Sedillo, who died in 1964, often told his

children of his boyhood days, when he and others from the village would visit the site of the old Army fort. Bridles, fragments of Indian blankets, buttons and buckles from Army uniforms could be found there. Indian jewelry could be found in caves sealed by the Apaches many years before.Ruins of the old Warm Springs Apache Agency

(reservation) building were still standing. Trails over which military escorts mounted and rode escorts from Travelers against the Indians, still were visible.The Apaches used to take cattle from the local resi-

dents and drive them across the border into Mexico, where they would trade for food. Evidence of the cattle raids and later attacks on stage coaches and wagon trains passing through the area could easily be found. When the youngsters weren’t working in the fields or working cattle, exploring was part of life in Alamosa Canyon.Trails of the early Spanish explorers, Espejo in 1582

and Onate in 1598 passed through what is now Monti-cello as the expeditions made their way north to Santa Fe.As the village of Monticello developed, its popula-

tion once numbered between 800 and 1,000. A feature of the village square was a large windmill in the center of the square, which supplied water for a large part of the village. Stores, bars and a hotel were established.Merced Montoya operated the Monticello Hotel for

many years, and after his death, his widow Regmeglos Montoya, ran it. The Monticello Hotel was a center of activity. Visiting politicians stayed there. Salesmen made it their headquarters when they visited the then lively town.Early stores were established in various locations.

Merced B. Montoya, son of Merced Montoya, oper-ated one of them and a bar.La Alamosa Bar on the square, was one of the bet-

ter known. It was operated for a time by Jake Chavez, who later sold it to Abel Chavez.Deep arroyos in Monticello attested to the fury of

floods which ravaged the area.In 1907 the flood waters ripped through the villages

and carried seven persons to their deaths. Older resi-dents of the area, cleaning up after the tragedy, predict-ed there would be another flood in 50 years.The prediction was not quite accurate, for it was 1967

that the next devastating rush of flood waters roared down the canyon. The flood originated in the San Mateo mountains and rushed down Kelly and Garcia Falls Canyons. Fernando Carrasco stepped outside his house when he heard the roar of the water and was swept to his death downstream. His body was found eight miles away.Dee Turner, who lived 12 miles north of Monticello

at the south end of the Monticello Box, which is an area a mile wide and six miles long at that point, said he heard the water and thought at first it was the wind.He stepped outside and saw a wall of water seven to

eight feet tall coming out of Kelly Canyon. He said at the time there was less than two feet of water in Monti-cello Creek at the box. The flow of water was so heavy at the turn of the creek north of town that the creek couldn’t carry it. In Monticello, farm equipment was overturned and partially buried and cars were washed


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Continued from previous pagedownstream. There was heavy loss of livestock and houses were wrecked.The same wind storm and flood did considerable

damage to Truth or Consequences. The flood also proved fatal in Tank Canyon on the Ladder Ranch to Dr. H. F. Malony, Truth or Consequences physician, his wife, Edith and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Marie Dis-inger. They had been on a picnic on the ranch.Just below the flats, where early settlers mowed the

tall grass and sold it to the Army to feed their horses, lies Monticello cemetery. Markers have disappeared from many of the graves and others have been so weathered by age they are undecipherable.The cemetery is still in use, both for Monticello resi-

dents and for those who had moved away and whose loved ones wanted them buried in home soil.Outside the confines of the cemetery, lie several un-

marked graves. Resting in one of them is the body of a man who had appeared at the camp of a sheepherder and shot him. Farmers and ranchers formed a posse and followed the man into the towering San Mateos, where they found him hiding in a cave. As they tried to capture him a gun battle ensued and he was killed. He was brought back to Monticello and buried outside the cemetery, because he had been outside the law when he died.Alamosa Canyon is quiet now. But it has earned its

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Community of EngleHas Had Three Lives(Editors Note: This article was written in Sept.

1969 by Former Herald Editor Everett Reb)Engle, NM, located 17 miles east of Truth or

Consequences, can be counted as a victim of progress.There are some who have winched at the first

atomic explosion and thrilled to the sound of the far-off whistle of a steam locomotive in the night who might question whether the coming of the space age and the replacement of the railroads with other means of transportation fit that description. The fact still remains that they are todays realities that have turned Engle into a virtual ghost town.But this was not always the case. Three times

in the past 100 years Engle has held the spot-light as the center of attention and activity in the entire region. And for centuries before that it had been a camping site on the ancient trail of the conquistadors. The nearby Laguna del Muerto, a shallow lake of accumulated rain water, and the Ojo del Muerto, a spring in a gap in the mountains five miles wwest, had served travelers on the trail ever since 1598, when Don Juan de Onate blazed the 90-mile desert shor-cut of the Camino Real that became known as the Jornado del Muerto (Journey or March of Death).Engle got its name and its first big boom came

in the late 1870s when it became a major stop on the Santa Fe’s El Paso-Albuquerque rail line. The Santa Fe named the place after a construc-tion engineer, R.L. Engle. Around 1920, the railroad tried to change the spelling to Engel for its vice president, Edward Engel, but irate townsfolk took the matter to Congress and the town and the post office, which operated from 1881 to 1955, remained Engle officially. The railroad, however got its licks by painting EN-GLE in huge, black letters on the two-story yel-low depot, and that’s how it has stayed spelled to this day.Engle really began to hum when silver strikes

in the Black Range drew prospectors, investors, engineers and others from all over the nation in the early 1880s. They arrived in Engle by train and waited for the stage to Kingston, Hillsboro, Lake Valley, Winston and Chloride. Sometime they waited for a long time in Engle. For one reason the Southwestern Stage Co. ran stages to the Black Range camps one week and came back the next.For another reason the area was an unhappy

Apache hunting ground for the white man, and the stage schedules were understandably dis-rupted when the Apaches were on the warpath.The stages were ferried across the Rio Grande

west of Engle by a flat-bottomed barge con-trolled by rope cables, as were the 20-horse teams and wagons that carried supplies to the mining camps from the Engle railhead.

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Continued from previous pageEngle suffered a temporary depression in

1884, when the Santa Fe completed a branch line to Deming and Nutt became the center for the stages into the Blck Range camps, though Engle continued to serve Cuchillo, Winston and Chloride.Engle’s second boom, however, was not

long in coming. Homesteaders started build-ing ranches and filled the ranges with grazing stock. Engle became the focal point for cattle drives from 100 miles or more, and soon 20,000 head of cattle per year were being shipped out of Engle. The town became a rendezvous for cowboys. Their meeting place was the Hickock Hotel, and they also frequented the town’s three saloons.The town was fortunate to have as its resident

during thos exciting years a cowboy named Gene Rhodes. He had come from Kansas in 1881 as an 11-year-old, accompanying his father, Col. Hinman Rhodes, who later was a superintendent of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. Like other Engle youths, Gene Rhodes worked on the freight lines into the Black Range before switching to cowboy-ing. He eventually had his own spread in the San Andres. Rhodes wrote 14 novels, 60 short stories, and numerous poems after he left New Mexico in 1906, with Engle the locale for the stories that Rhodes wrote of his experiences.Engle’s third boom came in 1911 when it be-

came the headquarters and the rail terminus for construction of Elephant Butte Dam. For five years, while the dam was being built, men and construction materials poured into Engle by rail and to the dame site about 10 miles to the west via a rail spur from the main line.After 1916 Engle begame a long and gradual

decline, hastened in 1945 when the NM 52 route east from Engle through the San Andres was closed off by the military and the area be-came part of the White Sands Missile Range. The Santa Fe discontinued passenger service at Engle a few years ago, and today the traffic flow is by car through Truth or Consequences on a north-south course via I-25 and entirely isolated from Engle.Engle is an easy and interesting ride by car

on NM 53 from TorC skirting the Dam and El-ephant Butte Lake along the way, and passing through the juniper and cactus-dotted foothills of the Caballo Mountains to the flat rangeland bordered by the San Andres to the east.

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514 Mescal - Vacant lot. Fenced. Water, electric, sewer andtrash to property line. Ready for your RV or Manufacturedhome. $27,000 Call Rachel 20121652

113 Mustang - 3BR/2BA. Estate sale. Beautiful Lake andMountain views from this 1.55 acre lot in LakeshoreHighlands. Attached two car garage, with full bath.Detached RV garage 24X30. Room for all of your lake toys.$217,997. Call Gretchen. MLS# 20120958

316 Lost Canyon - Beautiful Lake View Lot: 30X50 Garage.built in 2009, RV Hookup. Room for all of your lake toys.Build your dream home. $150,000 Call Rachel or Gretchen.MLS# 20120669

203 Lakeshore - Beautiful Southwest home with lake views.Electronic Security Gate with remote control, fully fencedyard. Energy efficient! Motivated, seller just completed newhome. $297,500. Call Gretchen or Rachel. MLS# 20120616.

306 Cactus - Well maintained home. Pride of ownershipshows here. 3 BR/2BA. Paved drive and sidewalks, 2 carports & 12 X 30 RV Port, plus a 16 X 24 two story workshop, with great loft. Heated and cooled. A must see!$179,000 Call Rachel. MLS# 20119481

209 Kiowa Loop - Beautiful 4BR/2BA 2432 sq ft home.Master suite offers a parents retreat, large master bath withgarden tub and walk in shower. Covered back patio offersmister system. Fireplace in Family room. Plenty of room forall the lake toys. $175,000 Call Rachel. MLS# 20119238

104 Caballo Place - Spectacular Lake views from this 3bed 2 bath. Enjoy the beautiful waterfall, and pool, outdoorfireplace, for year round enjoyment. All on 2.49 acres inLakeshore Highlands $398,000 Call Rachel. MLS#20119398

315 Organ - Cute Weekend place, ready to move in. RVParking with full hook up. 2 carports and room another RV orBoat. Fenced lot covered front patio area. Large storageshed or workshop. $39,000. MLS# 20119208

1110 ARABIAN CIRCLE - 3 BR, 2 bath home with openfloor plan on a quiet cul-de-sac. $150,000. Call Gretchen orRachel. MLS #20114325


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LA COCINAfeaturing Mexican Food at its best.Also home cooked American Food

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