The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: April 23, 1918: An old fashioned spinning wheel, very ingenious in its mechanism, was received today by the State Museum from James R. deMot of Stanly, southern Santa Fe County, in whose family it has been an heirloom.

Theodore J. Keane, dean of the Chicago Art Institute, left yesterday for Taos to spend several weeks with the Art Colony there.

April 23, 1968: Unseasonably low temperatures and falling snow have caused mild to moderate damage to cherry, peach and apricot crops, but there is still hope for a productive fruit harvest in northern New Mexico.

The northern fruit crop is being threatened for the second year in a row. Most of it was destroyed in 1967 by a late freeze.

April 23, 1993: An attempt by a wealthy Española businessman to convert 1,520 acres of pristine public land in the Jemez Mountains into private property for as little as $2.50 an acre is dead, according to federal land management officials in Santa Fe and Washington, D.C.

Richard Cook’s application to gain title to the land, in the Santa Fe National Forest and also in the heart of a proposed national recreation area, has been stymied by a recent decision by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to withdraw from BLM land managers the authority to issue land patents.