From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

December 16, 1909: Territorial Game Warden Thomas P. Gable and druggist A.J. Fischer returned last evening from a rather difficult trip to Coyote and El Rito on the Jemez Forest and Lobato Grant in Rio Arriba County, during which they suffered much from the cold and deep snow.

The ice on the ice ponds at Bacon's ice houses southwest of the city is 6 inches thick already. It is very seldom that ice of any thickness forms so early in the season.

U.S. Atty. David J. Leahy of Las Vegas is at Socorro representing the United States in the Elephant Butte condemnation proceedings.

December 16, 1959: Four main federal highways remained blocked in New Mexico this morning, stranding hundreds of motorists and bringing desperate milk shortages to some isolated towns. Trains, Air Force Weasel half-tracks and state highway crews battled to free access to towns on New Mexico's high plains buried under drifts to 12 feet deep. Western New Mexico was clearing this morning but the dying storm continued to dump heavy amounts of snow in the high, flat areas of east-central New Mexico.