Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-12-11

ing the country for lahorers. There are
, about eighteen mechanics at work. The
bluffs of the Pecos are composed OF Il fine
quality OF limestone and lime kiln is
erected and kept constantly burning
stones for foundation are at hand. The
soil makes brick of fair quality. Lumber
must be hauled 600 miles distant, and is
from $40 to $50 per thousand.
Brick are $40 to SIS per thousand laycd
in the wall. The demand for all building
material and other supplies such as en-
migrants need for the establishing of
homes and farms is beyond the capacity
OF trelghtlng teams and merchants on the
ground,
The expenses of living are lessened by
the low price of meats. The best cuts of
beet are at cents per pound, while game,
Venlson and other meats are plentiful in
the markets. Vegetables are also very
low. The groceries, dairy and poultry
products are 80 cents a hundred higher
than elsewhere
The town company is abundantly sup
= Piled with money from the sale of lots for
all Improvements. The town is to be
!. supplied with the purest hydrant water
from spring in the river bend two miles
distant, whose wonderfully limpid flow is
equal to the hydrant water supply of DEN
Yer. This water for the town will be fur
nlshed in two months
School houses will be erected from the
company funds. There are already 145
school children in town. Six months ago,
when the school board was organized,
, there was but one child there. A flourish
ing school is in progress, and religious
services are regularly held by the preacher
of the Southern Methodist denomination
| visited union Sunday school which
numbered 70 persons, including all pres
ent.
The principle of local option as to the
sale OF Intoxicating liquors has been es-
tabllshed by the town company in the
conditions of the sale Of the lots. The
company has chosen, in the founding of
the town, to exclude the evils resulting
from liquor traffic. They have thus in
Vlted the sober, industrious and temperate
5 element in the immigration to the south
west, and offered them social conditions
best fitted for the rearing of families, the
maintenance of good morals and the last
ing prosperity OF a community.
| In every direction the pre-emption
! houses are rising on the plains, and farm
ers, arriving daily With their teams and
, families, crowd the Company's offices or
, the real estate Office of Mr. Lenathan for
the purchase OF town lots or farm hold
, ings.
, The Eddy Argus, one of the liveliest
f newspapers in New Mexico, every week
shows up the virtues of the Pecos valley
, and its progress.
A mile below the town l 200 acres are
t fenced and laid out for an experimental
, farm, where fruits, grains, grasses and
, vegetables of every kind will be raised. |
saw seven gang plows at work upon the
t soil. The spirit of this town, located with
| II single house six months ago, is that of
, confidence, and men do not hesitate to
invest in homes, farms and business build
, ings here, to share in the prosperity OF
this town and valley.
THE CoMPANY's HOTEL
of brick, costing $4,000 will be erected
, first of all these larger Improvements.
The contracts are just let for this, one of
the finest brick buildings in the south.
Its design is unique and attractive. Its
deep portals and loges its antique win
dows; its Moorish pillars and mouldings,
and its spacious halls, dining rooms and
parlQrs will be about the same in taste and
attractiveness as the Phoenix at Las Vegas
hot springs, many OF whose arrangements
its design includes.
There must have been found a sub
stautial basis of confidence for these vast
,, irrigation works, and rapid improvements
in this hitherto unnhabited plain.
1t is an unequaled stretch of fertile
country, wealth of productive and
easily worked soil, climate of surprising
mldness and equability, where the ground
never freezes, and where the season of
{ work and industry never comes to an
end This favored region would still
lack the chief element OF confidence in
its material prosperity, but for its unques-
tionable
FINANCIAL BACKING.
The personnel of these enterprises
vouches for its financial standing The
efforts of c. W. Greene, esq.,, were first
directed TO Chicago parties in his great
scheme. He succeeded in gaining the ut
tention Of Mr.. G. B. Shaw, president of
the american Trust & Savings bank, and
OF Messrs. James r. Mckay, the great
grain elevator capitalist, and II. w. Tan
sill, the prominent tobacco and cigar man
ufacturer With these gentlemen were
also associated Gen. L. p. Bradley, whose
command of the military district of New
Mexico, at Santa Fe, had made him IA
miliar with the superior resources OF the
Pecos country and a confident believer in
their immense value. Messrs. J. A. Ed
dy, large cattle and real estate owner OF
Colorado, was, from the first associated
with his brother, Hon. G. B. Eddy, in the
undertaking, and an equal partner with
him in their extensive business and prop
critics in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado
and New York. The sagacity and force
OF the Eddy brothers have been the main
element of success of the PeCos Irrigation
company's magnificent venture.
70 them is chiefly due the participation
in the most emphatic and solid way, f.
nancially, OF j. J. Hagerman. ESQ.,, presi-
dent of the Colorado Midland railroad,
and one OF the most prominent railway
tinanciers of the southwest He is the
efficient president of the Pecos Irrigation
company, and hearty supporter of Mr..
G. B. Eddy, its general manager. With
him are two representatives of the south
west and east, Mr.. Edgar B. Bronson,
president of the Ell Paso National bank,
and +. W. Stevens, esq, director of the
Chemical Bank of New York. The Wig
orous cooperation, sterling business char
acter and undisputed wealt of these gen.
temen are butresses to this corporation
which would withstand the strain of in
vestments tenfold greater than those al
ready made by the corporation. These