Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-10-03
RAPID PROGR ESS.
The Growth Of BOSWELL and Eddy and
Surrounding Country.

up are those which have given expansion
and prosperity to many Of the thriving
centers OF population and trade in the
states OF Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. Like
them they owe their expansion to well
sustained business communities, to the
favors OF productive soil and climate.
| The plains which border upon the Pecos
equal the prairie lands Of the interior states
IN these respects. Their climate is greatly
superior for production. The superior adj
vantages of irrigation are to be added to
those which eastern lands possess. The
town Of Roswell, even at its present stage
OF development, is an instance of what
may be accomplished on larger scale in
that region within i very few years.
Its situation for farming and fruit
raising center can not be eXcelled. In
stead Of being dry country, it is sur
rounded by springs and rivers flowing
from them both quite deep, swift and
abundant currents from twenty to thirty
feet wide. Roswell lies between the
Hondo and the North Spring river on the
east, both strong living streams of good
spring water. A little further to the east
and north are three other powerful pools
yelling up from the plain; their outflow
making three distinct creeks which fin
ally unite into another strong current
that flows southeasterly and empties
three four miles below the mouth OF the
North Spring river into the Hondo. On
the west another similar stream makes q
junction into the Hondo q mile or two
further south; here there is plain Of
100000 acres threaded with strong
streams whose moisture Is sufficient to
make 1t all like the rich intervals of the
Ohio valley. The irrigattng canals OF the
great Pecos company make sire the grad
ually flooding when needed OF thousand
farms around Roswell. They are not
situated upon barren hillsides, but in a
fertile plain. The coil can not be sur
passed. Orchards, vineyards, green fields
and alfalfa tracts, tlourished by this per-
petual outsprsad OF water, are sure to
make the richest farming country in New
Mexico. Already, their green meadows
and foliage overlie these plains, which
rise at moderate heights above the
streams in broad benches extending as
| far as the eye can reach. Uncultivated,
they bear grass and flowers in profusion,
showing the richness of the soil that was
made long ago for the support of many
people and towns. These pools, whence
the streams flow, are twelve or fifteen feet
deep and constitute ponds covering sew
eral acres in extent and flied with large
genuine black bass and other edible fish.
The town OF Roswell already has six
prominent streets, ten or twelve large
stores and from l2O to lao houses. 1t is
the new county seat OF the new Chavez
county and has the advantage OF attract
ing settlers to its rich farm lands by be-
ing the location Of the U. S. land Office
1t is only eight miles from the junction
of the Hondo with the Pecos, and the
lands being between have attracted some
Of the most enterprising people OF Las
Vegas and other towns of San Miguel
county, besides many from Texas on the
south, and from the uncertain and dis
couraging farm lands of Western Kansas
and Eastern Colorado. Such pioneers as
Leo, who already by the tillage of
few years possesses well cultivated and
extensive fields OF alfalfa, grain and fruit
bearing trees, are here having their re-
ward. Capital and labor seek their
vicinity. The great bitches open up the
country to thousands, where only few
enterprising white men ventured to set
tie but short time ago. New Mexico
will have her bright day of increase of
people and homes like the northern
plains Of Minnesota and Dakota, and the
population will largely flow toward the
Pecos counties, The heats Of summer
there are not SO bad rs the winter biz
yards OF the north.
Peace, comfort and safety will Surround
these homes. Schools, churches and
railroads will find an easy footing and
passage on these level or gently rolling
lands, where many thousands Of untaught
people have dwell OR roamed with pleas
ure in past centuries. Schools and church.
es and business, with healthful skies and
great fountains Of water supplying numer-
GUS streams and canals, vii! make Ros-
we'll and its neighboring towns as desir-
able residence for patriotic and thrifty
people with their families as can be found
in the union, and wealth and energy and
modern science will add ten fold to the
attractions OF this country, which slower
methods OF Development have failed to
produce in the malarial districts east OF
the Mississippi. II. O.LADD.