The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-27
SPRINGER,
!" The New Denver, "

eastern NeW MeNtcO, i.ltB mtles From Chicago by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Route and has population of | no souls and thirty four business houses. It is in direct line be tween Chicago. Los Angeles and San Diego and is the natural gateway to the Pacific. IL is at the mouth of the Taos, the best railroad pass through the mountains, and the natural railroad and commercial center of the great west. It Is the base of supplies and central shipping point for the gold. silver, copper iron and coal mines al Elizabethtown and vicinity in the mountains back of it. and for the great cattle and sheep pastures on the grazing plains in front of 1t. IL is in the midst of the most fer tlle farming and fruit lands in the west. situated m the far famed Maxwell park of over one million acres of agricultural lands sheltered by mountain ranges on the west. north and northwest. and producing annually under irrigratton. two crops of most of the temperate zone cereals, and four crops of alfalfa, netting annually se0 per acre. Unlike other sections with a single resource, New Mexico has variety of resources, each attracting and employing large numbers of people who must be fed. The population em. braces miners. cattle and sheep men, railroad men and tourists. each class annually increas. ing in numbers, and assuring to the New Mex leo farmer home market at Liverpool prices the amount of land capable of irrigation, com. pared with tho whole extent of country and population to be supplied not being su ncient to produce enough for home consumption and therefore giving the farmer for his produce tho price of the same produce in tho surplus producing states with the high western freight tariffs added.
 Springer now has the Atchison, Topeka X santa Fe road and the contract for local rall- road. putting the town in railway communIcA- ton with tho mineral resources of the noun. tains, has just been let by the Maxwell Land Grant company and work will commence at once.
 The great Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railway company Is building it's California extension direct to Springer, and availing itself of tho splendid Taos Pass over the mountains just back of Springer. thus secur. Ing a short route to the Pacific. The First National Bank of Springer. Is chartered with capital of e5O OJO and will soon be ready to open its doors for bu siness. Best of all is the perfect climate at Springer. conceded to be the best in tho world, not excepting the justly praised California climate. for consumptives, asthmatics and all forms of malarial afiiiction, those dread diseases being absolutely un known in that medium altitude and latitude. Plainly, it Is a perfect sanitarium for all forms of pulmonary disease. unless advanced to the incurable stage. UnUl recently the COW boy reigned supreme in that rich country, jealous Of his possession and reluctant to surrender his sway to the inc XOra ble decrees of a resist. less and ever advancing civilization, the Arti. san and ttller of the soil. To develop that country of singularly combined resources, too long held hack by the cattle barons. the Springer Land association, com posed of ener- getic ChicagOans, has constructed an irrigat- ing canal forty six miles long on the beAuti. full. rich lands around Springer. and practical farmers are buying and settling on the lands in permanent homes, thus bringing to the sup. port of the greatest natural railroad, mining and grazing center in the west, the richest possible farming and fruit lands, in the finest climate in the world. To those concerned, it IS needless to say that this unusual and ex. ceptiOnal combination of mastcrful conditions promises better rewards to business and in dustrial effort than Is elsewhere to be found east or west, north or south, and Insures an immediate and sudden development, rivallng and outstripping the recent marvellous up. building of the cities of southern California. On the ground at Springer are four kinds of building material. riz: Fine blue limestone. coming out of the quarries in perfect shape for building without trimming, perfect clay for ordinary rcd brick, cement brick made at the cement mills there located and operated oy the Louisville Cement company of Louis vile, Ky, the doby material peculiar to the country, and lum Der, hard and soft at sur prisingly cheap prices.
 Standing on this spot few months since, Judge Q. C. Strawn, of Pontiac, Ill.,, said "In the near future greater Denver will he here. This prairie and those foothills arc filled wi tn