Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-23

tne land lying between, except that con
stituting the river bed is tillable and car
be easily irrigated from one canal or the
other.
The llageyman canal is also on the east
side OF the Pecos river, having its head
dam about fifteen miles below Eddy. 1t
also has large storage reservoir on its
course, forming an extensive and beauti-
ful lake, one and one-half miles long and
one-half mile wide, with an average
depth of twenty-five feet The main
canal is to be extended to total length
OF twenty-five miles, crossing by hume to
the west side of the Pecos, at point
abont midway between Black river and
the Delaware, and continuing southwark
across the last named stream to the
| Texas line.
Still another canal will be built, in the
near future, which will be taken out OF
the Pecos river by the construction of a
large dam just south OF the territorial line.
This canal will be twenty-five miles long,
twenty-five feet wide on the bottom, will
carry five feet of water and will irrigate
at least 10000 acres OF land, As 900 acres
of which are owned by this company and
will be sold to actual settlers at low prices
and on long time.
In addition to all these canals there are
at present completed more than 100 miles
of lateral and sub-lateral bitches, each
four to six feet wide and carrying from
one to two feet OF water, and several hun
dred miles Of these are to be built in the
near future.
TIE PLUCKY PROMOTERS
OF these several enterprises organized for
the development of southeastern New
Mexico undertook the same by organiz-
ing the Pecos Irrigation & improvement
company. The officers are; j. j. Ha-
german, of Colorado Springs, the pro-
jector and builder of the famous Colorado
Midland railroad, president; G. B. Eddy,
of Eddy, N. NJ, courageous, hard-work- :
ing, far sighted and possessing magnifi-
cent executive ability, vice-president and
general manager; l.. Ii. Jackson, Of
Colorado Springs, Colo, secretary, and
II. G. Lowe of the same place, treasurer.
These gentlemen, together with Mr..
r. W. Tansill, of Chicago. and Mr..
W. A. Hawkins, of Eddy, N.
NJ, also constitute the board of di-
rectors. The capital Of the company is
81 300 900, all of which will be needed to
complete the system of canals, reservoirs,
ETC., already undertaken. Active opera
tions in construction were begun two
years ago, the works are now completed
and ready for nse, to the extent Of sup
plying 1S0 900 acres of land with an
abundance of water. They will be ex-
tended this year and when completed will
irrigate more than 100000 acres Of the
richest and most productive lands on
this continent.
Having expended nearly million dol
lars in the water storage and irrigation
undertakings above described these gen.
tlemen were not long in realizing the
necessity of giving the valley direct rail-
road communication with the great trans
portation systems of the southwest and
east and with characteristic energy they
went to work and organized the
PECos VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.
The preliminaries were no sooner ar
ranged than construction work began and
as result this road has now been fin
ished and daily freight and passenger
trains are in operation between Pecos
City, Texas, on the Texas & Pacific trans
continental route, to the town of Eddy,
ninety-fve miles up the valley. Capt. j.
F. Judy is in charge of the road. He is
veteran railroader, full of vim and push,
and has about him an accommodating
manner that is refreshing to observe.
For thirty years Capt. Judy has been in
the business of railroading. He was for
years with the famous Pennsylvania COM
pany and in later years has been identi-
fed with the Texas q Pacific lines in
Texas he has fine war record and is in
every sense man among men.
The Pecos Valley railroad has grand
future. 1t is desined to connect the
southeast and gulf ports of Mexico with
the northwest, and will soon build from
Eddy to Roswell, thence via White Oaks
with it's rich coal and mineral fields and
extensive timber plateaus) to San Pedro
and Albuquerque to connect with the A.
& Z. system and extend branch up
through the Cerrillos anthracite coal
fields to Ortiz station where connection
will be made with the A., 7. & S. f. main
line and with the narrow gauge system
of roads extending throughout Colorado,
Utah and the northwest.
Aside from
THIS SEVERAL OTHER LINES
of road are projected to penetrate the Pc
cos valley region where exists this grand
system of irrigation canals, and it seems
that Eddy is destined at no distant day
to become veritable railroad center.
The movement of railway construction in
the southwest is at present directly to-
ward this favored town of Eddy. Among
these several projects may he named, the
Wichita Valley & Ell Paso road, starting
from Wichita Falls on the Fort Worth
& Denver, the Chicago & Rock Island
coming through the western portion of
the Indian territory from Liberal, the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe,!starting from
Galveston, and already completed to San
Angelo, Texas, less than 200 miles dis
tant, all of which have central and south
ern New Mexico for their objective
points.
SOIL CLIMATE AND MARKET.
The abundant and never-failing supply
of water, under perfect control, and the
deep, rich soil of the Pecos valley are sup
plemented and enhanced in value by an
incompatible climate. The altitude at
the town of Eddy is about 8, ,250 feet above
the Gulf OF Mexico, from which it is dis
tant about 800 miles. Here the tenn
perature rarely falls to 32 in the coldest
winter or rises to 100 in the heat OF sum-
mer, the average annual temperature be-
ing 63 degrees.
The soil OF the Pecos valley is mainly a
dark chocolate loan, interspersed here
and there by deposits of lighter and