Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-14
SAID OF SANTA FE.
Pertinent Paragraphs Pertaining to Pro-
gress Picked up Among the
People.

gress Picked up Among the
People.
With fruit shipments unprecedentedly
large truck gardeners unable to supply
the demand OF the mountain towns for
fresh vegetables several big irrigation
enterprises under way of organization;
building operations active; business gen.
orally frst-class; the adjacent mining
regions yielding superbly; Cerrillos coal
shipments to open up in six weeks; ex-
cellent prospects for an extension OF the
narrow gauge south, and two circuses
booked for visit-with all these things in
sight, Santa Fe isn't making much COM
plant Of hard times just at present.
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When eastern investors, as financial mat
tiers now stand, come into a community
and, after careful survey of the situation,
90 to work quietly buying up choice
tracts of vacant lands in western town,
it is q pretty safe thing to conclude that
the outlook is promising. This is what
Mr. Collingwood, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
and his associates have done of late, put
ting nearly $4,000 into lands which up
to this year have been devoted solely to
the production of corn and beans, and
they are now plating the same into de-
sirable building lots and will this fall inn
prove them by opening and grading new
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cottages. Mr.. Collingwood said yester-
day MY people are abundantly salts
fed with the outlook for Santa Fee things
are looking bright for us here and none
of cur lands are in the market at this time"
GAS for the new city of Santa Fe, said
E. T. Weber to-day, II am in favor OF
the largest bonded debt consistent with
good business policy followed by discreet
public expenditure. We want to inspire
confidence at home first among the
masses by giving every man employment
and in improving and identifying the city
we do this while at the same time We
keep the money here at home and bring
about it's freest circulation. There are
many improvements that should be in
augurated without delay. This is an age
of progress in the west and Santa Feans
have shown by their votes on the ques'
ton of incorporation that they are ready
to endorse the city council in taking an
advanced stand in Santa Fe's behalf.
Start these Improvements now and cap
ital from the outside will soon be follow
ing in to aid in keeping them going"
Already New Mexico's capital city has
name abroad for being region of rare
fruits and flowers, and it is becoming 8
popular thing to boast of these delightful
adjuncts of life here. However, up to
this time little order or scientific skill has
been displayed in the care of house
grounds, gardens and orchards until now.
This year much more pains is noted in this
particular, and Mr.. M. J. Nagel, land
scape gardener and grotto builder, for
merly of Newark, N. j., and who has
lately located here, sees in this change of
things rapid improvement of methods
from this time henCeforth. Another year
hence the householder in Santa Fe who
hasn't we'll kept flower garden, orchard
or grotto nook on his premises won't be
Gin it, at all, as it were.
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The New MEXICAN finds growing senti-
ment among Santa Feaus in favor of a
united effort to extensively advertise Santa
FEES superior climatic conditions, and I'm.
dertake thereby to attract here a well to-
do class of health-seekers and tourists
who annually expend vast sums of money
in patronizing health resorts not near so
available or possessed of one-half as many
attractions as can here be boosted of. In
response to this sentiment this journal is
now at work preparing series of articles
on the subject which it will undertake to
issue in the shape of neat pamphlet for
general circulation provided the citizens
and property holders will aid in the cost
OF issuing same.
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John Morton, the enterprising commits
sion merchant and the father of our street
sprinkling system, has added another
new feature to his business. He has put
on line of cold storage boxes between
Santa Fe and Denver and is shipping to
the Queen city's market 100 dressed lam BIS
per week. He has discovered that the
lambs fattened on the short, fragrant grass
es of the Santa Fe mountains possess a
delicate flavor that can not be impaired
to the meats of other regions of the west,
and with his usual business tact he has
been quick to impress this noteworthy
feature upon the Denver meat-eaters.
NV
A New MEXICAN scribe had occasion to
do little shopping yesterday afternoon,
as all of the New MExIcAN's employees
have to do from time to time, and he was
astonished and gratified to find Santa Fe
merchants so busy. From casual OBJ
servation one can form no correct idea at
all of how much is going on behind the
counters of Santa Fe merchants; but just
you go and participate as buyer and you
will open your eyes.
VIZ
Notwithstanding the short time the
electric light plant has been in opera
ton, it is to-day counted among business