Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-17
WATERS TRIUMPH.
The Great Eddy System Of Improve
ments Inspected by a Representa-
tive of the New Mexican.
Splendid Farms Making a City at Eddy
metropolitan Airs urvsy Of the
Pscos Road Northward.

Col. Frost returned yesterday from
Eddy county, whore he has besn gather
ing statistics and facts for the use OF tho
New Mexico Bureau of immigration.
He finds that the progress that has
been made in that section of New MEXICO
is great and will prove lasting.
THE TOWN OF EDDY,
Which, three years ago, had NO existence,
is to-day compact and beautiful little
city Of about $500 inhabitants and II
putting on metropolitan airs. full
city government has been inaugurated; at
the first city election two weeks ago nearly
500 votes were cast within the city limits
and it is estimated there are nearly 300
voters without the city limits, making
the total population Of Eddy to-day fully
between $500 and 5000 thrifty and we'll
to-do inhabitants.
ovER 10000 SHADE TREEs
Have been set out and are thriving finely.
The water system is ample; bitches bor-
der all the streets, and within four months
the town is to have complete water
system to supply it with fire pressure and
water tor domestic use from the Hager-
man reservoir. An electric light plant
and electric roads to Hagerman Heights,
La Huerta and Otis, suburbs of Eddy,
will be in operation before cold weather
sets in this year.
A fine and comfortable $4,000 court
house and a good $500 Jail have been
erected and are in use. Two churches have
been built, several large business blocks
are completed and in use, and several
more, costing In the neighborhood of
100000, will be commenced during the
coming month. Tho town has
THREE GOOD nRwspAPERs,
A very creditable and elegantly furnished
social club; is now building $4,000
school house for tho city schools, and
good hotel; possesses several large whoie-
sale establishments; is headquarters for
the Pecos Valley railroad and the Pecos
Irrigation and Improvement company,
and is thriving beyond precedent In New
Mexico.
THE RAILRoAps.
The extension of the Pecos Valley rail
road is an assured thing. Murray Harsis,
chief engineer of the road, leaves Eddy
to-day with large corps Of assistants for
the final survey and location Of the road
north through Chaves and Eddy counties,
and dirt will fly within ninety days and
construction will be kept mp all s0mmer
and fall and probably throughout tho
winter, the climate being very mild and
equable and permitting outdoor labor all
the year around.
The bonds of the road have been placed
and IN eighteen months the Pecos valley
road will be one of the main rail in
the country and an important link in the
shortest transcontinental route from the
Pacific to the Atlantic. The business of
the completed division of the Pecos Val
ley railroad ia continually on the increase
and is already lucrative.
THE AGRICULTURAL ASPECT
OF the country has been so changed and
TO such degree as to make one who has
visited that section four, three and two
years ago believe that he has never before
been there. Between the Now Mexico
line and the town of Eddy, distance Of
about thirty miles, $1,000 acres of land
are under ditch, fenced and in cultivation; !;
whole sections of alfalfa and fruit-640
acres at stretch-are not uncommon,
although the forty-acre tracts under in
dividual ownership predominate largely.
All fruits, that can be grown in temper
ate climate, are doing we'll and alfalfa seems
to be an ideal crop for this section;
grapes are thriving and will prove .
staple product. .
The water supply is permanent and
more than ample for 30O,O 600 acres OF land
and when the new reservoir shsll be COM
pleted for much more.
The talk that the water OF tho Pecos
river and used in the canal systsnn Of the
Pecos Irrigation 4 Improvement COM
pany contains deleterious snbstancesa ind
will impoverish the soil 1t the msrest
| Rot AND PRErHNsS.
The water has been thoroughly and -.
peatedly analyzed by the chemists OF the
department Of agriculture and Of several
leading un,versitles IN the county and
pronounced good and wholesome 10 every
respect.
| The cultivation of cana agria 10 being
commenced and bids fair to become i'm
portant.
Atsaa TIE POPULATION
Of this section is rapidly increasing; the
county of Eddy has not less than s,0ot
inhabitants to-day, and these are people
OF q thrifty and energetic turn and com
fottabiy fixed. n. ]. Bolles the rict
Colorado turfmsn, has just purchaser
6lo acres Of land Ave miles below Eddy
and large forse 10 already at work ar
ranging the trast fos The purposes oi
| conducting large stock farm for th'
breeding Of Hne horsss. Twenty thous
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