Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-10-02

ing business. 1t has two newspapers,
either of which would be a credit to a
much larger town.
1t has several hostelries, the principal
one of which is the Hotel Pauly and
which is tirst-class and well conducted. 1t
has $4,000 brick public school building
and three churches whose congregations
are constantly increasing. The Roswell
Masonic lodge has the finest furnished
hall of any Masonic lodge in the territory.
1t has park, fair and improvement COM
pany, organized with a capital stock of
$50 600 and the OBJ ect of which is to pro-
vide the town with magnificent system
of public parks, bathing grounds and fair
grounds, all lying along the North Spring
river and connected by beautiful drives.
1t has several restaurants and board
ing houses, two good livery stables, a
tirst-class lumber yard. two barber shops,
two meat markets, one wholesale liquor
house, several saloons, two blacksmith
and wagon shops, two drug stores, one
iewelry store, one exclusive Wholesale
and retail tobacco house, two bakeries,
two laundres, two shoe shops, one candy
factory, two real estate offices, one ex-
elusive hardware store, one large exclusive
grocery house, two clothing and dry goods
stores, one large general merchandise
store and others. The professions are
we'll represented. Among the leading
firms are:
The Jaffa-Prager Co., general mer-
chandlse, have an immense establishment
and do an enormous business.
Hamilton & Sparks do q large real
estate business and one that ia constantly
increasing. 1t is an enterprising firm
and one that is constantly advertising the
town.
The Roswell Drug company has large
store, does a good business, and has al
ways on hand we'll selected stock of
drugs and toilet articles.
Weinberg & Fletcher, two young men,
have just opened an exclusive wholesale
and retail tobacco house.
John r. Joyce & Co. have the largest
exclusive grocery house in the city. They
will shortly remove to new quarters and
will then have model store in every par
ticular.
DR.. Z. H. Skipwith, in addition to at
tending to large practice, owns and
operates model drug store. Colister d
Co. own the largest dry goods and cloth
ing store in Roswell. They do a splendid
business and are an enterprising firm, as
is evidenced by the large amount Of ad-
vertising they do. DR.. w. 7. Joyner is
the leading physician of the place. He
has large practice. Hinkle & Keith, at
torneys, are both young men that by
strict attention to business are fast build
ing up very lucrative business. Harry
Benefits resort is the favorite rendez-
vous of the thirsty.
| Roswell has several good business
blocks, but by long odds the finest is now
in course of construction. 1t il two
story building of pressed brick and is
being constructed by Mr.. H. Gaullieur.
1t will cost $4,000 and whom completed
tho lower floors will be occupied by sew
eral business firms and the second floor
by the Roswell club and the Knights of
Pythias and as offices.
| A good index of the business of the
town is the last published statement of
the Bank of Roswell. It is as follows:
Resources: Loans and discounts, 1884,
104.39; due from banks and bankers,
89,52O.O9; furniture and fixtures, $500;
cash on hand, $19,345.57; total $173,-
47005. Liabilities: Capital stock, $780,
600; surplus and undivided profits, 3d.
635.OS; dividends unpaid, $4,000; deposits,
$1l6,s3497; total, $l73,47O.O5.
With the certainty of railroad connec-
tions within the nextfew days, with live,
progressive, wide-awake and public
spirited class of business men; with the
prospects of city water works, Ice factory
and many other enterprises, which will
certainly be established In the near
future; with the prospect of becoming
the smelling and manufacturing center
for the rich White Oaks region, as we'll as
the food supply point for that country,
it is hard to see how Roswell can help be-
coming large and prosperous city.
THE TOWN OF EDDY.
Eddy is the "model" town. It is almost
inconceivable that place possessing the
beauty of Eddy could be built up in four
years only. When one stops to consider that
a few short years have passed since this
town was nothing but an accumulation of
sage brush he becomes almost incredu-
lous. 1t is the county seat of Eddy county
and is an extremely moral town, there
being no saloons or gambling houses. 1t
is truly the infant wonder of the south.
west. 1t is the especial pride Of the COM
pany that has reclaimed the Pecos valley
and no money has been spared to make
ii residence town in every sense OF the
word 1t has an electric light plant, an
ice plant, railroad, splendid two story
brick school building and court house