El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
New Passenger Grandes Completed

that will have when completed sixteen
bedrooms for visitors. Besides these
buildings1there are four or five well
built adobe residences, occupied by
the railroad employees. A large
building is now under construction for
planning mill, which will employ five
OR six hands.
advance all through this section. The
population is sure to grow, and land
values are already increasing at q
marvellous rate. Every lot in the town
site is easily subject to irrigation, and
arrangements are being made now to
supply ,rface water to every part of
the site. Excellent and abundant
water may be found anywhere in the
tract at a depth of not more than
forty five feet. Plans are under way
for planting trees all along the prin-
them. The soil is marvelously pro-
ductive; in fact twill raise anything
that is suited to the climate in fine
quality and great abundance.
Plans have already been made aud
material has been ordered for building
shops for the Sierra Madre line at
that point. The shops will be
transferred from Juarez, and at the
same time they will be much enlarged.
The shops will employ about twenty
five men, and most of these men have
inevitably more permanent building
for residence purposes. The planning
mill will bring several other perma-
neut jewellers.
The Pilares Mining company, whose
mines are at Pilares, Sonora, have
purchased good sized plot of ground
and will proceed at once with the erec-
tion of a warehouse. A. ]. King, man.
ager of the company, says that his
company has discovered that the short
est and best route from the mines of
is by way of Casas Grandes instead
of the old route through Bisbee,
Arizona. He says that if Ell Paso
and the connecting lines will make
q few extra Inducements our city car
get the benefit of every bit OF that
traffic that formerly went through Ari-
IONA points to other centers. The
business is headed our way. and we on
ly have to receive it with some show of
cordiality to secure it. The company
will make Casas Grandes it's storage
with the customs administration as
well as the general convenience of the
arrangement.
There is some talk of moving all the
government Offices over the river from
the old town. This will Involve chan
Giug the location of the offices of the
jefe pOlitico, the district judge, the
judge of letters. the gendarmeria, and
the stamp offices, at least. The last
named will be great convenience as
now when the river is high no business
can be done owing to the impossibility
of transacting the stamp business.
This move has got to come some day.
and it may be that it will come before
d great while. If so it will give the
new town considerable added pres
tige.
Merchants in the old town already
see how things are going and they are
making arrangements to transfer their
businesses entire from the old town to
the new. In fact there is every indi-
cation that Cssss Grandes, the younger,
will within the next year be thriving
little city of thousand people.
Casas Grandes is in the midst of a
rich farming and grazing country. 1t
is on the edge of one of the finest game
preserves in North America. 1t will
always be the QUILTING point for pros
pectors and miners bound for the Ser
ra Msdre mining region. now acknow-
lodged to be the most promising field
on this western continent, so far as
known. 1t is very close to the largest
pine forest in Mexico and the only one
in the northern part of the state. The
town will be theoretically managed and
its affairs progressively administered.
Casas Grandes has indeed great
future