Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-20
ALAMOGORD0 ACTIVE
Building More Houses Than Any
Other New Mexico Town and
Business Is Good.
MANNING'S PUMPKIN STORY
Merchants Are All Making Money and
No Summer Dizziness Prevails in
0tero Oounty's Capital
Its Advantages.

j. f. Manning, who sojourned in the
city Sunday and Monday from Alamo
gordo, tells many glowing tales of the
southern country and it's future POSSIBLE
tiles. In fact, he is so enthusiastic over
the matter that several of his friends
have various limbs talked off and others
are thinking of hiring a hall and in
ducing him to give a course of lectures
on the salubrious climate and imperial
| resources of the new Eldorado. To a
New Mexican representative Mr.. Man
| ming said:
! "Alamogordo is unquestionably the
best town and the Alamogordo News
| the best newspaper in the territory.
From a water tank eight months ago, a
city of 1000 inhabitants has sprung up
and it is still %springing. Other railways
have sought in vain for the breed of
tank that matches such cities, but the Ell
| Paso & Northeastern seems to have a
monopoly on them. l have no doubt
| but what, in two years time, Alamogor-
| do will have a population of 5000 and
then the other towns in this part of the
country will have to look to their lau-
rels.
what is there to support the place?
Everything imaginable. Stock raising.
| agriculture, coal, timber, mining, fruit
growing, etc. The town will have the
railway shops, two large saw mills with
a capacity of 100, 900 feet of lumber per
day, and a county seat. Even now, it
| ,rivnc oyilnnnn nf mann nnfarnpica tho N
any other city in the territory. 1t has
one of the best conducted hotels in the
west, electric lights, street sprinkler,
and all possible modern ad juncts TIC
progression. An excellent depot build
ing, dwellings in profusion that cost
from So, 900 to $ 5 5000 and a number of
large brick business honses are now
shown. The town is no kid 1t has
long pants, suspenders and all the other
paraphernalia of manhood.
"Well, | would dislike to say that the
climate Of ~Alamogordo is superior to
that of every other place. But one can
procure any climate imaginable there.
Up in the mountains icicles grow as long
as PETERS whiskers and form an i'm.
portant branch of the summer indus,
tries.
Down below, the climate is semi
tropical. Figs, almonds, apricots, prunes,
peaches, plums, etc, grow in profusion'
| never heard of a frost or drouth affect.
ing the fruit interests of the Tularosa
plateau. brought along a large basket
of ripe figs when l left there, but they
were stolen from M on the train. And.
by the way, those same figs grow as large
as toy balloons. All kinds of garden
truck are raised. A man once told me
that the pumpkin vines grew so fas,
there that they wore out the pumpkins,
dragging them over the ground, but
everything else does well. 1t is no un.
common thing to see potatoes there thai
weigh from three to five pounds, n Of
which will furnish a meal for three OF
four persons. | have never seen as large
cottonwood trees in my life as | found
at La Luz and Tularosa. Last Sunday
the Sunday schools of TularoSa held Q
picnic under mi tree. The shade Of
some of those trees spreads from SO tt
rs feet. Four or five of them make al
impenetrable forest.
"But, without joshing, you can say
that Alamogordo is the best business
town in the territory. The merchants
are all making lots of money, and have
not so far heard of anyone complaining
about hard times or dull business con,
ditions incident to the summer. AnC
the business men are generally pro
gressive. | only know of one or two bust
ness men who do not advertise. No
there are no script stores. The laborer'
trade where they choose"