Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-04
GREAT
PECOS VALLEY
Completion Of Railroad Extension
Has Resulted in Renewed Life
and Activity.
ARTESIAN WELLS NUMEROUS
Chief Industries Are Stock Raising, Fruit
Culture and Agriculture Wonderful
Farming Region Educational H.
situations New Towns
Springing Up.

MeSSrS. e. A. Cahoon, Nathan Jaffa
and j. F. Hinkle, who were in the city
from Roswell on legislative business,
are very enthusiastic about the re-
sources of their section and paint with
glowing colors the future of the new
empire. ''The railroad was completed
the 18th and the telegraph line
the 21st of last month";" remarked
Mr.. Cahoon to The New Mex
lean representative, land the town of
Roswell is now full of transients. There
were fully 500 new people in there when
we left, and not a vacant room in the
town or sufficient accommodations for
the numbers attracted by the boom.
Through trains are now running from
Pecos to Amarillo. A Pullman line Is
in operation and more cars have been
ordered to accommodate the rapidly in
creasing trade. A great many people
who were former residents of Amarillo
have taken up their homes in Roswell,
believing that in the future a majority
of the cattle will be shipped from there.
B. T. Ware, vice president of the First
National bank of Amarillo, has pur-
chased half a block and figures on resid-
ing there, and j. P. Lewis is put
ting in a lumber yard and builders
hardware establishment. In fact,
there are so many people going in that
it is impossible to enumerate them all.
The trains from Amarillo to Roswell
O0G milac aro NOW rnnpinu ot n cDaod of
about s5 miles per hour.
Several towns are starting up along
the line, the most promising of which is
Portales, located in Chaves county, 81
miles east of Roswell. The place has
secured permission to establish a post
office and application for a precinct has
been made. The railway has put in
stock pens and from present indications
1t will be about the only town that will
amount to anything, between Roswell
and Amarillo. 1t has a population of
300 souls now.
"Roswell is working for a new railroad
to connect with the Ell Paso & North
eastern, at Salado, in the coal region 70
west of Roswell. In case this
road is built, and there is not much
doubt but what it will be, the road will
unquestionably push on to Albuquerque
and connect with the Atlantic & Pacific
and Santa Fe. Roswell is now only 36
hours from Kansas City and the pro-
ducts of the Pecos Valley are already |
found on the Kansas City market.
'The chief industries of the valley are
stock raising, fruit culture and agricul-
The agricultural area is constant
" increasing by reason of the artesian
belt being extended. The deepest we'll
Is now down $50 feet and is furnishing a
flow Of 600 gallons per minute. The
water rises S. feet above the ground.
This seems to demonstrate that deep
wells mean a stronger flow. In Roswell
The average depth Of wells is 200 feet
Ind the average flow about 100 gallons
Der minute. There are fully 100 flowing
wells in the valley at this time, and the
increase in the number does
lot furnish any perceptible decrease in
he water supply. The Oldest well was
Junk by Mr.. Jaffa in 1891, and 1t does
lot show any decrease in the flow. The
'alley unquestionably furnishes the best
arming region in the territory and its
imioo uiO COuSVdHUIy cApduuIuk. 1H0
'ldest farms are those which are irrlgat-
ID from the North and South Spring
ivers. They have been in operation for
he past Is years. Two Of the finest
lerds of Hereford cattle in the United
are held in the section by the
1ittlefeld Cattle Company and the Bush
fine Cattle Company.
II do not think that one can conceive
t a better garden country. Everything
the nature of vegetables thrives !
plendidly. There is one 25-acre celery
srm in operation and about a dozen ]
ones. The product is shipped
express entirely, and 1t commands
best price on the Dallas, Tex, and
City markets. The celery has q
ch, nutty flavor and Is eagerly sought !
preference to the celery grown in ,
ther localities. !
1.-THE region is famous for apples as
ell as other fruits. II there has ever l
zen q wormy apple found In the Sec !
on, l have never heard of 1t. There Is l
, coddling moth there and the trees are
,rfect. One apple orchard alone occu-
es 500 acres and there are q great
any orchards from 10 to 40 acres In ex-
mt. Jaffa, Pragger & Poe have con-
acted for q 25O-acre orchard. The