Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-11
LIVELY ALAMOG0RD0
The Young Denver Of the Southwest
Keeps Up Its Lively Pace in
General improvements.
PROFITS OF INVESTORS
An Orderly Town Where Things Boom in
An Industrial Way Without a Rowdy
Assembling Several Social Affairs
Of Recent Occurrence.
Special Correspondence.

Correspondence.
Alamogordo, May THE building
boom continues undated here. During
dences, that would be a credit to any
city in the country, have been practical
ly completed, and several more are in
process Of erection. The new depot, an
imposing structure, is rapidly nearing
a finish, the foundation having been
framework erected and roof
added. The Pennsylvania operators are
confidently figuring on a town of 10000
inhabitants, and the new improvements
proposed are of such magnitude that
old-timers, accustomed to rapid town
building, are astonished. One of the
latest schemes on the tapis is the build
ing of a summer resort on one of the
tablelands ear Alanlogordo, at about
5000 feet elevation above the town. An
electric car line will convey the resi-
dents who desire to avail themselves of
the opportunity, to a higher and better
sphere during the hot months.
The Alamogordo hotel is filled to over
made to take care of the surplus tran
sients in elegant rooms, which are be-
ing furnished in the new club building.
1t is asserted that the deservedly popu-
10, loto1 ,-;ll no ,o1,,;1+ ,,l ,,,n,ool into
a 100-room affair. A recent visitor, who
considers that he was given more than
his moneys worth at the hotel, has gone
on his way rejoicing, after leaving the
following on the hotel desk:
In the hotel called Alamogordo,
Meals are served in the best of order;
Their rooms are kept so neat and trim,
1t gives one pleasure to sleep therein.
The railway company is now adver-
Using the new summer resort hotel To-
Gated one and one-half miles from To-
boggan, on the cloud-climbing route.
The hotel is a rustic affair, architec-
turally, 50x15O feet in dimension, con
tanning a dancing pavilion, reception
room and pavilion. A number of pretty
rustic cottages are being built around
the hotel. Colonel J. F. Harvey will su-
pervise and manage the affair, which
is a sufficient guarantee of success in
every particular.
In the town of A~lamogordo, despite
the rapid progress of building, resi-
dence houses and store buildings are at
a premium. Rents are sky high, with
no prospect of coming down for some
time. and real estate values are ad-
vancing rapidly. In the case of fine res
licences, the rents range from $40 to $50
per month, and return about 20 per cent
net interest on the investments. One
car rent residences in Denver, fronting
on street car lines and having lawns,
shade, etc, as cheap as in Alamogordo.
New residents, realizing this. are build
ing as fast as possible. The same is
true of business blocks. Two years
rents will erect a fine block.
Michigan avenue n of the prettiest
thoroughfares in the town, is being ar
ranged for bicycling and light driving.
1t is one mile long, 100 feet wide, and
lined on both sides with shade trees.
AN OUTSIDE OPINION.
H. w. Loomis, who is we'll known in
Santa Fe, expressed his views on Ala
mogordo in the FL Paso Herald, as fol-
lows:
To find a frontier booming town of 800
or 1000 people, a town grown up from
the wilderness in ten months, having
railroads, hotels, stores of all kinds,
wholesale and retail, ice factory, saw
mill, county seat, miles of trees by run
ming water, electric light, commercial
club, musical and social organizations,
houses in erection everywhere-all this,
I say, on the frontier of the great south
west, and yet not a saloon o disrepu-
table joint in it, speaks volumes for the
sterling qualities of the men who have
achieved all this and who direct the pol
icy and control the capital here repre-
scented.
The wild woolly hurrah element who
generally rush into new places in this
country have had no invitation to come
and no welcome offered them to re-
main, for the pushing business men who
are opening this country do not claim,
as so many in Ell Paso often assert and
uphold, that gamblers and disreputable
women and saloons are necessary to a
place ito keep the money in circula-
ton They know, on the contrary, that
the element above mentioned only serve
to hamper the legitimate business and
to lower the moral grade and the spirit
of COMMERCIAL integrity of a town.
One who wishes a drink of liquor can
get one here if he be respectable and
sober, but he can not get much, nor can
he get any if he shows hat liquor is a
curse to him.
Go into any-all-the little towns of
the southwest and look at the row of
shanties along the street filled with
drunken rowdies, making day and night
hideous with their yells and pistol shots,
see the beer kegs piled in the streets,
see the little girls going to school talk
ing the middle of the street to avoid