The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
TO crr FL pAso OFT or rErAs
Proposition to Form n New Territory with
Parts of New NLcxico and Ariznna.

Proposition to Form n New Territory with
Parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
Ell PAso. Tex, Feb. a.-The city OF FL Paso is
growing ambitious. Destined to be the great
est city on the Mexican border. 1t has become
tired OF its isolation in the far western corner
OF Texas. For many years the question Of an
%nexation of the city to the Territory of New
Mexico has been agitated. Ell Paso is more
remote from the rest Of Texas. so far as bust
ness Is concerned. than Chicago or st. Louis.
1t has nothing in common with Galveston or
Fort Worth or Austin. Between these cities
and I'll Paso are several hundred miles Of plain
country given over to saga brush and cactus.
Along the valley Of the Pecos and down the
valley of the Rio Grande where irrigation is
possible agriculture may flourish and cattle
men prosper. but aside from these sections all
the country tributary TO FL Paso is north. west
and south.
Tho latest proposition is greater than that OF
annexation to New Mexico; it involves the an
neXation ot half Of New Mexico, n big slice of
Texas and two counties of Arizona TO FL Paso
and the formation of anew Territory and event
ually a new State out Of the sections thus
brought together. The plan is to form a Terri
tory out OF the counties OF Cochise and Graham
in Arizona: Grant. Sierra. Socorro. Dona Ana.
Lincoln. Eddy and Chavez in New Mexico and
That portion of Texas west OF n line drawn from
the east line Of New Mexico to the Rio Grande
River. T this new territory FL Paso is to be
the metropolis and capital city.
Inc scheme is not 80 easily carried out as IL
Is planned. 1t is worthy the dash and spirit OF
the growing metropolis of the South, and there
Is scarcely a citizen Of FL Paso who does not
inyor some scheme by which the city can be
divorced from the rest Of Texas. A prominent
citizen says of the plan:
., 1.-THE BENEFITS that Fl Paso would derive from
part OF, ii Paso''s' trade IS with f New gMTe e4ie9
There is none with the rest OF Texas. The
= vast desert On the other hand. it Is at the
1Tnhr re s o. III Il the best portion OF New Mexico.
into New Mexico The Santa Fe furnishess
fRlirsS Grs1 0dmmVT nI,syS With the towns Of the
more towns and a larger Population within four four
or I'VE hours rid than can be reached in twenty.
e i9st nou por t'@ ni e Ta those roads read extending olhe
running west places III, Paso in direct connec-
y wosts WIN nd DretImalng; hG, H. and the south
end Of Chavez and Eddy counties may also b "
br9periy classed as tributary to ri Paso. Last.
no aRs nSen SreSNa a Mountain and White
viii have a big claim on this country. The In" e%
Taso sapexed New Mckee, Would nerG be w a sto IL
within three, months" '"'
region APPRECIATE the importance FL Paso has
assumed IN the past few years. 1t is the gate
~ p'hMceil W. great republics. Its present
population, Is about 2O.OOO and Is rnpidlv IN,
creaslng. III Paso is the largest and most i'm
Portaht commercial centre in the d strict en-
nraclng western Texas, all OF New Mexico and
arizona and northern Mexico II is the grent-
esl rallroad centre between New Orleans AMI
-. Louis on the east, Denver on the north San
fTahclsco on the west and the City OF MoSiro
on the south, 1t is tho terminus Of seven rail,
Toaus. nve OF them great trunk lines. each over
a tholsand miles in length.
n PhSo Is one Of the most substantiallv
built cities In the United States, 6rlck heIinrSy
me material used for building PURPOSES. rhe
CITY mas fourteen churches and twenty-nve
MINOR church organizations and Societies If
nus q central high school and Ave pnh,ic
schools. with q total OF over thirty teachers.
also three private schools. with n total III
twenty t~ehchers, 1t has two national banka
hna Two private banks. three daily news,
pnnsrs, twelye hotels. and one Of the hest
.nrlulpnea ana largest hospitals in the cnIIntrv
me business directory department or the 9ify.
blfectprY contains over Il thousand entries n,
CORPORATIONS, hrms, business houses and nro.
irhslonal men. The city has over thirty hnsi-
ness corporations. IL is the county saat
~ ~ laso county. 1t has n Federal buildin%
mat cost 100000 and a SjO.OOO opera homse
WIN n seating %caIacity Of 1000. il has i've
!nTins OF me ederal Court and three terms of
ne state District Court each year. Tn tnitcd
states government has already exnnndeJ
apouI thrce-quarters of n million dollars ON
me military post Of Fort Bliss. hye miles To then
north 81 the city, III Paso ranks Seventh
among the PORTS Of entry in tho United Staics
III 'he amount OF business done.