The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-08-02
A SPIRIT Of IMPROVEMENT
Prevails at ClOudCroft and Build
ing is Decidedly on the Boom.
Phenomenal Lot Sales.
FINE RATHD DRIVES IND WALKS.
Many Are Rushing Their Building II
Anticipation Of Difficulty in Be-
curing Carpenters to do the
Work Next Year.

Special Correspondence TO The News.
CLOUDCB0FT, n. M, August 1.-THE
spirit of improvement which has beer
so prevalent In Cloudcroft during this
season is taking on decided boom. A
great many new cottages are being
erected, the real estate owners believing
that so many will want to build next
year that it will be almost impossible to
secure lumber and carpenters. A beau.
tiful drive has been made around the
new reservation ground and lots along
the line of the drive, facing the reserva-
tion, the White Sands, or the Chatau-
qua grounds, have been "going like hot
cakes" $1,000 worth of lots passed
from the company into the hands of in.
dividuals last week and it is predicted
that the boom has only commenced.
Among last weeks purchasers are: W.
f. Payne, Mrs. Ida Spense, E. ]. Ded-
man, J. Hallihan, r. Chandler, E. NJ.
Harter, o. D. Warnock, Miss I. L. Wes-
colt, Mrs. M. P. Schuster, w. s. Shep-
herd, C. Rubin, o. NJ. Potter, G. C.
Bryan. J. Barnett and VIM. Henze.
Among those who will build this sea-
son are w. G. Walz, J. M. Dean, Mrs.
Crosby, Mrs. K. P. White, L. NJ. Open
heimer and J. C. Lakeland.
The company has been industriously
engaged during the past week in gravel
ing walks, drives, and extending the
water mains to the newly plated blocks.
On some of these blocks cottages were
erected before the surveyors had COM
pleted their work and it became neces-
sary to bump matters to provide the
builders with conyeniences.
The gaiety season has Just opened.
General Superintendent Greig has had
Il splendid little stage erected In the
pavilion and has furnished the ladies
with farces, dramas, ETC., and they are
all industriously studying their parts In
anticipation of several dramatic and
musical entertainments. Among the
entertainments to be given are billed:
A masquerade ball competitive farce
entertainment, minstrel show, stereopti-
can show. german, second annual dog
show, and baby show. These affairs
will intersperse the regular nightly
pavilion dances. There is hardly
doubt but what all of the entertain
ments will be bowling successes, for the
scarcity of young men here, makes it
imperitive for the girls to occupy their
time with some such amusements, or
suffer the pangs of ennui. Thursday
night "Camp Fire. will be held at the
camp of Judge Townsend of Ell Paso.
The young people will pair off and en-
joy delightful stroll, and arriving at
the camp, will arrange themselves COM
fOrtably around the fires and tell stories
and sing songs, while the Judge bakes
flap jacks. He is an adept at the busi-
ness and will cause all kinds of fun tor
his visitors.
Last year the months of August and
September were considered the most de-
lightful of the year and the permanent
Crofters predict that all who are famil-
lar with the glories of the Sacramentos
during those months will return again
this year and that the number OF visit
ors will be doubled.