The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-05-24
II NEEDS NO ENAGGERATION.
AlamOgordO a Live, Sturdy,
YOungster Able to Care
For Itself.
THE PRETTIEST spot IN NEW MEXICO.
Is the Prediction Of It's Future-The Re-
sources and Backing of the In
fant Wonder Mans
Work.

"Alamogordo, the "Infant Wonder. ''
''the City Of Mountain and Plain. :" "the
metropolis Of Southeastern New Mexico
hone of these names seem to express
adequately the wonderful growth and
prosperity Of this young giant of the
Southwest. Built at the foot OF the
Sacramento mountains, the ground it
now occupies, was, two years ago a
dreary waste of mesquite brush in which
the long, lank coyote went slinking for
its prey. Today there stands a modern
city with miles of well graded streets.
several blocks Of business houses, four
churches, whose spires may be seen for
miles across the plains, union depot.
one of the finest in the territory, and a
hotel, whose elegant furnishings and
the excellence of whose cuisine cannot
be surpassed in the Pass City itself Be
sides this, there are two lumber mills
with combined capacity of three mil
lion feet of lumber per month and with
200 men on their pay rolsi an Ice fac
tory and the railway shops and round
house giving employment to 100 more.
Moreover here are located the general
Offices Of the El Paso & Northeastern
railroad and here are the pretty homes
of General Manager A. S. Grcig, Assis-
tant General Manager Harry Alexander,
Master Mechanic K. l.. Stewart, Chief
Dispatcher Colonel Lewis and Il dozen
clerks and stenographers.
Tales of the rapid development of
western towns have SO often been used
as means for the waggish westerner
to impress his marvellous prevarcating
qualities upon his less fortunate eastern
brother that the latter have come to
listen to such stories with nod aud a
knowing smile. Alamogordo has been
singularly free in this respect Wild or
exaggerated tales have been almost en-
tirely absent from reports OF its growth
and what few that have got afoat have
been promptly corrected by members of
the Improvement company. In fact
the town needs no eXaggeration. 1t is
a live sturdy youngster, easily able to
take care of itself.
In five years from now, those who
have visited the town, say that it viii
be the prettiest spot in New Mexico and
this at the hands Of man alone. Nature
has done nothing for the place. save
giving it its water which comes from
the mountains, and which is pure
enough and cold enough to make up for
the loss Of its other endowments. Uu-
der the auspices of the Improvement
company over ten thousand shade trees
have been planted along the streets and
no thoroughfare has been deemed too
obscure to receive its full share of this
number. These trees are Hooded every
afternoon by means of an excellent syS-
TEN Of irrigation and several men
are employed whose whole duty it
is to care for them. Alamo park is
mile long and contains nearly 1900 trees
all of them in good, healthy condition.
Imagine what a sylvan retreat this will
make several years hence-a deep thick
forest Of emS and cottonwOods. The
fruit growing industry has not been
overlooked either. Thirty public spirit
ed citizens Of the town, each took an
acre of land at the edge of town this
Spring and set it out in fruit trees of
various kinds. In this wav between
thirty and forty thousand fruit trees
have been planted in the suburbs of
Alamogordo, which in few years, will
make one of the great fruit raising cen
centers of the Southwest.
1.-TWO solid blocks have been reserved
in the center OF the town, one for the
county buildings, the other for the
Central school building Work ON
the court house will commence this fall!
while il is more than likely the school
building will be built in time for the
September term. 1t will contain eight |
large rooms and will in every way be a
credit to city twice the size of Alamo |
gordo.
The railway hospital has been late
ly completed 1t occupies elegant com |
modious quarters on Michigan avenue,
which, by the way, is said to contain |
more fine residences than any other /
thoroughfare in New Mexico. The |
hospital contains II beds, and employs !
two trained nurses from the east. Dir, |
Bryan is the superintendent.
among the Albuquerque people who |
have found peace and plenty in The new
town. none are more widely or favorably |
known than the members of the biz |
hardware firm Of Laurie a. Frazier. |
"lim' Laurie, as he was popuIarI |
known in Albuquerqne, was for several |
wears foreman in enc OF the departments |
OF the railway shops. while Jack Frazier
was one of its crack pipe filters and .
plumbers. Fiftecti months ago they |
opened u small tin shop in Alamo gordo. |
handling on the side small stock Of /
hardware. Today they have the largest /
mercantile establishment in Southeast. |
ern New Mexico aud handle everything !
from Il needle TO u threshing machine. !
As plumbers they have Justly earned |
an enViable reputation among Alamo |
gordo people, SO that few, ii anv. con
tracts OF this kind are let TO outside
parties.
20. L Graves, formerly Of the Alhu-
querque Grocery Co., is another Duke
City man who holds responsible posi-
tlon no the head of the elothlng and dry