Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-02-16
A NEW TOWN.
Captain, Lincoln County, and Its Good
PROSPECTS,

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adjustment of a town, CAPTAIN, which
promises to parallel, if not eclipse, the
rapid growth of Alamogordo. The town
IS projected by the same capitalists
who founded Alamogordo. The town.
site is not only picturesque, but shield
ed from wind and dust storms, and In
a section that is rich in mineral and
other wealth.. The new town is to be
upon the site of the hamlet of Gray, in
Lincoln county, the center of THE rich
coal fields recently opened by the New
Mexico Coal Company, or, in other
words, the Ell Paso & Northeastern
Railway Company.
II. A. Summer, chief of the engineer
ing corps of THAT railway, with a force
of assistants, has begun the survey OF
the townsite, and March 2 the town lots
will be put up at public auction The
site Is northeast of the present North
Captain. 1t is encircled by a range OF
hills which terminates on n side IN
the snowcapped Sierra Blanca, and on
the other in the majestic range of the
Captains.
ARRANGEMENTS have already been
made for the extension of the railroad
ais far as the townside, which VIII be
its terminal. The engineers are at work
surveying the route, and the grading Is
to Immediately, while track
LAYING will start as SOC as the mate
rial arrives.
The improvement company Will pegln
TO erect several large buildings as soon
as the plans in THE hands of the archi-
tect are finished. One of the buildings
is to be a stone business house l2ox45
feet. to have a glass front extending
10 feet ON the side, giving a total glass
front off lis feet.
The townsite as plated contains
something over 200 acres, and The out
/ lying country has been reserved TOT
additions and suburbs Of the town. The
business portion is in the center, IN a
hight de preston, from which the res
/ ident portion gradually rises on all
sides,
The first inhabita nts of the new town
j will be the 200 miners, most of whom
with their families canine from Bevler,
Mo-. and are of German, English and
Welsh descent. A number of business
houses are already PLANNED, and "a pop
ulation of 1000 people is assured with
in three months.
The present coal camp Is situated a
| mile and a half from the new town. 1t
| contains about fifty houses and a store.
| The men are employed in three shifts,
| working day and night, and average
from $3.50 to $3.50 a day in The mines,
of which four are in operation. The
mines produce sixteen cars of COAL a
day already, and there have been days
| when sixty cars of coal were sent to
Ell Paso. A weekly newspaper has al
| ready been established in the town, and
calls itself EEL Captain 1t IL edited
by c. G. Nuckols, and is Neatly printed
| and we'll edited.
tan Is assured. 1t depends not alto
| gether upon the coal mines and the
railroad, although those two agencies
will call 1t into life, but around about
Is some Of the richest agricultural, cat
| tie and lumber country in New Mexico.
The mountain ranges Within sight con-
tain mineral wealth OF many kinds.
| Only six miles away is the Fort Stan
ton national s%anitarium, which IL guar
section is mot to be surpassed. Within
equal distance is the county seat OF
Lincoln Very seldom is a town born
under SO fortuitous circumstances, with
such powerful and energetic sponsors
as Captain, the future metropolis OF
| southern New Mexico.