Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-07-13
THE PROSPEROUS
PEC0S VALLEY
The Marvellous Growth in Wealth
and Prosperity Of Roswell and
Surrounding Country.
MAKING OF A GREAT CITY
The Acreage Placed Under Cultivation is
Constantly Increasing Money in the
Oanteloupe 0rop-stook Raising
and Horticulture Success.

and Horticulture Success.
Hon. G. A. Richardson, member OF
the New Mexico irrigation commission
who has been in the city for severa
days attending the sessions of the
commission, in talk with a repre-
sentative of the New Mexican, states
some interesting facts concerning the
| development of Chaves county in gen.
eral and Roswell in particular. "Accor-
ding to the census" said Mr.. Richard
son, "Chaves county on June 1, 1900
had 4,773 inhabitants, and the town OF
Roswell 3,057 Inhabitants. From past
indications we have counted on an In
crease of from ten to fifteen per cent
| in our population since that time. Ros-
we'll is steadily increasing in popula-
ton and prosperity and so is Chaves
county in general We now have two
| banks, six churches, one of the finest
public school buildings in the territory
erected at cost of $4,000, and the
New Mexico Military Institute which
| is considered one of the best educa-
tional institutions in the southwest
| The accommodations at the institute
are too small and the regents are now
preparing to add additional buildings
| and dormitories and also to put in a
| new water plant and electric light sys-
! tenn for the use of the iretitute. Dur
| ing the past week three students hail
| ing from far off Minnesota and two
| from Missouri applied for scholarships
during the coming year and We're ac-
cepted. So it can be seen that the
fame of the New Mexico Military In
stitute is not exactly local. The cat
tie shipments during the past season
over the Pecos and Northeastern and
thence to Kansas City are the largest
ever had in the history of the road. On
several days during the season twenty
three train loads of cattle left Roswell
for the eastern markets. The cattle
during the past year on the ranges of
Chaves and Eddy counties have done
very we'll and the outlook for the fu-
ture is very bright The acreage put
lillO oICIltI 6iiu dtildlIo III COIolulitiy
on the increase. We will have very
good crops of pears, peaches, ,plums and
cherries this year and the apple crop
will be excellent 1t is estimated that
from thlrtv-fye to fifty carloads of ap-
pies will be sent to Chicago this sea-
son, and Porter Brothers, the big Chi
cago fruit commission firm, Is buying
all the apples it can purchase on the
trees, paying a good price for the
same. This firm has bought the en-
tire crop of the extensive Hagerman
ranch and is looking for more.
1.-THE cantaloupe crop will be wonder
full, and will bring a great deal of mon-
ey into the county Fifteen carloads
of cantaloupes were sent to st. Louis
and Chicago markets and brought
good prices.
1.-THE customers are SO well pleased
that they will take every cantaloupe of
this immense crop. 1t is expected that
Roswell alone will ship one hundred
carloads of cantaloupes and that the
valley, meaning Chaves and Eddy
counties, will ship a total of seven
hundred carloads and over. The mar
ket for this vast amount is secure as
the Pecos valley cantaloupe beats the
celebrated Rocky Ford and Is better
liked and brings better prices. This of
course means very profitable ship
ments for the Santa Fe railroad sys-
tenn which now controls the Pecos
Valley and Northeastern. Many of our
farms are being purchased by north
ern people and are being greatly i'm
proved. One young man from Cleve-
land, Ohio, Otis by name, has an ex-
tensive fruit farm and Is constantly
adding to it. Another young man
named Chisholm, of Illinois, son of
John Chisholm, vice president of the
American Steel and Wire company, has
purchased another large farm and has
gone into the breeding of fine hogs. He
has now over thousand, all pedi-
greed, on his farm and expects to de-
velop the business in a few years so as
to be able to ship several thousand
hogs for market per year.
I'VE have one of the largest mercarl-
tile establishments in the country In
Roswell, the immense wholesale and
retail mercantile establishment of
Joyce, Pruitt and Company. This firm
does great amount Of business which
is constantly increasing.
1.-The alfalfa crop is very good and Is
nearly ready for the third cutting. The
crop will average from four to five
tons per acre during the season. The
Pecos valley raises the finest celery on
earth and the sale of it is proving a
source of great profit. This celery is
shipped to Kansas City, st. Louis and
Chicago, where it finds very ready
market at good prices. Upon the whole
the Pecos valley is doing exceedingly
we'll and has grand future before it.
Our people are of the opinion that
sooner or later a road will be built
from Roswell up the Pecos river to go
across the river in a northwesterly di-
rection to the vast coal fields of the
Maxwell Land Grant Company in Col
fax county. Within a very few years
we are of the opinion that Roswell will
be the best town in southern Kansas,
western Texas and eastern New Mexi-
CO, and will be the largest and most
thriving city between Wichita, Kas.,
and Ell Paso, Texas.
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