Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-19
BOOMING TOWN.
Santa Rosa Has Natural Resources
Back Of Building Operations,
AGRICULTURE AND STOCK.

on tHe plnOn clau slope OF the GecOS
river. with a charming vista of the
more luxuriant emerald of lower lying
meadows, is built the new Rock Island
and New Mexican town of Santa Rosa,
says a correspondent writing to the
Denver News.
The Santa Rosa TOWNSHIP is owned
by the Aiamogordo, N. NJ, Townsite
company. with c. II. Stearns as man.
ager of the Santa Rosa branch. Five
hundred acres are embraced in the
Santa Rosa townsite, with lots selling
from $40 to 800. The townsite is
plated around a plaza" one side Of
he plaza square being reserved for
the erection OF a modern and model
hotel. The handsome Rock Island pas
senger depot, now in process of con
struction, Immediately faces the plaza,
while the commodious freight depot
Will be close at hand.
The Rock Island has Just struck, at
a depth of thirty feet, a well with an
active pumping capacity of y 1000 gal
Ions of water every twenty-four hours.
AS this Ane water source is within the
town plat limits, it is the %forerunner
of any desired number of wells for the
townsite itself, thus assuring Santa
Rosa of a super-aDundant water sup
ply for all city purposes.
The Santa Rosa sandstone quarries
are already of wide name and fame,
and half a dozen contracts have al
ready been let for the erection of bust
ness blocks to be constructed from this
local stone. to cost from IS, 900 to$10,-
900 per block, the builders including
such ~well-known business men as
Charles Ilfeld of Las Vegas, the Gross
Richards company. G. B. Popp of San
ia Fe and the Moise-Stern company,
Michigan merchants.
The First National bank of Las We
gas will also erect a fine ston struct-
ure for branch banking purposes, while
the big Coors-Moore Lumber company
of the same city will put in a big
Santa Rosa yard.
In the already local business build
ings we find the Guadalupe County
bank will erect a So, ZOO at least stone
building, and c. II. Stearns, O'Shea &
Pollock and George III. Smith will erect
blocks of similar construction and cost,
while the new Stepp hotel will cost at
least $4,000, and the arrangement for
the Continental Oil company, tanks,
yardage, ETC., represents a handsome
investment.
Reed & Hunter, the livery and trans
fer people, will also build extensively
as will the Meinni & Eakin wholesale
liquor house and the Healey bottling
works.
BUILDING TO BE PUSHED.
The Santa Rosa round house is to be
primarily the largest on the system
between Ell Paso and Topeka, and will
be so constructed as to allow of early
extension.
The earliest of the above business
buildings will begin by March l, and
the latest by May l, the middle of the
present summer seeing all of these
big blocks completed.
In addition to it's profuse local use,
the superb Santa Rosa sandstone, in
Guiding solid red, white and gray col
ors and ~variegated hues, is to develop
a shipping industry of wide radius and
profitable returns.
The already noted Santa Rosa oil
fields comprise an area as far as yet
prospected 75x2O miles and general
well development will be active this
season. Santa Rosa is practically in
the midst of the field, t~hirty-fve miles
being the outside distance from the
town to any given portion of the oil
bearing strata.
The well of the Consolidated Oil &
Fuel company, five miles from Santa
Rosa, is now down about 700 feet,
while machinery for several other
companies is now en- route. with drill
ing to begin as soon as may be.
The fields include developing capital
from FL Paso, Las Vegas, Las Cruces,
Bakersfield. Cal. and the Standard Oil
company itself, as well as more or less
local money.
President Roosevelt is one of the
long list of Santa Rosa oil investors,
prominent New Mexicans figuring in
the same field, including Governor
Otero. Judges Long and Mills, Jeffer-
son Reynolds, Charles Allen, r. v
Rice and DR.. Harrison, while Operator
Kerr, of Pennsylvania, has a $4,000
option on Santa Rosa oil acres and will
drill five wells this season, putting in
also an asphalt paving plant.
OIL AND COAL.
Millions of acres of oil-eXuding rock
have been located. while the oil itself
is of high Illuminating character.
Large coal deposits of wide seam
and domestic measures are found,
while 80 per cent. surface copper ore
has been assayed.
The sheep values of the region are
immense, il being estimated that be-
tween 5000, 600 and 1000, 900 pounds
Of wool will be shipped from Santa
Rosa this season. The wool clips are
OF high annual average, and increase
in weight and fneness, as the original
Mexican sheep of the region are be.
ing rapidly merged into high grade
strains of both wool and mutton.
The tributary Santa Rosa agTicul
tural area is large, with a very con.
siderable portion of it still open to gov,
eminent entry. Crops flourish, with or
without irrigation, more or less of the
fertile farming acres being subject to
a natural sub-soil irrigation when is
prolific in harvest production.
Peaches, pears, grapes, alfalfa, mel
ons, corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts and
variegated vegetables yield in profus.
ion, an especial and valuable vegeta-
bic growth being found in chile, the
Santa Rosa vicinity annually yielding