Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-18
CONSOLIDATE BEST
street Car Line 10 be Extended
as Soon as Bonds Can
be Sold.
URGES ClTYS COOPERATION


Sir AS one deeply interested in
the future Of Las Vegas, desire first
TO congratulate you upon the improve.
nent in your paper and its enlarge
ment.
| think You have acted wisely in
effecting combination of the newspa.
per interests il Las Vegas. know of
no city in the union SO sadly in need
of combinations as Las Vegas, and |
hope that the two towns will follow
your example. ! know Of one instance
in which your community suffered
severely by your divided condition.
Some two years ago the writer en-
deavored to float the bonds OF your
electric railway, and appeared before
a director in one of our prominent
trust companies in st. Louis. In the
course Of the argument which made.
! represented that the population of
Las Vegas contiguous to the road was
ov. r eleven thousarl. This of course
included both towns, Upper Town and
Hot Springs The director OF the
trust company reached over for Brad.
streets which was lying on the table
In front Of us. He found there re-
ported Las Vegas 3,574" and immedi.
ately contradicted my statement. l
told him there were two important
towns down there divided by little
river, and this was one of them. He
replied, that he know that Bradstreet
could not be mistaken, and that II
there were two towns. that both to-
gether had population Of 1874 peo-
pie"
Our negotiations ended. He eyi-
IDENTIFY believing that inteded TO mis-
represent the population.
! sympathise very much with the
position taken by Mr.. Chacon In his
letter. published In your issue of the
Sth inst. think that you ought not
only to combine the old and the new
town, but take in the Upper Town and
Hot Springs. This would give you,
ae, tiiug 10 Pullctln No. 81 OF the
twelfth cansus. issued January 21st,
1901. population Of over 1000 In
habitants.
Now town Of 900 grows 50 much
more rapidly than one OF only 1000.
Hence ! mink Mr. Chacon Is correct.
Frame your law 80 that the people
owning property fronting on the street
pay for the street Improvement hoaee
the poor people are not taxed and
there is no necessity to improve all
streets.
Nov one word about the electric
railway ON the west side You are
right IN contending thar the electric
railway should be hunt % the weaf
side. bus Il should not stop BY simply
aroune the Plaza YoH need
& belt line. that rs. run the road out
Sixth street 10 friedman ayenne.
thence 70 the city limits. thence 70
he power house and across the Gal
inas river to the west side: thence
south on the public road to the plaza,
and from the plaza TO the bridge
You would have had this long
lime ago II your citizens had enter
prise. enough to subscribe for few
bonds Of the road II will take $780,
100 to build II, but nearly all OF this
10000 Will be spent In Las Vegas.
can only say that with one.half Of
your town fighting the electric rail-
way enterprise, and the other half re-
using to assist Il In any way. 1t is
simply wonder that II was ever built
1t all.
1t takes money TO build electric rail-
'oals, and your citizens can rest AZ
'ured that the road will be extended
ACROSS to the west side just ~ soon
v the bonds Of the company are sold
md funds raised with which to pay for