Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-04-25
TOWN OF MOUMATIMAIR.
Special Correspondence.

tainair, the new town on the Santa Fe
cut on now has postofilce which is
already doing a good business. |; is a
great convenience to the grading con.
tractors along the line as well as the
citizens OF the new metropolis. Mrs.
George V. Hanlon is postmistress.
There are now twelve grading camps
scattered along the line between Belen
and Willard, and the work is progress.
ing fast. II IL the Intention to throw
up n grade at first Just wide enough
to support temporary track and
have the steam shoyels widen the
grade later. The steam shoyels will
not begin work before August or pcs
slbly later, and work on the big cut at
the summit will not begin until that
time.
Eggleston & Mathews. the first con.
tractors east of Mountainair, received
the balance of their outfit the other
dav and they will soon have the first
four miles of their contract done. They
will probably do the ,sidetrack grading
at Mountainair. There will be three
sidetracks. each 3,zv0 feet long.
The water problem has been a source
of great Inconvenience and expense to
most of the contractors, but many OF
them have sunk wells of their own. c.
II. Sharp, camped about three miles
west of the summit, had to dig over
100 feet deep. but he got good water.
The Abo Land company has secured
drill and VIII sink well Cor Eggles.
ton & Mathews.
Mulligar Brothers, who had big
grading contract on the santa Fe Cen.
tral. now have a camp on the cut off.
The Santa Fe Is now surveying a
line paralleling the Rock Island into
Kansas intersecting the formers main
line west at Syracuse. This looks as
II there might be little fun ahead
Chief Field Engineer Jones has the
work In charge and be sent a force OF
engineers east OF the line the other
day to begin work at Llano. the juno
| tion of the two roads.
w. II. Green has moved his family
from Eastview to Mountainair and will
probably put ~ blacksmith shop.
Among the new settlers lately 10
Gated are three brothers named BIRD
from the Captain country, who have
leased the Chaves saw mill. They are
| perienced orchardists as well. and will
at once plant part of their claims tc
fruit trees. Experience has demon
strated that this is a good apple coun
try and the Messrs. Bird will be gladly
! welcomed an account OF their expert
ence along this line. There are apple
trees at Manzano which were bearinl
fruit when the Mexicans first settled
here nearly 100 years ago and no on'
knows how old they are. They receiv,
no care or attention, yet seem to b'
enjoying good health with eyerv pros
pect of living to a ripe old age. OF
account of the significance OF thu
name great many citizens woult
have preferred the name of Manzan'
instead Of Torrance for the new
county.
Corbett & Hanlon now have thei
Office In the postofiice building. Sine,
the warm weather came they hav'
been kept pretty busy locating settler
and surveying claims.
b. B. Spencer and Eugenio Romer,
will both begin delivering ties a
Mountainair in short time. The,
both have big contracts and between
them will clean out the tie timber II
the Manzano mountains.
Col. t. C. Manning expects his wifi
from Winfield. Kan, about May /, an
has already commenced a war of eS
termination against dust and cobweb
in anticipation of her coming.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Whitson LEI
Thursday for Denver to reside. Nj
whitson was with the Baxter engineer
ing corps and both he and his wifi
made many friends while residents Q
Mountainair.
+. j. Smith has established the frs
incubator in Mountainair and no'
counts his eggs before they max
chickens. Mr., Smith Is a newspape
man and a philosopher, whose theor
OF life agrees with the present socis
conditions existing In Mountainail
His long experience In newspape
work has afforded MIN opportunities {
look at life from many different view
points and he seeks here In a me-
world what the busy marts of ciyiliz'
; tion cannot give him, close contaC
with those restless energetic peopl
! whose fortune II has ever been to paw
} and make easy the way for the az
vancing hordes of civilization. NJ
Smith has long coveted this opportl
: nifty and II the experience proves to
. hard he may write book TO get ever
, by the way, four OF the pioneers ,
Mountainalr are, or rather were, ma
row chested pencil pushers. The
keep a can of printers ink constant
on hand, which affords the microbe
place OF refuge In lieu OF the ofiic
towel and the seductive influence ,
the old friend of former days may
time overcome the allurements of tn