Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-20
AIAMOGORDO
THE MAGIC CITY
Regularly Laid Out and Beautiful to the Eye
The Manufacture of Lumber and Railroad
Shops Principal Support of Inhabitants.
CLOUOCROFT'THE
FAIRY SUMMER RESORT

: the system and the many cars of fin
t are a revelation to the newcomer o
e New Mexico's resources in that line
Alamogordo has other railway hopes
| including the coming of the Frisco
line, which has surveyed a line from
Vernon, Tex, to Roswell and VIII eros,
at or near Alamogordo on it's way t(
El Paso. 1t Is not a new proposition
but it recently received a new lease Of
life. Allied with the two principal in
dustries there are several lesser indus.
tries which in the aggregate amount tC
considerable, the entire monthly pay
roll of all the industries exceeding $780,
00O. Take town where men are seer
on the streets in the morning and ev.
ening with dinner kettles, going to OF
coming from work and there will be a
prosperous community. Alamogordo
also has several important agricultural
towns around it, such as Tularosa a
vertable garden that reminds one of a
San Joaquin Valley, California. settle
ment; then there is La Luz, six miles
from Alamogordo Fair as the garden
of the Lord" and there are High Rolls,
| Ell Valle. Wooten and other settlements
in the Sacramentos, with plenty of wa
ter Or not needing water for irrigation ;
then there are sheep. cattle and goat
ranches, the raising of pigs, daires,
| chicken ranches and other like enter
prises. all tributary to Alamogordo. On
all sides one sees the cabin of the home
| steader and for many miles in every
direction almost every acre of land is
taken up.
FINE SCHOOL BUILDING.
Alamogordo's modern, commodious,
brick public school building attracts to
the city many healthseekers with fam
| lies and many ranchmen who desire
| to live where there are good school IA
cilities 1t is this desire for education
ll advantages that has led to the es-
tablishment of Baptist College at AL
nmogordo and will lead to the estab-
lishment of other educational institu-
ions An imposing public school bull
ling and a good public school system
can do very much for the growth and
development of any community Ala
mogordo has a railway hospital which
is to be enlarged; one of the most sub
stantially and artistically built court
houses in the southwest and will soon
have fine building for the territorial
blind asylum. The drinking water is
excellent and irrigation water is sup
Piled by open bitches from La Luz
creek. There is a good electric light
and telephone system and there will be
street railway this year yet the
franchise for line to run from the de-
pot to the Baptist College having just
been granted, gasoline to be the mo-
tive power at first. The imposing depot
for a dining station will be added.
There are four or five churches and but
one saloon and that under such strict
control that it is closed tight on Sum
night A clause in every deed for ev-
cry Tot sold prohibits the sale of liquor
on that lot, the saloon right being re-
served for the Casino in the Plaza. In
enness, no open gambling in Alamogor-
do. The Main street leads from the de-
pot to the foot of the mountain and Is
go feet wide, straight as an arrow,
and lined with fine business blocks near
the depot and with beautiful homes to-
ward the mountain, these stretching
out over a mile. The court house and
the public school are also on the Main
street. One of the finest business
blocks in the southwest, built of yellow
and trimmed with red brick, Is nearing
completion and in it the postoffice will
be located. There are more than doz-
en- houses under construction at pres
ent and since New Year, the Improve
ment Company has been selling lots for
homes at the average of two or three
day. The failure of the contemplated
deal by which the Rock Island was to
buy up the Ell Paso and Northeastern,
has given a new impetus to the town
and new capital is pouring in.
There are several former Santa Fe
residents at Alamogordo. Earl E.
Sidebottom is doing very we'll In the
law Office of W. A. Hawkins, and Is
making many friends. E. E. Mensch
has the management of big jewelry
store and one of the Riddle boys Is
working in the railway machine shops.
J. M. Hawkins is editor Of the Alamo
gordo News.
COMFORTABLE HOMES.
1t is Scott who said:
IF thou wouldst view Melrose Alright
Go visit it by pale moonlight"
and Alamogordo looks very fair indeed
when comes still evening on" espec-
tally at Eastertide. The air Is balmy
and perfumed with the scent of many
blossoms and on it are waited carols
from churches. A walk along the
streets gives glimpses of the interior of
comfortable homes, the streets are IL
lumed with, arc lights in frosted globes
and are thronged with well dressed
crowd; no soliciting Of arms, no drum
kenness, no profanity In public. The