Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-20
Cloudcroft, April 13, 1908.

The elder Bennett of New York Her
yacht race, called a new reporter, jus
fresh from the rural districts, and CAV
r him the assignment. "Mr. Bennett,
said the reporter, Il have never seen ;
yacht even, l certainly cannot repor
that yacht race" THAT is just why
want you to go; your Impressions viii
be original" The Herald story of thu
race proved to be the most graphic pub
lished by any newspaper. Alamogord(
has been so much written about and sc
well advertised, that it seems to be {
thankless task to write about it to the
New Mexican But there are some
things that still remain to be told and
the city is growing and improving, and
perhaps, an account Of first impress.
sions, may suggest new view point.
A UNIQUE CITY.
Easter Day is good time to pay the
city the first visit. Then cherry, peach
the lawns have put on the tender
green of spring; then clear irrigation
waters rushing along every street, gur-
gle joyful accompaniment to the car
oling of birds: and then Alamogordo's s
youth and beauty put on their Easter
garments for Alamogordo like all new
rapidly growing towns is city of
young people. And there is the band
concert and promenade in the park on
Easter afternoon. Is there any other
city in New Mexico that has grown up
out of the mesquite brush in few
years to be a city beautiful of $500
prosperous and progressive people? Is
there any other city in the southwest
that has park mile long with lawn
and trees, lakes and islands, rustic
bridges and pretty pavillions? Is there
any other town in New Mexico with
such a variety of industries. with such
picturesque surroundings, with Cloud
croft at it's door? Has any other city
with a thousand beautiful homes but
one saloon and that well regulated?
Certainly Alamogordo is unique, if
nothing else.
MADE TO ORDER CITY.
A made-to-order city has the advan-
tage over city that just growed."
In a made-to-order city, streets can be
laid out at right angles and with easy
grades: they can be made wide and
building regulations can be enforced;
made-to- order city can regulate liquor
traffic and will receive industries which
an older city will vainly beg for; a
made-to-order city has someone who is
especially interested in it one who
created it and who takes care of it.
sort of good fairy who will build lum-
ber mills, railroad shops. railroad Of
fees, scenic railways and will advertise
the city among his friends who Will
endeavor to please him by doing good
turn for his made-to-order town. Then
a city of frame buildings has the ad-
vantage over an adobe town. Lumber
lends itself to all sorts of decorative
schemes and coloring and modern
city with many pretty homes built out
of lumber with here and there sub
stantial brick or stone business block
Yields a resultant en- ensemble which
will certainly appeal much more to the
eve than does the sombre adobe town
even though the latter may have fully
as many brick and stone buildings.
It's founders located Alamogordo well
although there are some people who to
this day assert that it should have
been located at Tularosa where the soil
is blacker and water seemed more easy
to obtain. The city is right at the foot
Of the first range of the Sacramento
mountains; the hills are too steep and
compact to be called foothills like the
foot hills that surround Santa Fe
They look more like the mountains of
Southern California. gray and bleak,
but make fine background for city
with green frees, and Alamogordo is a
city Of trees, every street and avenue
being lined with them. How . much
more beautiful would be Santa Fe if its
streets were all lined with verdure in
the same manner
LUMBER INDUSTRY.
Alamogordo's main industry is lum-
bering. Two big lumber mills have
been erected but only one is run at a
time ~as the two can not be sufficiently
supplied with logs which are brought
down from the Sacramento mountains.
The lumber camp is at present In Cox
"a non. three miles from Cloudcroft, and
next week will be moved still farther
awav from the city. There Is still plen-
ty OF lumber in the mountains, enough
to last a decade or several decades
longer, but 1t will have to be brought
into Alamogordo an ever increasing
distance. But, it Is said. that the lum-
ber enterprise is just beginning to pay
and will continue to pay better every
year for some time to come. Next TO
the lumber industry, railroading en-
ploys the most men. The city Is the
Headquarters Of the Ell Paso and North
eastern railway which has here located
its shops, roundhouses and offices CIV,
ing employment to many men. Ever
since its connection with the Rock Is
land, traffic is extraordinarily heavy
and under new management recent
" Installed, It is developing into a
magnificent. well paying railroad prop
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