The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-12-26
A Letter.
Communicated


no doubt other papers will copy
your paper to show people what Ii
going on in the Pecos Valley south
of Roswell.
II a man leaves Roswell for the
south, and he looks to the west. and
he looks to the east. and looks to
the south as far as the sight can
carry him. he will find as beautiful
a territory as ever the sun shone
produce anything that q man will
put in it. Hundreds of square miles
there is not eve a brush 10 OBJ
struct the human eye of the beau.
tiful territory. The territory runs
with a slope OF ten feet to the mile.
The territory slopes 16 feet to the
mile east to the Pecos and no more.
No man will dispute me hat. All
that the territory calls for is water.
water. water. and no more. The bal.
ance nature will make. II makes no
difference what is planted 1t will
grow sure, with the exception of the
tropical plants or cotton. Outside of
hat everything will grow in abun-
dance in hat territory. | hold books
from Washington OF the Agricultu-
raj department, wherein they report
the same as the land south OF Ros-
well. This is true. and facts OF my
own observation. Any man can dig
down six feet in the ground the same
as l did eight miles south OF Ros-
well with a man by the name OF
Sheeler. and whenever the ground
smells nice to a human. that ground
will produce something nice for the
human. This Is a fact. Whenever
people smell the ground and they
don't like it. that ground produces
nothing good for the human-and
that is also a fact.
That much is done for the terri.
tory for 100 miles long and 20 to 30
miles wide from the foot OF the roll.
ing hills to the Pecos river there
is not a living man In the United
States of America will dispute. What
| am writing in this letter so far Is
about the south. southeast and south
west Of Roswell. Now we are done
with the land.
Now, my good people Of Roswell
and south of Roswell in the Pecos
Valley, observe this letter. what I
will say in it. That great. noble. nne
territory south OF Roswell and south.
east and southwest. can be irrigat-
ed without a reservoir, providing the
people of Roswell will be satisfied
to have ii done. The Secretary Of
the Interior is willing to grant a
right Of way $50 miles south OF Ros.
well for a corporation that wants
TO put in a canal with good inten-
lions for the people and in favor OF
will we get the water. No reservoir.
However, | have been correspond.
ing with a large firm in st. Louis,
Mo-, about that matter. They are
all satisfied to come in with me.
They are willing to put in upon my
grounds Their a six or eight foot ar
tesaian well. For depth IL makes no
difference, and the company likes 70
put in a standpipe high enough to
bring the water from the standpipe
into the canal with heavy pumps,
providing the people OF the city OF
Roswell will not object or bring In
an injunction, or any lawsuit or
trouble. That is II that big Artesian
well should interfere with their lit.
tie wells.
II the citizens OF Roswell feel one
way or the other they might express
themselves through the press, and
according TO their expression my
company will act. II the thing Is not
allowed to be done as I represent
here with that big artesian well.
then there is no harm done-but II
things are satisfactory then the
work will go On. Therefore. please
let the people of Roswell and Cha
e county express themselves
through the press as to what they
will say.
The majority OF the people Of Ros-
well know me for | have been do
ing correspondence about that mat
ter and l have lived in Chaves
county nearly as long Is anybody.
The artesian water talks. and with
out water it Is no go. The 81. Louis
Globe Democrat will copy this let
ter and the Washington Chronicle
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