Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-03-28
1t is the Headquarters and Gen.
ter Of the Finest Irrigation
System in the Southwest.
GROWING AND
PROSPEROUS
This New Mexico Riviera Possesses
UnexceIIed Climatic Advantages
"A Most Beautiful Town.

Carlsbad, March 26-Peach bios
SONS in February apple trees in
bloom in March, roses in April, such is
Carlsbad. 1t is May now although the
calendar says March
Moved the South Wind DER the valley
in the month of March,
Eager footed, restless eyed.
Fluttering pulse, and full lips parted,
With the langurous breath of longing,
Empty-armed, unsatisfied;
So the South Wind sought the valley
in the month of March
The south wind is very tickle GUS
toner at Carlsbad. Ultimately it al
ways brings rain. but before that it
raises dust and plays havoc with head.
tied or staked down. Today it is roll
| ing in clouds from the Gulf of Mexico
and by tomorrow there will be the pat
ter of raindrops upon the cottonwood
leaves and the mesquite just turning
green, music that will awaken Carls-
bad to it's fullest flush of beauty.
Imagine the flow of the Santa Fe
River multiplied hundredfold; a dam
that would back it's waters from Santa
Fe to Monument Rock into lake three
miles wide; suppose above this lake
there would be another lake stretching
from the Dalton Divide to the very
foot of the Lake Peaks; and that
from these huge reservoirs canals 20
feet wide and laterals several feet
deep, furrowed the mesa stretching
from Lamy to White Rock Canon. and
that about 10000 acres under those
bitches were in peach trees, cotton and
alfalfa, and you will have an idea of
Carlsbad and surroundings, excepting
| the May weather in March
| There is as much difference between
Roswell and Carlsbad as there is be-
tween albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Roswell is city, still somewhat awh-
ward from rapid growth but progress
sive, active, pushing; Carlsbad is
quiet country town, growing too, but
more leisurely, an ideal retreat for the
man seeking retirement and rest and
yet wanting to be in town. Carlsbad
has not yet developed an ambition to
be a metropolis, it is satisfied with be-
ing the center and the headquarters
of the finest irrigation system in the
southwest, and the most beautiful
plains town in New Mexico, excepting.
perhaps, Alamogordo and Roswell.
Carlsbad is just catching it's second
breath. Founded and fondled by cor
porate interests, that later, in part, de-
serted it, the Peach City has started
upon a new era of growth. From
20 to 80 pretty residences are pointed
out that have been built the last six
teen months; many more are going up
at this writing; the bricks are on the
ground for large two story business
block and the Masons have bought
corner in the center of the town upon
which they will rear splendid Mason
ic Hail. The city is built upon the
firm foundation of an agricultural back
country in which 10000 acres are un-
der cultivation and as many additional
acres will be in crops before many
more years have passed. The many
small COW men having ranches in the
county. are making the town their
home; wherein, too, it differs from
Roswell, which is surrounded by the
holdings of large cattlemen. The wide
avenues of the city, laid out at right
angles. are shaded by rows of magni-
ficent cottonwoods and even Santa Fe
can learn a lesson here of the beauty
and the increase of values to property
brought by regular lines of shade
trees, even if these are nothing but
the rapidly growing cottonwood which
is so well adapted to this region.
Along every street flow streams of life
giving waters and in the suburbs, es-
pecially at La Huerta, are some of the
most beautiful and most elegant homes
in New Mexico. On the main business
streets are up-to-date stores with at
tractive window displays.
This promises to be an extraordinary
crop year in Eddy County. Danger of
killing frost is now past and the peach
crop will be record breaker About
$500 acres of cotton are being planted
and every southerner knows that
when it is ripe, the cotton fields with
their snow white puff balls, will be
sight to make the heart glad.
Carlsbad is inordinately proud of the
model irrigation system of the Pecos
Irrigation Company. Over a million
dollars have been spent on this system
and irrigation engineers come from far
and wide to learn and to admire.
There is no other irrigation aqueduct
in the world like the big cement and
steel fiume that carries the main canal.
20 feet wide and eight feet deep, over
the Pecos River in four 100 foot arch
es Those who watched the hard
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