Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-23
POURING IN
TO NEW MEXICO
What The Santa Re Accomplish.
ed In Making Homes For
Many People
THE PECOS VALLEY
Eight Thousand Agents Tell Of
its Charm and The Conquest
ofThe Cattle Kings

published by tDt bhnld - Sv1h
publishes the following newsy sketch
that viii be Of interest to New MexiS
cans:
Charles W. WaddelI. Of Waukesha,
WIS. On bis way 10 the Pecos valley
Id New Mexico, pointed proudly TO q
brother, two brothers. in-iaw and 9
whole carload beside ~. OF farmers
from Wisconsin. WaddeIl had been
down to the Pecos country and had
bought two sections Of land. We lett
Wisconsin, said he, because the eli
mate was too severe and the land
values we're SO high that we would
never be able To own another acra ~
long as we lived. They'll miss
us. back there. Why. there isn't .
town III Wisconsin that isn't backing
up into peoples farms. We got tired
OF feeding stock six or eight months
in the year; we're going where you
don't have to do that. We're going
where there's plenty OF water, 2
mild climate aud a cbance-thats
what We want. q chance
A chance Is what they all want who
are going away from the crowded
east to the frcer west and south. That
they will find plenty Of room, plenty
OF ii, Is due 10 the disintegration OF
the cattle ranges, the breaking up q
the land barons OF New Mexico AMI
northern Texas. A few years ago,
until quite recently. indeed, the Pecos
valley was controlled by q few greedy
stockmen. Conditions In the east be.
came such that in the course OF MT
lure these great, almost u~nbounded
reservations could no longer be hell
from the people. The Santa Fe rail
road set to work TO gain control, aud
ii succeeded. q. IL Tallmadge. The
company's general immigration agent,
took charge OF the vast tracts Of sand
and began 10 advertise Il IN the neNs
papers, Id letters and circulars md
with agents, nearly 5000 men seat.
tered over the United States, telling
the story Of the Pecos valley and the
vanishing Of the cattle kings. or
many days to come trains VIII be roll
ing across the continent With tiieus
ands Of colonists for the new ards
Towns are %springing up whe g seeFt
only s~idetracks 4 few weeks ago
Freight trains are taking in load attic
load u farm implements lumber i
going in trainload quantities. .snd i
the face ~ all this YOU are told lhai
this Is not d boom and there are ~.
boom prices. There are no town 10
speculations such a wrung the heart
of trusting Investors in the dag .
lSs4S7. I,
Ii Is simply the march across III
country of d great army crowded on
OF It's old camping place and seeljn'
new grounds. IL Is the mighty marc
g. mel who win With the pillow an
The thrcshing machine. II III d Lrca
Awakening such as the boom days Ms,
er ktew. an awakening that has o.
trae,si the attention ~ money I'm
men all over the republic.
The number OF people carfle
through the gateway of Kansas ON
u, some 81 The lines ii astoa.sliil
Or two recent days the Santa =
la, eight tra'nloads 700 poop
iarongh Kansas city m the,r WI
IL Oklahoma, Arkansas, The T cos va
ley and southwestern Kansas. Tn
road Is making arrangements % ca
ry so per cent more passenger ira
fic.
Other lines are also carrying the
quotas.
The Missouri, Kansas a Texas /,
two days carried GOO homcsecke
from Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri al
Minnesota.
The Frisco had 400 from Iowa. \
bfaska, Missouri and Minnesota.
The Rock Island CARR d party
700 In four trains from Indiana,
iinois. Minnesota and Missouri.
The Kansas City southern had :
In one train.
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The Wabash brought in $50 a
sen them out on other lines.
The Milwaukee delivered 400 M
ly from Wisconsin and Michigan.
The Missouri Pacific had 500 hor
seekers from Iowa, Missouri and
braska on their way to southern X
sas and Oklaboma,
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