Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-26

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cus se territories 0xa u fear
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i proposition u TAI kind sh0aid e
from she Iitsle borough q h1o4e a
and that has to A1atDrs ant TO.
oo1gr@snen, ii amazing III :
taas skers zYs 0zekAf doEen eonrzEn
itis parsse sns sirss1rs ! TIRE
r4tory a. Mes Mxco. where they hare
thousands tkat are better PREPARED
fov Statehood to1ay and shere broad
81 American citizenship y snosn than
id shs STATE " Rhofe Island
rasirceds ~ Ns@ Mex.
as rgaeat ID mileage soaae
thing frpm 80. 70 go miles i
present constructed, vlsh many pro
eses Hires. TIE santa re 4 building
waas III kno~n nj the ~cst0rs- from
Been. iii the Rio Granae valley. thirty
miles s0ash ~ Albuquerque. 20 : polnt
oa the Peccs valley line. This is ID
~ / rzglfoad lsns from Chicago ID
California, ID avoid the Ration and
Giofieta mountains The Santa Iii
Central. which has recently huiit 4
line from santa Fl ID Torrance. about
III niles snuthwet of Ros1elI u y
locating 4 llne agwn ID Roswell That
road IN tseing projected from Roswell
ID Biz SPRINGS. Tex. connecting wIth
the Texas 4 Pacific 10 reach the gulf
A branch u the Rock Island has been
bailt from TBcumcari into the Dawson
coal field within The last eighteen
months. This ii an important des
opment. That road has opened up
% 1000 acres Of coal land. There Il a
road going into this timber country
being built at this time BY Colorado
capital and New Mexico capital q line
fortythree miles IN length. that Is new,
absolutely new. only within the last
few months This line II In The north
ern portion az New Mexico From
Ei paso west there Is the Rlsbee road
running into Arizona II ID nov known
as the II Paso 4 Southwestern.
I want to say that | was 4 member
Of the legislature 81 fs90.si that passed
the first advanced school law in that
territory. II was not a difficult matter
10 pass that law when the people un-
derstood Il. They say We haze done
nothing for education. | want to
throw that back TO the federal
government and say that L has done
nothing for us.
AL the present time I occupy two
unsalaricd Official positions In New
Mexico. ! forgot to mention them
when | started out, for unless a salary
Is attached TO a position II Is never
impressed upon my mind as an Official
position II has been my misfortune
II there Is anything loose that there is
no salary attached 10. and where |
have 70 pay my " expenses. 70 get
Il. happen TO be president OF the
irrigation commission u New Mexico
and have been for some six years. |
am also president Of the board Of reg
ents Of the agricultural college, a mem.
Der Of which | have been for ten FEARS.
So that | have been identified only
with the material. but with the edu
oationaI upbuilding " that territory.
AZ a meeting III the irrigation com
mission a week age IN the city OF
Santa Eel came from there 10 Wash
ington city-a gentleman appeared
before thai commission wanting us
% locale certain timber lands In .
certain portion % inc territory Of New
Mexico. which be might buy from The
territory
The commission took np the eondi
tons " the territory in that section
with him-this bears uron the re-
sources of The territory and be said,
as 4 result " investigation. that III.