Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-03-26
THE PEARL OF
THE PEC0S
Roswell the Artesian City is Grow.
ing Faster Than Any Other
Town in New Mexico.
The Most Immediate and Pressing Need
in the Lower Pecos Valley
Alfalfa and Herefords.
Roswell, N. M, March %, 1904.

Roswell, N. M, March Zl, l9O4.
A drive through the farming coun-
try round about Roswell is certain to
awaken the desire to be a farmer, and
if one is the least bit impressionable
he is bound to have the fever in Sc
we're form. This is blossom time
throughout the length of the lower
Pecos Valley and a fairer picture is
hard to find. Peach trees are in leaf
and the apple blossoms are glowing a
pink and white benediction upon the
luscious, green alfalfa meadows in
which Craze large herds of white-faced
Herefords. The meadow larks are
singing and the gurgling of the many
brooks from scores of flowing artesian
wells is an enchanting music OF its
own
"Fair as the Garden of the Lord"
In this beautiful valley, hemmed in
on one side by the bluffs of the Pecos
and on the other by the mesa that
spreads to the foothills of the White
Mountains, lies Roswell, like a spark
ling gem in an appropriate setting.
A town just growing into cityhood,
adding a thousand to its population
every year, with a climate almost
equaling that of Santa Fe, with more
than hundred perpetual fountains
singing night and day, with wide,
shaded streets, many hundred beauti-
full homes, orchards and gardens, sub
stantial business houses, magnificent
school buildings and the center of the
best alfalfa and cattle country in the
southwest, Roswell is becoming a
leader among New Mexico cities. A
few more vars and Albuquerque and
Las Vegas will have to look to their
laurels.
What Roswell needs is railroad to
Santa Fe Its people are praying for
it. and they are willing to do more
than pray, they will give whatever
they can afford to get the road. 1t is
certain that such railroad would pay.
The traffic over the Pecos Valley C
Northeastern is tremendous and it
does not begin to ship out nor to ship
in what would be shipped, in case
there was an east and west line. ITO
go to Santa Fe," said an attorney
lone must take weeks vacation and
put hundred dollar bill in his pocket
We are now paying $1,000 ton for
coal and your weather bureau records
will show you that the winters are as
cold at Roswell as they are at Santa
Fe On the other hand we are willing
to sell for nickle an armful of canta-
loupes as fine as any ever raised at
Rocky Ford and you must pay quar-
ter for two at Santa Fe. We cannot
sell our truck and as to the products
of the valley they give but a small
inkling of what they will be after we
have market at Santa Fe, Albuquer-
que and Las Vegas. With the Santa Fe
Central extended to Roswell, this city
will have 10000 people in another
year." And it is fact. Roswell is
growing. This year it's postoff1ce re-
ceipts exceeded those of Santa Fe by
ten per cent. Last year they were five
per cent behind those of the Capital
City and the Capital City isn't stand
ing still either. A few years ago Ros-
well was country village, today it is
the most progressive city in the Terri
tory, with up-to-date stores and fine
shops. Its prosperity is built upon
rock bottom, fertile agricultural
back country and a cattle industry es-
tablished upon sound basis. Its fate
is not dependent upon the removal or
maintenance of railroad shops or on
the artificial basis of too many west
ern towns
Even the old-timer in New Mexico
has moments when he is heart hun
cry for running water, wide expanses
of green fields and blossoming orch
ards. 1t is no longer necessary for him
to go east of the Missouri to still his
longing. Right here in the Pecos Val
ley is a paradise whose only danger is
that a man is loath to leave it after
having once set eyes upon it.
A visit to the great Slaughter Here
ford farm, the Milne-Bush, the Hager
man the l.. F. D. ranches is notable
event in any persons life. No drouth
no dearth there. bitches are all run
ming full and artesian wells are adding
their steady flow to the water avail
able for irrigation; large herds oi
blooded cattle including Sir Bredwell
worth $4,000, and scores of animals
worth from $500 to $4,000 a head
large tracts of alfalfa, fields bordered
by rows of trees and wide avenues
leading for miles in every direction
Such is the Roswell country and New
Mexico is fortunate to have it withir
its boundaries.
Keen your business ever before thl