Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-22
W. 7. M'CRElGHT'S
TALK ON NEW MEXICO

Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. McCreight. of
Albuquerque, n. NJ, are house guests
of Mrs. BERTHE McCreight, mother of
Mr. McCreight, says the S~helbyville
tKy.) Record.
The gentleman is a Shelbyville rear
ed boy, and learned the art preserva-
tive, of which II is known he is pro
ficient, in the same room % occu-
pied by the Record some thirty odd
years ago.
He has been a resident of New Mex
leo, especially of Albuquerque, and all
the time connected with newspapers,
as publisher, editor and printer, for
the past twenty-five years, and is,
therefore, familiar with the CONNER
cial and industrial growth of that
great territory.
Speaking of the prosperity of New
Mexico, Mr.. McCreight stated that the
past season for stockmen has been
one of the very best for many years,
and he knows several big sheep men
n wool growers in his immediate
section of New Mexico, who will make
fortunes this year alone on their in
yestments. He cites Hon. Solomon
Luna, president of the Bank of Com
merce; Hon. Frank A. Hubbell, secre-
tarytreasurer of La Bandera Ameri-
cano, a well known Spanish weekly
newspaper, and Col. William McIn-
tosh, a Scotchman by birth, who went
to the Estancia plains twenty odd
years ago. as three of the most extern
siye and successful sheep raisers of
the southwest, and their immense
flocks, a%ggregating several hundred
thousand sheep are divided into flocks
of from 1000 to 5000 each, Craze
through rich valleys and over thous-
ands of grass covered hills and noun
tains.
But" continued Mr.. McCreight,
while this is a pretty picture of sue
cess in stock raising, it must lot be in
ferred that every man meets with sue
cess In either cattle or sheep raising
in the southwest. A person may have
the ability TO cope successfully in mer-
camille pursuits. real estate business,
financial affairs and the publication of
newspapers, yet he may signally fail
in the cattle and sheep raising bust
ness, and | have known a number of
fasteners during the past twenty-five
years, who followed the trail to the
southwest, as the trail now leads to
the Albuquerque Territorial Fair in
vested heavily and became bankrupts.
They failed, because it takes more
than brains and money in the cattle
AM sheep business, and the successful
raisers OF New Mexico today are those
who have experience and have gone
through heavy losses from the alter
mating drouths and winter storms"
Mr.. McCreight says that Albuquer-
que is n of the most m]odernized
towns in the southwest, and the peo-
pie there enjoy the luXuries only to be
gained through modern and up to date
enterprises. Mr.. McCreight also states
that a member Of the Tevis family of
Shelbyyille, William Teyis, now of
San Francisco and New York. is inter
ested with Col. II. A. Jastro and the
}. b, Haggin estate, in of the fin
est electric street car systems in the
country at Albuquerque, Of which Col.
w. IL. Greer, son In law Of Mr.. Jastro.
Is the popular general manager.
All the principal sidewalks of Albu-
puefQue are concrete cement walks,
and the streets -macadamized with
adobe dirt-the best in the country for
the purposes intended.
Mr.. McCreight Is connected with
the Albuquerque Daily Citizen as its
business manager and city editor.