Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-05-24
LAS VEGAS TO FOLLOW.
The Meadow City Will Fall in Line
With Santa Fe and Construct
Good Street Crossings.

DR.. F. E. Olney, of Las Vegas, who
was in the city Monday and Tuesday
to attend the meeting of the Territor-
ial Board of Dental Examiners, of
which he is a member, is very enthus-
iastic over the future of the Meadow
City. He says that it is his opinion
that by the end of the next decade,
Las Vegas will have $4,000 people
within a radius of eight miles. DR..
Olney is also the mayor of that city
and one of the hardest workers among
its citizens for all that goes to make
"a city prosperous and progressive.
Tonight the city council will hold
meeting at which the city will be d.
vided into districts for the purpose of
putting In street crossings and laying
out parks. It is the intention to make
two districts out of the city, dividing
it practically into equal halves. Tn
der the law passed by the recent leg
islature the city can order street
crossings on the petition of five prop
erty owners on the street in question
and the balance of the property own
ers are required to stand their share
of the expense In the north district,
as it will be divided by the Las Vegas
council tonight, petitions have already
been secured on every street, signed
by the necessary number of property
owners, so that the council can order
the crossings on these streets con-
structed. Proper notice will be given
so that other property owners can file
their objections to the proposed i'm.
provement, but, since it will be acting
within the law, the city council pro-
poses to push the crossings through
Immediately. The south district will
then be taken up In the same man.
ed in each district, as provided by law.
Along with the construction of the
crossings the streets will necessarily
have to be graded in order to estab-
lish the proper grade for the crossings,
and so the city can order the grading
done with the other improvement. AS
most of the streets In the Meadow
City are eighty feet wide, grading the
full width would be an expensive prop
osition, consequently the council pro-
poses to establish an eighteen foot
lawn on each side Of the street. By
the contract with the water company
that company has to furnish the neces-
sary water to irrigate the trees and
lawns along the streets, and after they
are once established they can be kept
growing in good condition.
DR.. Olney says that no town or city
can become popular or attract
the people to 1t which does not have
good lawns. good side walks, good
street crossings, graded streets, and
shade trees along the streets and in
the yards, and this Is emphatically
the truth and is what the New Mexi-
can has been endeavoring to impress
upon the people Of Santa Fe. The peo.
pie of Las Vegas are pulling together
and are doing everything possible to
attain the advancement and progress
sion Of their city. They are also
working for the Scenic Highway, be-
cause 1t will mean more attraction
which can be advertised in connection
with the Meadow City. DR.. Olney
says that this highway will not only
benefit Las Vegas, but It will also
mean that where now one wagon or
buggy comes into the Capital City.
one hundred will come with the COM
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