Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-08-30
PROSPEROUS
ALAM0GORDO
Judge Edward A. Mann Talks In.
terestingIy Of 0tero County
Conditions
PROGRESS THE RULE
Removal of Railroad Shops Will Not
Prove Injurious. Magnificent Cloud
croft Summer Resort.

has been in the city since Saturday,
on official business. The judge en-
joys this cool and invigorating climate
greatly, nevertheless he is OF the
opinion that there is no climate and
no town like his home town, namely
Alamogordo, the county seat of Otero
He is an enthusiast on Otero County
and feels that he is justified in
his enthusiasm, when he takes into
consideration the beauty of his town,
the progressive spirit of its citizens
and the great natural resources in
it's vicinity and which are bound to
make it growing and prosperous bus
mess center, as well as very COM
Portable and pleasant place in which
to live. Considering these facts, Judge
Mann's enthusiasm and expectations
are well grounded
To a representative of the New
Mexican, who Duttonholed the judge
yesterday and held him with his gilt
tering eye," Judge Mann said:
while the general Offices of the Ell
Paso & Northeastern have been moved
to Eel Paso by the Phelps-Dodge peo-
pie and the system absorbed by the
Southwestern, yet the effect upon Ala
mogordo has not been so disastrous as
was supposed. We have lost in the
office men and their families some
very desirable people, to be sure, but
many more desirable people are
moving in and the town keeps up its
general air of prosperity. The Phelps
Dodge people are doing what they
can for the town and surrounding
country, notably their efforts to obtain
artesian water, which has in large
degree Offset the removal of the Of
fees, and the plucky business men
and citizens of the town still keep
their unbounded confidence in Alamo
gordo. :,
with an inexhaustible water sup
ply, an ideal climate and the most
beautiful and substantial, up-to-date
town in the Territory, of anything like
its size and age, Alamogordo is bound
to come out all right in the end.
"The renewed activity in the Jarilla
mining district, where Kansas City
capitalists are building big smelter
for the treatment of the immense
bodies of low grade ores known to ex.
ist there, the opening up of numerous
farms in the valley surrounding the
town, the discovery that an abundance
of fine water can be obtained at a
shallow depth all through the sur
rounding valley are all helping to keep
| up the spirits of our people, who re-
alize that the development OF our
natural resources will more than ov-
ercome what we may lose by the
change in the railroad situation. The
park is kept up as usual and the pas
sengers on the through trains are al
WAYS surprised at the beauty and en-
terprise of the Cottonwood City, which
maintains a park one mile long along
the side of the railroad track, where
Its green grass, miniature lakes upon
whose waters float swans and othel
water fowl, it's fountains and little
streams with rustic bridges and its
beautiful shade trees never fail to at
tract the attention of the traveller.
"The asylum for the blind has
been completed and is one of the finest
public buildings in the Territory and
one of the very best of its kind IN
the country 1t is certainly monu
ment to the business ability and in
Itegrity of the board of trustees ap
pointed by the Governor, for it ha:
accomplished wonders with the mean'
lat hand. The institution will open IL
a month or so and will no doubt bt
a credit to the Territory. Business
conditions are good, the season ha:
been fine for the stockman and farm
er so that Otero County may be salt
to be in a most prosperous condltlon
"This has been the banner year TO
Cloudcroft. Natures roof garden IA
been patronized to far greater eS
tent than ever before and the futur
lof that great summer resort seem
. assured. So great have been tn
crowds this summer, that the accom-
, modations afforded there have bee
: taxed to the utmost. The Lodge ha
been crowded the entire season an
the small hotels have not been abl
to afford accommodations for all al
plicants. Extensive improvements wi
be made this year at Cloudcroft an
when the season opens next sprinI
+, lhotel accommodations will be double
! and, in the line of amusements. theI
! will be many more attractions, L
E cluding a lake, large enough for boa
n ing and fishing.
"The lumber mills are running |
their full capacity and there seen
TO be ample timber to keep them g
!, ing for years to come. I expect
y see a series of reservoirs built alor
n the Sacramentos within the next fe
II wears that will irrigate the entire va
ley from the mountains to the Viii