The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1905-11-18
ELECTRIC LIGHT
FOR SOCORRO.
AStrOng Company Has Been Organ
lied and Preliminary Work
Has Been Begun,
ELECTRIC POWER ALSO FURNISHED
Another Enterprise That Will Con
tributs Greatly to the Prosperity
Of the Gem City.

The Chieftain's readers will re-
member that District Attorney
ElfeRo Baca secured a franchise
from the city council some time
ago for the building and operat-
ing of an electric light and power
plant in Socorro. There have
been some unavoidable delays in
complying with the conditions of
the franchise, but it is now in
order to announce that a first
class light and power plant will
soon be in operation in the city.
Last Saturday the Socorro
Water, Light and Ice Company
was organized in Santa Fe by II.
o. Bursum, Elfego Baca and w.
f. Martin of Socorro, and Frank
Owen of Santa Fe. The capi-
tai stock of the company is fixed
at $4,000, being 300 shares at
500 each, and the capital has all
been subscribed by New Mexico
citizens.
The Santa Fe New Me xican,
in an article of consid era BILE
length, speaks of the company
and the city of Socorro in the
following complimentary terms:
TO INSTALL PLANT.
THE company proposes to in
stall complete and up-to-date
electric light system in the city
and to supply electric power to
all such as may require it.
Water force will be used for gem
Grating the necessary electricity
and this will be obtained from
the immense water supply of the
we'll known hot springs, three
miles west of the town, which
will furnish an inexhaustible
water supply for all purposes,
the water system of the town
and the electric light and power
system.
THE four incorporators are
named as the directors and at the
meeting of the board of directors
Saturday last complete code of
bylaws was adopted and the fol-
lowing were elected officers for
the year: Elfego Baca, presi-
dent; II. o. Bursum, treasurer;
w. +. Martin, secretary, all of
Socorro, and Frank Owen, of this
city, general manager.
STOCK is SOLD.
THE stock is all taken and
there is none for sale. The pro-
ject, which is in the hands of
four of as we'll known men as
there are in the Territory, will
prove of the greatest value to the
speedy growth and prosperity of
the Gem City. Mr.. Owen is a
practical and experienced cleo
trical water supply engineer.
He has been engaged in the SUI
perintendency of water, electric
light and electrical power works
for sixteen years, in addition to
having received thorough
theoretical college training as
an engineer. During the past
two years, he has very accepta-
bly, and satisfactorily, both to
the people and to his employers,
filled the position of manager of
the Santa Fe Water and Light
Company, a difficult position and
one that needs special training
and much tact for successful
management. The Socorro citi-
zenS, who are in the company,
are property owners and residents
of the town and have its best in
terest at heart. They can be
depended upon to do what is
right for all concerned.
MEANS RAPID GROWTH.
THE inauguration of this very
important subject TO Socorro will
push that town along rapidly on
the high road to prosperity and
increase its growth and impor-
tance. The town is the prettiest,
and the best located on the Rio
Grande from Antonito to Antho-
ny. 1t is surrounded by large
section of fertile Rio Grande
valley land and has some of the
best mining camps in the South
west tributary to it, besides
being the center of a considera-
BILE sheep and cattle growing
country.
"The New Mexican fully be-
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