The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-01-07

the Roswell people with more solici-
tude than the extension OF the Santa
Fe Central Railway from Torrance.
They are prepared to give it every
encouragement possible. financial or
otherwise, and Delegate-e1ect And
-ews and W. S. Hopewell have only
0 indicate the line upon which Co
operation is desired to find a most
enthusiastic response from the peo-
ole of that section.
Fall Floods Did No Great Damage.
preston made by certain publications
last October that Roswell was serious
ly injured by the fall foods. Nothing
could be further ON the facts. With
the exception of the loss of a few
buildings. mostly adobe, which will
no damage worth mentioning. The
overflow at that time was en-
tirely from the Hondo and as the gov
eminent reservoir now under cons
truction upon that stream will guard
against a repetition of floods, that
factor may be considered as entirely
eliminated in calculating the future
of Roswell.
New Towns Along Railroad.
From Roswell south the traveller
on the railroad passes through a NC
| cession of little towns. Well derricks
and cottages dot the plains for miles
| on each side of the track. At Dexter
a wonderful transformation is being
| accomplished through the efforts of
the Tallmadge immigration Co, which
is bringing hundreds of well-to-do
settlers from the central west into
this part of the Valley. Hardly a
week passes thai a special train does
not arrive bringing from so to 100
would-be investors. A very large par
ty arrived there week before last
and another last week. These people
come at their own expense, they have
the money to invest. and h is bet
! ter still, they are investing it.
can officer of the Company inform
ed me last week that about thirty.
five per cent of those who come make
purchases and the amount recently
brought into the Valley from that
source cannot be much less tha a
million dollars.
Below Dexter, with its energetic
population of people from illinois
Iowa and similar thrifty states, is Ha
german, also a prosperous community
with a national bank and other evi
dences of prosperity. Here as in Dex
ter, and around Roswell. the 1~rtesiaI
well is king. The orchard and alfalfa
fields which are springing up under
it's magic influence must be seen tt
be appreciated. The height of the in
1uence of the artesian well is reached
however, a little lower down the val
ley, just across in Eddy county where
the appropriately named community
of Artesia is rapidly reaching the pro
portions of a city. Here the by-worc
is artesian wei and you can easily
spot the Artesia citizen by the fac
that anything connected with the
community he speaks in superlatives
Greatest Artesian Well on Record.
THE other day in seven days a well
$50 feet deep was sunk, that is claim.
ed to be the greatest artesian we'll in
the world. The flow. | am informed
rises seven feet. seven inches above
the ground and a plank of two by
six, eighteen feet long, if placed upon
the jet of water will be upheld at a
height of six feet. The flow is four
thousand gallons per minute or some
thing like six million gallons a day,
enough TO supply the city at Fort
Worth. When it is recalled hat this
is only one of As flowing wells in the
immediate vicinity, that each of these
wells on an average. is capable of
irrigating 200 acres. that by spring
there will be double that number of
such wells in full flow, it will be rea-
| Oily seen that the Artesia country
has odds to ask of no community in
the west. 1t already claims the longest
street in the Territory, running clear
back from the railroad to the White
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