Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-01-03

anu are reaCnlnS out to improve them
The Roswell Club, which has hereto
fore been principally a social organi
zation, has recently been renamed the
Roswell Commercial Club indicative Of
a wider scope of usefulness. Within
the last two weeks it has added near.
ly hundred names to it's list of mem
bers. 1t has sent committee to St
Louis to secure the sanitarium of the
associated fraternal organizations and
it is energetically cultivating every
opportunity to interest railroad build
ing into the valley. A secretary who
will devote his entire time to pushing
the claims of the valley is employed at
an adequate salary and it is certain
that the next year will see an unpre-
cedented progress made in Roswell /
may say that no enterprise is regard
ed by the Roswell people with more
solicitude than the extension of the
Santa Fe Central Railway from Tor
rance. They are prepared to give it
every encouragement possible, finan-
,cial and otherwise, and Delegate-elect
Andrews and w. S. Hopewell have
only to indicate the line upon which
cooperation is desired to find most
enthusiastic response from the people
of that section.
Fall Floods Did No Great Damage.
IT want to correct just here the i'm.
preston made by certain publications
last October that Roswell was serious
ly injured by the fall floods. Nothing
could be further from the facts. With
the exception of the loss of few
buildings, mostly adobe, which will
be replaced by better ones, there was
no damage worth mentioning. The
overflow at that time was entirely
from the Hondo and as the government
reservoir now under construction upon
that stream will guard against repe-
tition Of floods, that factor may be
as entirely eliminated in
calculating the future of Roswell.
New Towns Along Railroad.
From Roswell south the traveller on
the railroad passes through a success
sion of little towns. Well derricks and
cottages dot the plains for miles on
each side Of the track. At Dexter, a won
derful transformation is being accom-
plished through the efforts of the Tall
madge immigration Company which is
hundreds Of well-to-do settlers
from the central west into this part
Of the valley. Hardly a week passes
that a special train does not arrive,
from so to 100 would-be in
vestors, A very large party arrived
there week before last and another
last week. These people come at their
own expense, they have the money to
invest and what is better still, they are
investing 1t.
can officer of the company informed
ne last week that about thirty-five per
'ent of those who come make pur-
,hases and the amount recently
into the valley from that
source cannot be much less than a
Million dollars.
Below Dexter, with it's energetic
population of people from Illinois,
owa and similar thrifty states, is
also a most prosperous
community, with national bank and
ther evidences of prosperity. Here,
is in Dexter, and around Roswell, the
lrtesian well is king. The orchard and
Italia fields which are springing up
lnder its magic influence must be seen
o be appreciated. The height of the
influence Of the artesian we'll is
cached. however, a little lower in the
alley. Just across into Eddy County.
here the appropriately named com.
nunity Of Artesia is rapidly reaching
he proportions of city. Here the by
vord is artesian well ard you can
aslly spot theeArtesia citizen by the
act that in anything connected with
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