Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-10-23
ESTANCIA ORGANIZES
BOARD OF TRADE
Officers Elected and That
Section of New Mexico Will
Be Advertised.
OTHER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
Special Correspondence.

Special Corresl lOndence. q
Estancia. n. NJ. oct. 22.-"You
cant saw wool with a hammer" is
the suggestive motto Of the recently
organized Est,ncia board OF trade,
and that is Just the kind OF people
who are fast sitting up the Estancia
valley, and WHO will make Torrance
county within 8 few years the banner
county in the lest state in the Union.
The officers Of the new board are F..
r. Dunlavy, President; II. B. Hawk
ins, vice presitent; VIM. Mcintosh,
treasurer; j. I. Norris, secretary; l..
A. Bond A. H. Garnett, John w. Cor
bett, William Gregg, ]. r. Walsh,
James Walker and John McGillivray,
directors. In addition to this there is
an organization known as the Estan-
cia Valley Development association,
organized with wider scope with the
same purposes in view, and between
the two, If anything good gets
around lorraine county, it will have
to hurry.
The affairs O. the first annual Tor
rance county hir have been closed
and the maidn effort of the new
county was a success in every way.
With the payment of the check from
the Albuquerque fair association,
every Obligation will be met, and
there will be mney left. In addition,
the next ASSOCIATION will have
handsome, comnodious grand stand,
paid for to begin with. Part Of the
exhibit was brought back from Albu-
querque and is low on display in the
county clerks ofice, where it attracts
a great deal of attention from east
ern people Whose idea of New Mex
ico's possibilitie. are somewhat con-
fused.
Estancia is enjoying something of a
building boom and will soon begin to
assume a metropolitan aspect. Mil
ton Dow is filllrg a long felt want by
erecting a moiern two-sHory hotel
building with water works system
of its own. Among the other good
buildings in Course of construction,
James Walker is building a hollow
cement block business house on the
corner north OF the postoffice. This
will be the frs house of the kind in
the valley, but there will be others
to follow.
While universal regret is expressed
at the failure Of the Enterprise Ma
tional bank Of Pennsylvania, the
bank which was so closely identified
with the Santa Fe Central railroad
there is a general feeling of thankful
ness that the Santa Fe company did
not buy the road That some of the
big companies will ultimately get con
troll of this road seems inevitable, but
it is hoped that it will not be the
Santa Fe, for in that event the Santa
Fe Central would probably never
amount to much more than 1t is now
I, Estancia now has a money order
postofice, which, in the absence OF
banking facilities, is great con
venience, and it should have come 9
long time ago.
F. f. Dunlavy and A. II. Garnet
have formed a partnership for the
purpose of conducting hardware, i'm
plement and furniture business, ant
are erecting new store building or
the lot north of the Dunlavy Mer
camille company. Mr. Garnett will
have charge of the business, and theil
first consignment of goods, car loat
of stoves, is expected in a few days.
ne Odnld II u SGulIdl mas DCCu idA
ed to it's fullest capacity the last few
weeks, hauling out lambs to feeding
quarters in Colorado, Kansas and Ne
braska. Sheep are bringing better
prices now than for many years, anC
of course the sheep men are happy.
Col. George w. Harbin, of Water
loo, Iowa, who is locating a colony
of old soldiers in the Estancia valley
is here now looking after the inter
ests of the colony. They will locate
north of Estancia, near Mcintosh sta
tion.
Capt. ]. A. Corbett of Medford, Ok
lahoma, is visiting his son, John w
Corbett. He was so favorably i'm
pressed with the country and climate
that he has decided to make his visi
permanent, and has filed a home
stead at Mountainair, where he viii
make his future home.
Mrs. Cowgirl and daughter, of Car
thage, Mo-. who have been visiting
the formers sister, Mrs. A. H. Gar
nett, has gone to Los Angeles tC
spend the winter. Before leaving, Mr.
Cowgirl filed homestead near Noun
tainair and they will return in TIN
spring to make their home in the Els
tancia valley
New settlers are coming into th'
Estancia valley on almost every trair
and the old familiar covered wagor
is headed this way from every direc
ton At the rate new people are com
ing it will not be very long unit
good claims vacant will be hard tC
find. Grass is good. All who hav,
planted have raised good crops, there
is more work than ther are people
TO do it, and altogether, the people
over here are feeling pretty gooC
over the outflow.
DRIP, drip, drip, oil everywhere
better cook with safe gas.