The Socorro chieftain., 1906-03-03
SOCORRO'S PROSPECTS
Are Now Better Than They Have
Been Before for Years and Are
Still Improving
IMPROVED BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
Though Business Is Not Booming,
Still There is Increased Activity
in All Lines

II is noteworthy fact that
Socorro'S prospects are now
brighter than they have been be-
fore for years.
These brighter prospects are
based upon a substantial i'm
provement in business conditions.
While business is not booming
any SocorTo merchant is bound
to say that trade has in the last
three or four years experienced
a large percentage of improve
ment.
There has ot late been stead 4
and marked increase in receipts
at the Socorro postoffice and Post
master Kittrell's salary has been
increased twice during his incum-
bency.
Stocks of merchandise carried
by local merchants have recently
been considerably enlarged.
Business rooms that stood va
cant for years are now occupied.
c. T. Brown is erecting large
stone building on the former site
of the Grand Central hotel To be
occupied by Geo. f.. Cooks livery
and transfer business.
Joseph Price will open bank
about the first of April in the
bank building at the corner oi
ManzanareS avenue and Califor-
mia street.
The Socorro Electric Light
and Power Company has already
ordered the machinery necessary
to supply the city with a first
class light and power plant.
The Socorro Telephone Com.
pany has within the last few
months furnished the city with
as good telephone service as is to
be found anywhere and extend
ed its lines to nearly all towns
within a radius of thirty miles.
The same company has just
acquired control of the Garcia
property, including the opera
house, and Captain Matthews,
the company'S manager, has al
ready begun the work of putting
the property into firSt-class con.
dition and also of making sub
stantial Improvements thereon.
1t may be added, in this con.
nection, that Socorro will in a
few days have telephone connec-
tion with Denver and Salt Lake
and intervening points.
The Socorro Chieftain, the
business part of which is under
the control of Anton Mayer, has
recently installed a brand new
1000 pound power news press,
and now boasts one of the very
best equipped country newspaper
and Job Offices in New Mexico.
The Socorro Irrigation Compa'
ny has just demonstrated that al
abundance of water can be had
for irrigation in this vicinity BY
pumping from the rivers under
flow.
Max kirchman is hard at work
on his colonization project by
which he expects to locate -four
or five hundred Bohemian fami
lies in Socorro and vicinity with
in the next three years. Mr.
Kirchman will begin boring foI
artesian water on the mesa wes
of the city in a very few days.
The Crown miii Company
whose old mill was burned tw'
or three years ago, is now equip
ped with new mill that is strict
| ly up-to-date in every respect.
The live stock industry of So
corro county which contribute
so much to SocOrro's welfare j
thriving as il has not thrived he
fore for twenty years.
The Magdalena and kelll
mining camps, which, also. con
tribute much to SocOrro'S pros
perity, are experiencing a verita
BILE boom and the district promis
es to become one of the creates
mining districts in the southwest
These are not all the fact
upon which bright hopes for So
corro are founded, but they ar
enough to show that such hope
are we'll founded.
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