The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-10-15

as possible all surroundings accord
ing to his own ideals
There are still many people in
Carlsbad who say that had some of
Mr.. Hagerman's dreams" received
more consideration there, that city
would now be the metropolis of the
Pecos Valley; the railroad built by
Mr.. Hagerman. would have stopped
for a much longer time at Carlsbad,
and "Hagerman Heights" which is
still shown to visitors as a monument
to enterprise that might have built
the town, would today be a living
reality instead of an unfinished
dream.
1t is the nature of men who have
really great plans in mind to keep
their jaws firmly closed and give the
world only results. Employing his
own money, Mr.. Hagerman had the
right to work out his plans in his
own way. Seeing that a railroad was
necessary for the development of
the Pecos Valley, he built the road
but building the railroad was not his
main object, else he would not have
sold it and planted an orchard or
started a cattle ranch. Accustomed as
no ua to 6ond1ino Iorno oranoci-#
lions, he could not be content to in
vest mis- money in stocks or bonds
ness.
Carnegie builds libraries, and they
are all right SO far as they go, and
are given free to cities that meet the
conuitions,-but Mr.. Hagerman, while
retaining his capital, has given more
than mere none to the Pecos Val
ley. He opened the way into the most
fertile Valley of the Southwest, con-
structed irrigation works, and ac-
complished things that homeseekers
of small capital could not have done
for themselves without combination
and leadership. Without the Hager-
nan orchard, and the Hagerman rail
road, it might have been many years
yet before the fruit industry of the
Pecos Valley would have amounted
tn onuthin0 nP ~ MO do .ot
know the motives of Mr.. Hagerman
through all the years he has devot-
ed his capital and brains to the de-
velopment of the Pecos Valley, and
we neither know nor care how much
money he has made for himself out
of the venture,-but the whole COM
munity has been benefited, and now
he proposes to turn over his orchard
to men who will make homes on
small tracts. We do not care, either,
should he decline to sell to any but
practical men and good citizens to.
insure the proper future development
OF the country, and TO secure the
right kind of n%eighbors. The Record
is a believer in he small farm and
orchard as the hope of an irrigated
| country, but would not advocate fore
ing the captains of industry" the
large holders, to sell. Mr.. Hager-
man is himself a believer in "The
| Man With a Hoe" but sometimes the
| steam-shovel must precede the hoe,
and the Pecos Valley has been fortu-
nat in having a man with means and
| plans large enough to remove obsta-
cles toe great for the man with an
OK team and all his worldly wealth
in a covered wagon.
Other men have done much in the
development of his section, too, but
for he present we are talking about
Mr.. Hagerman, and no man who
rightly considers the enterprise of
this man will grudge one penny OF
the profits ne may have made, or
deny that he has been, and is, a
public benefactor.
Possibly the city of Roswell could
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