Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-24
Member of Hagerman Party Tells of Places Along the Route of Southwestern SyS- tenn Touched by Them,
New Mexican Celebrities Were the Guests of Superintendent Simmons of the Fl PaSo & Southwestern,

From the Santa Fe New Mexican the following is taken: ,l The trip was very pleasant anu enjoyable one all around, Terrltorlal Secretary J. w. Raynelds stated yes ( terday in speaking of the Junketlng I tour taken by Governor HagermaR and { party at the invitation of H, J. Sim mons, general manager of the Fl Paso ( x Southwestern railroad, and E. C: ] Carpenter. superintendent or the coal ( fields at Dawson. MT. Raynolds sald ( that the party was entertained at various points along the route, and |, the governor made several lhlormal talks at the public receptions. General Manager Simmons was un- ohle to accompany the party owing to inc illness of his wife. and the en- f tertainment of the junketers Whl' Q on route was left to MT. and Mrs. E> | q Carpenter. who met the party 4gGn it's arrival at French. DaWso was reached on the evening ot f& first day of the trip, and after .a uspec- tiop of the model mining camp and a drive around the town, Gfe tour ists reboarded the spec lai car pro yided for the trip, and Aea&ed for TNu- cumcari. over the D awSon railroad. At Roy a reception ommittee of eiti- zens met the train and escorted the rarty through the town. TucuE cari Nas reached in the afternoon and here the party Eas Joined by Harold hurd of Ros- we'll The TucTmcari citizens tende red an informal recep- tlon at the co urt hoase where inc gov crnor made brief address After wards he 9.nd his guests were driven aroupi, visiting the wool securing nlant and other points of interest. in cluding a trip into the outlying coun- try
 Monday night found them at Santa Ecsa and the next morning delega- tior welcomed them to the metropo- lis of Guadalupe county. They were entertained here also with drive around town and went out to the farm of Hon. Celso Baca. Tuesday after- noon the special ca was whisked to Alamogordo. The governor was m, troduced to the citizens at general reception held at the court house there in the evening, after which the party uas entertained at the residence o1 Judge E. A. Mann.
 Cloudcroft was the next obJectlVe point and it was reached early Weo nesday This being the end or tne journey the party disbanded ana us members went their several ways. MT 
 Santa Fe. but Governor Hagermar was undecided at the time whether in remain in Cloudcroft until the meet ing next week of the New Mexico Bal association or to proceed oVerlane to Roswell. MT and Mrs. Carpenter entertained at a parting luncheon a Cloudcroft. Secretary Reynolds was very mucf impressed with the improvements De ing made and the conditions general ly in and around Dawson and Tucum carl Speaking about these t"' places he said:
 Dawson is certainly splendl camp. Everything is modern. Tn mines. houses and streets are all llgh' ed by electricity. The homes of tn miners are owned by the company an are being supplied with running wate and the whole accommodation IS 1ul nished at an extremely moderate rei tai. The company is now engaged l the construction of bank of four hu1 dred and fifty beehive coke ovens an onepinp up two new coal mines S that by January 1st next it will be pr' ducing over one hundred tons of CO; and coke per day. The Phelps-Dode people have just completed fine no pital and this with the new offt buildings. entertainment hall for tt men, and similar improvements, VI make the camp one of the most tho oughly up-to-date in the country. IT town itself it orderly and well kel and the miners and their families pear to be prosperous and happy.
 "Tucumcari is also growing ve rapidly. While there the party Vi driven into the surrounding count to see the results of the farming { forts. That was particularly into esting because the farming is be1l done by irrigation by which meth' crops are being raised. One field corn in particular was unusually teresting, cultivated this year for | third season, and the corn stands ov eight feet high The ears are VI formed and well filled. It is estim ed that the yield will be from thir five to forty bushels to the acre. IT same farmer was raising beans, m ons. peanuts and various other cro We had a water melon party while his house. The watermelons we grown in the open field and they wt unusually fine. In Quay county wi in a radius of ten miles of the to there is not single quarter sectl of land left unappropriated. In evt direction now the country is fent and the growing crops are in prom ing condition.
 Row. which is midway betwt Dawson and Tucumcari in the ca ern part of Mora county, is gol ahead too Mesa farming is bel done there also and the farmers hs good stands of maize, sorghum other crops. The town is grow steadily"