Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-06-25


pretty gray hollow building block:
manufactured there, and this will
cost S1.100. w. F. Baker has Jus
rooted three-room block hause Al
a cost OF $500. Harvey Mccoy be
gun few days ago to erect 3Ox3t
two-story brick residence. to cost 81,
900. Colonel Williams has just com
pleted four-room brick cottage
which cost $1,000. Many other build
ings, both residence and business
are projected in different parts of Az
tee, and only await brick and lumber
and again let it be said that building
in New Mexico is sorely retarded foy
lack of lumber.
The foundation has been laid for
new Methodist South church which
will cost $G,000-a modern structure
with steam heat. 1t will be of brick.
C. S. Bailey. the newspaper man who
retired TO go into the mercantile bus
iness. SO he would be able to give
one of his craft a cigar, has Just en-
larged one of the prettiest frame resi-.
dences in Aztec, where he spends
Sunday on the grass, reading the
scripture.
The Northwestern New Mexico Oil
Gas company has secured sufficient
FUNDS by which cooperation with an
enterprising well borer who is will.
ing to take a chance, will enable
them to begin soon to bore for oil
hoping they will first strike artesian
water. for Aztecs supply comes from
the Animas and has to he filtered into
cisterns.
The Citizens ditch is among the
new enterprises which appear to he
assured Of the necessary capital for
the construction of 20 miles of ditch
which will connect with the four.
mile jacques ditch at Blanco. Tnis
will cover 5000 acres of land, includ-
ing the Bloomfield mesa whose seen.
ic landscape is matchless, and whose
soil is unexcelled. 1t was where the
Aztecs held carnival and ran their
chariot races 1000 years ago, when
one OF the periods of volcanic erup-
"~'N 80 ''N la idio iuOuDldiu9 StHt
out fumes and lava to exterminate
the race
One thing which has done much,
probably most, 10 generate hone and
realty sales in Aztec since the South
ern Pacific combined its energies TO
get into Guadalajara, Mexico, has
Teen the New Eden Ditch & Land
company's movements, and one would
learn with regret that anybody in Az
tee would lend effort TO defeat so
magnificent an enterprise from get
ting money for construction. The
company is now making its final
cross-sectional survey and when this
is done construction will begin at
once. The money, the correspondent
is assured, has been procured. The
system will be 40 miles long, begin
ming TO take water from the Animas
river in Colorado, one and half
miles from the state line. and having
its terminus on the Crouch mesa.
One lateral will reach the Bloomfield
section and there will be able to
make a drop of 100 feet which will
furnish initial power for the produc-
tion of electric power and light 1t
is estimated that this great enterprise
will cost 100000. The successful
promoter VINO began less than year
ago to get the money and got it is w
Golf Black.
Only the cherry crop is being har-
vested from Aztec's orchards. On.
ions. radishes and lettuce are plenti-
ful and the hotel man puts them on
in large dishes and does not watch
YOU. Green peas had Just come in
and the first mess of new potatoes
was served at Feidler's hotel Sunday,
with fried chicken, which was still
missed their dinner.
The butter and egg market was
glutted a few days ago. the former
dropping several points to 15 cents
and the latter to 90 cents. Large
quantities were purchased by consum-
ers and sailed down, as butter had
never been so cheap before.
II is quarter of mile to the dep
OF, from the middle of Aztec, and you
may walk or give the hackman a
quarter to ride.
Aztec will continue to grow for
years to come. but Il will grow better
by growing with the permanent
growth of the surrounding country.
Aztec was made for many people, not
for few. Many people had lived
there centuries ago. and done tine best
they knew.
On leaving to catch the Durango
train the correspondent was informed
that capital had been secured for the
establishment OF a national bank
which is expected to be In operation
| In Aztec within a few months.
| FRANK HARTMAN
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