Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-01-12
'EL|DA BUSY
GROWING TOWN
Home Seekers Find
Rich Land In Vic.
Unity.
HAVE RAISED FINE CROPS
Prospects in Eastern Roose-
welt County Bright Says
Editor J. A. Hall.

Among the visitors in the Capital
this week was James A. Hall of Elida,
Chayes County, practicing attorney
and editor of the Elida News. He
was here for several days on personal
business and was admitted to prac.
tice law in New Mexico by the exam.
lining board of the Territorial Su
preme Court.
Although still a youth in years he
is already actively. engaged in cary
ing out his career and his efforts in
that direction so far have been
crowned with success. He has had
the advantage of thorough college
training and is ambitious and ener-
getic. Elida was scarcely year old
when he settled in the town in 1909
and engaged in the mercantile bust
ness. He conducted a store there for
a year and a half but has continued
TO make his home at that place since.
| He retired as a merchant for the pur.
pose OF completing his education
Well Equipped by Education.
| He was graduated from Clarendon
College in May, 1905. and from the
law department of Cumberland Uni
versity of Lebanon, Tennessee, in
June, 1906. He was admitted to prac
| tice law in Tennessee Immediately af
| ter his graduation but did not avail
himself of the opportunity there He
returned to Elda and became the edi-
tor Of the Elida News.
Mr.. Hall says that the prospects of
the eastern part of New Mexico are
indeed tlattering and skepticism rela-
tive to the future is no longer heard
During the course of an interview yes.
terday he gave the following interest
ing facts concerning conditions in
and around Elida;
"Elida is now about four years old
but only in the last two years has it
enjoyed the thriving growth which is
now pervadng all the west and most
of the eastern portion of New Mexico.
The people there are joyous over the
fact that they do not depend upon
mans crude, unsatisfactory and ex.
pensive methods Of irrigation, but
can always depend upon the blessings
of the Almighty which visit them so
frequently in the shape of abundant
rainfalls. The soil IS a deep reddish
sandy loan which is exceedingly pro-
ductive. Among the citizenship there
is no dissatisfaction because of hav,
ing chosen this portion of the world
in which to live.
Many Settlers Find Homes.
During 1906 the great influx of i'm.
migrants from all parts of the United
States has indeed been amazing and
our present prospects and present de-
gree of development and prosperity
far surpass the expectations of the
most sanguine. Since coming to
Santa Fe | have been frequently
asked, Upon what does the stability
if there be any depend?' l can an
swer only by stating something of the
results of our farming ventures Dur.
ing 1906 the corn crop around Elida
averaged about forty bushels per acre
and that too of a good quality.
500 Acres of Fine Wheat.
There are now around Elida about
500 acres of wheat which is as beau
tiful as the eye of man ever looked
~ Tho ,,thn fo,
sas, Missouri and other places are
very much elated over the showing
which has been made. They pro-
nounce this a great wheat country.
while fruit farmers pronounce it also
fruit country. There
are few, comparatively speaking,
fruit trees now bearing, as the or
chards are too young. There Is an
old orchard at the headquarters of a
ranch about ten miles from Elida
which has been very prolific for years.
Hugh Lewis, Jr., who has for years
owned and managed this ranch has
recently sold it but reserved the
home ranch place of 100 acres, where
he is now. after having been thor
1ughly convinced by years of eXper
ience, putting out an eighty acre or
chard. All kinds of vines, melons.
garden truck and so forth grow lux
lriantly. Also all kinds of feed
'tuffs that can be grown in the
Southwest.
Eida Lively Business Town.
Commercially Elida is one of the
iveliest little towns which can be
ound anywhere. There are now two
'anks of about six months of age
which have about $125,000 or $150,OO0
+ individual deposits. Our town pop.
lation is about 500, while the sur
ounding country is thickly popu-
ated, there being family on nearly
very quarter section of land within a
adious of twelve or fourteen miles.
he church and school facilities com
are favorable with any that can be
ound in any new country.
"The Elida Cement & Improvement
Company has fine bed of cement
Thich was examined by cement ex-
ert, e. c. Coon, of Endeavor, Wis
onsin, and pronounced the best of its
ind, having less foreign substance of
ny he had ever examined. Mr.. Coon
'as the founder of the United States
ement Company He was the origin
tor of the O. K cement This com
any will at once incorporate for