Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-10-10
Great Resources of
Western Colfax
County
FARM MPR0sPECTsBR|G
Coal, Timber, Precious
Metals and Livestock in
Abundance.

George E. Remley. who six months
ago, became resident of the growing
town of Cimarron, in western Colfax
county, Is on a visit to Santa Fe on
business. Mr.. Remley has come to
New Mexico to cast his lot with the
coming Sunshine State and to make
home and name for himself and fam.
lily. He Is young man twenty-eight
years of age, native of Iowa City,
Iowa. He is son of Hon Milton Rem.
ley, of Iowa City, who, for years. has
been prominent and respected law
yer OF his state and who served six
years by election, for the term of two
years each, as attorney general of the
state, with great ability and honor
Mr. Remley, Sr., was a school boy with
Frank Springer, the well known Las
Vegas attorney and land owner and
he and Mr.. Remley have been lifelong
friends.
The young man received his educa
tion in the public schools of his native
city and at the Iowa University, where
he graduated with honor in the law
department and in the collegiate
course. He his married and his fam.
lily consists of wife and little daugh.
ter. He has not been admitted to the
practice Of law in the territory but
will present his application for license
and practice at the January session of
the New Mexico supreme court. At the
present time he is connected in a
prominent capacity with the Cimarron
ToWnsite company. During his resid,
ence in western ColfaX county, he has
made himself acquainted with the re
sources, conditions and future pros
poets of that rich portion of this great
territory. His observations and opin.
ions are therefore of interest. In the
course of an interview with a New
Mexican reporter yesterday he said:
Cimarron Takes New Lease of Life.
"Cimarron is one of the Oldest towns
in the territory but it has been only
during the past year that it has had
anything like a boom and the indca-
tions now are it will develop within
the very near future into an important
railroad and commercial center. 1t has
varied resources within a radius of
from twenty to thirty miles contiguous
to it and these resources are being
rapidly developed.
Five living streams converge in the
vicinity of the town the principal one
of which is the Cimarron river which
flows through the town itself. These
will not only furnish ample water for
irrigation but can also be utilized on
account of their fall in generating elec.
tricity and for other manufacturing
purposes. There are no less than five
irrigation projects now in contempla
tion in the country surrounding.
"The most important of these pro
jected irrigation works if carried out
on the gigantic scale proposed will
place over two hundred thousand
acres under cultivation. It is the in
tention of the promoters of this enter
prise to have a monster dam with re-
inforced concrete core and rock fill
built at the head Of Cimarron canon
and which drains the fertile Moreno
valley and it perfect natural site for
monster reservoir basin which will
be about five miles in width and about
eight miles in length.
I'm this reservoir it is estimated
that sufficient water can be stored to
irrigate some two hundred thousand
acres Of land lying below it which will
make Cimarron the marketing place
for the agricultural products raised
thereon and will naturally prove Of I'M
mense benefit to the town as we'll as
the section 1t embraces.
Agricultural Possibilities Of Surround
ing VountTy.
"The soil is composed of rich
sandy loan which is very fertile and
great variety of crops can be raised
upon t. Almost everything in the
way of farm produce, vegetables and
fruits can be grown there profitably
which are of course suited to the
climate Practically anything that car
be raised there according to my OBJ
servations that can be produced In
Iowa and the crops per acre compare
favorably in every respect with those
Of that state with the possible excep
ton of field corn. Fruit is grown there
that Iowans never thought Of. rails
ing. '1
"The possibilities Of the so-called
dry farming method present allurine
inducements. Under this system oi
soil culture an annual rainfall of ter