The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-05
San Francisco, California.

roswell record
After visiting Roswell a number of
times in the past two years, and be-
ing impressed with the substantial
and rapid growth, the Incompatible
natural surrounding you
on all sides by a of you grand
artesian belt n your now assured
additional area to be well watered by
the new Government reservoir, it will
give you an impetus that is almost
i~ncalculable n such an one as I do
not believe a large percentage of your
people lave the proper conception of.
Your people are favored by a eli
mate equal to the best, and in many
essentials vastly superior to any 9th
er in the United States.
1t is not known yet, to what extent
your horticulturists can demonstrate
the variety of ~deciduous fruits, you
can produce, that the entire country
is largely dependent upon California
for; they do not seem to realize the
number of ca1neries, packing houses
and manufacturing industries that
must come with your development
and progress. Your city, and a beau
tiful laid out one it is, with wide
streets so ~prettily shaded, should de-
velop in proportion to u rural de-
velopment, and there is one thing you
are particularly lacking in and which
you must have before you can ever
hope for the investor to risk his CAPT
tai in substantial and adequate mod
ern edifices. You need a first class
"City Water Works capable of sup
plying all needs and requirements
for a population of at least $4,000 and
capable of being enlarged ad interim
as your growth demands, as it surely
will.
Many of your people may say at
this juncture, why my artesian gush
er is ample for my needs" Is it nee
essary for these same people to await
the awakening of their latent sensi-
bilities by such an awful calamity as
befell this great metropolis from fire,
which destroyed hundreds of millions
of dollars worth of property in four
consecutive days and night. Such as
has W been known in the history
of the world? and which could have
been ayerted with a very nominal
loss, if we had possessed an ample
and modern water system, but instead
it vas a miserable makeshift allow
ed by an unsuccessful INSCRIPTIONS
corporation to pay dividends upon
many times he actual money invest
ed. With a modern system, you will
III O"pAooI lSooy W
ness structures, such as you present
condition is capable of supporting,
your suburban sections will quickly
double in population n erect more
beautiful and costly homes, because
they can feel an assurance of fire
protection, and because insurance
rates would be less, to say nothing OF
having water throughout their homes
and to beautify the exterior surround
ings. With such an acquisition, there
would be an immediate demand for
IN electric street and i~nterurban
car system, which combined with the
electric light system, these three,
water, Lights and Cars" under one
well regulated management, you can
easily see what Importance Roswell
would come to.
I realize your present need for cheap
fuel to accomplish all of this, and in
the interim of cheaper fuel being
found, your needs for fire protection
and healthier and more rapid growth
are dependent upon a city water sup
ply.
When you have these three essen
tials to every city's needs, your de-
delopment will entice of their own
volition more and better ~transporta-
ton facilities, which in your present
condition; your country is not ready
to offer proper support to another
Steam railroad.
If only on Enthusiastically amount,
that has been used in advertising
California was so expended in the Pc
cos Valley from Roswell to Carlsbad,
as has been done in the various de-
sert sections of far famed California,
t show the world what far superior
natural advantages you are
ed by, in every conceivable way-the
fertility of your soil, the greater su-
periority of your now known products
with the possibility of SO many untried
but profitable products, your vastly
superior advantages already develop
ed for irrigation and the still greater
possibilities of what can be done
to irrigate your entire valley when
ever crude oil may become available
Your superior climate upon the whole,
to the lower altitude and tOrrid heat
of the California inland valleys. and
last but not least, some as proficient
horticulturists as any, in that famous
apple countries of Hood River Valley,
Oregon: and Yakima Valley of Wash
ington. you have the foundation laid
to make the grandest agricultural out
put of any country under the cerulea7
canopy of Heaven.
Get your City Water Works-even
if the municipality has to take charge.
the other accessories will quickly
come; then form a permanent promo
ton Committee with a paid competent
head to gather the actual facts of your
and possibilities. and have
them disseminated to the world. in lit
erature. For every dollar SO judic-
iously expended, your people will in
a short time get back in incalcuiable
amounts the profits of their out lay.
This kind of energy and "all pull
together" is what has made California
a land Of m~illionaires, a land tnat
all want to see, M if your people
would only realize It, as do those who
have seen more of the world tlan