Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-01-25
For New Mexico
Military Institute
at Roswell.
BY COMPETENT AUTHORITY
Chaplain Bateman u S.
Army Gives Views on
Pecos Valley.

The Rev, Cephas c. Bateman, Chan.
lain Artillery Corps, U S. Army. who
has been stationed at the Fort Bayard
Military Sanitarium for the past six
teen months was in the city Jester.
day having arrived via the automobile
line and the Santa Fe Central from
Roswell where he mad been a guest
for several days at the New Mexico
Military Institute This is the first
absence Of the Chaplain from his post
OF duty where he Is kept very busy.
He went to Roswell on the invitation
of The officials of the Military lnsti.
tute to inspect it and to deliver
course of lectures to the cadets. He
expressed himself. as highly pleased
with the conditions he found the APP
pearance of the cadets, their behavior
and with most everything connected
with the school, except that he re-
marked there is a great paucity of
quarters and that the main building
stands in immediate need Of exten.
sive repairs.
Military Institute overcrowded.
Since the beginning of the pres.
ent academic year. said the Chap.
lain, fifty boys, applicants for admis-
sion to the Military Institute, have
been turned away because there were
no quarters available for them. Two
small cottages a short distance apart
from the compound of the institution
are rented from private parties and
these are full. After | became ac-
aoeintru with the personnel of the
academic board the faculty, | have
been asking myself as purely dlsin,
terested party if the people generally
or New Mexico realize that they have
at the head of that institution one of
the finest bodiss of offiearg ihat anp
where in the country are charged with
such duty The personnel OF the
faculty could scarcely be higher. The
same may be said of the cadet corps.
| left after few days sojourn in
close touch with every department of
the work of the Institute, with the
highest sense of appreciation of the
character and extent of the profes,
sional work, performed there, but with
regret that so high standard of ex-
cellence as illustrated in the person.
mel of the academic board or faculty
is dependant upon such limited facili-
ties.
Il visited the Hondo reservoir and
am convinced that the section trlbu.
tary to Roswell in Chaves County has
great future. From ten to twelve
thousands of acres Of fine land will
be placed under irrigation and cult.
walton, Water is now running into
the reservoir which was built by the
United States Reclamation Service
"The entire Pecos Valley seems to
be filling up with very good class of
citizens and it is a section that has
a great future.
Praises Santa Fe and Its Climate.
I am greatly pleased to visit Santa
re. 1t is certainly one of the most in.
teresting towns have ever been in.
Its climate is of the best and the
scenery surrounding it is of the finest.
although my experience in New Mex
lco has taught me that it is richer
than any other section of this contin-
ent in climate and scenery. visited
some of your historical buildings and
was greatly impressed Certainly
Santa Fe is town worth coming to
and spending week or two in. am
sorry that my time Is limited and that
must return to my post of duty. but
expect that | will be here again TO
make a longer stay. Your official
buildings are very handsome and i'm.
pressive and | am especially pleased
with your new High school building
which Is certainly credit to a city
five times the size of your city. also
hope that you will not destroy too
many of the old buildings which you
now have and which are hundreds of
years old. They give the town an ap-
pearance and character which is
greatly admired and very pleasing to
eastern travellers and tourists. Nat
urally being an army man | was very
much interested in tracing the outline
and buildings of the Old Fort Marcy
Reservation one of the most Historical
Military posts in the country. Forty
years ago when l was a boy and living
In Kansas City, I remember seeing
trains OF bull and OK wagons with
from ten to twenty head yoked TO
them starting for Santa Fe with mer.
chandise and travelling over the Santa
re trail between Westport and this
city The trip those days used to
take three months and any man who
mad made trip from Westport to
santa Fe twice year was considered
a hero and worthy of great achieve
ments."
Attends Session Of Legislative
Assembly.
The Reverend gentleman was Wis
itor at the Legislative House yester.
uay forenoon and was invited to omen
the session of the Council with PRAYER
winch ne did. He was greatly pleased
TO have look at New Mexico Lep,s.
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