Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-08
GREAT BOOM IS ON
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COUNTY
EVERY TRAIN BRINGING
IN MORE HOMESEEKERS
Whistling Posts of a Year Ago
Are Now Thriving Towns and
Still Growing - Cotton CuI-
ture Now Being Tried.
Especial correspondence Morning Journnl.I

Especial Correspondence Morning Journal
clayton. ". NJ, oct. 5.-The past
year has seen wonderful changes in
Union county. Every train has
brought homeseekers who have To-
Gated on the vacant land
which for years has served no other
purpose other than grazing land.
Homesteading has been going on 70 a
greater extent in the southern Sec
ton OF the county than in the north
ern portion. Nara Visa and Logan.
which eighteen months g were
nothing more than stopping places OF
the Rock Island. are now thriving
towns OF five hundred inhabitants
each. Des Moines. which Is now a
little city Of about three hundred in
habitants, eight months ago had
nothing more than a section house. 1t
is now The junction of three railroads.
n each train Is bringing in new
people to invest in town lots or file
on land which can he obtained with
in a few miles Of that place. Those
who are IN a position to know state
that the population Of Union county
has doubled with the last fifteen
months. The majority of those who
have settled here in that time are
from oklahoma and Texas. and poll
ticlans state hat the political COM
plexion Of the county will also be
" AT the next election.
Cotton Grown in Union County.
Several real estate offices here to-
day had on exhibition full grown
stalks If cotton with an average Of
from fifteen to twenty-five full grown
bolls on each stalk. The stalks were
all fun grown and well developed.
and showed that cotton can be grown
in this county. The ony fear enter
tanned by those who hav experiment
ed in cotton is that there is NOS
enough hot weather TO open the bolls
after they are grown. Several home
steadess in this county propose next
year to get an early maturing variety
of cotton and plant It about the first
of Nav. They are Of the opinion that
the bolls will be fully developed BY
the first Of September. and believe
hat the hot weather in September
will oDcn the cotton to such an ey-
tent that II can be made a money
crcn.
The experiments of the past year
has fully demonstrated that small
grain crops can be cultivated with
profit in this COUNT. Corn on sol
band does we'll here and the offices
of local real estate men are filled
with samples of fine corn grown in
This county. This county has been
filled during the past year with
homesteaders. but most OF them did
flfiA ia ~ III " NiN'ii hh
til the latter part Of the year, end
consequently did not put ina full crop. Z
Next year the newcomers viii dem
onstrate whether this section of the
country Is adapted for anything else
other han stock and sheep raising.
The old-timers here have been lothc
to believe that anything practical In
the way of agriculture could be ac-
complished. but they are now begin
ming to believe that agriculture will
soon supplant the stock raising indus
try in this county.
Millsaps Indicted.
II has been reported in all OF the
papers Of New Mexico and the dailies
Of Colorado that w. c. Millsapps. who
about one month ago shot and killed
r. j.. steele. a prominent saloon man
Of this place. had not been indicted. 4
This Is a mistake. Millsapps was in
dicted on the charge of carrying dead
~ and also on the charge OF
murder. His bond was fixed a.
$500 in the murder case and $500 IN
the lesser case. He promptly made
bond in both cases and Immediately
upon his release went 20 his former
home in Colorado, returning a few
days ago. Millsapps is still suffering
from the gunshot wound inflicted by
steele I'm the fight. The killing arose
over a debt Of S571 that was incurred
by Millsapps IN a poker game. ~"
lost the money In Steele's saloon. ana
steele was trying 10 collect II from
him whe he was Killed.
OId Offcndcr Held for Wife Reatin"
Dolores Quintana yesterday after
noon was arrested on the charpe OF
~wife-beating. and at a hearing re-
leased. Last night he continued his
rampage by going TO his home and
literally cutting az all Of his house
hold effects and breaking into smith
Greens all Of the furniture contained
therein. after which he ran his fam
lis away. He was arrested n thrown
into Jail. This Is not his first at-
tempt. having less than "a year AGO
lone the same things and abused h-
family 10 such an extent that his SON
in-law was compelled 90 shoot him to-
their protection. He was indicted
about "a year ago on the charge ~ ar
son. having set fire 90 his home. after
which he went TO Colorado, but JUST
before the september term OF district
court was brought back 20 CLAYTON nN
Deputy sheriff Lucas Gallegos HIS
case was continued until next March
and il Is now likely that he VIII nave
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