Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-05
TORRANCE COUNTY FAIR
AN UNQUALIFIED
SUCCESS
EStanCid Did Herself Proud
In Handling Big Exhibit
and Crowds.
THOUSANDS OF VISITORS
WERE IN ATTENDANCE

Estancia, n. NJ, Oct. 5.-(Special.)
The Torrance county fair closed
last night at Estancia and the uni
versal verdict was that it was a
most surprising and splendid sue
cess. That the great Estancia val
ley has greater possibilities is most
convincingly shown by the magnifi-
cent exhibit OF products of the farm
and garden at the various offices and
chiefly at the exhibit hall.
Mammoth pumpkins from McIn-
from Moriarty; potatoes from Noun
tainair millet from Willard, and
kaffir corn, maize, chill, watermel-
ons, fine poultry and live stock from
Titique, Torreon, Manzano. Eastview,
Punta Day. and Stanley, and every
thing named and a little more from
Estancia, all in orderly and lastly
exhibit opened the eyes of the
strangers, and Inspired new conf
dence in the hearts of the sturdy
pioneers. who in the development of
tins valley had made such an ex-
The town was gaily decorated, and
the Russell-Hatcher concession COM
pany with its gaudy tents and gilt
tering clowns lined the whole of
Main street, and furnished plenty of
amusement for the girls and their
besus as they slpped the red lemo-
made and laughed at the clowns and
made love to each other in the con-
cealment or the great crowd. The
last day was probably the best of
the fair.
Not Elattery.
And the valley was not fiattered
by this fair and its exhibit. Any one
to be convinced that the experiment
of the settlement OF this valley is a
great, absolute success. Fine towns
are growing up with beautiful
homes and good business blocks, the
merchants are all reaping a harvest,
settlers are coming in ON every ex-
curslon, and feed, even at this stage
of the development OF the valley,
Will be plenty for the stock until the
next and ten times larger crop will
be reaped next season,
The settlers of the Estancia valley
are favored in many ways more
largely than in any other part OF the
territory. One of the chief items of
their advantage Is their proximity to
a wood and lumber supply, the
free wood and a multitude of saw
mills from SAN Pedro to Mountain
air furnishing cheaper lumber than
I'm any other part of the west. The
forest guard of the Manzano noun
tains is now in the valley towns to
sire to cut their winter fuel from the
government reservation.
Thriving Towns.
The town OF Estancia, the county
seat of the county of Torrance is one
of the most thriving of all the new
towns of New Mexico. 1t is compos-
ed of an enterprising and wideawake
citizenship, who know how TO build
a city. The citizens believe that there
is artesian water to be found under
meath their valley and this week
their contractor, Claude Comber, un-
loaded the largest well outfit ever
brought to the southwest and he is
going down a thousand feet and
more to get that water The peo-
pie OF Estancia have easily raised the
money to pay for the well. When il
is finished If they find the. water
they will use the well for a town
water supply. The hope is that the
well Will be artesian and so furnish
its own distributing power. but IL
not they Will put in a pumping plant
Immediately and Estancia win have
a fine system of water works.
While the whole valley has been
more or less interested in the fair,
II has been in reality EstanCia which
prepared the way and carried out
the plans for the great exhibits and
the entertainment of the large gath
ering. The town Is 10 be congratu-
lated upon the excellent showing Il
made.