Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

railroad Improvements erected Tor
the accommodation of this new line
Is to be seen. The largest building
is an eighteen stall concrete round
house which is located east of the
track and somewhat south of the
main part of town. The CONNER
cial club, with many of the towns
people were at the depot to see the
train whose whistle tells them such
rosy story of the future of their
city as a junction for two main
lines of the greatest railway in the
United States. Among the number
were John Becker, c. Nj. Wells. DR..
w. ID. Radcliffe, Hugo Miller. VIM.
M. Berger. and many others
"A mile out of Belen the road
crosses a great steel bridge spanning
the Rio Grande. The ascent to Abo
pass begins at the east end of this
bridge and for thirty miles the road
climbs, winding across the mesa,
through artificial rock gorges,
across gigantic cement bridges, over
immense earth fills, until at last IL
mounts the pass and glides into the
picturesque Estancia valley The
work in Abo canyon tells of years of
work and the cause of delay of its
completion.
I'VE crossed seven cement bridget
in the canyon alone. Many of the
cuts are forty feet deep and there
places the road finds a bed of solid
rock along shelves blasted in the
mountains.
Mountainair.
'Mountainair, about thirty-two
| miles from Belen is most appropri
! ately named. Here indeed Is the
'Ozones CITY, The altitude is
about $500 feet and it Is surrounded
by fine growths of cedar, juniper
nd afnn I'll. a1S
eastern slope of this mountain
| range Here John w. Corbett, the
veteran newspaper man and builder
| OF many towns, has at last found his
SOULS ideal and with his family re-
| side on a fine piece of land, which
he is improving at his home. He is
also engaged in the real estate and
insurance business and holds the Of
fee of county surveyor of Torrance
county. II. l.. Hanlon is the post
/ master and Santa Fe agent
"Mountainair doubtless has had the
best building advantages OF any new
town in New Mexico. To the north
furnish lumber at about half the
lumberprice which other towns pay.
! The lumber has only to be hauled
| about twelve miles. Most of the ties
for the new railroad were brought
from the mountains and loaded at
this point. The Mountainair hotel,
j. A. Clark, proprietor, the fine livery
barn of j. S. Cravens, the lumber
yard OF j. II. Rhoades, and many
other new business buildings can be
seen from the new depot. The Nc
Coy company has a large general
store in Mountainair.
| willard,
1T Is down hill to Willard, fifty
/ miles from Belen, the ambitious little
| city which because of its being
| junction point with the Santa Fe
Central railway, and has many other
natural advantages, aspires to be the
| leading city Of the Estancia valley.
The new concrete depot here is an
| exact counterpart of the depot at
Texico, and is two-story mission
style building one hundred and
| twenty feet in length. Here also are
to be seen the pumping plant of the
/ railroad which furnishes water for
not only Willard but pumps water
| for the stations east all the way TO
! Vaughn. A pipe line is laid which
! carries an abundant supply of water
| of the very purest.
The population of Willard is now
| close TO eight hundred and the alt-
! tude is $500 feet. Here John Beck
er has helped TO build another town,
owning most of the townsite when
I the town began to build. He is also
partner of Charles Ilfeld in the
| large wholesale and retail house of
| the Willard Mercantile company.
! The next largest mercantile estab-
lishment is that of Wilbur A. Dun
I lazy, whose stock Of merchandise
would do credit to any city.
! willard has a wiueawake CONNER
/ cial club of which L. P. Davis, the
! leading legal light of Torrance coun-
/ ty Is president, F. Walrath secretary,
and John II. Kelley is perhaps the
main guy. The Torrance County
/ Savings bank, II. b. Jones. presi-
I dent Duncan McGillivray, vice presi-
i dent, and e. =. Davies, cashier, has
! its own fine building on the best cor
ner of the town and is doing a good
| business.
From the many signs on the win
dows and storeroom fronts one gath
/ ers that every kind of business has
| its creditable representative, and in
many cases two or three stores Of
| the same class. There are several
| hotels one of which, the Willard ho-
! tel. is managed by w. w. Piper. An
up-to-date drug store Is owned by
/ DR., W. A. Wilson, who with his
partner, DR.. Q. ID. OttosOn, does the
medical act for the town.
Vaughn.
! f"phgra are No gfaffone nf pOfa