Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-01-29
v. {. NONES ON
A UNITED CITY
INTERVIEW wtTn REELECTED
PRESIDENT OF THE aqua
puRA COMPANY.
PLEA FOR HARMONY
Visitor Points Out How Community
inIures Itself BY Constant 6seser,
snas--Prosperaey Thrown Away. :

" e S0nes. Of Louisville. NY,
who wAs yesterday reelected presi
dent of the Aqua Para company, lef
for his home this afternoon afiel
spending several days In Las Vegas
10 an interview with a representative
Of The Optic. Mr. Nones said:
I have been coming To Las Vega,
nearly every year since 1856 and have
always enjoyed my Visits here
feel the greatest interest In the pros
perlty aud progress Of the community
not only ON account Of my interest Ia
the Aqua pura Co, but also because
II vas the home Of my daughter,in.law
before her marriage 10 my second
son and because of the warm friend
ship OF SO many Las Vegas people foI
my eldest son during his residence
here.
I have always deeply appreciated
the courtesy with which | have been
treated and the warm weloome with
which | have been received during
my visits here. and have admired the
broad. liberal western spirit which ID
50 characteristic OF the community.
The only drawback to the pleasure
Of my visits here" he said. has been
the dissensions existing between the
residents of the old and new owns.
I'm my Judgment the chief cause o'
these dissensions Is two municipal gov
ernmens--the city of Las Vegas and
the town OF Las Vegas. side by side
a condition If affairs which think Is
not paralleled anywhere else In the
country.
IF this cause was removed. all 9th
or causes Of dissension, ! firmly be-
lleve. would disappear so that peace
and harmony would prevail and a
greater Las Vegas would make giant
strides In the growth Of It's population
in Its commerce and general prosper
ity.
Every other city and town in III"
United States is reaching out for ad-
ditional population. annexing outlying
districts and resorting 10 every means
To show growth and advancement.
If this city and town Of Las Vegas
should be united under one municipal
the Importance of the
city would be at once greatly en-
HANGED by the greater population it
would show and with the people Of old
and new towns working hand In hand
and heart to heart for the best inter
ests of the whole city. instead of con
tending for sectional interests. Las
Vegas would at once enter upon a
career of prosperity such as she has
never before experienced.
"The old and the new town. In my
opinion he said further. ''haVe every
thing to gain and nothing to lose by
getting together under one mnnicip
aIity.
The fact that efforts to unite them
in the past have failed. should not
he allowed to stand in the way OF an
other honest. supreme effort being
made to accomplish such a beneficial
result
let all bygones he bygones and for
gotten. Let dispassionate, cool jndE
ment prevail in guiding the movement
for unity, and success will be assure
Nothing tends SO much to repeE
carital from investment or 20 prevent
people from settling in a community
as sectional dissensions,
IT the time, money and effort OK
pended in sectional fighting were put
forth in building up instaed of rendinI
asunder, the results accomplished for
good would be stupendous.
II hope to find united, prosperous
and greater Las Vegas on my next
visit here and have so much faith In
the fairness and good sense of the peo
pie on each side of the river. that |
feel assured that a consummation so
greatly desired will be brought about. :"
Mr.. Nones is a wellinformed man
of excellent Judgment and his opinions
are identical with those of a large num-
Der of fair minded citizens in both city
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