The Socorro chieftain., 1907-10-05

GOVERNOR GEORGE CURRY AND
HONORABLE H. 0. BURSUM

The unbounded enthusiasm
that prevailed in Socorro during
the entire three days of SucOrru
county's first annual fair first
manifested itself at 10 O'clock
Saturday morning on the arrival
of the special train bringing
Governor Curry and party from
Santa Fe. AS the governor
alighted from the train he was
greeted with loud aud prolonged.
cheers from the hundreds of peo-
pie, many of them friends ul his
cowboy days, who had gathered
to greet him. AS soon as he
could be extricated from the
great crowd of personal and po-
litical friends and admirers he
was conducted to a waiting car
riage in which, in company with
Honorables II. o. Bursum, w.
+. Martin, and Harvey Nj. Rich
ards, he led the grand procession
that extended over a mile in
length in its progress along the
principal streets of the city.
The governors carriage finally
halted OH the north side of the
plaza and the long procession
filed past in review and disband-
ed. The governors party then
mounted the grand stand and in
the presence of the biggest
crowd of people that has assem-
bled in Socorro in twenty years
Mayor Bursum welcomed Gov
ernor Curry to Socorro.
MAYOR BURsUM's SPEECH.
Ladies, Gentlemen and Eel
low Citizens:
I'VE have with us today the
chief executive of the territory
of New Mexico, Governor George
Curry, and we are glad that he
is here.
That is simple language, but
/ believe each and every one of
YOU join me in saying that we
mean it in the fullest sense of
the word.
I'VE, the citizens of Socorro
and of Socorro county, take deep
pleasure in availing ourselves of
our first opportunity to show our
friendship and appreciation of
George Curry upon our home
ground. (Applause.)
I'VE welcome him today, not
only as our governor-the head
of our official affairs in the ad-
ministration of our territory, but
we welcome him with equal
pleasure as man, as a friend,
as a citizen who cast in his lot
with New Mexico, from the early
days of his childhood and we
welcome him as a soldier who
has won every laurel he wears
on the field of battle.
Fellow citizens, this is the
first annual fair of the city and
county of Socorro.
"Socorro county is an empire
in itself, embracing $50 miles
from north to south and three
hundred miles from east to west.
With that area is a soil as rich
as the blessings of a divine prov
idence has endowed any county
in New Mexico. Socorro county
is wealthy in her vast timber re-
sources and her big forest re-
serves, equalled only by few
others on the continental divide
of the big timber supply of Flag
staff in our sister territory.
Socorro county-our home
is rich in her great stretches of
undevelOped mineral resources
and coal beds; her half million
head of sheep, 'one hundred
thousand head of cattle and with
an annual production from the
mines of our Magdalena district
of one and one half million dol
lars in bullion more than is pro-
duced in all the balance of New
Mexico, TO say nothing of half a
million dollars worth of gold and
silver from the Mogollons.
Then there are our farms
great stretches of beautiful ag-
ricultural land highly cultivated
in the beautiful valley of the
Rio Grande. The soil is fertile,
the water is plentiful and these
lands produce the finest fruit.
alfalfa, corn and other cereals
in the territory. We are a pro-
gressive community. On the
south of the city there is being
developed by the Elmendori
company of Elmendorf, the Bos-
que del Apache land grant which