Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-05
NEW RAILROADS
STRETCHING OUT.
In Colfax County,
Good Traffic Es-
tablished.
RATION BUILDING BOOM
Cattle And Sheep Men Do
ing .Well.- .--Attorney Wrig-
ley Tells of Conditions.

Northeastern New Mexico is en-
joying its usual prosperity and the
money for the most part is being re
invested at home"
This was the opening remark of w
G. Wrigley, member of the New
Mexico Bar Association and well
known attorney and bushes man OF
Ration who was met by New MeXi
can reporter in the lobby of the Claire
Hotel last night. Continuing Mr.
Wrigley said:
THE st. Louis Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Railroad has already complet
ed its line from Ration to a point on
Ute Creek and by the end of another
month will have reached Des Moines
station on the Colorado Southern
The road Is doing a large passenger
business from Ration to Cimarron.
II am informed that the promoters
of the Ration, Santa Fe and Eastern
Railroad which runs up the Chico
Rico Valley intend to extend the road
to Oklahoma City in the near fu.
ture. ! have every reason to believe
that this will be done.
Building Boom in Ration.
80 much for the railroads in north.
eastern New Mexico. In Ration dur.
ing the last year there has been a
sort of building boom. twenty-five
good substantial business buildings
have been erected and over 200 resi-
dences to say nothing of store rooms
warehouses, etc. There are now
about forty dwellings under construc-
ton.
"'rhe cattle industry is in fine
shape. Live stock were never in bet
Ter condition Buyers are flooding
the country and every beef sold
brings good returns. Stock cattle
bring an average price of $50 the &C.
tual figures varying according to
grade and condition. Feeders, OF
which the most have been sold in
Colfax County, bring from SIS tC
S35 per head. Sheep are doing well
the ranges are il good conditions and
the outlook is bright. The Troys sold
their entire drove of sheep for about
100000 but will retain their range
and other lands. Alfred Mandy who
has ranched in Colfax County for
thirty years, sold 600 head of cattle
for an average of SIS per head.
Activity in Real Estate.
'Real estate is active. 1t is report
ed that the Dunkards have bought a
large tract of the Valdez grant and
will raise sugar beets thereon. The
farmers on Johnson Mesa east Of Ra
ton raised fine crops during the past
year and are in a prosperous condi
ton.
81 came here to attend meeting
of the New Mexico Bar Association,
said Mr.. Wrigley, "and to present tc
the legislature certain measures fol
the benefit of municipalities. One Il
provision for an occupation. tax
Another is measure having for itc
object, the assessing of property own
ers instead of the occupants of prop
erty for the removal of garbage. The
third is for the restoration of a road
tax. I consider them all good meas
ures.
Proposed Revision Of Laws.
"a number of matters we're dis
cussed at the meeting of the Bar AS
sociation, the principal thing being
the proposd revision of the entire laws
of the Territory The bill for this
purpose as originally framed provided
for a commission of from three to five
members. It seemed to be the general
opinion, however, that the work should
be turned over to one attorney who
should receive liberal compensation
and who should pay all incidental ex.
penses. called the attention of the
Association to the previously men.
toned municipal bills and also to a
community property law"
In company with Mr.. Wrigley in the
hotel lobby was Mr.. Stockton, member
of the Council from Colfax County
Mr.. Stockton also spoke of the pros
porous condition of Colfax County and
of Ration. He came to what Is now
Colfax County in 1868. He took pleas.
ure in recalling stories of the early
days.