The Socorro chieftain., 1908-05-30
SAN ANTONIO PREPARING
FOR GLORIOUS FOURTH
Captain Morrell Kennedy of Juvenile Rough Riders
Invites Manager Savage to Bring Socorro Crowd
and Promises Return of Compliment at Next
County Fair.


celebrate the Glorious Fourth, as
is indicated in the correspondence
reproduced b,low. In view of
the big boost that San Antonio
gave the county fair last fall,
Socorro can do no less than to
send down a big crowd to the cell
ebration.
CAPTAIN KENNEDY TO MANAGER
SAVAGE.
San Antonio, n. NJ, May 81.
To Pat Savage, the big boss
who ran the Sooorro county
fair:
Dear sir:
have been wanting to see
you for some time. | have heard
of your going through to FL
Paso, but you don't stop off here
any. | have been trying to find
out whether you are going to
have a fair this wear or not, for
| have been figuring on making
another march up with my COM
pany of Rough Riders, and may
20 as far as Albuquerque. /
have been having a talk with
the big war chief, Antonio,
nephew of Chief Victorio, and
he seems to think that YOU and
all the good people of Socorro,
Lemitar, and Magdalena should
come down here on the Fourth
of July and celebrate. / have
written Governor Curry and
think he will come down, and
have also written General Val
joen, the Boer general, who is
now farming in Dona Ana coun-
ty. | expect them and other
good speakers. We have plenty
of shade here for all and will
have lots of ball playing, horse
racing, and other sport.
Since writing a year ago |
have taken up homestead in
San Pedro and have just about
finished my adobe house and
will be living there soon. There
are two other families which
have taken up homeSteads over
there. Mr.. Scott, wife, and
daughter and some half dozen
other families will soon be there,
so there will be quite a colony of
us. | got so crowded at San
Antonio that | couldn't drill my
Rough Riders like | wanted to.
Lexington avenue, Mr.. Elmen-
DORIS new road, had so much
travel on it that we were con-
stantly being disturbed. They
are planting beets on both sides
of the track down there and the
three big seeders are constantly
passing over the track disturbing
me.
Baca avenue is no better.
Since David Baca bought his
new 1000 road grader he has
some seventy-five men out grad
ing this road for nearly three
miles from the new town clean
to where it joins the Elmendorf
road, and when all is finished
these two roads will make the
incest drive in the valley ten
miles long and as level as floor.
Captain Baca will set out trees
on both sides of Baca avenue.
The Hidalgo drive, the new
highland road to Elmendorf,
which the new automobile COM
pany is to use from Albuquer-
que to Elephant Butte dam.
will meet the new automobile
line from FL Paso at Palomas,
six miles below the dam. You
will then be able to go to Pa
Tomas Springs in four or five
hours from Socorro. Thirty
miles of this road is now in very
good shape for autos.
In San Pedro | have plenty of
room to drill my company and
my new neighbor, Don Julian
Montoya, who has lived there
for sixty years, told me he would
give me all the assistance he
could and was glad | was bring
ing my company there.
Buster Bill Simpson wants to
be my lieutenant this year. As
he failed to go along with me
last year when / needed him
let him be my corporal. i have
appointed August Harold Hilton
my first lieutenant. He has had
considerable experience as a sail
'or lately, having helped to en-