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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13
NEW MEXICO PIONEER ON
AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS

Santa Fee New Mexican.
The following Interesting story on
New Mexico conditions, agricultural
and livestock, appeared in a recent
number of Farm and Ranch" a
weekly journal published at Dallas,
Texas, and devoted to agriculture and
stock raising. 1t was written by
Frank N. Page, one of the oldest set
tiers of and a successful sheep raiser
on the Pecos river in Guadalupe
county. Mr.. Page says:
"The h~ome-seeker has in New Mex
a home-plains, mountains and irri-
gated lands. Without going into an
cient history or statistics of the ter
ritory 1t will be the object of this ar
tfcle to give a concise description of
what the homeseeker may expect to
find, and how and where and what the
lands will do.
hi Plains.
"In nearly every county there are
plains or prpairies which have been
used for ages for the grazing of ami
mails and are covered with rich
grasses which keep the animals fat
all winter. These lands, of which
there are thousands of acres vacant,
can be taken up under the United
States land laws.
1.-THE land, where it can be plowed
up and cultivated, is very rich and
will produce any kind of crop suita-
cient moisture, and many farmers are
now making a ucce under the
Campbell system in many sections of
the territory.
Land is absolutely free to the
homeseeker under the fve-year home
stead Law. the settler paying the gov
eminent fees only, but if a locator
show the lands he should be paid; in
any event the land should always be
surveyed by a competent surveyor SO
has the correct numbers.
ut is a question whether a living
can be made on 16O acres only. There
are millions Of acres only good for
grazing and b rich grasses or the
lands that absolutely cannot be cult
waited will be as they always have
been used for grazing.
"The wealth of this territory has
been sheep and the opinion of the
writer is that most of the settlers
will probably go into sheep raising,
in community herds.
wherever the settler has windmills
and water he a irrigate a small or
chard and garden. Wherever there is
irrigation there are abundant crops,
and this can be shown where the
lands have been settled.
"The writer, years ago, tried to get
congress to pass a law similar to the
Texas laws, allowing actual settlers
four sections on a purchase Or lease,
but his time was wasted and his tro1l.
bles for naught. The Texas school
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

land law, although abused by the DO
nus man and he speculator, has been
the means of the redemption of the
arid lands OF Texas, and this kind of
faw may yet be passed to settle the
lands only fit for grazing.
The Mountains.
"a great area Of the mountain Ian
has been taken up by the United
States government as forest reserves,
but in some places a homestead can
be taken in these reserves In the
mountains there are timber and wa
ter, but the altitude is high and only
small grains and potatoes can be
grown. The seasons are short. There
county.
Irrigated and.
"In man sections there are govern
ment irrigation lands and private ir-
are not by any means free. The gov
eminent sells these lands to actual
settlers only on certain conditions,
and many of these large irrigation
areas are as yet not open for settle
ment; when they are the government
will advertise them. There are many
private companies now ready to sell
lands under irrigation bitches, at va
rious prices, from $50 to 500 per
acre, with the water right or other
wise.
wherever the land can be irrigat-
ed, valley Or plains, it is enormously
productive, and the writer has him
self raised great crops and the finest
of fruit under irrigation on the Pecos
river near the town of Puerto de Lu-
ma. He has raised fruit that discounts
the nurseryman's plates, and this can
be proven and shown, and the apples
raised have the flavor and keeping
qualities of the far-famed Arkansas
fruit. Fruit trees planted ten years
ago produce enormously.
Water.
"1n many places water is deep on
the plains, and in some sections hard,
but it is all good for irrigation pur-
poses.
I'm many places where there Is per-
manent water the grasses nave been
tramped out by the sheep, and only
weeds can be seen, but this does not
detract from the richness of the soil.
Lands along the rivers and water
courses have long since been taken
up by the early settlers and cattle !
and sheepmen.
How to Get the Land.
"The Atchison, Topeka and Santa |
Railway, the Rock Island railway,
the New Mexico Central railway, the |
Denver and Rio Grande railroad, and
the Ell Paso and Southwestern Rail-
way Company have lines in this ter
ritory, and these railways furnish an
of alIuring literature on
Climate and Rainfall.
"The homeseeker must come and
look for himself and select his home.
He can go to nearly n altitude over
900 feet, plains or mountains.
THE climate of the territory is un-
surpassed; especially is it good for
those who are afflicted with weak
lungs. The writer hereof, az well as
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Nell R. Moore, Secretary, or J. J. Jaf-
IA, Treasurer. Dc II now.
Attention.
Every child please notice and
think-eVery man and woman read
carefully, n be o readers only,
but living active helpers.
The purpose of the Federated Char
tiles of kcswe1l.
Ffrst:-1, take care or all persons
that demaL-, by reason OF Illness or
want, relief and immediate help.
Second To assist In securing
employment for those VINO are able
and willing to work.
II you are busy, phone the secre
tary and b win call for your sub
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

Ever since the issue of that special
edition OF the Outlook last summer
devoted to praise and description OF
the Standard Oil Company's methods
Of handling its men, ETC., the Record
has been satisfied that some member,
of the trust owned a controlling int
crest. 1t now develops that the Presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Bank is the
principal owner of the Outlook. This
also accounts for putting MI. Roose-
welt on the pension list as contribut.
ing editor at a dollar a word. Truly
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13
HERE is YOUR CHANCE
TO ~ TO cHARIrv

The Boar OF Control or the FEEDER
ated Charities Of Roswell has devised
a plan to secure members and money
for the care of the city's poor. They
propose to publish a coupon which
may be filled out by any individual
and sent to the secretary or treasurer,
thereby becoming a member OF the
organization, and can thus arrange
to contribute to the aus of charity.
The admission fee to the association
can be fixed by the person joining
and the monthly dues can be decided
in h same way. Any sum will be
acceptable. Following Is the coupoa
which should be filed out and seHf
IN.
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Abstracts, Abstracts.

Get your abstracts made by us.
They will be accepted in any court
as the original record. Our abstracts
have never been turned down by the
courts. The best are the cheapest.
TITLE e TRUST co.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

A. C. Clark, of Cozad, Neb., after
spending two weeks here seeing the
country, left this morning for home.
He will probably come bach to buy
land, as he was well pleased with
the prospects.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

success This we do most heartily.
And in whatever MT. Andrews wishes
to do for the good of the territory
and the party we are, as the episto-
larry phrase has it, Ibis to command"
But in whatever he wishes to dc fGr.
the good of Mr.. Andrews, we are,
have been, and will be CONTRA AN
DREWS. To force him ON the Repub-
lican party again will be to WOO and
win well merited defeat. Like the
story of Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves. it will be attempting to open
the door Of success by speaking the
words open Wheat, Open Barley"
when it responds only to the magic
%syllables, "Open Sesame"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

A little moisture, even in h forn
of snow and sleet, helps to break tn
monotony and lay the dust
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

Of course the people were tired OF
so much politics in the Geographic
reports during the campaign-but
railroad wrecks, mine accidents and
other murderous tragedies since the
election are not much of an improve
ment.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

The Record has for a long time re
garded The Outlook as snobbish and
un-American in spirit; but the latest
disclosure of connection with the Oil
Trust explains the matter.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

We presume the Las Vegas Optic
may be depended upon to oppose An
drews for the senatorship in case of
statehood being granted New Mexico
at the coming session of congress.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

The largest deficit in the history
of the p~ostof1ice department is not
a very good record for the closing
year of a prosperity administration.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

The Record is glad that Governor
Curry in his Thanksgiving proclama-
ton specified what he meant by pub
lie calamities," else we should have
been inclined to believe that he had
overlooked the reelection Of "BulP'
Andrews.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

While our leading editorial yester-
day was accidentally split in the
middle and had a paragraph sand
no doubt you get the idea correctly.
that the majesty of our government
by and for the saloons must be up
held, Ii every eleven-year-old boy in
the country has to be sacrificed.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

The Albuquerque Daily Democrat,
campaign, has suspended, and again
the Record remains the only Demo
cratic daily in the Territory. Politics
alone cannot support a daily paper,
and that is why the Daily Democrat
could not find room in a town thai
already has two well established
daily newspapers.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

What sort of weather did you e
pect on Friday, the 18th, anyway?
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13
Notice.

All laundry work on and after the
10th OF November will be strictly
cash. A. J. w1TTEMAN,
Proprietor Roswell Steam Laundry.
1914.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

Undoubtedly the Socialists at Den
yer are correct I'm the assumption
that Socialistic ideas are gaining
ground in the labor organizations, but
that only weakens the political pow
er of organized labor by turning ag-
ainst 1t the leaders of the two great
parties that are strong enough to give
relief IL so disposed.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

God save the boys-the government
will protect the saloons.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

The Las Vegas Optic evidently did
not have the nerve" to act as the
albuquerque journal did simply
say nothing either before Dr. after the
election of Andrews. The Journal is
doubtless a more hardened sinner than
the Optic, and has no conscience left.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

Correct legal blanks It Record.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-13

land law, although abused by the DO
nus man and the speculator, has been
the means of the redemption of the
arid lands of Texas, and this kind of
faw may yet be passed to settle the
lands only fit for grazing.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-17
LAKEVILLE

Hubert Shaw who has been on the sick list for the past week is on duty again at the knife works.
 MT. and Mrs. Clarence Milkpaugh arc visiting at Kent, Winsted, and other places.
 Lakeville came near having a big blaze last Sunday night. Fire was dis covered under the stoop by Wm. Silver nale's shoe shop in the Cornell building by John Silvernale who hastily put it out by throwing two or three pails of water on it. The fire is supposed to have started from a carelessly thrown match.
 Last Thursday night burglars en- tered A. w. Twiss' drug store by taking out the glass ill the door and setting 1t down on the sidewalk. They only took few small articles. They also entered A. F. Roberts store by prying one of the windows and taking some postage stamps and pair of glasses belonging to A. O.. Roberts. They also'tried Heaton & Co., s store but it is supposed they were fright ened away by the barking of dog. MT. and Mrs. Silas Maston of Pine Plains have been visiting MT. Maston s brothers, Frank and Will Maston for the past week.
 A daughter was born to MT. and Mrs. George Ashman Sunday night.
 Mrs. Edward Miller, who has been seriously ill for the past two weeks and who underwent an operation by Dr. Richardson of Pittsfield, Mass. we are glad to note, much more comfortable and Is improving.
 Miss. Cora Rogers is spending her annual vacation this week by visiting in Hartford, Waterbury, and other places
 G. w. Cross and children with Mrs Lane left Monday for their city home in Brooklyn, Mrs. Cross remaining until Thursday. #- ..
 Holley Works start on the five day schedule this week.
 Earle Turner took Chester Thurston's place in Bartram and Everetts store last Wednesday so Chester could visit the State Fair at Hartford.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Dufour visited Hartford Thursday. s...". Miss Lena Day has taken up her schoo duties in Newark, N. J. ..-# ..
 Miss Marcia Turner spent her annua vacation in Waterbury last week.
 Hotchkiss School has purchased new pair of black horses.
 Theodore Barrett and wife of Fishkil spent part of last week with MT. Barrett sister Mrs. J. A. Osborn.
 Fred Ellis returned home Saturday t, play ball with Lakevilles and went bacl to the city in the evening.
 I Mrs. A. J. Cowles' mother has beer very i'll for the past week but is improv ing.
 Mrs. Mary Cyphers has been confined to her bed for the past two weeks.
 Master James Stuart was kicked il the head while on the ball grounds las Saturday while reaching for ball unde MT. Bauman's horse He was no seriously hurt. A gash was cut ove one ear. - a# Chester Thurston is spending weel in New York and other places.
 Miss Cassie Robertson who has beer sick for the past two weeks is improv ing and able to sit up.
 Hotchkiss school opened on Wednesda, with tull house and quite change il the schedule. . , We are to have new cross walk iron Roberts store to the walk on the sid toward Miller's harness shop. MT. and Mrs. Whitehead of Newark : N. Y. arc visiting with Mrs. M. k Miller. rr
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-17
SOUTH CANAAN AND HUNTSVILLE

R. E. Pendleton and James Hayward have launched boat, built by James Heyward, on Canaan Mountain lake.
 Wm. Stenerwald of Norfolk spent Sunday at the home of his father in this place.
 Olin Pendleton of Norfolk was at home Sunday.
 Dr. Corwin of Canaan was called to MT Gould's last week to doctor his horse which was injured by being cast in its stall.
 Levi Ganser is building barn. James Hayward and Arthur Dean are doing the work.
 Miss Helen Chase is attending the high school in Falls Village.
 MT. Hazelton has been given a call to the Congregational churches in this place and Falls Village, and has accepted the call.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-17
CLAYTON

MT. and Mrs. O. l.. Miner have moved to Mill River.
 School opened last week with Miss Leffingwel as teacher.
 Jessie Goodwin has been visiting in Austeritz, N. Y.
 Miss Melva Joyner is again teaching on Brush Hill.
 Miss Pearl Mcintyre has returned to Jersey City.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-17
The E. w. Spurr Company
 Falls Village and Lakeville, Conn. ..

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 Vancouver Perfection 19 in. Red Cedar Shingles. New Brunswick Extras 16 in. Shingles. Foster Swinging Stanchons.
 Plain and Barb Wire and Woven Wire Fencing. Cobblers Outfits and Supplies. New Stock Paints, Varnshes, Jap-a-lac and NIuresco.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-17
NOW I: rir1e 1a*

A stitch in time saves nine. Look your heating system over. Don't wait un til the cold weather sets in. Thinking of heating your house? Try the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

in the beginning the monks of Ettal are believed to
have written the play. 1t in the beginning Of
the last century that the play in substantially its
present form was written. The next performance
will be given the third Sunday in May, 1870 and
performances will continue until the last Sunday in
September. Mr. Ellsworth will return to oberam-
mergau in short time.
81 hope to be able to pass the rest of my life
there" he said g" love the place because every one
there is honest. There is guile and no deception
When one meets a woman in the street he knows she
is pure and when you meet you know you may
trust him to the end of the earth. 1t is an atmos
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
HnM HE PROVED TT.

the good old days when speed In railroading was
not quite so strenuousy insisted on as It IS AZ pres
ent Jones and Smith, as we win designate tneu'
were, strange to relate, riding on the accommoda-
ton train" of certain Southern railroad ana ois'
cussing Biblical questions at the same time.
Cow after COW had been oyertaken and passed ana
the train was still Wheeling and rafting along at me
giddy speed os ten miles an hour over the TWO ruSs
straaxs thar answered the purpose of rails, when
Smith spoke up and said
.Iones Won say you can prove by the Scriptures
that the Lord made everything Do you luagne He
lad anything to do with making this slow coach road
that we are riding ong"
certainly He did" responded Smith Doesn't Il
saw n the first chapter of Genesis thai the sixth
day he made all creeping and crawling thinEsx*
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

Oberammergau has population Of 1,400, and OF
these S56 take part in the play. There is no element
of medieval mysticism in this wonderful play,
staged in the peaceful village in the Upper Bavariaa
valley of the Ammer. 1t originated from VOW
taken by the villagers when plague raging, and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

1t is difficult yes, impossible, for even the relig-
iousy disposed in far away America to appreciate the
weirdness the dramatic sublmity, the tenseness OF
emotional tuning that accompany the rendition of the
Oberammergau Passion Play. In a community
deeply religious at all times the devotional depths
into which villagers plunge during the period pre-
ceding the rendition of the play profound. By the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

it has been given The last fortyseven performances
at Oberammergau brought in $24 900, the admittance
fee ranging from fifty cents to $3.50 From these for
ty-seven renditions, however, there profit as
the income was all required in the legitimate expendi-
lures of the performances.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

e. YER new although 264 years old and ever
of absorbing interest to relgionst and unbe
lever alike account of the extraordinary
traditions that surround it, the Passion Play
of Oberammergau is depicted truthfuly on
this page for the first time in authentic photographs.
Since the camera has come into ready use by tour
lists there have probably been efforts made to
photograph the Passion Play in its original setting
than any other object All these efforts except 'the
one the results of which are shown in this paper
have been unsuccessful because the rule that cam
era should be allowed within 100 feet of the stage at
Oberammergau has been impartially and vigorously
enforced.
No consideration of money or influence has sue
ceeded in suspending this rule until Mr. Henry Els
worth, wealthy American, through his friendship
with Anton Lang the Christus of the play, per-
mitted to make photographs when the play was last
put on.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

phere that exists nowhere else so far as know;
and is the only sort of atmosphere in which such
theatrical production could be preserved in all the
sanctty and purity of motives suggested by its ira
ditions."
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

- - -
Since last year there have been displayed in Europe
and America no fewer than hundred sets of
moving pictures that, this side of the water have
been represented actual photographs of the original
Passion Play. Mr. Ellsworths investigations show
that of these pictures made the scene,
and that no moving pictures have been made at
Oberammergau.
Furthermore unless every tradition that has
shrouded the Passion Play for more than two and
half centuries be torn asunder no moving pictures
ever will be made of this remarkable theatrical per-
Torrance. 1t found that the photographs al
legged to depict the play made in Paris in March,
1907 by an ambitious photographer who set his own
stage and hired his actors as moving picture con-
Germs do in their other work
Herr Lang, through Mr.. Ellsworth, has authorized
the American press to say that photographs except
those made by Mr. Ellsworth, this page have ever
been made at Oberammergau. This authorization
bears the signature of Herr Lang. =
Mr.. Ellsworth, who has spent part of each year
since 1889 at Oberammergau sad-
I'm London moving picture company gave me a
private view of it's Oberammergau pictures, puf
they knew and knew they were not authentic In
Erope the exhibitors of pictures dare not declare
them authentic for every would know 1t was not
true so well the traditions surrounding the Fas-
sion Play understood The following scenes are de
picted by the moving pictures, and not one OF them Is
real:-Arrval of Mary and Joseph IN Bethienem' tne
Star Of Bethlehem Birth of Christ Massacre OF the
Innocents Flight Into Egypt Arrival in Egypt Holy
Family in Nazareth Christs Baptism, Raising Lazarus
from the Dead and Christ Walking on the Waters
49,
The next performance of the Passion Play will be
given in 1910 About every ten years since 1884 there
has been a performance. The regular performances
are on Sundays and church holidays. In 1906 there
were twenty-seven performances scheduled, but be-
cause Of the attendance twenty extra performances
were given.
Every possible vestige of commercialsm, or any
thing that might look like commerclalsm, has been
kept foreign to the Passion Pa through all the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
Anna Flunger, Who Portrays Mary Working
as a Field Hand at Thirty Cents Day

time the first performance has been polished to the
highest possible state of perfection the religious at
mosphere in the valley of the Ammer becomes dense
It is estimated that during the last century not
fewer than a thousand persons, principally women,
went insane as direct result of watching the Pas
sion Play During each performance women became
hysterca and had be carried out in order to allow
the actors to proceed calmly.
Each, performance is preceded by mass at six
o'clock in the morning; after eight o'clock in the
morning no is admitted to the theatre, visitors
arriving later being required to wait until the midday
intermssion
The present theatre was built in 1899 at cost of
100000 Its seating capacity is 4,000 every seat
being reserved. In 1890 the government compelled
some changes in the play, but they were of minor
character and did not detract from the dramatic
quality Of the production