Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-20
M0NT0YA, THRIVING TOWN IN
QUAY COUNTY, HAS BRIGHT FUTURE
Situated in Heart of Fine Agricultural
Section It is Bound to Grow
Rapidly
TWENTY0NE MILES S0UTH0F TUCUMCARl, THEC0UNTY SEAT
Bank, Weekly Newspaper, Creditable Mercantile Estab
lishments and Live Citizens Among Its
Valuable Assets.

which would do credit to many of the
older settled towns of larger size in
the East. With its churches and
schools Montoya will not take a back
seat for any town of her size in the
Southwest.
One feature that has made Montoya
grow rapidly and brought so many en-.
terprising business men and farmers
here Is its commercial organization
The Montoya Commercial Club with a
membership of more than sixty of its
leading citizens has done much to ad.
vertise this section of the territory
and has been instrumental in bringing
many families who have located here
and are happily engaged in farming
near the city or else have engaged in
business in the town and are making
a success. Several progressive mercan.
tile establishments, some of them car.
rying in stock more than fifty thou
sand dollars worth of up-to-date mer.
chandise, are doing big business.
The farmers that come to trade in this
lively town come from distance of
thirty-fve miles. A bank capitalized
for $4,000 was established and com.
menced business recently. The stock.
holders are mostly local people and it
is believed this institution will succeed
! in this busy little town.
Weekly Newspaper Does Good Work,
Montoya has a weekly newspaper
edited and owned by w. G. Hawkins,
lone Of the best and most experienced
country r@wspaper men, in the Sun.
shine Territory. The paper is called,
The Montoya Republican Editor Haw-
kins has recently erected fine stone
building which the paper now occll.
pies as its home. When it comes to
boosting the resources of the town
and country around Montoya, Editor
Hawkins is always ready and willing
to do all in his power through the
columns of his newspaper. Much cred.
it is due. to this newspaper for the
rapid growth and advance this section
has made during the past year or
two.
To show that Montoya is growing
it can be said that there are three lum-
ber yards in town and all are doing
a big business in furnishing building
material for the number of new cot
tages under construction in town and
the farm houses for miles around
which are being erected, despite the
hard times Not very many towns of
Montoyas size and age can boast OF
+, this number of lumber yards.
Stock Raising important Industry.
Stock and sheep raising in this vi.
cinity has been carried on successful
ly fof years. A fine grade of cattle is
raised, which goes to the market
bringing to the shipper top market
price. The climate is well adapted
to sheep raising; mild winters, plenty
of sunshine and abundance of the best
grasses. The flocks have been gradual
ly improved, and the prices realized
for wool and sheep have been salts
factory up to this year. The lambs fed
here and put on the Kansas City mar
ket have always brought the highest
iprices. The climatic conditions here
make poultry raising a sure thing.
Mild and open winters, and the alb
sence of dew, provide the conditions
SO necessary for success. There are
markets here in every direction for
chickens and eggs and the demand is
always greater than the supply.
| Fruit trees thrive well and it
has been known that twoyear old
fruit tree bears here. There are nc
large orchards as yet, but horticulture
is gaining ground year by year and
each year additional acres are set out
in fruit trees and thus in few years
time this vicinity will boast of great
lbig red apples, pears, peaches and
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