Albuquerque citizen., 1908-02-05
SOCORRO BOOSTERS
DOING ALBU-
QUERQUE
Men of Means and Influence
Mistaken for Foot
Ball Players.

\ crowd of men. none Of them
weighing less than $50 pounds. and
some of them tipping the scales at
225, went down Gold avenue at S
o'clock this morning, headed by
Charles Chadwick. of the Chadwick
Sheep Commission company. and
making for the headquarters of the
company at III Gold avenue.
What is that.---a football squad ?''
asked a pedestrian. They are GER
tniniy q husky bunch"
NO" said a man who knew the
party, they don't belong to a regu-
lar football squad. but 1 guess they
could go some at any game you might
propose. They are bunch of Socor-
70 county boosters.
You see the big fellow in front?
Well. that is w. ). Fullerton. who
with his brother has large cattle
and sheep ranch in western Socorro
county.
The second fellow, the little sawed
off fellow, who is about as broad as
he Is long, is Harry Crawford, son
of Captain Jack Crawford, the poet
scout. Harry used to be conductor
on the Hornytoad division of the
Santa Fe, but advancement on the
rails got too slow for him SO he went
into the ice and coal business. Now
he has a trust on these two commodi-
ties in the city of San Marcial.
THE third fellow" said the man
who knew, that nice looking man,
with the mustatche and the checkered
overcoat-he is a. f. Sweet, probate
clerk of Socorro county, who quit
railroadlng few years ago to go in
for politics. He's Republican and
not a bad sort of a fellow The rail-
road boys say that they are going to
run him for senator next year. and
the railroad vote of San Marcial cuts
as much ice in Socorro countys cleo
tions as Harry Crawford 5 ice saw. Mr..
Sweet is a Roosevelt Republican.
The big man with the broad SOM
brero, with the classic features. is DIR.
q. H. Bacon, physician for Howard
Stackhousc. who owns and operates
the large coal mines in the Carthage
coal district Of Socorro county DR..
Bacon was a classmate of DIR. John
r. Haynes, who has office rooms in
the y. r. Armijo building on Central
avenue
DIR. Bacon was on the ground at
the explosion which recently occurred
in the Bernal mine at Carthage. There
were fifteen men in the mine at the
time of the explosion. The last one
to die was a native, who had seven
fractures and lived sixteen days. The
last thing the poor fellow said was
Muchas gracious, DOCTOR
THAT attenuated fellow, with the
prominent brow and piercing black
eyes is b. w. Cruickshank a son of
the late DR.. Cruickshank OF san Mar
cial. Mr. Cruickshank has been on
a visit to his mother at san Marcial
He recently resigned responsible po-
sition with the El Pas1- Sou hwestern
at Carizozo, and Is looking for To-
cation.
The fine looking, elderly man, with
the long gray whiskers, is DIR. c. f.
Blackington, the pioneer physician of
Socorro. DR.. Blackington was sheriff
of Socorro county for more years than
any other man in the history of the
county. He's mining now, owning
property considered of great value all
over Socorro county. The doctor is
just seeing the sights. He is probably
the only man in New Mexico with the
record of having been the successful
candidate more years than one and
he neither drinks nor smokes"
The boosters" are seeing Albu
querque ana incidentally telling of the
Socorro possesses as COM
pared to any location in the world.