Albuquerque citizen., 1908-01-15
SILVER CITY IS
STE EAD|LY
GROWING
Judge Thompson Lets Con-
tract for Handsome New
Residence.

Silver City, n. NJ, Jan 15.-Judge
Joseph NJ. NJ Thompson, of the New
Jersey supreme court, who makes
his home here during the winter
months has let the contract for a
mansion to be built on the block
directly south of the A. s. Goodel
place Messrs. Black and Atkins have
taken the contract. The residence
will be one of the largest and most
expensive in New Mexico. Silver
City is rapidly becoming a favorite
winter as well as summer home for
wealthy easterners. One of the lat
est to settle here is DR.. Penrose a
prominent Philadelphia physician,
and a brother of Senator Penrose of
Pennsylvania. DIR. Penrose has
bought the former residence of Pres
ident C. NJ Light, of the New Mex
leo Normal School Professor Light
will erect a new home for himself
nearer the Normal grounds.
The county commissioners have
decided to help the city and individ
ual property holders to build a
bridge across the arroyo which now
takes the place of old Main street.
over fifty thousand dollars has been
expended in past years to control
the floods which annually sweep
down from the mountains and fill
this arroyo to overfiowing, but the
town has come to the conclusion
that the outlay Is only money wasted
and Will now content itself with
bridging the chasm. The bridge will !
cost about six thousand dollars of
which half will be paid by the city !
and county and the other half by |
the property holders interested.
Mr.. ID. b. Robertson has recently |
sold his plumbing business to Mr.. |
Arthur Bail. and he will engage in
the hardware business, installing a |
large stock in the Card building on
Bullard street.
County Treasurer, Jackson Agee
reports the tax receipts for the
months of November and December
to have been the largest in the his
tory Of the county for the cores
ponding months of other years. The
receipts for the month of December
were closed to seventy-five thousand
dollars.
The Methodist church Of this
place. Rev. J. NJ. Jackson, pastor, is
improving Its fine property by put
ting down a cement sidewalk along
its entire frontage of over two hun
dred feet. The walk will cost about
five hundred dollars. The entire
street facing the court house will be
given an imposing appearance since
the order was made by the city coun-
ell to all the property holders to put
down walks.
Much improvement is going on in
the city In the way of working the
building residences The building of
cement sidewalks would be more uni
versally observed by property own
ars were it not for the hold-up pric-
as asked by the contractors the price
per foot here is twenty-five cents.
The prices asked I'm most towns in
New Mexico is a maximum OF l6
cents per foot.
new lumber company has been
organized here to sell lumber sawed
from the forests Of the ella National
Reserve. The company which has
named itself the Silver City Lumber
company has bought an immense
luantity of the timber which the re-
serve has offered for sale north of
2inOs Altos. Mr.. George j. Sale is
manager of the new company.
a large dam has just been COM
,leted on the arroyo known as Whis-
ley Creek which will impound mill
ions of gallons OF water for irriga-
ion purposes. The dam is built
N the homestead Of r. L. Bateman.
Tohn II. Frazier will shortly begin
he construction Of a dam on his
lace which will be sufficient for the
torage of water for a large acreage.