Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-16
RAILROAD BOOSTING FOR NEW MEXICO.

FUR NEW mEAiCO.
 The following taken from the Albu- querque Journal will serve to give prominence to the fact that Asi-raa. and especially this section of Arizona, has had very little assistance in the way of advertising our resources by the railroads:
 New Mexico has had the benefit during the past year or more of a campaign of beneficial advertising such as has seldom been accorded to any section of the growing west For many years this country was afflict- ed with horde of halfstarved news paper correspondents and magazine writers whose chief business seemed to be to get the very worst side of the country before the people east of the Mississippi. During their long period of undisturbed control this le- zion of scribblers d.d New Mexico an injury which will probably not be wholly overcome for years to come. They never took occasion to say a word of development, or possibilities of development. That kind of stud didn't sell as well as a tale of blood and thunder. Needing the money, the scribblers wrote of blood and thund- CT, and when they couldn't find it, which they generally couldn't, they invented 1t. The result we all know. But during the past two years a new condition has come about. The great lailroad systems, and particu ariy the Santa Fe system. has taken up the business of developing New Mexico. It has sent man after man into the territory to find what Is worth while and tell about it. Newspapers, mag azines. circulars and folders have all been used. The beginning of work on national irrigation projects has brought many able men to the terri tory who have told of conditions as they found them. and of conditions as they have been able to see them in the immediate future. It has been a splendid campaign of advertising, and coupled with the work done by the territory through the bureau of immigration and with the work done by that rapidly growing list of intelli- gent newspaper writers who do not have to tell lies to make a living, it has reached to every corner of the nation. It has brought flood of inn migration and this immigration has now reached the point where it will grow of it's own momentum. It is in teresting to observe the manner of spreading the good news about New Mexico. Recently farmer in North Carolina received from the advertis- ing department of the Santa Fe one of the little homeseekers' guides dis tributed by the bureau of immigra- tion On the strength of its informa- ton he took trip to New Mexico and found homestead. Then he asked that copies of the book be sent to some fifteen of his friends back home" The books were sent and eight out of the fifteen came to New Mexico, encouraged by letters from the pioneer. The eight found home steads and in that single district of North Carolina there are now just forty less citizens, and the forty are farming in New Mexico. Publicity of this kind becomes an endless chain.
 in counting the influences which have worked to bring about New Mexico's present period of growth, the industrial and colonization depart ments of the Santa Fe railroad must always be taken into account as one of the greatest True the Santa Fe is doing it as part of the work of building up a great railroad system; but it is not the less beneficial to New Mexico: