Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-14
LIGHT
FOR AZTEC BY
NEW YEARS
WATER POWER TO RUN
BIG GENERATORS
Coming of Railroad Boosts
Prosperity; Three Immense
Irrigation Projects Rapidly
MateriaIizing,
Especial Correspondence To Morning JournalI

Especial Correspondence To Morning JournnlI
Aztec, n. NJ, Dee. 1.-THE Aztec
Electric Light company will have its
new plant ready for service by Jan
uary l next. A force of men are now
erecting poles and the work of INSTALL
ing the dynamo n power house is
well under way. Water power will be
used and the plant will be located
about half a mile from town across
the river at the flour mill. The dyna-
mo has a capacity for q town Of 5000
people, while Aztec now has less than
1,000. Next spring will see many
new buildings so up to accommodate
the demand. There are no empty
houses to be rented here and but one
vacant business room.
AZtec's growing importance is shown
by the fact that the Gibson Lumber
company, which has branch yards
scattered over Colorado, has estab-
lished one here. One new grocery, n
bakery and confectionery and two new
real estate firms have recently built
up. This activity is reflected in all
parts of the county, caused by the
certainty of the new Arizona II
Colorado railroad, whose surveyors
have esta blished a big camp on the
Fort Lewis mesa, above the state line
in Colorado, and directly in the coal
fields.
Added to this, the Standard Invest
ment company, composed of local and
Denver capitalists, Is building a ditch
on the San Juan river, heading 15
miles above Blanco, and covering sew
eral thousand acres of fruit land. A
large force is pushing the ditch with
all speed. as the company has ordered
apple trees to set 500 acres in the
spring and must have water by that
time.
Surveyors are finishing the work of
cross-sectioning the line of the Illi-
nois ditch, which covers 10000 acres
of and west of Aztec, and it is stated
that contract for construction will be
let by January /.
The reclamation scheme of the La
Plata Land and Irrigation company,
of which Joe Prewitt is president, is
being rushed. The first reservoir will
finished by April /, impounding
10. 900 acres of water. This project
will reclaim over 10000 acres of fine
land, the water used being from the
ulTbtI HOW OF the LII Ilitd river III
the fore part of the irrigation season
and from the reservoirs in the latter
part. About 1000 acres are now CON
to be plowed ms sowed to
wheat and oats for the coming year.
This land is being sold in %ten-aere
tracts and upward, and already 1900
acres have been so disposed of. The
Plata valley will see a dense popu-
Iation inside the next few years and a
town will start. as the new Ari-
and Colorado railroad main line
will doubtless go here.
Mrs. G.. w. Wakefield, one of the
of this valley. died on
Wednesday. She was aged ~ years.
The Wakefields were for some years
'esidents of Albuquerque.
San Juan county received n special
yold medal and several first prizes at
he Horticultural congress at Council
Bluffs, Ia, on November 90. only a
display Of 25 boxes Of CONNER
.ial varieties of apples were sent
The first snowstorm of the season
Sunday and the snow has
ain on the ground longer than Gus
omary. Sleds are being rugged up
the young people are having the
irst skating in three years on ponds.
local nimrods are bringing in large
of ducks, which the storm drove
Iown from the mountain lakes in
colorado.