Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-14
''KEEK YOUR EYE ON CARLSBAD"
SLOGAN Of CARLSBAD BUNCH
Carlsbad Project Enters on Its First Year Of Real Activity
With Positive Assurance of Complete Success; carlsbad
the Beautiful Is Booming Under Influence of New
Development Period.

men are Just ordinary, SUCCESSFUL
American business men, with ordinary
brains. They V a sure thing and
know it and hat is about the sum to-
tai of the proposition. The hotels,
which are exceptionally good for a
town of the population, are well filled
all the time. During the recent term
of court here it was difficult to obtain
a room, although the Echlitz hotel is
one of the largest in New Mexico and
the same management operates an
other one, almost as large. Land buy
ers and proSpectors are coming in ev-
cry day, looking over the country, eX-
aiming the project an din a very
large majority of cases, becoming per-
manently interested. 1t is one of the
most encouraging prospects in New
Mexico, this rosy outlook before Carls
bad.
The town itself is a pleasant place
to live. Although there is considera-
Bile new building going on and in inn
mediate prospect the town has the air
of settled conditions; IL Ia perhaps
more of the eastern farming town look
than any other place in New Mexico.
The streets are wide and shade by
giant trees; the stores are large, well
stocked and attractive. All lines OF
business are represented and from the
way they talk, every man in town is
making money, from the professional
men to the BARRIERS. One eminent
professional man told me about 1t
farm he ownes under the project. He
bought it for a song. He seems to
think the land Is worth more than a
hat full of diamonds. and it probably
IL. A lawyer who has plenty of prac-
tice and a comfortable income, has
one chief ambition and that
is to W just n little more land
under the project. That is the most
attractive feature of conditions here.
Every man in town has faith in the
propect. 1t is absolutely convincing
in its combined Influence. No man
can stay in Carlsbad and meet the
business men without wanting to get
hold of a piece of land.
A trim through the lands under the
project Is even more convincing than
what the people of Carlsbad a to
say. There is the evidence of revival
and advancement everywhere. New
farm buildings are going up. Fields
which have been dusty for years are
green; barns are full, young orchards
tri mand well kept are appearing on
every hand. 1t is cheering and more
or less amazing to n familiar with
this country a few years ago. Your
correspondent visited the scene of the
IdflSpdu pfOJeCt several years ago,
just at the time the government had
concluded to take over the project. 1t
was pltlful. The men VINO owned lana
had been reduced almost to dispair.
They had been fighting, some of them
for years. They had apparently lost
the very last round of the fight and
there was nothing to do but quit. But
with the pluck that is characteristic
of the west, they held on; at least
some of them did, and those who held
on are the men who are to be enVled
today. Some OF them tell you that
they are land poor and five years
ago they told 1t to you with tears in
their eyes. Now they tell it with a
twinkle and suggestive of a fat bank
roll in progress.
A visit down here is a revelation to
the average nan from the eastern or
central states, and even to those of us
who live in Central New Mexico. Just
now in the beginning of November,
when we are getting our first hard
frosts and it is mighty uncomfortable
to get out of bed in the morning, the
Carlsbad man gets up at sunrise in
his shirt sleeves an diff he happens to