The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-03-20
IMPRESSIONS OF A TENDERFOOT
(By Will RoBINsDN)

Probably the most important
news in the Pecos Valley the past
week was the announcement OF the
calling OF an election by the city
council OF Carlsbad to vote upon
the issuance OF $4,000 in bonds
for the construction OF a sanitary
sewer system. AZ first thought
the matter may seem a purely local
one, in which Carlsbad alone is
interested, but in reality it is lar
from that, Tor it has an immediate
and important bearing upon all the
slope, Tor its passage will mean
the installation OF more sewers in
these four adjoining counties than
now exists in all the rest oil the
territory, taking il Tor granted that
Tucumcari will shortly follow the
example OF Clovis, Roswell and
Carlsbad, and the probable tact
that Artesia will take up the mat
ter this coming fall, as soon as It
has settled down to the realization
that the putting in OF such improve.
ments will not only be a great local
blessing, but that it will strengthen
its arm in the fight tor county d.
vision, which it sooner OF later
will win. In the case OF Carlsbad
the matter is especially timely since
the city is the oldest on the slope
and in many respects the most at.
tractive place OF residence. o.
course il would have been done
years ago but tor a series OF un-
paralleled reverses, from which the
average would never had recov.
cred, and that it Us to be done now
is tue best possible proof that the
people OF the Beautiful are begin.
ming TO realize that to get the full
benefit OF the great Reclamation
work il must FIRST reclaim itself.
The first step in that direction,
having tor some time had an excel
lent water works system. is TO pat
in sewers and start IN the right
sanitary direction. Knowing Carls.
bad, | do not believe there will be
a dozen votes against the issuance
oil the bonds. The former conser.
natives have been studying the
situation closely and now realize
that every dollar spent for sewers
adds ten TO the value OF every too,
!. OF property touched and five TO all
within the city limits to which ex.
tensions may later be made. That
!, is what appeals TO the ..verage
!. property owner, Tar more than any
consideration OF healthfulness or
civic pride, in any town, and 1t is
both natural and excusable. The
average mar works mighty hard
10 pay Tor his little home, and i,
is but proper that he should ask to
be shown when requested to vote
an Indebtedness upon the town
that really stands as a pro rata
lien upon his town. In the long
run be is satisfied by object lessons,
and there are plenty close at hand,
Who in Artesia but now realize
that the purchase OF the water
works vas the wisest step in the
history OF W~aterville, and thar
every dollar spent in cement walks
adds many times the expenditure
to the value OF the abutting prop.
eTty and the general valuation oil
the town. There are certainly none
who doubt 1t in Roswell, and Clio.
Wis has proved that she minded
the same way. Tucumcari will not
be tar behind, as she is in many
ways ahead OF the rest OF US IL
progressIveness A., though younger
than any save Clovis.
Given sewers, there will be little
to ask tor in the civic attractive
ness OF Carlsbad, which begar
when the wise pioneers planted III,
thousands oil trees that led m,
= years ago 10 name l'Carlshad tn,
Beautiful" Healthiulness is eveI
a important matter thar
beauty, but in the past Carlsbad
has not suffered because Of il,
marvellous under.drainage which
surpasses that OF any city in III.
southwest. But the town is ias
becoming a city, and the natura
drainage will not much longer sui
flee. The abomination OF the opel
closet must cease, as the grea
disseminated oil disease, Tor ia
good name and the good health o
the town, as the first necessity "a
ward its future growth and pros
perity.
Rising triumphant from so man
years OF hard knocks that Carlsba
should vote IN an adequate syster
: OF sewer is a deep inspiration I
= all OF the rest OF the great vale,
3 a complete I'D advertisement OF itse
and that is why the election call
( the greatest and best news oil ii
Y week.
HASDFULs OF SORTS
Z IL is certainly true that no can
paign tor county division !. receI
years was more skilliully conduc
ed than that waged by the Artesii
ties, and ii Is well TO admit II no