The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-09-25

terful i~ncongruities. There are twelve
Of electric street ears, and half a
block Of paved streets; all Of the rest
Of the ways are just rs abomnible rs
they were that clustering fall day
the lrst valley bunch Of us ca.
reened ove the prairies on the pioneer
north from Roswell. Magnih
cent business houses have gone up
and In the whole town there are less
sidewalks than there in my ward
in Roswell. The town Is still without
n first class hotel. There Ia one that
n gallant staRger at being first
class hut succeeds in only being a
little less rubefed than the pride OF
MAMA. With all sorts Of improve.
ment societies, there are less trees in
the whole burg than you will find in
going from the Hondo to North Springs
Missouri avcrue, in Roswell. ANA.
rillo just cant help from being n
country town. Some day 1t is going
TO be bigger than Wichita. II cant
help e. Now II resembles nothing 50
.huch as a growing hoy Of the arm
aud leggy age. The promise is there
OF a mighty fine man, but oh, Lord,
the evolution. II will come, though.
The start has already been made, aud
some Of its institutions ART already in
line. The telephone system is a peach.
So is the electric light ditto. The
churches are the finest in southwest
anywhere. The schools are good,
though congested Just like ours. Some
OF the new business houses are right
there. I put in an hour in the great
Morrow Thomas store where Dick
Seay is the clerical head: aud il is
something Of n revelation 10 a RIOS.
wellite, aud we have some pretty fair
hardware stores ourselves. Dick II
not altogether lonesome, even when
he has time for that luxury. Ralph
Smith is just back Of him In the firm 3
warehouse, which has 'stccn floors and
enough stock to all all the stores in
the valley. Neither look nearly "a mis-.
cradle as might he expected after hav'
ing been required TO move from RIOS.
well 20 Amarillo. This store Is the
survivor Of the Hume rannehill in.
t%erests. much extended. IL promises
To he one OF the institutions hat will
not change every other moon, which
has always been a feature Of Amarillo
In less than four years eighty pei
cent Of the firms | knew have been
succeeded by others, and / have nc
doubt that the general population has
changed almost rs much, although
Amarillo Is not such n good town e
move away from as would seem to be
indicated by the returns. Amarillo
simply believes that the rolling ston,
gathers polish and il is rolling all th'
time. What Of we old timers are wis'
enough to stay on the ground gathe'
the simoleons from the passing throng
| All the time the town keeps growing
After while, as | said before, 1t viii
be as big as Wichita. The stages Of
growth will accomplish themselves
for the town is in no sense progressi u
in itself. II just has to be, when an!
step forward is taken. There IL
small element who are live wires. TIT
rest don Z care n darn how the towI
looks, about its credit or anything els'
except the mazuma. II the place didn'
have such tremendous source Il
would be as dead as a country grave
yard, but those same forces move i
forward AS irrisistibly as a glacier, OF
"A mule hitched to an automobile. II
simply has 10 come. II is coming, Al
a rate Of two or three thousand a year
and in another four years IT will be
a dandy. That H. the Amarillo way
which is no particular credit to Amaril
10, since IL is not the result of It's owl
get.up.and. get, but of the impellinl
force behind 1.