Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-13
REMARKABLE FEATURES OF
GRO WITH OF TWIN CITIES

The population Of this double city,
only three or our years old, Is now
between $500 and 5000, and increas-
ing wonderfully fast. It's extension is
favored by its strategic situation on
the great east and west thoroughfare
of the Santa Fe railway system. The
building Of the Toxico-Coleman cut
off Will connect the place with addi-
tional large areas of fast developing
country and insure further more no
table increase in population in the
coming few years.
:, TeXico-Farwell has every feature of
am up-to-date, growing modern city.
There are two live two
flourishing national banks, three big
hardware store, n department store,
All lines of retail huSiness represent
ed, three big oil companies have dis
tributing stations, the Continental oil
company, the Texas company and the
Superior Refining company.
There is a wholesale grocery estab-
lishment doing II big business, an ice
factory, a steam laundry. two feed
milisi, an elegantly equipped 100000
modern hotel. three lumber yards and
t~Wenty-gix brick ana stone business
structures in TcXico-ffarwcll.
Bonds are being floated for a 500
600 school building to be one of the
finest in eastern New Mexico. There
are four handsome church buildings
with large congregations. and reli-
gious and educational interests play n
prominent part in the activities OF
this thriving city.
All the leading fraternal organiza-
tons are represented and social ac-
~tivlties are unusually marked.
Nothing shows more clearly the
permnnency aud solidity of The growth
of Tc~Xico-Farwell than the prompt
measures taken to replace the recent
ly burned electric light and water
works plant with a bigger and better
outfit and the rebuilding of Il block
of frame buildings, also recently de-
stroyed by fire with Il modern brick
block.
\ movement is now on DOT for the
building soon of a handsome court
house for Farwell. which is h coun-
~ seat of Palmer county Texas.
Railroad improvements.
Texico has all the advantages nat
urally derived from its location on
the main trunk line of the Santa FEES
transcontineutal system. In addition
to the prospective naturalization of
the Texieo-Colcman CUTOFF into Tex
as, the sum of 5000 600 has been
raised toward securing the building
Of a railroad from Texico northwest
to TuCumcari On the Rock Island
route, thus a%nording direct n
ton with another transcontinental
line and a bee limo via n Dawson
railroad to O connection with the SAN
Ia Fe In northern New Mexico. with
access to the great o mines of that
region, n To Colorado. The work
on the TeSico-Tucumcari line will be-
Gin in sixty days. After the building
OF these extensions the traveller out Of
Texico-Farwell can board a train ana
through without change to Califor-
MIA. Chicago, Galveston or Denver.
Tcxico-Farwell is the coming great
railroad center Of this country.
The adjustment Of Texas railroad
rates to sac and $50 freight tariff per
car viii mean much to the man who
locates his business in Texico-FarWell 4
The Texas railroad commission has
ordered the bUilding of a freight and
passenger depot at Fdrwell.
The troubles Texico-Farwell has
experienced with land titles in tho
past are an ovcr and settled. The
board can now issue valid and
incontestabie deeds to townsite lots to
lll property and purchasers.
rexico-Farwel has come to stay