Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-15
BROOM CORN AND
WHEAT BIG CROPS
At MELR0SE
TRADE TERRITORY
RAPIDLY EXPANDING
Reaches Population of Nearly
1900 in Three Short Years;
Business Conditions SpIen-
did.
fStaff Correspondence

,,elrose. n. M, Nov. 13.-Broom
,orr ana wheat at present are the
Nina ribbon crops in this part of the
sreat plains country of the home
snokers and have done more than any
,h,ro else to demonstrate the great
as%ricultural possibilities of the district.
thousands of acres of broom corn are
10 he grown around this city next year
ana thousands of acres of fall wheat
have been sown. For size, quality and
Weld per acre Curry county wheat is
unsurpassed.
Melrose now has "A population of
nearly 1900 people where three years
asa there were half a dozen.
The influx of settlers which fol-
,oved the building of the Belen cutoff
n the santa Fe through here formed
the basis of the steady growth of
Melrose which has continued ever
since. The growth of the city has
kent pace with the rapid settling up
of the surrounding country where
farm houses and windmills, fences n
barns are now dotting what was three
years ago a vacant plain. Melrose has
n trade territory of its W reaching
for twenty-five miles in every direc-
ton through what is rapidly becom-
ing a most populous country. Bust
ness Is good and getting better all
the time.
The plentiful water, which exists at
a moderate depth, offers profitable
opportunities for irrigation by pump
ing plants. Steam or electric pumps
at small expense lift water from a
depth of from ten to thirty Get. IT.
rigation by pumping is just now
claiming the attention of the farmers
and promises to add greatly TO the
productivity of the land and the
prosperity of the farmers.
The Santa Fe Railroad company
now has two railroad wells, furnishing
the best water to be found along the
Belen cutoff, and requiring no treat
ment for locomotive purposes.
Just q Few OF the Things MeIrosc Has
A glance at the list OF business es-
ADJUSTMENTS and industries shows
plainly the phenomenal nature of the
growth of this three-year-old infant
city, and gives some indication of
what its growth Win be in the imme-
date future with the growth of the
plains country of eastern New Mexico.
There are two banks, both with sub
~stantial brick banking houses, two
furniture stores, four hardware stores,
seven general stores, two exclusively
gents furnishings and dry goods
stores, two drug stores, W tin shops,
two barber shops, two lumber yards,
a wholesale flour house, bakery and
candy kitchen. four real estate Of
fees, one telephone exchange, two
blacksmith shops, -four feed stores and
two mills. four hotels and numerous
restaurants and saloons, four modern
churches and one four-room modern
brick school building where four
teachers are employed to instruct the
juvenile population; an abstract office,
L.. S. commissioners office, and three
pool rooms. Practically every branch
OF retail business is represented. Mel
rose enjoys all the privileges and BEN
eiits Of being on the trunk line OF
a transcontinental railway system and
The Santa Fe depot. of the beautiful
mission concrete structure made Tam
Gus by the Santa Fe. is one of the
nnest in the territory. Melrose has
come to stay and is setting a lively
pace for its rival towns In this part
OF the territory.