The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-28


awake the sleeper. Now, the News /,
friendly to Mr.. Frederieks, va are IN
on the bonuses, that il, from the pur
chasing side, We have no desire to skin
II back, we took n rand aud will stay
in the game, but the ethics, the casu.
istry, the gentleman = detection from
the general plan of getting at q bust.
ness matter 10 the rub with this paper.
You dont know any more about him
or who or why they sent him whea you
get through with him than u ten year
old boy knows about Zoroaster = Eighth
Vast. lie may represent somebody and
he may not, be calls them clients and
says they pay his expenses, we are
to presume the rest. IL he represents
Hartman why In the thunder don I he
say so, or give the people who are to
dig up the coin some satisfaction as
TO what they may expect from the PEG.
pie who he represents. For instance a
committee could be selected by Tu.
eumcari aud Texieo, one man from
which committee could meet the cor.
poration or the man who speaks for
the corporation and between them there
could be an understanding 80 plain that
Texieo and Tucumeari could get from
| their representative sufficient .atisfae
ton on which to build a faith that
would he worth the price we are ask
ed to pay. We could instruct our rep.
resentative TO get such and such infor.
nation, and whea he returned to Us.
he could answer yes or no, and we
would know where We are at The
News is not responsible for the stories
that are going the rounds, but we hear
such statements ~ these. Mr.. Freder.
icks has promised to maintain shops
and round houses at both Tucumeari
and TsxicO. These towns are 20 miles
apart. These shops and round houses
might employ one or five thousand men,
the train that runs over the line might
he an engine, a tender and one coach.
Of course this would hardly do on a
trunk line from here to the Gulf. We
have been quoted as saying that Texico
has in the bonus offered 4 hotel in
Farwell, listed at st0,0 DOC, etc. This
is not true. We have said noting Of
the kind, and know aud care nothing
about this business. That Is Texico's
business. IL they put in a street ear
franchise at a million, IL would be salts
factory to us. We have been called a
~straddler, that Is not lust. We would
as soon see 1he line from Texico as
Clovis, we have no Interest in either
town further than We would like to see
them prosper and will do whatever we
can that is reasonable to add to their
prosperity and happiness, both Of which
could be in a great Measure accomplish.
ed IL the inhabitants would send in
a dollar each for u years subscription
20 the Tucumcari News.
Now the proposition made Tucumcari
lows: Tucumcan il asked 10 give a
cash bonus of 100000. This bonus Of
si0O, 900 is to be paid when the road
il finished from Tucumcari to Texico
and the first train Is run over il, which
is TO be done within two years from
the date of the satisfactory execution
of the securities for the 100000 aud
he delivery of the deeds to the right.
ofway and the forty acres Of terminal
grounds. II the road il not built in
that time the securities are 10 be re-.
leased. That sounds pretty good at
the FIRST mental revolution. But, when
we come TO analyze the surety PROPOSE
tion we are confronted by another prob.
lem. Every man who subscribes TO
this bonus must make guiltedge paper;
IL must be worth the face of IL 10 any
bank in the country when II is given,
or the man who stands behind il TO
secure Mr.. Fredericks eanno, afford
TO take the responsibility. In other
words, 100000. and to this the cost
Of securing the r~ightofway and the
terminal must be added, which will re
quire a good many thousands more. Do
you see where we arei This rightofway
money must be raised at once and the
800. 900 must be in such shape that il
is equal 10 cash on demand from the
guaranteeing committee. In other words