The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03
OPPORTUNITY SHAKING
HANDS With MONEY

Cimarron today than from any other
point in the Southwest except Albuquer.
que. A careful estimate shows that
IL will take the Continental Tie 4 lum-
ber Go. twenty years to cut and manu-
facture the supply they now have at the
terminus of their twenty FIVE miles of
road into the lumber region. The tim
ber in pine spruce and fir from whicn
are manufactured mining props. ties,
boxes aud all grades of lumber. This
company works force of three hun.
dred men, and Cimarron is the supply
point for all the branches Of this m.
dustry and of another mill and camp
that we learned little of except that IT
has yards in the city with a planning
mill and large lumber camps in the
mo lntains adjacent to the city.
Leaving the lumber interests and
coal, we are just starting into the re.
sources that make this the richest see
tion of country under the Southwestern
sky. The agricultural and horticultur.
al interests are n revelation. For instance
there is alfalfa, wheat, oats, rye, barley,
potatose and all kinds Of vegetables and
alfalfa, wheat, oats, rye, barley, pota
toes and all kinds of vegetables and
canteloupe, berries and vineyards, and
fruit, the very hest in the world. There
are six rivers in fifteen niles to irri.
nusa aIf al
" everywhere and as fine as it can
grow in rich mountain loan with plen-
ty of water. Right in the eastern door
Of the city is the French ranch, the
property of Capt. VIM. French, the W.
:. Ranch, originally consisting of about
10000 acres, $4,000 acres of it now
being cut up into small parcels and
sold 10 farmers with permanent water
rights. This is the land now being
marketed by the French Land 4 lr.
rigation Co., and is selling at $50 to
$50 an acre, Fifteen thousand acres
of this body is under ditch and in cul-
tivation this year, the crop Icing al.
falfa, wheat and orchards and truck
patches, and there are many homes on
this tract that are marks of civilization
where most of the comforts of life are
in evidence. The colony looks pros
porous.
The home place Of VIM. French -
"A garden of Alfalfa and fruit. The res
idence represents an Investment of
$25, 900 TO 100000 and ia located : Jut
one mile and half from the new city
of Cimarron east. The residence has
its own plant for heat and lights aud
every convenience enjoyed in the cities
of the country. The barn is handsome
structure and like the residence is built
Of stone and finished with the best of
taste, and but fur the fact that you
see white face bulls and big mules aud
fat horses in and around it, you might
mistake IL for fine residence. There
are trees, water, the Cimarron river
running through the premises. Be
tween the ranch house and the city is
n field of four hundred acres Of alfalfa
that cuts four to six tons per acre an
nually and the surplus goes on the mar.
ket at Cimarron at $40 to sl6 ton
making yearly yield of sixty ia
ninety dollars an acre. This is only
one of large number Of such rancho.
ia the vicinity Of Cimarron. A. va
have said before in this paper, there i,
AN area of forty square miles around
Cimarron that is rich enough TO support
"A state.
The Springer holdings represent 250,
600 acres, and in the home tract there
are three thousand acres. There is q
river running through this magni
iccnt estate. There are five hundred
acres in cultivation and 100 acres of il
, orchard, the rest in alfalfa. there II
IA residence, n regular old Scotch eas
tie. picture back in the shade of th'
D mountains when the sun gets over il
The west, that cost 100000 furnished
! This is one of the prettiest homes tn
! writer has ever seen. On his ranch MI
Springer has twenty thousand head o
: graded white face cattle and com
! plement of horses to run them. Hi
estate runs up into millions and he