The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-03
Cimarron is the Richest City
In Natural Resources on
the Map In the Great
Southwest.
SIX RIVERS IN
FIFTEEN MILES


country in the Rocky Mountains of
New Mexico where there is water, tim.
ber and stock, agriculture and horticul
ture, but the new town Of Cimarron in
Colfax county has the richest endow.
ment that the editor of the News has
ever seen, and there il not a county in
the territory or much of all the South.
west that we haven't seen. Cimarron
sits in the eastern lap Of the Rocky
Mountains just few miles below where
the Cimaf. IN river emerges from the
canyon Of the same name where Kit
Carson led the first expedition of the
Old Santa Fe Trail through from Law.
renee, Mo-, to Santa Fe on to Chihua.
hua, Mexico, way back yonder in the
sixties. This was the route travelled
by U. s. Mail lines when IT. took six
months TO get letter from the Miss.
issippi valley to the Pacific coast where
there were treacherous Indians hanging
on the trail for a thousand miles OF
the distance. The old town il rich in
the tales of frontier life and legendary
history Of the Utes and Apaches. The
richest stock country in America IL was
for years and is today the center II
the kingdom Of eattleland where there
are ranches ranging from three thous-
and to two hundred and fifty thousand
acres, with herds of Herefords rang.
ing from a few thousand TO twenty
thousand head. Back in the pioneer days
and for few years after the Santa Fe
built through New Mexico to the Paci-
iic coast, Cimarron was the county seat
of Colfax county and on the old town.
site today stands n TWO story concrete
hotel Of forty rooms which was the
home of visiting cowmen until the
grant was opened three years ago and
the new town of Cimarron WAS placed
upon the map Of the territory. This
hotel il elegantly furnished with all
conveniences and il in tine new town
now would be small fortune.
The new city is thriving one OF
about fifteen hundred inhabitants with
good schools, water works, sewerage
and other modern conveniences. Sever
al wholesale and retail mercantile
houses. bank, several hotels and other
businesses that are found in any town
of its size. But for the fact that un
til three years ago when the Maxwell
Land Grant was opened nobody could
get onto the reserve and there was not h
ing for sale OF a single resource that
could be acquired for any price, is the
reason the town Of Cimarron is M
larger than il is. Until recently il wal
cattle and cowboys and nothing more
Now il Is not only the richest stock
and grazing country in New Mckee
hut there are all kinds of industries
springing up in the vicinity. The edi
tor of the News has spent two or thre,
weeks Of each OF the past three sum
mers on the trout streams in the neigh
borhood of this new city and we hav'
written before that II is country o
the most wonderful possibilities WI
have ever seen.
The latest government report of tn
coal desposits of the United States an,
the territories subject TO her dominion
shows Cimarron to be on the southern
edge of the greatest coal area in tn
world except Alaska and the quality
unexcelled in the bituminous product
in fact il is semi.anthricite and
excellent for steam fuel and cOkinI
The resources in coal alone should max
Cimarron town of ten thousand IL
habitants. II will take over a hundre
years of constant work employing a
the men possible to exhaust the fel
of the coal that Is now known TO exis
in that locality, not to mention wha
discoveries that may be made later.
! There is timber world without en-
There is more lumber shipped frol