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

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sold to farmers who are this year crop.
ping oats and will put alfalfa on the
stubble next season. This ranch has
5000 head of Hereford cattle.
Then ten miles south Of the city is
the Miami Irrigation Co, developing
$4,000 acres on the Rayado river, j.,
900 acres being under ditch and in cul.
t~ivation this year. Most of this is IN
oats and will be put to alfalfa next
season. This is a colony of dunkards and
looks like a garden. u meadow. 1t looks
good to n man that know anything
about irrigated farming.
Then we have not finished and could
not in an issue of an ordinary news.
paper. But at Maxwell City, n short
distance from Cimarron on the Rocky
Mountain road, is another prosperous
city with a Jap colony that this year
has 500 acres in sugar beets aud will
have n factory this fall. ColfaN county
beets are superior TO those grown in
Colorado. Colorado beets test l2ia to
Is per cent of sacharine matter while
Colfax county has tested Is to lsia aud
there are exceptional eases where col
fax has shown % per cent. This local
ity grows all the products we have men
toned in the other sections of the elm
arron district.
Than fhara - tho Mn.nna N.Il..s NJ
thc head of Cimarron Canyon that Is
20 miles long and : miles wide with
lands that produce ~abundantly in wheat,
oats, rye, barley and potatoes aud most
of the vegetables which need no irri
cation, there being about 30 inches ot
rainfall annually. This fine tract OF
agricultural land is on the market at
S25 and up per acre and there is "a
railroad at hand for everything that
can be produced. Cimarron is the sup
ply point far this district and ships
great quantities of hay and grain and
dairy products every year.
South of Cimarron for fifteen TO TWEEN
~ miles there are a number of small
tracts of timber lands hat are on the
market at reasonable prices that will
add to the lumber supply.
There is n packing plant twenty-five
miles out from Cimarron on the Rocky
Mountain road that is handling beef,
poultry and hogs and the citizens OF
Cimarron have packing house products
on the table any time they want them.
The best in the world. The white faced
Herefords are driven from the mountain
meadows fat to the packing house and
slaughtered and put into the local mar.
ket the year round. The packing plant
is right up TO the minute and cost Chas.
Springer 10000 TO put ii into opera.
tion. This plant makes a home market
for a. the cattle and hogs and poultry
grown in that section of the territory
and is an industry that helps all the
people in the locality. The Rocky
Mountain ~roundhouse and shops are 10.
Gated at Cimarron and there is a large
force OF men continually employed in
them. The Colorado Telephone Co.. is es.
tablishing an excnange and every enter.
prise that comes to a growing city is
getting there. There is a club house
of stone and brick two stories high
which is in the Ration circuit for all
the plays that come that way. There
was n company of nine people played
there all last week a different pro.
gram every night.
The churches and schools are abreast
Of the other progressive towns Of the
territory and the Methodist congrega.
ton is building a new ten thousand dol.
lar church at this time.
the map of the Southwest which offers
greater opportunities for the man with
a little money than does Cimarron. The
Cimarron Citizen, the local paper sums
up the resources of the locality as fol.
lows:
resources of the locality as follows;
Contains one thousand square miles
of Coal lands,
over one thousand square miles Of
timber lands,
Larger deposits of iron than the
Lake Superior Region, besides exten,
sive deposits Of gold, silver, copper and
lead.
Fifteen hundred square miles or
grazing land,
"Acres and acres Of the finest agri.
cultural lands in the world.
Extraordinary opportunities for
profitable investment, a
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