The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-14
GREAT
SOUTHWEST

Comparatively few of our readers
of the country located south and west
OF Kansas City. We we'll remember
of studying our lessons in geography
in 1s49, and seeing printed upon the
maps what was teen represented as
the great American desert, extending
from the Missouri river to the Rio
Grande river which is now the boun-
dairy line between Old Mexico and the
United States. And the crossing OF
said desert was considered a task al
most equal to that of reaching the
north pole at the present time. Many
adventurer's N were left bleach
ing upon the plains. eloquent evidenc-
es of mans greed and desire for gold.
But a marvellous Change has TAX
en- place all over the vast section of
country referred to, the great herds
of buffalos and wild horses that so re-
Gently roamed at viii owe h bound
less prairie, and also the savage In
dian have almost been swept away
by the rapid approach, of what is
termed, today a christian civilization.
A new condition has come to the ter
ritory we ave briefly referred to.
Towns and proud cities have sprung
into existence as if by magic. Beau
tiful rural homes now decorate the
hill tops and beautify the valleys of
much of this apparently favored land
we'll titled farms are every where Wis
ible and the evidence of an unusual
prosperity can not be hid; and the
desert of sixty years g has been
made to bud and bloom as the roses.
An empire of over 10000, 900 of free
and happy people are settled thereon,
and the prospects that rise up to
bless the future are SUI that no idle
dreamer can possibly portray. There
is no measurement of estimating the
probabilities that awaits the further
development of this great country;
values are continually grading up
ward as the country improves.
Capital from the far asst is being
poured into the west like water for
investment. The money panic of 1907
in Wall Street and other money CEN
tiers had the tendency to cause CAPT
~tal:sts to look else where for invest
ments. They soon discovered n fact
that investment in western cal estate
was much safer and profitable thar
eastern stocks and bonds and thus a
craze for land has SPRUNG up all over
the country, and a tide OF emigration
has commenced toward the south and
west that is seeking every available
acre Of land on the market.
Ii was our lot to pass through much
of the country that we are writing
about five years ago, and the progress
and development that has been made
since that date was a very great sur
prise to us. We doubt if the fairy line
stories of the Arabian Knights equal
the realities tlat are here visible. The
improvements are up-to-date in every
particular. The telephone, the cleo
trio cars, the automobile are as com
mon as they are in Ohio. Indeed
while riding in a palace car, along the
lines of the great Santa Fe railroad,
il was one vost panorama of RIGA ru-
raj scenes, Of thriving villages and
beautiful cities. blessed with all the
modern convenience of this modern
and fast age.
A thousand miles south west of the
Missouri we enter the Pecos valley,
one of the richest and most favored
location in all the west, being blessed
with abundance of water which enab-
les taean to adopt a system of irriga-
ton that is sufficient to develope to
h highest degree any condition of
husbandry that the c~ultivator desires
to adopt, alfalfa, fruits, stock raising.
in fact any industry of a rural cAarac-
ter can be developed with ease to per
fectioa. The climate is ideal being
healtnful and delightful at all seasons
of the year. TIE people are intelli-
rent and progressive.
In the city of Roswell. churches
and schools compare favorably with
any in m older states. The frater-
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