El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-18
Industrial Development Is
Marked and Chamber Of
Commerce Is Active.

Tucumcari N. NJ, Sept 1S.-Good
roads are receiving the attention Of
the people Of Tucumcari at present.
The citizens. under the direction Of
the chamber Of commerce. have raised
over $1,000 which they have placed with
the territorial engineer for the con-
struction of roads to enable the farm
ers Of the county to come in with
their products and take out their sup
plies. The engineer has made the
survey for the roads and work has
started The roads lead out onto the
mesa through the country southeast
Of here known as the cap rock re-
gion,' a section now almost luaocSs
sible owing TO the steep grades on -I Iae
roads. some Of them "a per cent ne
new roads viii be on very snnal-
grades. one through Apache canyon be
ing only six percent ana anOIner, 10
percent through Taylor canyon A new
road is also 10 be constructed through
the cap rock at Raglan These three
roads are to converge south OF the
town. where g bridge 100 feet long IS
TO be constructed over the Plaza Laigo
creek This creek while dry most or
the year. is filled with Quicksand Wnen
there IS water Ia IL ana IS Impossible
of crossing at times. The construction
Of these Improvements viii enable the
IA rmers on the 'flat country to bring
In biz loads of farm products ana
take out good loads of provisions
whereas at present they can haul only
light loads each way
Cold Storage Plant Planned.
The chamber Of commerce IS Also
figuring with eastern capitalists on
the erection Of a cold storage pant
and nackery here. There is a large
section OF country that could be sup
piled from TuCumcari with meats, eggs,
butter and other refrigerated products
and the eastern capitalists nave inter
ested themselves to such an extent
that they have asked Iucumcart Tor
propositions
Denver capital has taken over the
Tucumcari electric light plant and viii
make extensive improvements TO It,
including the addition Of dynamo TO
furnish q DAYLIGHT current for power
and light At present only q night
current is given. The plant was owned
formerly by w H. FuQua, Of Amarillo,
and w A. Jackson and W. F. buchanan.
Of Tucumcari. These men also owned
the FaterwOrks until a short time ago.
when the municipalitE of Iucumcar1
bought the plant for Sb5.OuO- The price
paid for the electric plant was 600
The city since the purchase OF the
water plant has cut the price Of water
from 70 cents thousand gallons to
so cents and there is noticeable in
crease IN me care ny Is oelIs 5Lteu
yards under the lowered rate, the home I
owners feeling that they can afford I
20 use more water at the reduced price (
Individual drinking fountains with I
installed in the Tucumcar1 high school 4
as a precautiOn against disease. This /
is but one Of the many modern i'm I
prOvements in the schools or Tucumcari /
with their % teachers and $50 pupils. I
High School With An Orchestra.
The high school has an orchestra OF (
80 boys and girls and they arr prac- I
ticinE every day to give a concert at
New Mexico Educational association on
Nov. 10 Prof. j. s HOfer superin-
tendent of the Tucumcari schools, is
president Of the association
ly been added TO the high school with 2
Miss Willie-May Brewer IN charge
She is drilling the pupils who viii con-
test at santa Fe before the same cont
vention for the state oratorical cham
pionship.
Through the efforts Of the chamber
Of commerce the Western Union Tele-
graph company has lately moved its
oLLlce lo"LtgHH In ne c!aIL3eI OF
commerce buldlug, where II is given
free rental Postmaster A. r. Carter
IS president Of the chamber of COM
merce- He is also president Of the
Fair association, which is going TO
give a big exhibition here on the 9th,
2Sth and 29th- One Of the features is
going to be a bird man In flight. Mr. {
Carter. like the other live business men
Of the town, is leading the chamber (
OF commerce into active work Tor
man. beneficial improvements. Mayor
L. =. LANCE as head Of the municipal
.tv's affairs and A -. GOldenberg- as
president OF the school board. are all
leading in their respective tasks in
their efforts to build up Tucumcari,
and Tucumcari is responding nobly.
The new buildings clean streets. new
sidewalks, and general air Of progress
siTeness stamp the town as one that
has arrived" yet its future IS most
-oseate. Towns that are not prosperous