El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-13
Leading Men Of City Make
Suggestions For El
PaSO's Growth.

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seasons. The land doesn't lack fertility
and wen have plenty OF water me
climate, everybody KNOWS IS one OF our
with our important payrols and
inc government and municipal i'm
provements planned for the new year,
/ believe it is going 10 pc the busiest
and best we have ever had.
start Advertising Campaign.
Burt Orndorff, Hotel Sheldon; AS
\ forerunner to a great many things
that q united FL PasO can do, a Wig
orous, systematic advertising cam
paign should be inaugurated to lnduce
more people to stop IN lhls CITY On
their way to the PACING coast Inc
trains are filled with homeseekers and
well to do tourists, being drawn west
ward by the irresistible power OF Sa1-
ifOrnfa's Advertising The coast cltles
start them west and 1t up 10 Il Pdso
to have them lay over here and see
how a city is being built Passengers
on incoming trains on the u H. L q
P and Southwestern should be Supptled
with snappy Eel PasO literature call
ing attention 10 the sCOpOver privileges
which are IN force on all the ralIroslds-
Booklets setting forth the varied ad-
vantages OF Ell Pasc and the Rlo
Grande valley should be literally DIS
tributed IN eastern eenters where the
WestbOund passengers start A united
effort along these lines VIII do Tor
our city what has been done Tor OIher
western ciftes-draw new people, new
ides and energy and new money, the
Indispensable things for city building"
More Railroad Tracks
Charles DeGrOff, Hotel OrndOrII;
Influencing the G. H. & S A and
Southwestern railroads to divert their
trains around by the rive front and to
dispose Of their tracks through the
heart Of the city would seem to me 10
be the greatest movement all FL IA
IA - raraU l.
roads would easily reap p nice profit
from the sale of their choice reilly
several times what II would cost Inem
TO build permanent line along the
rover-and such a move would increase
the taxable values Of real estate IN the
city by S5.O00,G0e-
Railroads Would Profit.
1.-THE location of the east and west
roads was all right when FL PasO wore
its swaddling clothes, but We have seen
how the constant tieup OF street traf-
fic by long freight trains IS interfering
with the city's development appre-
have played in the upbU1ldinS OF FL
Paso and what such a change in oper-
alton would mean TO them, but that they
would ultimately show a big gain by
moving out and allowing the city to
grow into what now comprises their
switch yards and vacant blocks, no one
who has studied the project should
doubt II they can't do il all at once,
LET them send the freight around by
the river front and run only passenger
trains through the business district I'M
til the tracks can be taken up
Pence in Mexico Important.
Sol 7. Berg, clOthier: THE thing that
all FL Paso is vitality interested in see
ing come to pass is the restoration OF
peace in Mexico Not only viii this
city. regain a healthy trade. but we will
be able, when peace comes, to renew
our relations with neighbOrs over there
of many years standing whose good
will for this city has always been an
asset resumption Of old time con-
ditiOns would put the right spirit in
everybody"
New High School
AdoIph Schwartz, Of the Popular:
"a new high school building and a
joint city and county hospital are two