El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-18
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

- CCAA-NT DdCk at Ell faSO is IL
was in the early days this city
has certainly made great
changes" said lack T. White What
is now Cleveland Square used to be at
the outskirts of town and was a ceme-
terry. I remember being struck with
the numbers upon numbers of graves
bearing the single word Unknown
upon the headpiece. These marked the
graves of men and women who were
killed in various indian raids out on
the plains and brought here for burial
The two frame houses on the east side
of oregon street above Boulevard
were the first houses built On that
street They were thought to be out
of town.
There is a wonderful fascination
about the big stretches of open land
out here in the west" said Mrs. Sara
X. Montague, of Washington, D. c.
They seem to offer so much oppor-
tunity besides giving a wonderful sense
of bigneSs of things out here. 1t is so
different from the open country of the
east. Much of that is beautiful But
the open spaces of the west have the
inspiration that the other does not
possess.
Financial conditions in Ell PasO have
shown a great betterment in the last
few weeks and there is now ample
money on hand to aid legitimate in
dustry," said A. ?. Coles. Money will
be even easier after the first of the
year, when the semi annual dividend
disbursements are made, and the new
year will see much activity in all lines
of industry. The city is sound and Z
any temporary set back that may come,
such as that experienced when the Eu-
ropean war first broke out, is soon
Ove- with"
Conditions in Chihuahua are quiet
and we have heard of no trouble, around
Torreon there" said C. II. Maury. "Busi- |
ness conditions have been getting lit
tie better, since the opening Of the
National lines to Mexico City, but !
things are still quiet Many Ameri- |
cans living in northern Mexico have
already come to the border to spend /
Christmas at home. American bust !
ness men are looking for better times
but there will be nothing like normal
until the money situation is thoroughly /
reOrganiZed.
while I approve of the Made in FL 1
PasO exhibit, I believe other attrac- !
lions should be added" said Sol Berg. !
What we desire to do is to bring peO- J
pie in from the surrounding country. I
We should, therefore have amusements I!
as well as exhibits. People want to be /
entertained as well as instructed, and 1
amusements is a great attraction to (,
have in connection with any fair. These /
amusement places should be centrally /
located so as to be easily found by I
the visitors"
Business is much better than last 1
year" said W. R Schultz Much IS said |
about money being tight, but in FL 1
PasO there seems to be plenty Of avail !
able, cash, judging from our recent /
hTrefrnec which has hnnm }
strictly cash I should say that FL Paso 1
is in very good condition financially" |
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There is probably no one who is in I
a better position than I am to speak /
of the condition of the roads in that /
section of the country through which !
travelled, said c z. Bates, who drove I
POO miles in a wheel chair with a dog !
team. Excepting some places in the /
state of Kansas, there is no section /
of the country where the roads are |
equal to those in the vicinity of FL /
Paso There is no city of the many in |
which I have been anywhere near the !
size of Ell Paso that can boast Of an |
asphalt boulevard extending for Is !
miles beyond the city. Moreover of /
all of the cities which I visited since /
left FL Paso more than a year ago, !
there is not one large or small that is /
as live a town as Ell Paso. There is 1
probably nothing at which a man can |
quicker get at the pulse of a city than
III the SAFE u LEW ID per-. anu can
sell more Heralds in one day than 1
could sell of the papers there in Kan
sas City in three days. And Kansas
City has a population almost five times (
that of Ell Paso. And the same COM 1
parison applies to the other cities which \
I visited. I came to FL PasO because
I wished to obtain sufficient funds to
take me to the worlds fair at San
Francisco in 1915. And 7 knew that 4
FL PasO was the only city where I /
could raise the amount"
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There are a few calamity hOwlers (
even in Ell Paso who are complaining
of hard times" said James L. MARI of /
Austin & Mari. But I wish to state !
most emphaticaIly that both in my bust /
ness and in all other lines as far as I /
have been able to learn business has \
seldom or never been better. In my I
n n y y T