The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-01-28
While Others Deliberate.
TuCumCari Acts"

uttsOus hOtSe
rUcUMcARi is the county seat OF
Quay county. IL surrounded by an
empire OF wealth and is In every
way n modern city. All Of the
churches are represented ard most
OF them have elegant church build
ings.
eCHOoLs-The schools OF Tucumcari
are second to rome In the state.
We have "a modern High School
building, costing $4,000. together
with splendid ward buildings. The
new County High School will be
established and doubtless soon q
State Normal.
UTIlITiEs-The city Is supplied with
electric lights, with day ps well as
night service. cement walks. owns
n splendid waterworks system: has
n fine sanitary system OF sewerage,
ice plant, cold storage and long dis.
TO ice telephone system.
5uiLDINGs-Tucumcari has two OF
the best bank buildings in the South
west. blocks OF brick business
houses, an up.to.date court house.
u. s. Land Office, a modern 100000
hotel, new Elks' Home, costing $i5.-
600. Tucumcari Hospital, and hun.
dreds Of beautiful residences. There
has not been "A time In the last i've
years that there were not buildings
ia course OF construction. a new
federal building Is being planned
and u $50. 900 union station for Tu-
cumcari; also the Home Sanitarium
with Tubercular Annex.
CLlMATE-Our altitude Is 1000 above
sea level. our winters are short
and mild and the summer nights are
always cool and refreshing. Pure
water from deep wells Is procured
In abundance.
soClETY-Our citizenship is com.
posed OF the best people from the
east, west, north n south and will
compare favorably with the per-
sonnet Of any city. Nearly all OF
the Fraternal organizations are rep.
resented and most of them have
large and growing memberships. and
some of them are planning to build
homes OF their own.
RAiLRoADS-Tucumcari has four
railroads with IA monthly payroll OF
from sac, 900 to 100000. The shops
u ~roundhouse OF the II. Il. a. s. w.
hl' b'iA'u III llt tlN1s anu Nllb 10
the freight and passenger division
point OF all four roads. Several SUR
veys have been made to the south,
and there will soon be another road
leading in hat direction and giving
US connections with the Gulf trade.
The Santa Fe railroad from Clovis
will probably be built within the
next twelve months, and other roads
are contemplated. The proximity of
TucumCari to the almost ineXhaust-
iblc coal supply at Dawson with the
Mexico market near, should bring
additional factories.
SHIPPING POlNT-Statistics show
that TuCumcari pays more freight
10 the railroads than any point be-
tween Pratt. Kansas. and I'll Paso,
Texas. During last year 1900 cars
of freight were unloaded to our
merchants. and over 600 cars daily
were handled through our yards.
The Wholesale business of the city
has gone beyond the 81. 0OO, 600 mark,
the retail business has exceeded
Sl.25U.OO0, aud our banks did over
Sl2, 5000 300 worth OF business In the
ten months from January LIST TO No
Yember LIST.
FACTORlEs-We have n cotton gin.
broom factory, bottling works. ice
plant, cement block factory, ice
cream factory, feed mill. two fac.
tories for the manufacture of per-
forated tile for sub.irrigation, plan.
ing mills and creamery. Tucumcari
has the best equipped poatofiice In
the State, has two weekly papers
with as fine Outhts as can be found
an the Southwest. These papers are
very literally ~patronized by our
merchants ms will be seen by the
pages OF advertisements they carry
In each issue.
MORAlS-The morals OF Tucumcari
are good, and when this was written
the county Jail was empty, n this
IL not the only time Quay county has
had an empty jail during the last
year.
AMuSEMENTs-The city has a fine
opera house, parks and ball grounds.
two moving picture shows and other
amusements with a Railroad Y. NJ.
C.. a. planned for the near future.
QUAY couNTY-Quay County In
bounded on the east by Texas. The
drainage IL from the Canadian, the
Plaza Largo and the Pajarita Rivers.
SSot VT llih WI fhI
be bought at present at a low figure,
and 1t does not look like a business
proposition for a farmer OF other
states to pay all OF his hard.earned
money for rent, when he can procure
100 acres OF this soil for what one
years rent would amount to.
POULTRY AND TRUckINo-Poultry
and trucking pays well in this sec
ton. Eggs bring from thirty to
fifty cents and poultry is always IN
demand. There are some small. ir.
rigated garden tracts G the city
from which the are selling
more than a thousand dollars worth
OF vegetables TO the acre.
A Chamber OF Commerce with 1872
members.
The "a. 1000 acre Pajarita Irrigation pro-
ject Is on foot and Il Is expected that