Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1914-01-29
bEAL IS BASTEO
BY HOME FOLKS


E. Hedding, secretary of the
Mountainair Business Mems AS
sociation, the following, with a
request for its publication:
Whereas, A certain article pur-
porting to be an interview with
one j. A. Beal of this place, pub
lished in the Albuquerque Her
aid some time ago, having been
brought to the attention of this
organization; and
Whereas, In said purported in
terview appeared certain mis-
leading statements pertaining to
prevailing conditions in Torrance
County and the Estancia Valley;
and
Whereas, The publication of
these statements is unWarranted
and uncalled for and with no ap-
parent good purpose in view, be
it
Resolved, By the Mountainair
Business Mems Association, that
we hereby emphatically disclaim
any sympathy with such meth
ods to obtain cheap notoriety and
most emphatically express our
disapprobation of that part of
such purported in
terview which attempts a com
parison between conditions pre-
vailing at Mountainair and other
towns in Torrance County. We
hereby declare our belief that
the welfare of all towns in the
county is essential to the best
advancement of any one place
and we deplore anything which
tends to divide the county into
factions or localities, whose in
terests should be, and in fact are,
mutual. Be it further
Resolved, That the secretary
be instructed TO send copies of
these resolutions to the papers
of Torrance County with re-
quest for publication.
Following is a copy of a com,
munication sent to the Kansas
City Journal:
Mountainair, N. M,
Jan. %, 1914
Editor of the Kansas City
Journal:-A copy of your paper
dated January 10, containing an
article purporting to be an inter
view with one J. A. Beal of this
place has been brought to the at
tention of the Mountainair Busi-
ness Mems Association. Among
other statements this article con-
tains the following:.
(See first paragraph in Beal in
terview printed in full in next
column
With marked inconsistency
Mr.. Beal then states that while
this is not a farming section he
is personally experimenting with
a large apple orchard, now two
years old, the trees having made
a splendid growth and that he
was basing his hope of success
on the longevity and wonderful
productiveness, under most ad-
verse conditions as to care, of
prehistoric apple orchard at the
town of Manzano, near Noun
tainair, in the dry farming sec
ton.
As secretary Of the organiza-
ton | am instructed to write you
asking that you give us an op-
portunity to refute some of the
misleading and injurious state
ments made, all carrying about
the same degree of inconsistent
cies as that stated above.
1t is true that this part of the
Southwest suffered the worst
drouth in its history the past
year, similar to that experienced
in many of the middle western
states, and in fact extending tc
the Atlantic coast. AS a result
of these conditions many settlers
who came to this new country
without funds, with the hope of
something for nothing from the
government have been compelled
to move on. The substantial
farmers are yet with US and are
as confident of success as they
were before the drouth. The
statement that the sheep mer
are coming back" and buying
up this land left by the dry farm
ers is not correct. Much lane