The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1914-04-09
PROMOTER MAKES AN
EXTRA NlDUCEMENT
Mr. Quin Offers to Donate the County High School 40
Acre Irrigated Farm Means Another Expert
mens Farm for Quay County

We are ready to start things that
will place us in a position TO compete
with other counties when IL comes TO
showing the advantages Of Quay county
IL one may Judge from the things that
are happening thick and fast. We have
the resources, and all IL takes 20 dc.
velop them is 60 work together, and
get the things that we need TO attract
others to us. Among these is the op.
portunity for each resident in Quay
county to send his boy and girl to a
high school free. The following letter
shows that such a high school in this
county will in addition to teaching the
usual branches, have the facilities 90
teach each young person the way to
cultivate this soil under irrigation.
There Is a movement all over the Uni.
ted states, directed by the Commission
er Of Education to have an experiment
farm connected with each school plant,
and the proposition offered to the Quay
COUNTY people by Mr.. Quin makes IL
possible for us to get such an expert.
ment farm for nothing except the trou.
bic incident 10 casting vote for
County High School when the question
is put up again.
There 10 another phase of this ques.
tion that some Of our people have not
thought Of. The government Of the
United States has given Quay County
the only dry farm experiment station
in this state, and IL will be an easy
matter TO get the faculty of that sta.
tion to give all pupils in the county
high school n course Of instruction in
the way TO carry on dry farming in the
regions wnero water is not available
for irrigation. This will make IL pos
sible for the persons interested in dry
farming to send their children 10 the
Quay county high school, and learn
both irrigation and dry farm methods
while in attendance. Not only that,
but those who cannot send children 10
the school viii have the privilege to
visit these plants, managed scientifcal-
ly, and observe their operation, and
thereby get much benefit from them.
The letter from Mr.. Quin is as fol-
lows.
Dear Mr.. Hofer:
II pleases me 10 note the work now
going on in favor of establishing a
county high school for Quay county.
This is one Of the first steps, in my
judgment, toward developing the re.
sources Of this region. / believe it
will bring many into Quay county that
without a county high school will 90
to some other place.
Your couaittee doubtless knows
that ! am deeply interested in bringing
water to irrigate twenty-five thousand
acres of Quay county land. Your are
authorized TO state for me that If I
succeed in doing this, I shall deed for.
~ acres of this irrigated land 60 the
Quay county high school, to be used
as school farm, whenever the said
Quay county high school Is established.
The Luna county high school at Dem.
ing has recently purchased twenty
acres al about two hundred dollars per
acre for this purpose aud Albuquerque
plans to purchase n farm fer the Ber-
nalillo county high school IL Is my
intention TO help place Quay county in
the same class of other progressive
counties, and | am willing, therefore,
to donate the aforesaid real estate 10
accomplish my purpose.
Yours very sincerely,
q. W. QUIN