The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1915-08-21
JENNINGS OPINION OF CLAYTON
Editor OF albuquerque Herald Be-
lieves, With Reason, Clayton is
Best Town in the State.

ut present one OF the most pros
porous counties in New Mexico, is
coming TO the state fair this year
with an exhibit TO resources that
will require not less than two full
lied freight cars TO transport. 1t
will be one of the finest of the
county displays and if it does not
win one of the big money prizes it
will not be for the lack of effort
here, nor for that matter, will it +.
We for the lack of confidence, since !
he people of Clayton and vicinity
believe that they have the best crops
in the whole state this year. As
a matter of fact they have had
wonderful season on both farm and
-ange. The small grain yields are
phenomenal and the county is pros
porous as it never was in the early
lays when Clayton was a Cow
town" and all the vast area now
being farmed was open range.
Col. d. X. r. Sellers and H. b.
Henning, representing the state fair
commission, reached Clayton at
noon Tuesday There was a crowd
ut the railroad station and along
he main business street that chOked
he sidewalks: 1t looked like fair
IT circus day But inquiry proved
Z only an ordinary business day in
clayton. 1t is the busiest town of
he size in New Mexico and without
any exaggeration the most prosper
Gus. More than $4,000 worth of new
store buildings are going up; new
homes are many and new farmers
are as common as Ford autOmo-
biles, which is going some.
6fThe fair workers found the prog
ressive management of the Union
county fair association in hearty &C
cord with the state fair exhibit plan
nd its secretary, DR.. r. NJ. Olbeter,
IN experienced fair man, gave it
his most cordial approval; as did
C. G. Granville, John Spring, Carl
Iklund and others of the local fair
management, who joined in the re-
quest that the county commission
make the necessary appropriation
10 finance the collection of exhibits
The fair workers found the same
hearty cooperation in the county
commission, who acted promptly
and generously, as soon as they
found the exact purpose Of the ap-
nropriation asked. The fair work
crs reached Clayton at ll:50 Tues
day morning. At i:30 in the after
noon the appropriation had been
made and the contract signed for
niOn cOuuty's space in the state
fair exhibit halls. v Capt. Thos. 5.
Snyder of the county commission,
made a careful inquiry into the
purposes of the appropriation, and
Commissioner Matias l.. Casados
came in 40 miles from his home
at Gallegos, to attend the meeting
Commissioner Salome Garcia of Pas
amonte giving his approval by tel
ephone. with the local fair man
ayers present the commission voted
the appropriation, while the fair
men promised to furnish the men
and any other money necessary tc
Irepare the best exhibit ever taker
out of the county. 1t will pay tC
watch Union cOunty's exhibit. II
will be a dandy.
The county government is in eX-
ccllent shape financially. The taN
levies for county and general pur-
noses have been reduced each yeal
while the court fund levy has beer
cut from three mills to one mill anC
there is a balance now of $4,000 il
the court fund. They say here tina
Judge Lieb is a great judge. H'
certainly is an economical one. II,
ran the last term Of court her,
for less than 81 500, a record fo
economy and left a clean docket
The pride of Capt. Snyder's hear
is the court house lawn of UnlOl
cauntys new county building. II i
worth the trip to Clayton just to Sc
the broad eXpanse of greer that ha
taken the place of an ugly SAN
waste. The lawn was laid out am
planted this spring, aud there
not a more beautiful eXpanse O
bluegrass in the state, not eve
around the state cOpitcl at SAINT
Fe Capt. Snyder and his associate
are giving time and thought and EN-