The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-11-18
QUAY COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES
AS GIVEN in SOUTHWEST TRAIL

| WcHt Ol o,iuV cnllurcn. Inerc are
churches Of various denominations
There is excellent telegraph, telephone
and electric light service. Every town
boasts its newspaper and modern de
partmont stores. Among the activities
of Tucumcari are four Wholesale
houses, one hundred retail enterprises,
produce houses, creamery, steam laun-
dry, bottling works and refrigeration
plant. There are broom factories, a
factory for extracting the fiber from
Yucca or bear grass, new industry in
the southwest, plaing mills, machine
works, feed mills and the big Rock
Island roundhouses and shops.
In an agricultural way many prob
lens have been solved in the last ten
years Of actual work II was found
thnt wheat can hc proiitahly grown IN
the southern part OF the county, where
yields Of fifteen TO twenty-five bushels
have been recorded annually. The
wheat harvest of 1914 was about 265.
900 bushels. The United States Field
Station was stationed at Tucumcari
and has done much 10 direct the activ-
tiles of farmers who had to learn to
farm according to limitations placed
on them by soil and climatic conditions
Hundreds of silos have been built, fill
cd with every imaginable form of ST.
lage that can be grown with an aver
age of fifteen to twenty-five inches Of
rainfall.
"Dairying has become one Of the
most profitable industries. While
there are not such large ranches as in
the old days there are more cattle
ranches producing many more beef
cattle than formerly. The old long
horn steer and the poor lowbred ami
mails of the Spanish days have been
virtually eradecated from the range,
and today only high grade Herefords.
Shorthorn and Angus cattle are rais-
ed. The farms of Quay county have
no longer that wind-swept appearance
of other days. II is a common sight
to find the farm house surrounded by
black locust or cottonwood trees, with
flower and vegetable garden and u
windmill to irrigate. The result has
been contented and well-to-do COM
munity.
"The Crescent Creamery Company
Of Tucumcari, G. A. Quinlan, manager
during the months of hay, June, July
and August this pear, shipped an av-
erage of 10000 pounds of butter made
from the cream produced on the great
domain which few years ago was a
cattle country, without fences and
without many other necessary i'm
provements. The records of the cream
cry show weekly incomes for several
dairymen of $i5 to $50 in cream
checks. BY far the heaviest supply
of cream comes from Nara Visa, Am
istad and Hayden. The country south
of San Jon at the edge of the bad
lands produces large amount of
cream also, much of which Is hauled
twenty-five miles or more to a ship
ping station. The settlers are all
making money from cows.
Most of the Crescent Creamery Co.'S
butter is shipped to Arizona and Cali
fornia, to Chicago, Kansas City and
Philadelphia. The volume Of butter
shipments this year will total about
10000 pounds. In addition there is
a large shipment of ice cream. The
entire output of butter milk is fed to
hogs on the Goldenberg ranch near the
city limits.
The Pajarita Project
"Near Tucumcari, 10000 acres can
be irrigated with water from Pajarita
creek If the project now under con-
sideration natures into reality. Re
quired capital will not exceed $780,
600 say engineers. Mr.. Kirkpatrick
at Santa Fe said that the project was
feasible. Water rights have been filed
and capital is awaited to develop the
project. Plans for reservoir in the
state engineers office at Santa Fe call
for capacity of 10000 acre feet. The
drainage basin is almost 100000 acres
A lake six miles long will be formed
by backing up the waters Of the creek.
There Is an underflow of ten to twelve
feet which will be retained by the dam
in addition to the flood waters which
annually spread out over the Pajarita
valley. The body of land to be irri-
gated is within few miles of Tucum-
carl on the Rock Island Lines, af-
fording ample facilities for quick ship
ment Of crops TO market"