The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-17
SAN JUAN COUNTY
EXHIBIT At THE
FAIR IS SURE /
Business of Making Display
Entered in Business-L Like
Manner, With Manager
Employed to Have Charge.

SAANMM ~
Aztec. n NJ. July IL san Juan
county is going To make the greatest
exhibit II mas ever made 1T the state
fair ~ the showing ID has planned
for next october. After closing with
the F~arminBtuu Chamber IT Com
merce FOR the W.. OF -Gu running
feet Of exhibit hall apocy. The fair
exhibit workers came here for a
meeting with the Aztec Commercial
club and the Aztec fruit growers aud
were rendered q reception OF the
most cordial Kind. Action Of the
Aztec club va prompt and emphatic.
They voted To appropriate the neces-
ssry money To- finance their end of
the county exhibit. contracted for ths
use of 200 feet Of exhibit hall spnce
and passed "a resolution asking III
nanc.dl support from the county
commission FOR "a united san Juan
county exhibit Joint committees Will
be named from the clubs of the two
towns and a manager employed who
will be paid "A salary from now until
the fair opens, to collect aud arrange
the exhibit. THE result will be a
showing which every other county
la the state will IA u hard to equal.
much legs To beat. II will Include
not only the famous san Juan county
fruit. fresh and preserved, but grains,
roots, livestock. on and coal II rs
a country Of varied Just
how varied and how extensive will he
shown out OF the several carloads 81
eNhibsta which are comins TO the
state fair.
Aztec ana Pennington are much
alike as TO surrounding farm terri
tory and al other resources. They
are about equal In population and
their business conditions seem To- be
much the same. Here us In Farm
ington the one great need IL for an
outlet TO the south. and the Aztec
people are as eager for a. and eEpc-
cially Tor a connection with Albu-
querque. as are the people of Farm
iugton.
SpCSial Train to the Fair.
Aztec has enthusiastically second
ed a suggestion made at Pennington
that "A san Juan excursion be sent to
the state fair. The Denver 4 Rio
Grande railroad has been asked for
n special rate and "A through train
and has promised both. subject To a
minimum guarantee Of leo passen-
gers. This guarantee has been FUR
nished by the commercial orsaniza
I tions Of the two towns aud the san
| Juan delegation Co the state fair rs
almost u certainty.
Feeding Industry starts.
Aztec farmers have begun some
! very extensive and quite successful
| experiments in stock feeding While
waiting for an outlet for their fruit
they have found II possible to make
good money by feeding even $3.50
| alfalfa to both sheep and cattle. The
| breeding up Of sheep from the Nav
aIo strains also In being followed eX-
tensively ana the livestock industry
| Of th!s section of the country Is be-
coming important
A lesson In Road building.
san Juan county has given the rest
| OF the state a lesson In road building.
The county road board Is made up
/ Of active, enthusiastic road builders
land the road from Pennington To
Aztec Is a turnpike. saw for "A few
arroyas which need bridges. h
state highway commission now has
| Engineer j. u. Farwell running lines
for the few grades which need to be
made and for building the bridges
for which material Is fcattered along
the road.
From Aztec to the Colorado state
line the road IL n of the best and
through some OF the most magnificent
scenery in the state. From the Colo
RADIO line To Durango the road ~
a. AWN HanVHaMNNH NnNH
faced. a motor may be- driven az
almost any reasonable speed over u
for the entire distance, In comfort
ana safety.
/ Want Road { q Gallup.
An OF the san Juan county ais
%tricts, ~ VOL as Durango. are eager
for the completion Of the road 1,
/, Gallup. The Aztec Commercial clut
, pissed a resolution concerning u
, while we were there, and the Du'
@lrango exchange, the most novel com.
/ mcreial body In the west, has takcr
the same action.
The san Juan communities wan
The Gallup road In lieu ~ q connec
Iticn with Albuquerque which they
are determined 60 have before YER
Hong.
The loyalty Of san Juan county q
Sew Mexico is n notable thing. Sep
Iarated from our trade centers by nj
r most impossible transportation bar
p riers. they have persisted In doinl
business in and with New Mexico
? trade centers. They viii continue q
r. do so until they get the connection
I they need. one OF the leading citi
! Gems Of Aztec who rs ia be a mem
% her Of the state fair excursion part.
told MS he had been a resident 81 Nc'
70 Mexico and San Juan county for thlr
:. ~ years and had never been TO Albu
querque. Yet this man was a leade
q. In the agitation for "a highway TO Al
. buquerque 80 he might turn his trad
| "a ia.