The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-08-26
From Albuquerque Herald

county joined the column Of progress
sive New Mexico counties today when
the county commission voted an ap-
preparation of $4,000 with which to
make IA county resources display at
the coming state fair i'm Albuquerque
following a meeting of the commits
sioners and Of Tucumcari business
men and Quay county farmers in
which cooperation in the state expo
sition was heartily and unanimously
endorsed. At the same meeting, held
in the county court house, arrange
ments were completed for a Quay
county fair, TO be held in Tucumcari
the first week in October and at which
the state fair display will be assem-
bled and exhibited.
Chairman W. b. Rector of the board
of county commissioners and Com
missioner Fred Walther, Of Puerto,
courteously held special meeting
this morning at which d. X. b. Sellers
and II. B. Hening presented the mat
ter of the state fair exhibit, with re-
quest for cooperation by Quay coun-
ty. There had been some discussion
of abandoning the Quay county fair
this year and the commissioners did
not feel that il would be wise TO un-
dertake an exhibit at Albuquerque
unless the county display could be
arranged for II was determined to
present the matter TO the business
men of Tucumcari and to such farm
ers as could be reached and the com
missioners, the fair workers and mum
ber Of Tucumcari men, including Judge
Henry Swan, State Senator G. II. ALI
dredge, w. A. Foyil, president Of the
American National bank, J. w. Corn,
and others undertook half day cam
paign which resulted in a meeting in
the court house this afternoon which
enthusiastically went on record in ia
vor both of the county fair and the
state fair exhibit. The commissioners
promptly voted the $500 appropria-
ton and Attorney Harry II. McElroy
secretary of the local fair association,
and others were appointed to make
arrangements for the county fair and
to gather up the county display from
the county for the state fair.
II will be the finest exhibit Quay
county has ever made. The whole
country this year is green with splen-
did crops. the farmers and stock men
are prosperous and the exhibit will
include not only the vast variety of
grains and forage crops now being
produced in the country, but first
class showing Of high grade livestock
as we'll Both county commissioners
will attend the fair and with the one
fare rate which is promised, attend
ance from this city will be large.
Many Tucumcari men will make the
journey by automobile, weather and
roads permitting.
Quay County Capital Busy
Tucumcari of today is quite trans
formation from the town of ten, or
even five years ago Its three rail-
roads give it more trains daily than
any other town in New Mexico with
the single exception of Albuquerque.
It's business houses are modern, pros
porous and busy and its bank state
ments indicate a degree Of prosperity
which the town and county have never
known before. Tucumcari bankers
smile and say business is good" and
this brief statement reflects the feel
ing Of the whole community, The
fair workers received cordial greet
ing and the readiest assistance in pre-
senting and arranging for the state
fair exhibit.
The Governments wonder Farm"
Tucumcari has two first-class news
papers, each equipped with linotype
machines and M dern equipment and
edited by hustling business men. but
they have been overlooking, as have
Tucumcari business men, the finest ad-
vertising card that is in the possess
ion of any New Mexico section. Pos
sibly 1t is because the federal govern
ment does not encourage local adver-
Using of its work, but certainly the
rest of the state knows little of the
federal department of agriculture's
320-acre experiment farm here and
certainly II ought to know about it,
This farm, ninety acres of which are
in crops this year, and growing 75 va
rieties Of the various crops best adapt
ed to dry-farming, is located two miles
out of Tucumcari, on "A rising slope of
splendid land. Special Farm Agent
Smith a state college graduate, who
is in charge, modestly explained to a
party Of visitors this afternoon that
the farm only had been running three
years,a and that in another two or three
years II would be ready to make a
showing. The ninety acres, perfectly
plated, perfectly farmed, and produc-
ing as fine crops as ever grew out of
doors, is a magnificent demonstration
of the possibilities Of farming without
irrigation in this section. That is
what il was put here for; and it is
serving its purposes well. The farm
really is the property Of the state of
New Mexico, secured largely through