The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-03-24

d~esoiopmca, arr dcalt with in
the newn celumns or the Her
ala today. The realisation OF either
ono ~ these projects wonla be Of alb
~salutely unlimited hsnrflf 90 Aihu-
qntrque. The realisation Of both
would make u Albuanerqne enc q
The bis clileg Of the west. Both %
these matters. "a seems 20 I'M Her
ma are worshy u the most careful
lnveaslsatlon BY the business inter-
eals " shsa clts. through It's CONNER
oial club. or whatever other medium
may seem most effective.
onc Of these masters u the outline
Of a plan for rain connection with the
SAN Juan valley. a San Jnan county
nan with a record behind him Of re-
suits IN the ploneeftan development
aeld has conceived tne idea that IN
order Ia act rail connection between
San uan county and A~lbuqacraue Il
h not necessary TO build and equip
a modern. standard gauge. ss-pound
steel line of railroad. like the santa
Fe man line; that almost any kind
of twin rans which viii bear Up under
the weiEht o. motor-ariven trucks
will gel the traffic over she read and
that for the present getting the
freight out OF san Juan county 10 a
market whence Il can be disiributed
Il the most important thing. This
he believes can be brought about. in
spite of the war IN Europe and the
fact That American investors have
their cash locked mp In a sock. He
has discussed his plan with Aibuquer-
y business men who are very rom
revativc-and who be,lees thar Il Is,
practical; and in fact the only sug-
Eestion of the kind that has been
made which Is practical under the
present condition ~ financial affairs
The Herald docs nyi know whether
Il 10 a practical plan or not. We do
know that several men whose judg-
ment We respect believe Il Is prac-
teal. and we know hat a number OF
men with whom a representative OF
the Herald ma discussed the natter
briefly have shown a very lively in
terest in n. Hut n man failed TO
take the matter seriously. This one
man said Il was a dream" that you
couldn't fool him with dope about a
railroad to the San Juan: he'd heard
too many ofthem built with hot air.
only he called u "bun." which re-
calls h fact that that Il the same
line OF talk that preceded predictions
OF the telephone. the ~aeroplane. the
wireiess-aRa the new Santa Re shop
plant In this city; also the Y. n. c. A.
and pretty much everything else
worth having around that ever has
been proposed.
Il 10 quite useless to reclte all over
again what rail- connection. however
flimsy. with the San Juan and inter-
mediate territory would mean to this
town In the way Of hard dollars IN
new business; business which we
never can get until such n line Is.
built. II IN enough 10 rccalI that the
Commercial club In years past has
spent a good many thousands OF dol
lara IN investigating and aarveys and
promotion or schemes good. bad and
plain foolish. 60 this one End. Ger
tainly u would be nothing but good
business 10 MAKE a thorough investl-
cation OF this latest proposal. and u
Il IL worth while, do what We can TO
help Il along.
The other matter is Of even more
importance. Il concerns a proiimi-
nary Industrial and economic survey
81 the Rio Grande valley between
pena Blanca and san MRrciai. that
part OF the Rio Grande valley known
as the Central Rio Orande valley. ana
an OF which IL directly tributary 20
Al0uqaerque. We huse not found
even man willing 20 brand a fu-
tor drainage system for this great
valley and the reclamation OF its
waste lands A. a dream. We hav ait
realised That We have an enormous
idle resource at our o In the
farming lands which surround as.
The trouble has been that up to this
time We have been content 20 let that
~eaourc remain idle. By reason %
the DOGGY % bad titles. OF unprogros-
sive land VI progressive land
owners who for their own reasons DO
not want development AT this time.
and from force OF Aabit Ions contin-
ued. We have been content TO say
that some day Albuquerque would
De the center 81 a great farming dis
rrict-and we've LED u 70 az that
7here has never been a sinsle sus-
tanned movement In this valley. In or
out 81 A%ibuquerque. % do anything
with the land
Land will lot develop itself al