Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1915-04-01
SEVERAL MATTERS
OF INTEREST.

velopment Association was Sc
for yesterday at Willard, bu
there seems to be fatality il
connection with the effort tt
hold this meeting. A lively
snowstorm started in the morn
ing, ,and after talking by telephone
with people at Mountainair anC
learning that nobody would at.
tempt the trip to Willard from
there, it Was decided to again
call the meeting off.
Mr.. Ely, Mr.. March, business
manager of the Santa Fe New
Mexican, and Mr.. Clements,
special writer for the same pa
per, were here, their intention
having been to go to Willard to
attend this meeting.
An informal meeting of citi-
zens was held yesterday after
noon at Neal Jenson's office, at
which matter which Mr.. Ely
wanted to present to the Willard
meeting, was talked over.
1t is Mr.. Ely's desire to put an
immigration agent at work to
try to induce some immigration
into the valley, and his plan is
for those who want to sell their
land to agree to pay into a pub
licity fund one per cent on the
sale price of the land, the rail-
road to put in at least as much as
is received from this source.
This will have to be arranged
largely through the real estate
agents of the valley, though of
course the owners who want to
sell direct can arrange direct
with the railroad. Mr.. Ely's
intention is to put this publicity
man in the field and bring the
people here, leaving them to
settle where they like and deal
with whom they like.
This is certainly a fair PROPOSE
ton. The trouble now is that
no buyers are coming. If he can
induce them to come, the sellers
certainly ought to be glad to pay
this small sum into the publicity
fund. The man who fails to sell,
of course has nothing to pay un-
der this arrangement. The SELL
er is on the safe side all the
time, and only pays his little one
per cent in case of a sale.
The real estate men of Estan-
cia have signified their entire ap-
proval of this arrangement, and
there is little doubt that others
in the county will do likewise.
1t will then remain only for the
individuals who are trying to
sell to give their approval, and
the publicity campaign will start
forthwith.
While Mr.. Ely was at hand
some of those interested in the
creamery movement asked his
advice on the subject. His re-
ply was that $50 cows would be
ample to start a creamery, and
that about $500 would be enough
to buy plant of the size needed
without a building. He en-
ohasized the fact that extreme
cleanliness is necessary to make
marketable butter, and for that
reason in selecting a person to
10 the work one should be Sc
cured who is crank on cleanli-
ness
The talk drifted to many topics
with the development
If the valley, particularly the
subject of irrigation, and the
talk of the visitors was very en-
,ouraging, all agreeing that the
Estancia valley is second to none
If the mountain valleys in natur-
al resources, and needs but de-
velopment to make it the equal
IN wealth ard productiveness of
any of them. 1t was stated that
The cost per acre of the govern ;
nent irrigation projects runs as
high as $40 per acre, while all
the irrigab!e land of the Estan-
cia valley could be developed by
pumping at a cost of from $25 to
$40 per acre, depending upon
the size of the units, large units
being cheaper per acre than
small ones.
AS time goes by it becomes in
creasingly evident that the luck
lest day the Estancia valley ever
had in all probability will turn