Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-12
Appropriation Made by County
Commissioners Is Just Fifty
per Cent More Than That
of Last Year,
LAS VEGAS ASSURED
OF PROSPEROUS FUTURE
Population Likely to Double in
-Four Years. Mora, Grant
and Sierra Now Also in
Llmelight,

The commissioners Of San Miguel
county. following the rule Of all
counties SO far visited by President
Southard in the interest Of the New
Mexico state fur board came
across, without the slightest hesita-
tion, with an appropriation Of $3.50
Just so per cent more than last year
for the county exhibit at the state
fair
Mora county took similar action on
the previous day. Thus, wherever Mr..
Southland goes. there Is the finest pos
sible spirit Of cooperation, and peo-
pie everywhere look over the hostility
and the skepticism shown when APP
preached by Mr. Southard's predeces-
cessor. Mr.. Il. T. Putney last year. in
his campaign for the first real state
fair ever held in New Mexico. over
the benefits derived from last years
fair there IS not doubt anywhere.
When told by MI Southard that the
fair is to he bigger and better this
year, also there IS no doubt
San Miguel and Sierra.
But while prosperity has touched
every section of New Mexico, and
people are feeling good everywhere,
Las Vegas City and San Miguel coun-
" has special reason for rejoicing.
AS with Sierra county this Is an
epochal year in san MignePs history
While the completion Of the Elephant
Butte dam " a vastly bigger thing for
the southwest, 1t Is of little more val
ne to Sierra county than the com
pletlon Of the "Camfield project will
he 10 san Miguel
The Garfield project is now as
sured. What has been dreamed of for
many years, is to be realized within
the next twelve months. The money
has been paid 10 clear up all in
dehtedness. there is money in the
bank for the completion of the dam
and the construction OF the bitches,
and men are now N work and tents
are being pitched for more laborers.
on the construction of an irrigation
system that will Immediately reclaim
/ 900 acres of the most productive
land in the world and the farthest
acre is not more than five miles from
the Las Vegas depot and the nearest
farms viii he only a few hundred
yards from the heart of the city.
pessimism Al Gone.
Las Vegas knows that the days of
delay ana uncertainty have passed.
The most pessimistic citizen Is now
an optimist. There is the thrill of
new life. Men are talking ana plan
ming for a bigger and more prosper
Gus city, and they are going to have
it-.right soon. There is no boom yet
but the spirit which always pre-
cedes a boom Is there II is tn every
store, on every street corner, in the
hotel Hobbies. II Is walking every
street and talking all the time.
Eleven thousand acres Of the most
fertile land IN the world, all put I'M
der intensive cultivation ut once and
capable of supporting more than one
thousand families in luxury means the
doubling of the population of Las We
Ras before the next federal census IL
taken.
Mora's Future Sure.
Hut that is not all that is coming
TO Las Vegas soon Some day, in the
not very distant future, there will he
an electrical road from Las Vegas to
Mora, the picturesque and wealthy lit
tie city only thrty-three miles away.
ust1e water power is there for use, and
The road would tap one of the most
HNtiihllS VI iltt NNoNtf 4i'
people of san Miguel and Mora coun-
ties are alive to the advantages of
such a road---and the road could be
operated go cheaply that 1t could not
fail 10 pay. The freight tonnage Ia
there for 1t now. and the increased
production along the route would
soon tax 1t TO its capacity.
One has only to travel over the
state to know that il Is taking on new
life, that new enterprises are soon to
be undertaken with every assurance
that they will pay that New Mexico
IS Just at the beginning of its prosper
ty Grant county is already moving
forward so fast that its people are
unable to digest the prosperity.
Soon the same will be true of Sierra
county, and san Miguel and Mora are
due within the next year.