The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1917-04-28

Last Wednesday witnessed the cul-
mination of the largest land sale ever
held In the state, IL not the largest
ever held In the entire country, stag
ed at the door of the courthouse in
this city.
! one hundred and fourteen thousand
acres of land bringing in fraction
short of a million dollars. was auction
ed on to the highest bidder in parcels
ranging from 40 acres to one that en-
braced $4,000 acres. Big bidders, little
| bidders. the man who represented a
syndicate of capitalists and the mere
mite lookinGi for a homestead site,
rubbed elbows and Jollied each other
in good humor, as tract after tract
was put upder the hammer and knock
ed of.
And IL was done so quickly
Piece by piece, tract by tract; a chunk
Of 40 acres here and massive $4,000
there. interspread with 160 acre farms
to 5.OOO-acre ranches. were put upon
the block to be snapped up by the Gag
er home buyers, or the agent of some
syndicate. ..
Let us look ut the stupendous facts.
One hundred and fourteen thousand
acres were sold.
Nine hundred and ninety eight thous-
and dollars accrued to the state.
The average price per acre was $S.65.
The highest price per acre was $1,000.
The smallest tract was but 1853 acres
The largest tract comprised 3s,113
acres.
Frank Kilburn of Clayton, was the
man who dug down deepest into his
pockets. that is, money against land.
He paid the top notch fancy price of
SO per acre for 40 ares of choice land
adjoining Ait Dora
'. T! Hoggatt, representing Dem
Yer syndicate of capitalists. bought
the largest tract, 3S,l13 acres, for $40.
per acre. This. 1t is understood. is to
be subdlyided into homesteads and
which are nearly all disposed of.
Clayton acquitted itself admirably
and took care of the large crowd in
most hospitible way. For a week pre-
-vious to the sale, clusters of purchasers
dropped in and Tuesday saw the big
gest bunch of people assembled with
in our limits ever recorded Automo-
biles. wagons and trains dumped their
loads of humanity into our midst and
our citizenry did themselves proud in
their welcome. Flags were flying. banner
ed streams of welcome from hats
from belts and pinned TO their corsago
or howlng from neck in ribboned cor
diality.
Up and down the streets trotted the
throngs and the marts presented a
seething mass of bubbling. humorous
huE nifty. Everybody wore i smile of
hapoy content an even The EIds were
1nNOnS
And now that is is over |
y But IL isn't over. We are only al the
Threshold. This sale means hundreds
of new settlers into Union county set
tiers of Drawn and mettla. willing TO
undergo a few temporary hardships for |
the goal of future happiness in beauti- +,
full homes we'll titled farms and boun-
teous ana well filled granaries., For |
the soil is here awaiting but the rub
bling OF the genii's lamp to Oelcn forth |
It's opulence. And it is up TO us of Clay |
ton and Union county to extend the glad |
hand of fellowship to each and every |
settler.
Following is the list of the tracts !
and their purchasers:
Joe Doherty. Folsom. lI,S7S acres.
at IS: w. =. Brayton, Logan, $50 acres
~ ~ - % JOAiobllt <AADtIlt louU acres /
at S5. F. b. Moore. Centerville, $50 acres
nj IS: w A. SwOyer. Cone, 400 acres at
IS; Mrs. Emma b. Lowrie Hayden. $40 |
acres at 80; w. A. ~woyer, Cone, 100
acres at $7 J. II Crane. Hayden. $40
Rcres at $40; r J. Hoelderle. Hayden,
52 acres at Sls.75i Reyes Martinez, Rey-
es. $50 acres at 81: Grover ]. Shields.
Hayden, TIA acres at S1625: H. J. Nc
irudeT Thomas, $40 acres at 50; Fred
erick Wolford, Hayden. 100 acres at
t5; Frederick Wolford. Hayden, 2IOO
acres at $3.50; Archie J. Jones, AmIstad,
l60 acres at STATS; George M. Jones,
Amistad. 80 acres at IS; Geo. II. Brost-
meyer. Kephart. $50 acres at 80; c. w.
Antis, Clayton. 80 acres at S7.T5; J. H
Knox, Holland. so acres at IS; w. l..
Harrell. Clayton. 80 acres at 81; John
krizon, Harrington. $40 acres as S1O.50;
Floyd C. Field. Thomas. 1e0 acres at
1880; Robert p. Mcclure. Pasamonte.
isi acres at S1e15; william Lockhart,
Pennington, ESQ acres at a12sO; II. J.
cllard. Clayton, TIA acres at ss,SS: Tom
Tray. Clayton. $50. at ssos: Arch Pat
on. Higgins, Texas. 4si acres at 81;
". A. Selvy, Clayton. 80 acres AT es: