The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-14

Inc DlBBeSI OIuHl ever Uull
ed off in Roy was the, entertain
ment of the Excursion from Den
yer last Sunday and Monday.
Over 200 men were here to see
the State Land in Union County
26 miles Northeast Of Roy which
is to be sold at Clayton N. M.
April 25th.
AS announced last week, Roy
offered Editor Hoggatt, of the
Great Divide" Of Denver. free
entertainment and free Automo-
biles out to the lands and back
if the Excursion came to Roy.
The offer was accepted and the
people of Roy and the surround
ing country rose to the occasion
and when the two Pullman cars
arrived loaded with excursionists
a hundred cars were parked at
the depot ready for the long drive
Of 60 miles to and over the ad-
vertised lands and back.
Immediately on the arrival of
the train a panorama picture of
the crowd Of hundreds of citizens
and visitors was made by Mr..
Newman, the local photographer
The guests were then loaded
into cars and the procession start
ed out with Bob Alldredge in the
lead with his big Franklin.
Eighty five of the cars got in line
and drifted out across the Carlo
and up on the mesa where the
Mitchell Pasture and the other
lands are located, Several stops
were made on the land and a cir
cuitous route brought them all
back to the Carrizo and home
over the main road all getting
in before dark, there were few
minor troubles on the way but
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none serious and no accident of
any kind.
The entertainment in the even
ing was planned as a Smoker"
but the necessities of the occa-
sion demanded that the ladies be
admitted to the meeting and they
were in large numbers.
The speech by Mr.. Hoggatt
gave his hearers a glimpse ofthe
Vision" he saw which promoted
him to get up this excursion and
place the big tracts of land which
seem to have been placed on sale
to meet the demands of the big
stock men where it can be pur-
chased by the farmer and small
ranchman at the same price as
the capitalist can buy it. He re-
presented that it meant hundreds
of farmers to trade in town in
stead of one big rancher who buys
at wholesale and this land produc-
ing crops worth $40. to $50. per
acre per year instead of continu-
ing in grass for which they grudg
ingly pay sc. per acre per year,
and the homes of men, women
and children supported by high
grade stock rather than continue
as it har been in the past under
the same conditions which pre-
vailed when Moses kept the
focks of Jethro. "
His speech was followed by
other short remarks by Mr.. Clas-
son Of Denver, Mr.. Abbott of
Springer, R. w, Boulware, Jim
beam Johnson, G. R. Abernathy
E. F. Ivey and other farmers on
the mesa who told of their ex-
perienceS and successes with
crops and stock and by Prof.
Trumbull who was here to repre-
sent the. E P & S w, Ry. Itwas
the best as we'll as the biggest
meeting of the kind ever held in
Roy. U. S, Commissioner W. H.
Wilcox presided very gracefully
and the excursionists asked ques
tions regarding soil, crops, wells
and social conditions which prov
ed their earnestness in the enter
prise and that they meant busi-
ness.
It was fortunate that so many
came in Pullman's, else we would
have been put to all sorts of ex-
pedients to find places for them