The Estancia News, 1904-12-30

Torrance County will become a full full-fledged - fledged full-fledged reality Sunday, January I, 1005. The elected officer will meet and qualify for tiieir respective ornees on Monday fol following. - lowing. following. That the new county is a neces necessity - sity necessity has long been felt. That the people of the valley, having any business at the county seat, should bt compelled to travel sixty or seventy miles across the moun moun-tnins, - tnins, moun-tnins, is too much of a back number for the present hustling citizen. The valley has sufficient property to raise plenty of funds for honest govern government, - ment, government, without burdening anyone, if all are taxed. Naturally with stretches of country from 1 50 to 200 miles across in one county, some property is sure to be omitted from the tax schedules, but with smaller areas, this is not so probable. The expenses of the new county need not ne necessarily - cessarily necessarily be heavy just now. Torrance county is t assume one-third of the out outstanding - standing outstanding indebtedness of the old county. Thi3 is not right as one-third of the taxa taxable - ble taxable property is not within the bounds of the new county. The debt should be di divided - vided divided pro rata, according to the last tax returns. At present there need be no great sum spent on public buildings. The local schoolboard has offered the use of the schoolhouse for court purposes. A small jail will have to be provided for, but the erection of an exptnsive building for this purpose at this time would be foolish indeed. The county seat, which is located at Progreso should be changed by the com A Good Move. As is well known to the old timers in Naw Mexico, the Rio Grande has a disa disagreeable - greeable disagreeable habit ef going dry in the hottest part of tin summer, just when the water's most needed for irrigation of crops, and no man has found a way to break the river of a very bad habit. It has long been re recognized - cognized recognized that to assure crops something had to be done, but it has heretofore been impossible to get together the people of any one community on a proposition look looking - ing looking to the establishment of conditions new to the people, and but little understood by them. In Socorro last week, several prominent men gathered at the office of Hon. John E. Griffith and organized an irrigation company, intending to put in a pumping plant of sufficient capacity to irrigate the crops under the ditch the company will es establish. - tablish. establish. Ten incorporators were chosen, and M. Cooney, W. A. Fleming, Jnes and Wm. G Hammtll were chosen directors for the first three months. It is the intention to put in a small plant this year, for the re reclamation - clamation reclamation of from thirty to fifty acres, and in that way show the practibility of the plan, in order that a sufficient amount ef capital may be interested fr the purpose of Installing a large plant the following season. As far south as Rincón the underflow of the Rio Grande is known to be ample for irrigation, and the putting in of pumps Will bring thousands of acres of new land under cultivation, as those now under the ditch would need to call on the pumps only in the few weeks of dry season. The enterprise set on foot by the enterprising citizens of Socorro should have the sup support - port support of every citizen in the entire valiey. Advertiser. Tbt Estancia Valley doesn't need ex exaggeration. - aggeration. exaggeration. The truth is infficient Read T hi News and learn the truth about tbt Valle;.

Good Pros ing legislature. It would be a pity to spoil a good sheep ranch for a poor county seat. It should be placed at a con enient point, where there is a chance of building a town, as near the centre of the county as practicable. The valley is rapidly settling up with t good class of citizens. The land is being homestended, improvements are being made, and homes, in all that the word im implies - plies implies are being built. Some good land is yet open for settlement, but even as good a thing ni this can't last forever. The Santa Fe Central is now operating 65 or 70 miles of track within the county. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (Santa Fe Cut off) will cross the county, with not less than sixty miles. That this will be buile is assured, most of the grading being already completed. The Albuquer Albuquer-qua - qua Albuquer-qua Eastern will have a few miles and one of its termini in the new county. In the course of a few years the ranches and railroads will be returning taxes without working a hardship on anyone, and then suitable county buildings can be erected. Torrance county, with its 3,060 square miles, has the soil and the water to be become - come become one of the greateit garden spots in New Mexico. All that is necessary is to bring the two together, and the plains literally bloisom like the rose. While this has only been attempted in a very small way as yet, it is coming as sure as the trend of immigration is westward. Keep your eye on Torrance county--the county of homes. Society of Equity. "The American Society of Equity of North America" was chartered under the laws of Indiana the 24th day of December 1902. The objects of the organization as given in the articles of incorporation are as follows: " 1. The first and great object is to ob obtain - tain obtain profitable prices for all products of the farm, garden and orchard. "2. To have built and maintain grana granaries, - ries, granaries, elevators, ivareheuses and cold stor storage - age storage houses en the farms, in principal market cities, or in all localities where necessary, so that farm produce may be held for an advantageous price, instead of passing into the hands of middlemen or trusts. 3. To secure equitable rates of transpor transportation. - tation. transportation. 4. To secure legislation in the interest of agriculture. 5. To open up new markets and enlarge old ones. 6. To secure new seeds, grain, fruit, vegetables, etc., from home and from fer fer-eign - eign fer-eign countries, with a view of improving present crops and giving a greater diversi diversity. - ty. diversity. 7. To report crops in this and foreign countries, so that farmers may operate in intelligently - telligently intelligently in planting and marketing. 8. To establish institutions of learning so that farmers and their sons and daugh daughters - ters daughters may be educated in scientific and in intensive - tensive intensive farming and for the general ad advancement - vancement advancement of agriculture. 9. To improve our highways. 10. To irrigate our land. 11. To prevent adulteration of food and marketing of same. 12. To promote social intercourse. i). To settle disputes without recourse to law. 14. To do an insurance business, both life and fire. 15. To establish similar societies in tor-

A public reading room for Estancia is now practically assured. It seems that while some of our people here were work ing to open a reading and game room. As Assistant - sistant Assistant General Manager Grimshaw was taking steps toward the same end. Now that both have come together the rconi is almost a certainty. Since enforcing the rule prohibiting the boys from loafing arocud the saloons, Mr. Grimshaw has been trying to arrange some place for the boys to spend their evenings and has de cided thatthe best thing to do is to open a room where papers and magazine are to be kept on Tile and games open to the use of employees of the road. The exact location has not been decided upon, but it is probable a room will be built adjoining the, real estate office, fo. the purpose. The citizens are taking an nter est in the matter, as they should and all willwork in harmony. This is a commendatory move on the part of the company and any assistance possible should be gladly rendered by the people. Christmas Entertainment. The Christmas entertainment last Sat urday night was a success, if we must judge by the number of pleased little folks who left the schoolhouse late in the even ing. The program was well delivered, and to specialize any numbers would be injustice to the whole. Old Santa hada hard time getting hc;e as lae show was almost gone and he had to abandon his sleigh and reindeer, but his foresight in preparing a treat in advance saved the crowd from disappo'Htment. One hun hundred - dred hundred and forty people listened to the pro program - gram program and helped spread Christinas cheer. Moriarty Dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Milby entertained at dinner Christmas day. All the accom paniments of tl-ie usual Christmas dinner were in evidence, to which the party did ample justice. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Milby, Misses Lena Booth, El Ellen - len Ellen Foster and Florence Milby, Messrs. Hugh Goetz, Clyde Baldwin, G. T. Creech, Pierce, Harold Milby and P. A Speckmann. W- A. Dunlavy returned last Saturday from Calfornia. He left Mrs. Dunlavy and the young man doing nicely. He re mained over and took in the Christmas entertainment Saturday night and was delighted to know that Santa had prepar prepared - ed prepared for W. A. Dunlavy, Jr., along with the other little folks. He said Mrs. Dunlavy was pleased to receive the News in far-off California. eign countries." The society is national with headquar ters at Indianapolis, Ind. Its plan and scope is to control the price of every farm product in all parts of the United States and to extend the organization into other countries. Any person of good moral character, male or female, of the age of fourteen or over, who is engaged in any branch of agricultural work or is a friend to agricul agriculture - ture agriculture may become a member of the Ameri can Society of Equity. A person may be become - come become a member of the National Union when there is no local union within a con venient distance, but ail members of the National Union are required to affiliate themselves with a local union as soon as one is organized in the neighborhood. The membership fee is one dollar and in includes - cludes includes a copy of the official paper. Ten members are required to constitute a local union. It is not a secret society.

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