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Court House, two good Weekly Newspapers, a small Packing House, 

 a Broom Factory, Steam Laundry, Telephone System, Electric Light 

 Plant in course of construction, Ice Factory, three Hotels, one Flour- 

 ing Mill, (water power), ten miles of graded streets, long rows of 

 stately cottonwoods shading the principal streets. 



The town never has had a boom, and has been built and devel- 

 oped entirely by private capital. The business men and leading citi- 

 zens are conservative, but energetic and public spirited, and always 

 work together for the public good. 



No person who has been in the Pecos Valley long enough to 

 know what its climatic conditions are, can fail to experience a feeling 

 of regret when realizing the fact that if the actual truth could be 

 known over the United States about this climate, the lives of hun- 

 dreds of persons could be saved every year. The testimony of a 

 prominent newspaper man, who is at this time in the Valley for the 

 benefit of his health, will perhaps make the matter as plain as almost 

 anything that can be said. In a recent letter written to his paper he 

 says: 



"It would be a great boon to the Pecos Valley to have a new rail- 

 way connection with the East and North, since it would doubtless 

 bring more people to enjoy the climate, which is one of the best, if 

 not the best, in the United States. Sunshine and dryness are the 

 <jures for pulmonary and bronchial diseases, as nearly all can testify 

 who have come to try them. The blue skies of Italy 



and the Riviera are not so blue as the sky of the Pecos Valley, and 

 every day the sick women and children as well as men can spend 

 out of doors, walking, riding or driving. There are no sick here, in 

 fact, except those who come for their health, and these are generally 

 delighted and benefitted if any vitality remains in them on arriving. 

 Certificates of cures in the persons of the cured are too numerous to 

 leave a question as to the healing qualities of the atmosphere. If 

 this air could be condensed into bricks and sold for what it is worth, 

 the Pecos Valley would enjoy a greater boom than the Klondike 

 Country, There is a cool, bracing breeze these days, but since 

 Christmas there has not been a day when the most delicate 'lunger' 

 could not be out in the sunshine from 8 in the morning until 5 in the 

 evening, although ice has formed every night." 



Cyclones are unknown in New Mexico, a fact of no small import- 

 ance to those who have lived in localities where they have been sub- 

 ject to the dreadful fear of these awful engines of destruction. 



North Spring River flows through the town of Roswell. Water 

 clear and warm; bathing facilities unsurpassed the year round. Bass 

 are very abundant, average from one to three pounds as high as 

 seven. In the fall and winter season ducks, including canvass backs, 

 are very plentiful close to town. Antelope, quail, plover and teal are 

 found close to town. 



