Image 7 of Santa Fe new Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.), November 4, 1908
author: Anonymous
source date: 1908
availability: public_domain

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 1908 GO TO WILLARD NEW MEXICO 1HF IIVE COMMERCIAL CITY OF THE ESTANGIA WllFI SEES THE CITY OF WILLARD destined to betheCOUNTY SEAT of Torrance County New Mexico W laid out in the fall of HOP It is ikv a thriving city of nearly 1000 mnabitants It lies on the muin line of me Atchison Topeka Santa Pe Railway system running east and west from Chicago to all California points and the Santa Fe Central Railway running from Santa Fe N M in close connection with the Denver aud Rio Grande and the Rock Island System The Santa Fe System have expended on its depot yards a million dollars in freight and passenger depot eating house water system round house and coaling chutes Sixty houses have been erected Several of the largest mercantile houses in the Territory are built and doing a big business It has four large hotels churches schools A live Board of Trade energetic business men two lumber yards etc The new city is in the center of the best agricultural and grazing section of New Mexico The best shipoin and distributing point for all merchandise cattle sheep and wool The targe wholesale houses