The Black Range, 05-14-1897

University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Black Range, 1882-1897 (Socorro County) New Mexico Historical Newspapers 5-14-1897 The lB ack Range, 05-14-1897 Black Range Print Co. Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/black_range_news Recommended Citation Black Range Print Co.. "The lB ack Range, 05-14-1897." (1897). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/black_range_news/13 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Black Range, 1882-1897 (Socorro County) by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. nn JL JrLCL. Black Range: VOL- - XVI. CHLORIDE, SIERRA COUNTY, N. M., MAY 14, 1397- - NO- - 6 . The Scenic Line of America ,sw and the trowel were heard on every-hand- "but where can poor people do better? the farm. JHotresfwitting did no good, ami HER FATHER'S Business blocks, both frame and; The cast is overcrowded, and t'.ie poor so Mary told' hep; husband, though &h brick, were started up all about the nan cannot hope to get a Ihhuj there., was far from .free of ft herself. of town, center the while residences lie cannot go into business for hiuisci.', The Greene were- - nofr tho only family were being in quar- constructed every that were thus; placed, in- ft precarious, THE ter. Unprecedented activity reigned, posit ion. Nearry all the settlers in that VICTIM and Scraggs' prediction that the place - soetioa worn- victims ot the Paradises vould have twenty thousand population Park boom, andi now. found themselves; A Story of Western Life. within the year bade fair to come true. stranded.. Vrj, few ot, them had threee P.ut day after day passed, r.nd no months' supply of provisions on- hand; move toward constructing railroads oft' money. Denver and Rio Grande IiY TilOMS fi. MOMOIIT. or' and none them, bad The. other public improvements was made. farms were all under, mortgage to thai Yet the people were strong in the faith eastern capitalists, could not Copywrlglit, 1801, A. X. Kc lo.'X.Co.J and kept the boom rolling. borrow money,, and it was useless k why you should riiuke s. great nn ex- CHAPTER XII. i;l..r of earning anything in that part, RAILWAY. ception in my favor. Why am 1 alone A BURSTER nni'M. of the country, f,or there waa no em. selected from nil your re- customers to A pissed uud the great ploy ment to be had. ceive month then the lienefit of your advice? Am I Iwom nt Paradise Pari: received a sud- In this state of affairs somebody more to you than any of the hundreds den chcclt. a railroad line was located v j s called a meeting of the settlers aC of others who have invested in day-cam- e these through that section of Kansas, but it f Markham's store, and when the town lots? I don't thiuli so." to-se- came not to or through the place. H around John Green went over e "You ore right, (i reen, you are not J could be ran within five miles of the town, and what done. There more t ie than the others. Hut it ic or thirty other men there;, Cglorado, the company located a depot and laid til J 4.V V,i It .!?;. il.; all with sad, bronzed faces and quaking: Ml rmt a tjwnsite at the point nearest to S U't 1,4 "Y Paradise Park. hearts. The men spoke together in low As soon ns this fact bcoame known as earnest tones. There was none of tho a certainty the great boom burst and j- ikiti,' and laughing in which men thus W... the embryo western metropolis lay flat. THE '71TBAKS OF BITTrB FLOWED assembled usually indulge. Not a The sale of lots stopped short, and smile disturbed the gloom that hung within three days the value of real and to work nn a salary is uncertain. over the meeting. No hopeful light estat e ran down until it was impossible Thousands do it, of course, ond'a small kindled in the eyes of the poor settlers. fell, VS to sell lots at any price. The noise of per cent, of them get on very well, but It was a solemn occasion and weighty, Mil We have ex-- ; the saw and hammer ceased, and un- such cases are rare. had mailers occupied the thoughts ot, alii and Utah finished buildings were left so. perienee in that way, and we know that gatheringpf stouthearted pioneers, is to be out of employ: Then a new town on the railroad was what it thrown Before them and their families they ment and left stranded without money started under the name of Magic City. saw nothing but starvation, and it is not Scraggs, the inevitable, shook and with sickness. We have hard times to be wondered that their cheeks were; the dust here, many privntions and of vl'aradise Park from his feet and and suffer blanched nnd their eyes dull and heavy I would not ex- Tb t)w soanle route to went down to MagicCity to inaugurate disappointments, but with anxiety and fear. change for east, for here we have a boom there; and he succeeded so it the The situation was discussed in all its) a hope a home by by, nnd well within a few days there was of and there phases, and innumerable plans of action, UTAH. MONTANA, that we could hope for nothing. Here you 1 :t IteHA 1 a grand rush of people to new weresuggosted. Some favored giving upr the your own master, there you were town, and a real estate craze rivaling are the land and moving away, but a great, the servant of your emplovers, who,, many Green poor go And tin that of Paradise Park began to rage. like were too to The people who owned houses at the because tney paid you a pitiful salary and knew of no place where they could sufficient to keep yourself nnd family better their condition, even "YOU ARE SLY, BCltAOOS." old town moved them to the new, and if they thus within a couple of weeks alive, felt that they owned you body were able to make tho change. After-- PACIFIC COAST which influences me. the that There is famed town of Paradise Park the anil soul. I'll take Kansas with its great many had given their opinions not a man among1 my all customers onee proud infant wonder of the trials and disappointments in prefer- some one called on Green to speak. whom I would not, advise I world as do you,', was blotted out of existence, and ence to the east." "Men," Green began as he arose, "wa opened by were he placed in like ttillb th completion ot tbe circumstances. nothing save a few old foundations and "Yes, so will I," said John, "but I are placed in a position where it is Hut it is folly to talk We and argue. Here the painted corner stakes remained to the settlers who come here to hard to find any way out. have Trunk Line early In ths.spring. is a customer for your lots. beau-tir- y Take my spot embryo build up homes and improve and nothing but our claims, and unfortu- advice mark the where the and sell out." metropolis hud stood. tho land, ought to receive better nately they are in the grasp of the "No," fr.jm government. There money Shy locks east. The ma--jori- ty said John, "I'll keep them.; I The collapse had been sudden and un- treatment the of the know your object, Mr. Scraggs I can expected, nnd hundreds of poor settlers is no justice in giving up to corpora- of us are little better than pau--per- s. sec choice, through it perfectly. Those lots who had invested their little all in the tions and cattle kings all the We have no money, we have no lands, leaving provisions, nnd our pos- are destined to sell for an enormous hope of making a raise awoke sudden- portions of the public to land, the only a1' have, is devoured price, and you know it. You see ly to the fact that they were ruined, and tha homeseekers tho sandy, arid plains, session we being day coy- by gormand,, high thousand dollars or so in them, and you that their hopes and their money had where nothing but sand burs and day by that interest. ilMaa Cn-y-anAie- men, I sup--, country of state-i- s Most want tbem. You are the man who pro- gone down together in the gTeat wreck. otes flourish. But the rich Tho in all this part the poses to buy them. You are sly, Scraggs, Some who had of means pose, must be cared for, and whatever, in desolation, and there is nothing for a small amount the-poo- Tilt 3Xoa 3r,lcta.xeaqiaa and you can hatch out some plausible left invested in the new town in the they don't want is tendered to r. us to do to earn bread for ourselves and. schemes, but I understand your motive hope of retrieving what was lost in the But after all this is perhaps, families. Yet we must eat or die, and. in this instance." old, but hundreds had nothing left to as good as any place for the poor we cannot starve.

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