Chronology for the Carlsbad NM Area

1821 With Mexico’s independence this area passes from the hands of Spain

to become part of the new country’s Province of Nuevo Mexico

1848 Col Steven Kearny occupies the Territory of New Mexico for the U.S.

1850 to 1870 The Comanchero Trade is at its height on the Staked Plains. Siete Rios is apparently one of the trading grounds. The name appears on very early maps

1850 Hispanic settlements have begun to show up on the Upper Hondo and Bonito Rivers.

1850 The Raider Brothers are ranching at Manzanita Spring near the Point of the Guadalupes. They will depart from the area by 1857, however.

1852 Future Eddy County is at this time part of the County of Dona Ana. The Dona Ana County Seat is at Mesilla

1854 Capt Pope makes several attempts to establish water wells for a proposed trans-continental railroad paralleling Delaware Creek through this area

1855 The defeated Mescalero Apache are restricted to their current territory..

1855-02 Scout Jose Maria Palancho, a member of the Longstreet Expedition, is killed by Indians at the Point of the Guadalupes

1855-05-04 Ft Stanton is established in the Capitan Mountains near La Placita (later to be renamed Lincoln)

1856 With control now established over the Mescalero and the Comanche, Hispanic families begin to reside for the first time along the Middle Pecos. They subsist by raising goats and a few sheep. They do have to be almost totally self sufficient because any source of supplies is far, far away.

1858 to 1859 The Butterfield Overland Stage route moves up the Delaware River from the Pecos and through Pine Springs Station from early 1858 to Aug 1859

1862 R.M.Gilbert settles near the mouth of the Penasco

1862 The Homestead Act is passed.

1862 Ft Sumner and the Bosque Redondo Reservation are started on the Pecos. Kit Carson shifts the Mescalero Apaches to the new Bosque Redondo

1866 The Heiskel Jones family arrives in New Mexico, living briefly near future Roswell and then briefly at Plaza San Jose (later called Missouri Plaza) in 1867

1866-06 Goodnight & Loving bring their first Texas cattle herd up the Pecos. Within three years the valley held thousands of grazing cattle, as other ranchers followed.

1867 The Pecos Valley, we are told, was at this time a sea of grass with not a single large tree for 50 miles. Because the nearest timber in the Guadalupes could not be brought in due to lack of roads, early settlers in this area, for years, had to be content with living in tents or chosas—so small that they could be roofed with the cane and small willows that did grow along the banks of the river.

1867 Tom Jones was born 29 Sep 1867 in an adobe house that stood where the Main Street bridge now crosses the Hondo on the north side of Roswell

1867 Plaza San Jose (later called Missouri Plaza) is established on the Lower Hondo (It is abandoned by the 1870’s)

1867 John Chism brings his first Texas cattle herd up the Pecos and establishes a ranch for his “wet stuff” (cows & calves) south of Ft Sumner at Bosque Grande.

1867 The first Anglo settlers arrive at Siete Rios, calling it Dog Town because of the prairie dogs. (In 1878 it begins to be called Seven Rivers.)

1867-07 Oliver Loving is attacked by Indians 7 miles south of future Carlsbad. He dies at Ft Sumner soon after

1868 The area where Carlsbad later appears begins to be called Loving’s Bend.

1868 The Indian Reservation at Bosque Redondo is shut down and the Mescalero are allowed to return to their territory in the White Mountains west of future Roswell

1869 Van Smith erects the first building in Roswell, a saloon. Capt Lea soon buys him out and builds the first store. The nearest point for supplies is Las Vegas NM

1869 La Placita is renamed Lincoln NM

1869-11-14 Lt Cushing leads his first expedition into the Guadalupes seeking cattle stolen by the Mescalero from the Caseys, who lived on the Hondo.

1869-12-10 Lt Cushing’s 2nd expedition into the Guadalupes.

1870 Lincoln County is created out of the eastern part of Socorro County, but the future Carlsbad area is still in Dona Ana County (spelled with a tilde). 1870 Hugh Beckwith establishes the first ranch on North Seven Rivers.

1871 Walter Thayer arrives at Seven Rivers.

1871 General William Shafter leads Ft Davis Buffalo Soldiers in a reconnaissance of the Staked Plains. They discover Monument Springs

1872 The Gilbert Ranch is established near the mouth of the Penasco.

1872 John Chism buys the land at South Spring and shifts his headquarters there. He is soon running cattle on the Pecos from Roswell to the Rio Negro (which is later to be called the Black River)

1872 The government creates the Mescalero Indian Reservation 1873 Dick Reed & George Hoag set up a ranch at the mouth of Seven Rivers and build the area’s first trading post.

1873 Thomas Gardner locates his ranch on North Seven Rivers.

1873 William Brady is the first to set up an irrigation system at Blue Spring near the Middle Rio Negro (later called Black River). He sells out and moves to Lincoln, where, as Sheriff Brady, he is killed in the Lincoln County War.

1874 The first barbed wire is sold in America.

1874 Pierce and Paxon locate at the mouth of today’s Pierce Canyon southeast of today’s Malaga. They are cattlemen and buffalo hunters

1874 The Horrell War attempts to drive all Hispanics from the area

1875 Jake Owen arrives at the Pierce & Paxon Camp at the mouth of Pierce Canyon

1876 thru 1878 The Lincoln County War. The small ranchers align with Dolan & Riley, Chism aligns with McSween & Tunstall. Billy the Kid is with Chism.

1876 The Ollingers arrive at Dog Town

1877 Indian raids for horses are still common up and down the valley

1877 Sallie Chism arrives at South Spring to live with her uncle John Chism

1877 The Heiskel Jones Family, having swung into Arizona & Texas, swings back into New Mexico, arriving at Dog Town

1877 The short-lived Mormon Ditch is put in at the west side of Double Crossing (East of today’s Loving NM). It is intended to water several hundred acres for five miles down the river. The Mormon group abandons this ditch when they decide there is too much violence in the area to permit the safety of their families.

1878 thru 1881 Later author Lew Wallace is Governor of the Territory of New Mexico

1878 Dog Town is renamed Seven Rivers

1878 Lincoln County is enlarged to include all of eastern Dona Ana County, including our area. This makes Lincoln County the largest county in America.

1878 Texas publishes its first list of 4,402 fugitives from Texas justice—a number of those on the list are said to immediately move to New Mexico--but under new names

1878 Gold is first discovered at White Oaks NM

1878 Felix McKittrick, a long-time employee of John Chism, establishes a personal ranch in McKittrick Canyon near the south end of the Guadalupes. When Chism dies McKittrick moves north and creates a second ranch at McKittrick Spring 4 miles west of the future site of Eddy/Carlsbad.

1878 The Corn Family settles west of North Seven Rivers

1878 Hank Harrison arrives at Seven Rivers

1878-07-19 A five-day battle at Lincoln brings the Lincoln County War to its climax.

1878-08-16 Hugh Beckwith kills his son-in-law W.H.Johnson near Seven Rivers

1878-10 Pat Garrett moves to the New Mexico Territory

1878-10 Capt Lebo leads a Ft Davis reconnaissance Cavalry troop up Dark Canyon

1879 The Mart Fanning Family arrives at Seven Rivers

1879-04 Charles Slaughter and his herd settle on South Seven Rivers

1879-08-14 A large new gold strike at White Oaks becomes the Homestake Mine

1879-08-23 24-year-old John Beckwith is killed by John Jones at Pierce Canyon

1879-08-30 24-year-old John Jones is killed by Bob Ollinger at Pierce Canyon

1880 Charles B.Eddy makes his first trip to Seven Rivers to buy cattle for his Colorado Halagueno Ranch 1880 The L.W.Neatherlins move to Seven Rivers

1880 Joseph and Susan Edwards become the first settlers on Rocky Arroyo. Young rancher Walter Thayer is their boarder. He will later marry Susan after her husband’s death.

1880 Hank Harrison homesteads Rattlesnake Springs on the Upper Black River and takes a small ditch from the spring—the 2nd irrigation system in this region. 1880 Gardner establishes a ranch on North Seven Rivers 1880 Charles Slaughter shifts his herds to the Upper Black River.

1880 Capt Sanson builds the first store at the future village of Seven Rivers

1880-01-26 Sallie Chism marries William Robert, John Chism’s bookkeeper. They will take over the running of his ranch in early 1884 when cancer problems force him to go East for medical care.

1880-09-22 16 wagons of settlers from Texas arrive at Seven Rivers in a single wagon train

1880-10 The Mescaleros stage their last significant raid in the Seven Rivers area

1881 Clabe Merchant and his twin brother John start Abilene Texas

1881 The Eddy brothers and their partner Bissell buy a ranch in the Seven Rivers area and name it, also, Halagueno Ranch. Their brand is VVN

1881 Dave Kemp is sentenced to hang for the murder of Doll Smith in Texas, but is pardoned by the Governor of Texas.

1881 L.Wallace Holt buys out Gardner to establish his Turkey Track Ranch on North Seven Rivers

1881 Buck Anderson and his brother Lum (in 1883) come to the area as ranch hands

1881 Generals Miles and Crook bivouac with 1,000 Buffalo Soldiers at Rattlesnake Springs during their campaigns against Geronimo.

1881 The Welch Family arrives on Upper Black River

1881 Area ranchers are said to have killed the last Lobo wolves in the Guadalupes at this time. 1881 Will Sublett begins appearing in Barstow Tx saloons with gold nuggets he hints came

from the Guadalupes. Since these mountains are totally limestone, it seems unlikely.Some suspect he had found a cache of gold coins there and was melting them down.

1881-03-08 Joseph Edwards is killed by lawmen Kip McKinney & Pat Garrett at . Rattlesnake Springs

1881-07-14 William Bonney—Billy the Kid—is killed at Ft Sumner by Sheriff Pat Garrett

1882 Ash Upson, living near Roswell, ghost-writes “The Story of Billy the Kid” For Pat Garrett 1882 Hank Harrison is said to be the first non-Indian to see the natural entrance to the future Carlsbad Caverns, originally known as Bat Cave

1882 John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as the Sheriff of Lincoln County

1882 The Heiskel Joneses homestead 2 miles north of Seven Rivers village, opening a store/saloon & blacksmith shop at their homestead.

1882 Bill Jones marries Annie Campbell at Seven Rivers

1882 The Joseph Wood family arrives at Seven Rivers

1882-03-27 Capt Sanson’s store at Seven Rivers is sold to Frank Rheinboldt

1882 – Late The buffalo herd that had always come through this area each winter heading south has dwindled to almost nothing. (The herd actually moved through this area 20 miles to the east of the river—apparently going to the Pecos only at Pierce Canyon.)

1883 Lookout, soon with a post office, is founded by Jesse Rascoe on Lower Black River. (The post office will last until 1892)

1883 Benjamin Gilson is murdered and later buried in a barrel in Gilson Canyon

1883 John and Daniel Lucas create the ranch that later becomes Washington Ranch

1883 George Williams comes to Upper Black River to work for his uncles, John and Daniel Lucas

1883 The J.W.Lockharts homestead on Middle Black River

1883 The Heiskel Jones family begins to ranch on Rocky Arroyo. Their five remaining sons come to graze a territory east of the Guadalupes from Seven Rivers south 20 miles to the Bat Cave

1883 The Territorial Surveyors. moving down through the valley establishing section corners. for the first time reach Seven Rivers. 1883-07-04 Pecos Texas holds the world’s first public rodeo. Morgan Livingston takes first place in steer roping

1884 Frank Divers establishes the Dug Well Ranch to the east. His brand is the TAX 1884 Lucas & Reynolds put in a ditch down the north side of Black River from Lower Castle Spring. They plant the cottonwood saplings along the ditch that will later shade Black River Village as huge trees 1884 The first settlers occupy Badgerville on the Middle Penasco—so-named because the early families dug holes in the banks of the stream to have a place out of the weather. It will later be renamed Hope NM

1884 The Lycurgus Wards establish the X-Bar Ranch in Upper Dark Canyon. The Morgan Livingstons establish their own ranch just up stream, shortly thereafter..

1884 The early families settling in the Guadalupes are able to build log cabins.

1884 The John T.Plowman family homesteads on Black River

1884 George Williams establishes a homestead and ditch at Blue Spring near the Middle Black River 1884 Cicero Stewart comes to the area as a ranch hand 1884 The Bill Cass family homesteads on Middle Black River. An earlier member of

the family had homesteaded briefly on the west bank of the Pecos beside an arroyo that has ever since been known as Cass Draw

1884 Charles B.Eddy moves to his ranch near Seven Rivers. He brings in Martin M’Rose and Tom Fennessey as tough ranch hands from San Antonio Texas.

1884 The Eddy Brothers and Holt Cattle Company begin acquiring every section

through which the Pecos River passes from Seven Rivers south for 10 miles. (We known now that some of this was done be setting up dummy homesteads.) Ultimately they divide these lands. The Eddy Brothers get all of the lands bordering the east bank of the Pecos in that 10 mile stretch, Holt Cattle Company gets all of the lands bordering the west bank.

1884 Rheinboldt & Maerlin lay out a new town 2 miles west of the original village of Seven Rivers, which it soon replaces. By Apr 1884 there are 4 blacksmiths in this new area and a boarding house. 1884-08-04 The Julian Smith family homesteads at Castle Spring near Middle Black River 1884-12-20 John Chism dies. 1884 thru 1886 The Big Die kills at least one third of all the cattle in the valley from lack of rains and heavy over-grazing. The grass was now gone from the valley, but a sea of mesquite, which was not native to the valley, had moved in to replace it.

1884 thru 1889 Albert Johnson is driving the stage from Pecos Tx to Seven Rivers and back

1885 Santa Fe officials accuse C.B.Eddy of acquiring lands by coercion of the Hispanic land owners. He claims innocence and wins the case. 1885 The John Shattucks homestead in Upper Dark Canyon

1885 Water Right #1 is established on the Pecos by the Valley Land Company for Nash Ditch, which leaves the Pecos at Double Crossing on the east side of the river near future Loving NM. The enlarged ditch will eventually provide the waters for Hagerman (Harroun) Farm. 1885 The McDonald Family moves to Seven Rivers

1885 In the 1885 Territorial Census Seven Rivers has 300 population, Lookout has 350, Roswell 475. 1885 The Wes Magby family homesteads in the future Queen NM area. 1885 Green Ussery sets up Rancho Chico 20 miles south of the Point of the Guadalupes (This will eventually become the Madera Ranch) 1885 Geronimo is captured by the U.S.Army

1885-09 The Denman Gang attempts to drive all Hispanics from the valley 1886 The windmill arrives in the West, opening up the Staked Plains. Drift fences

of barbed wire soon follow.

1886 Merchants Jaffa & Prager move to Roswell NM from Trinidad Colorado

1886 The W.J.Barbers settle at Barber Crossing on Rocky Arroyo

1886 Pat Garrett begins ranching in the Roswell NM area

1887 Susan Edwards Thayer dies on Rocky Arroyo

1887 The L.D.Mayes family moves to the Ward Ranch on Upper Dark Canyon.

1887 Badgerville begins a community ditch out of the Penasco

1887 James P.Day begins ranching on Rocky Arroyo

1887 Surveyor B.A.Nymeyer moves to Seven Rivers. His family will join him in 1888

1887 The Territorial Surveyors reach the future La Huerta area, establishing section corners, and continue down the valley. The first Township Maps produced by these men name and locate some 20 Hispanic families living along the river and at various springs in the area between Seven Rivers and the Texas Line. These families simply disappear from history.

1887-05-05 Tom Fennessey kills John Northern in the Seven Rivers saloon

1887-07-01 Clay Allison is accidentally killed near Pecos Tx, run-over by his own wagon.

1887-10-31 The Eddy Brothers and partner Joseph Stevens incorporate the Pecos Valley Land and Ditch Company to bring Halagueno Ditch into future northern La Huerta. It is a continuous-flow ditch, about 4’ by 1’, that starts from a small diversion dam about 1 mile down-river from today’s Brantley Dam and finally swings onto the land just upstream from where today’s flume is located.

1887-Late The Eddy Brothers and partner Joseph Stevens acquire the Valley Land Company and its Water Right #1 at Nash Ditch. They begin extending and widening that ditch to irrigate a large area east of the Pecos and east of future Malaga NM

1887-Late Santa Fe newspaper man Charles Greene and Pat Garrett join the Pecos Valley Land and Ditch Company. Garrett, however, will continue to live in the Roswell area where this Company is involved in creating a second canal and irrigation system known as the Northern Canal

1887-Late The Eddys and Stevens begin to encourage all of their relatives and friends to

make entries on the desert lands of the valley for the Company that will gain major value with the arrival of a large irrigation system. Francis G.Tracy, a Stevens cousin, arrives briefly, for the first time, to take part in this process.

1887-Late The Eddys and Stevens begin a rock cabin in future northern La Huerta at the end of Halagueno Ditch and beside that area’s stagecoach road to provide a ditch keeper and a Land Sale Office. It is the first house between the Seven Rivers area and Lookout NM.

1888-Early The Eddy Brothers begin construction of a ranch house for themselves in future La Huerta. It will sit for many years at the point where today’s Vineyard Lane enters Guadalupe Street. 1888 Badgerville is renamed Hope and acquires a Post Office.

1888 The Pompa family arrives in the valley hoping to find work on the rumored construction projects about to be started here. They and several other Hispanic families first live in holes they dig in the bank of the Pecos near the townsite. The Pompas later move to the small cave in Wildcat Bluff—an area notorious for its numerous rattlesnakes.

1888-07-10 Bob Dow is born at Seven Rivers.

1888-07-18 The Pecos Irrigation and Investment Co is organized with $600,000 of capital bonds. It takes over the Pecos Valley Land and Ditch Co holdings. Its incorporators include R.W.Tansill, G.B.Shaw, General Bradley and C.B. Eddy, Pat Garrett, Chas A.Gregory, and Joseph Stevens. The Pecos Valley Town Company is also incorporated at this time.

1888-08 B.A.Nymeyer is hired to survey the Eddy Town Site and two major canals from the Hondo northeast of Roswell and from the Pecos at today’s Lake Avalon site.

1888-09 Charles Greene charters a private railroad car from Chicago to Toyah TX, the nearest railroad siding to the Eddy Ranch. He brings in a group of investors . and potential investors by wagon that includes R.W.Tansill. They are entertained here by Mrs Fox, the sister of the Eddy Brothers, and her friend Mrs Arthur Mermod.

1889-09 Bill Reed Jr and family arrive in Eddy to work for his step-father Charles W. Greene.

1888-09-15 Lillian Greene (14), the daughter of Charles, christens the new town site with a bottle of champagne at the local ford across the Pecos—located at the north end of today’s Guadalupe Street. The town site is to be on a flat beside the Pecos that has long been used by John Chism as a roundup ground. Local

ranchers know this area as Rattlesnake Flats.

1888-10 Construction begins on the first structure on the Eddy town site, a small hostelry for potential investors that is called the Eddy House and sits at the northeast corner of Main and Greene Streets. The 2nd building is a small office at 301 South Canyon.

1888-10 R.W.Tansill, who is told by his doctors that he is dying of tuberculosis, returns . to Eddy with his family to spend the winter. They are put in the Eddy Cabin in North La Huerta for that winter. He survives for 14 years, and becomes one of the most significant investors and promoters of the valley’s projects . In 1888 he was already known as America’s Cigar King for his very popular 5 cent cigar—made of once discarded Cuban cigar ends wrapped inside an American leaf.

1888-10 Lucius and Josephine Anderson arrive in Eddy

1888-10 B.A.Nymeyer has surveyed the townsite, Lots go on sale at $50 apiece. Each deed contains a clause that any sale of alcohol on the property will cause that property to revert to the ownership of the Town Company. (It was hoped that this would attract buyers who were not enamored with the “Wild West”)

1888-10 Joseph Stevens, for his heavy investment in the early P.I.&I.Co, receives the half section between the future Stevens Street and Lea Street and from Canal Street to 200’ west of future Mesa Street. The eastern half of this area will eventually come into the town as the Stevens Addition—administered by his on-site relative Francis Tracy

1888-10 John Forehand and family homestead on the Middle Black River. He arrives with the contract to build 100 miles of fences for the Irrigation and Investment Company around its planned 40-acre farm plots

1888-12-01 The Eddy Post Office opens Charles B.Eddy will be named the first Post Master.

1889 Charles B Eddy, needing capital, visits Colorado Springs—where he is introduced to James John Hagerman, owner of the Molly Gibson Mine, by Robert Tansill. 1889 The Charles H.McLenathens move to Eddy

1889 The Joel Farrell family arrives on Upper Black River. The family will grow to eight sons and six daughters.

1889 Alfred A.Freeman is made the first Judge of the Territory’s Fifth Judicial District, which includes Eddy and Chavez Counties

1889 Ash Hawkins moves to Eddy and becomes the personal lawyer of Charles B.Eddy

1889 H.S.Church and his brother have settled on the Delaware, where they are attempting to set up an irrigation system. An engineer and a college graduate, he so impresses the Pecos Irrigation & Investment Company officers that they ask him to shift to Eddy and join the Company.

1889 Josie Witt and her mother come to live with Josie’s uncles Boston and Bill Witt at their Blue Springs Ranch, the W.T.Ranch.

1889-02-25 The eastern half of Lincoln County is split away to turn into Chavez and Eddy Counties, with Roswell as the County Seat of Chavez and Seven Rivers, briefly, as the County Seat of Eddy. Both the new counties run all the way east to the Texas line.

1889-03 B.A.Nymeyer and his family move from Seven Rivers to Eddy, where they first run the Eddy House hostelry

1889-04 The P I & I Co contracts with W.C.Bradbury of Colorado to begin work . on the Main Canal

1889-Spring Eddy townsite is surveyed and platted.

1889-04 Pennebaker-Joyce becomes the new town’s first store, at 227 South Canyon. This general store brings the first John R Joyce to town with his brother Charlie—who will soon shift to Roswell.

1889-06-02 Homer King becomes the first Anglo child born in the new county of Eddy. He is born at Lookout 18 miles to the south.

1889-09 Editor Howe will later write that when he arrived at Eddy in Sept 1889 he found 14 houses and a total population of 30 men, 10 women, 2 boys, 1 girl, 2 dogs and 1 cat

1889-09 James John Hagerman makes his first visit to Eddy, traveling by buckboard from . . Toyah, where he had gotten off the train. Favorably impressed, he quickly invests $40,000 in the Company. As a guarantee for this generosity he is given the Nash Ditch development and the 800 acres it will soon be watering east of the Pecos near the mouth of Black River. While this farm remains in his hands the development will be known as Hagerman Ditch and Hagerman Farm.

1889-09 Clayton New Mexico has just come into existence at this time.

A one-room adobe school building is constructed at 405 South Main. Fred Nymeyer

is named the first School Superintendent and teaches the older students. Edith Ohls is the first elementary teacher. The building is 22’x30’ and cost $1,995.

1889-10-01 The town’s first Sunday School is organized. Interdenominational church services are taking place in the Adobe School.

1889-10-06 School opens for the first time in Eddy at the Adobe School. There are 35 students

1889-10-12 The first edition of the weekly Eddy Argus is published. This paper is owned and published by the P I & I Co. There are virtually no subscribers available in Eddy at this time, but the Co sends out hundreds of copies across America and English-speaking Europe in pursuit of possible investors and land buyers. Because of this purpose, you will, for years, never read in this paper about anything being wrong in Eddy or the valley. Everything is always rosy. Its first Editor is Richard Rule. This is the town’s Republican paper.

This astonishingly early appearance of a newspaper here—and a Territorial Law that required court houses to keep copies of all newspapers of record—will give Eddy NM one of the best documented early histories in the United States.

1889-10-26 EA Bradbury is advertising around the Territory for “American Men” to work on construction of the canals. $1.75 a day, $25.00 a month plus board. H.H.Cloud is the PI&I Co’s Chief Engineer.

1889-10-26 EA The Shrum Brothers expect to have 100,000 locally-made brick ready in 6 days to begin work on the large hotel (101 South Canyon), the livery stable (202 South Canyon), and the McLenathen Building (106 South Canyon).

1889-10-26 EA Re: Wolftown has three citizens (so it is already in place.) (It is a saloon in a weatherized tent + a few other tents for a prostitiute, etc.

1889-10-26 EA The going rate for “American” workers is $1.75 per day or $25 a month plus room and board.

1889-11-02 EA A huge snowstorm in the Clayton area catches 12 Eddy County herds on their way to market, encompassing almost 10,000 head of cattle. All of the surviving cattle disappear as they drift southward. It is feared 12 cowboys are killed. (Dec 20 amends this to 2 cowboys & 2 sheep herders killed.)

1889-11-02 EA C.B.Eddy’s outside dinner bell is put on the school building.

1889-11-02 EA A Mexican worker is killed at Tom Gray’s Wolf Saloon by his monte dealer Hade Walling. Walling disappears from town. (The Wolf, or Lone Wolf, Saloon was in the southeast corner of the School Section near later Church and Mesa. Since this land could not yet be legally owned, the town’s lot restrictions on the sale of alcohol did not apply there.)

1889-11-09 EA The first mention in the newspaper of Mr Hagerman. Re: He will be developing Hagerman Heights. The PI&I Co had quickly turned to him for much larger infusions of cash as their costs ran wild. In exchange they deeded to him 2 full sections that had been homesteaded by their operatives just east of the river. This area was above the planned eastern canal, and would require major investements to develop.

1889-11-09 EA Re: materials are on the way for a bridge across the Pecos on East Greene Street. (This initial bridge will be Mr Hagerman’s private property.)

1889-11-16 EA Lookout has two stores, two saloons, and a school house on the way.

1889-11-16 EA The Witt Brothers have begun working on the wooden flume (at the site of today’s concrete flume.) Re: Since there is still no photographer in town, no one got a photo of those 10-mule teams pulling 13 wagons of lumber for the job. (The 100,000 feet of timbers came from the Carolinas—and left the train at the Toyah Tx siding for the Texas & Pacific Railroad.

1889-11-23 EA The Methodist Circuit Rider Rev Jackson B Cox will be preaching here at the Adobe School on the 1st and 2nd Sundays of each month. On the other Sundays he will alternate between (Upper) Dark Canyon, Seven Rivers, Lookout, Plowman (on the Middle Black River) and Slaughters (on Upper Black River.)

1889-11-23 EA The McLenathen brick building is completed. In the north half is a drug store and in the south half are McLenathen’s Real Estate & Insurance business + lawyer Ash Hawkins. The event is celebrated with a dedication ball for 20 couples. (there are now estimated to be 40 women in town.)

1889-12-07 EA The Livery Stable is to be 40’ x 80’. (Built by (Pat) Garrett and Brent of Roswell, It will soon be bought by the Town Company and leased back to them.)

1889-12-07 EA Ash Hawkins has killed an antelope 6 miles down the valley. (Bill Miller earlier had shot a prairie chicken on South Canal Street)

1889-12-07 EA A lime kilm has been started near the Pecos 2 miles northwest of town, just beyond the wooden flume. (Rather than bringing in cement by mule-drawn wagon the 90 mile trip from Toyah, the Town Company put the early brick buildings together here using burnt limestone and water in place of true mortar. They also erected these early buildings without giving them concrete foundations.)

1889-12-07 EA Dr James Tomlinson has arrived. He plans to put in a drug store

1889-12-14 EA C.M.Carpenter and Belle Rasco have been married at Lookout by Justice B.A. Nymeyer.

1889-12-21 EA The Adobe School has the town’s first and only Christmas Tree.

1889-12-25 Half-a-dozen cowboys, ending their Christmas spree and heading back to their ranches, fire their guns in the air as they ride out of town. (The Eddy Argus does not choose to mention this until one year later.) Old Timers later remembered this as a fairly common occurrence in the early years.

1889-12-28 EA The first baby has been born at Eddy: a girl to Mrs.George S.Russell.

1889-12-28 EA Jake Owen and Fannie Rasco have been married at Lookout.

1889-12-28 EA Dr H.C.Van Norman has arrived. He plans to open another drug store.

1889-12-28 EA Ed Scoggin (who had been the Manager of Hagerman Farm) is getting a 40 acre farm southwest of town. (It begins at the southwest corner of Greene and Guadalupe.) Ed Blankenship is going to farm a second 40 acres north of town (beginning at the northwest corner of Shepherd and Canal). (Several reporters in the East were writing that the Pecos River waters were so mineral-laden that they would grow nothing even if you could get the water out of the river and onto farm land. To disprove this, these two little farms were put in place at this time. The original Halagueno Ditch is now flumed across the Pecos from La Huerta with a very small flume that puts water into a little ditch that runs parallel to today’s Mesa Street about 100’ west of that street. The little ditch runs due south to Dark Canyon where it is flumed again and then is continued down river for another 5 miles. It will irrigate the two 40 acre farms, the first little ditches that were put in the downtown area to water hundreds of cotton- wood staves, and several other little private farms along its path.)

The two little farm houses that were built on the Scoggin and Blankenship farms at this time are still in existence in 2010. One is at 605 West Greene, the other is inside a larger structure at 905 North Canal.

1889-12-28 EA Lookout’s first school teacher, Miss Fannie Wallace, visits Eddy.

1889-12-28 EA Rock Dam Camp has 180 laborers, a blacksmith shop, a harness shop, a dining tent and a commissary. The original dam built at the head of the Main Canal (at the site known today as Avalon) was called Rock Dam because it was built at the site of Rock Bluff.

1889 In the census of 1890 Eddy NM has a population of 278.

1889 1,000 workers and 300 teams spend nine months excavating the ditches for the Eddy irrigation system.

1890 Mr Hagerman completes the canal to Hagerman Farm across the river from

future Malaga.

1890 A Jesuit Priest, E.A.Antoine of the El Paso diocese, begins monthly visits to the valley to offer Mass for the Catholics, virtually all of whom are Hispanic.

1890 Charlie Beeman migrates to New Mexico, settling at Lookout.

1890 Dee Harkey and his family move to Eddy from Texas.

1890-01-04 EA Rock masons are ready to make the sluiceway that will pass through Rock Dam. Because this new dam straddles the path of little Halagueno Ditch, the only way to keep the ditch flowing to the two experimental farms and the hundreds of little cottonwoods is to provide a tunnel by which it can move under the dam. It was thought that this tunnel would later be useful with a sluicegate for draining the future lake and cleaning it out, when necessary.

1890-01-11 EA Daily mail has started to Eddy from Pecos Tx and Roswell NM.

1890-01-11 EA Mrs Fox, sister to the two Eddy Brothers, learns of her husband’s death in San Antonio Tx.

1890-01-11 EA A photographer (Stringfellow) has arrived, setting up a tent at 126 South Canyon.

1890-01-11 EA The Town Company is seeking to contract for 6,000 more cottonwoods. (They had quickly learned that potential investors brought to the valley were totally dismayed by the lack of any shade from the overpowering sun. [Remember the valley had no trees.] The only way to keep investors happy was to get trees fast. Thankfully, with a little water the cottonwood staves rooted easily and grew surprisingly fast.)

1890-01-11 EA Two Chinese men have opened the Parlor Restaurant at 304 South Canyon.

1890-01-18 EA 104 ballots are cast in the town’s first election to choose school board members and town officials.

1890-01-18 EA The town’s new plat has added the Stevens Addition to the west. (The first two plats had only covered from Main to Canal Streets, originally from Lea to Stevens--18 blocks—and then extended north to Church Street.)

1890-01-18 EA Re: Chris Buchanan, “the jolliest colored man in the valley.” (There would not have been many.)

1890-01-18 EA R.H.Pierce plans to move his general store from Seven Rivers to Eddy.

1890-01-18 EA The new Lookout officials are Peitz, Eakin, Hunt, Collier and Neely.

1890-01-25 EA The two Chinese men celebrate their New Year with fireworks.

1890-01-25 EA Lucius Anderson is about to start an adobe home at Shaw and Main (on the northwest corner.)

1890-01-25 EA The Baptist Circuit Rider Rev J.Midd Hill visits Eddy.

1890-01-25 EA Work is about to begin on the first section of the large hotel at the southwest corner of Canyon and Mermod. (This will soon be christened the Hagerman Hotel.) Built in three sections, by November it has reached its ultimate size of 60 rooms. This luxury hotel was very much built to impress potential investors brought to the valley. Few people in Eddy could afford it, although it became the center of Eddy’s elite social life for 25 years.

1890-01-28 Francis Tracy arrives by stage to take up permanent residence at Eddy. He has an interest in Riverside Farm just below Dark Canyon on the Pecos (which is being irrigated by Halagueno Ditch.) Ida Woodward arrives from El Paso on the same stage, hoping to become the town’s first piano teacher—but she has arrived before the pianos. She will, while she waits, teach school for two years at Seven Rivers. Tracy also brings his two collie dogs.

1890-02-01 EA The H.S.Church brick residence is under construction at 105 South Alameda. (It still stands at that spot in 2010).

1890-02-01 EA Gray and Kemp have received a supply of Southern Comfort at Lone Wolf. (This is the first mention in the newspaper of David Kemp.)

1890-02-01 EA Dr Thurston has put in a first-class drug store. (Drug stores were very popular. They could, and did, dispense “medicinal alcohol” by their own prescription at this time.)

1890-02-08 EA Work has begun on the Great Flume. (This probably means actual construction.)

1890-02-15 EA The Shaw Brothers, who have 15,000 sheep, have been ranching on the Screwbean for several years. (Screwbean Draw is in Texas, just south of the state line.)

1890-02-15 EA McLenathen and Campbell have formed a real estate partnership.

1890-02-15 EA Tom Fennessey is running for County Clerk.

1890-02-15 EA Influenza strikes the area. (It will take several lives). Also, terrible sand storms start to occur. (By this time a lot of new land is being cleared of mesquite and broken with plows.)

1890-02-15 EA Re: Lt. King, Lookout’s liquor dealer, visits Eddy.

1890-02-15 EA The Town Company would like to come up with a different road to the flume construction site—one that does not go by Lone Wolf.

1890-02-15 EA First mention of the small fires on the roof of the Eddy House hostelry that will reoccur across several winters because of a bad flu in its chimney.

1890-02-22 EA Re: There is now a Mexican Quarter of about a dozen families living in holes in the river bank a little northeast of the down town area.

1890-02-22 EA Re Cab Conway, the new very popular young clerk at Pennybaker-Joyce, hired about a month ago.

1890-02-22 EA R.H.Pierce now has a fine store (at 111 South Canyon.) He has closed his store inSeven Rivers.

1890-02-22 EA The winds blew down part of the new brick wall being put up for the Scoggins farm house. 1890-02-22 EA Lookout has started a school building.

1890-03-01 EA Ten more wagon loads of lumber are coming.

1890-03-01 EA Lone Wolf has added a restaurant (in a weatherized tent—the saloon was in one aswell.) (It was later said that the name came from a stuffed wolf that stood just insidethe entrance to the saloon.)

1890-03-01 EA W.G.Cass, the Lookout Post Master, will be a candidate for County Clerk.

1890-03-01 EA Mrs Church, Mrs McLenathen and Miss Ohl have started a sewing triangle—they need one more to make a circle.

1890-03-01 EA The Town Company’s new bookkeeper James Titus has arrived. He will help their accountant Alonzo Luckey.

1890-03-01 EA Laundryman Sing Wah has just returned from a visit to El Paso (which had a large resident Chinese colony.)

1890-03-08 EA Rev Cox has started a subscription drive for a Methodist church building.

1890-03-08 EA The Eddy First National Bank has organized. Charles B.Eddy is to be President. The chief investor is E.B.Bronson of the El Paso National Bank.

1890-03-08 EA Garrett & Brent’s brick livery stable has now been completed.

1890-03-08 EA The rock residence which the Eddy Brothers are building for their foreman (Tom Fennessee) has been started (at 1015 North Guadalupe—where it still stands.)

1890-03-08 EA The Pecos Valley Railroad Company has organized with J.J.Hagerman as President. (Hagerman had already been involved in building a very difficult railroad to his mine in Colorado, and he now shifts many of those engineers to Eddy.) 1890-03-08 EA H.G.Shields has begun the survey for the railroad from Pecos. It will by-pass Lookout. (This signals the rapid decline of Lookout. Most of its residents move to the railroad 3 miles away. The nearest siding to Lookout, Kirkwell, will soon be renamed Malaga after the grape vineyards of Malaga Spain.

1890-03-15 EA The Episcopalians are circulating a subscription paper as well for a building of their own.

1890-03-15 EA The Pecos Valley Railroad Company has been organized with James John Hagerman as President.

1890-03-15 EA Nathan Jaffa of Roswell is visiting in Eddy. He plans to put a store at Greene and Canyon. (This did not happen.)

1890-03-22 EA Frederick Hodsoll, the Roswell photographer, is planning to move to Eddy. (He ends up buying a farm on Black River—but will do much of the Town Company’s photographic work on the side.)

1890-03-22 EA The Great Flume has been completed.

1890-03-22 EA Mr Hagerman’s Greene Street bridge is now completed.

1890-03-22 EA The Thurston Drug Store has been renamed the Eddy Drug Store.

1890-03-25 A Stringfellow panoramic photograph of Eddy, taken looking south from the new little tower atop Ash Hawkin’s house at 206 North Canyon (see #1890.005) shows construction begun on the first small section of the Hagerman Hotel at right, with the rock-walled building beyond it that held the R.E.Pierce store on its south side. The little wooden building at center was the house of Mr & Mrs Mann. (It still exists inside the law offices at 112 North Canyon.) The longer building almost off-left in the background is the Eddy House hostelry. The long brick building down Canyon beyond the two tents is the Garrett & Brent Livery Stable. On the horizon, in the distance at center, is the adobe school house. Note the mesquite on any land that has not yet been cleared—and the ocotilla wands wrapped around the cottonwood staves to protect them from being eaten by the town’s burros.

1890-03-29 EA E.G.Shields, the PI&I Co General Manager, has begun receiving its grapevine cuttings from France.

1890-03-29 EA Dr Tomlinson’s drug store has opened with a dance.

1890-03-29 EA Rock Dam still has a 100 foot gap at its center which has to be closed. (This was finished by the 10th of April.)

1890-04-05 EA J.Midd Hill will organize Eddy’s Missionary Baptist Church on the 4th Sunday.

1890-04-05 EA A town baseball team has started to practice. C.C.Blodgett is Captain, Tomas Blackmore is the pitcher. The team has 18 members.

1890-04-19 EA The Episcopalians hold their organizational meeting at the Adobe School. The Episcopalian Bishop for the Territory of New Mexico is in attendance.

1890-04-19 EA The planned Bank Building for 201 South Canal is described.

1890-04-26 EA Dentist Anson Bearup visits from White Oaks NM. (On his visits he uses the Eddy line cabin in La Huerta as his office.)

1890-04-26 EA 10,000 sand bags are being used to stop the seepage at Rock Dam. Since no irrigation engineers existed as this time, Hagerman turned the irrigation construction projects here over to his railroad engineers. They learned through major mistake after mistake, all at his expense. Rock Dam was built with a dirt core covered with a riprap of large pieces of rock. His engineers either did not know that they needed to tamp the earth down, or found no way to do so. When water finally accumulated behind the dam it immediately found its way through the soft earth, and the dam leaked like a sieve. With the help of the sand bags they were able to get some water running in the canal, but seepage would remain a major problem with this dam until the Federal Government put a cement core down its center in 1906.

1890-04-26 EA Dave Kemp announces as a candidate for Sheriff, Tom Fennessey as a candidate for County Clerk.

1890-04-26 EA Francis Tracy is now working for the PI&I Co in Roswell.

1890-04-26 EA There is a short Mexican revolt at one of the canal construction camps down the valley. (Hispanic workers were consistently paid half of what was paid to Anglo workers.)

1890-04-26 EA 4th of July horse races will be held on a track on Jessie Rasco’s land west of town.

1890-05-03 EA Eddy dubs itself “The Pearl of the Pecos”

1890-05-03 EA A wooden bridge has been completed over the canal to the west (on Lea Street)

1890-05-03 EA Re: 40 acres of irrigated land here will support a family of five in luxury. (Actually, with 160 acres they might be able to get by.) There will be enough irrigated acreage here to support a town of 75,000 population.

1890-05-10 EA The E.A.Pierce brick residence has been started in Rio Vista. (At 1017 North Guadalupe.) (It is still there, much enlarged.)

1890-05-10 EA A wooden bridge has been completed over the canal to the south. (This wagon road ran to Blue Springs and beyond.)

1890-05-15 A syndicate of Swiss bankers floats $500,000 for the PI&I Co, half in stocks, half in bonds.

1890-05-31 EA Bradbury & Co. gets the railroad construction contract. Hundreds celebrate with a bonfire. They fire anvils. Property values jump 2%.

1890-06-02 The Lowe Addition lots are put on sale.

1890-06-07 EA The big hotel has been named the Hagerman. E.Oscar Hart becomes its first manager.

1890-06-07 EA B.A.Nymeyer & family leave the management of the Eddy House hostelry to others.

1890-06-07 EA L.L.Bonbright visits from Philadelphia and spends $16,000 on real estate.

1890-06-14 EA Young lawyer J.O.Cameron has moved to Eddy.

1890-06-14 EA The Hagerman Irrigation & Land Company and the Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company are formed in Colorado. The latter replaces the Pecos Irrigation and Investment Company and has $1,000,000 in Capitol Stock. With this change James John Hagerman takes over the irrigation operations in the valley. Among his wealthy associates are C.A.Otis, William McMillan, William Bonbright and Bolles. Most of these investors are from Colorado Springs, where they continue to reside.

Mr Hagerman removes Pat Garrett from the new PI&I Co. Hagerman says that the primary goal of the Company is to convince peace-loving farmers to come to the valley, and that Garrett’s folk hero status as the killer of Billy the Kid conveys a totally wrong image from the Wild West for this valley and for this company. Hagerman also drops McKay and Greene from the Company payroll.

1890-06-17 A.C.Rush buys the Slaughters’ Grapevine Ranch, renaming it Geyser Spring Ranch. The ranch covers 1600 acres.

1890-06-21 EA Roswell beats Eddy at baseball.

1890-06-21 EA The Town Company buys the Garrett & Brent Livery Stable—and immediately leases it back to Brent.

1890-06-21 EA The first spike is driven for the new railroad at Pecos Tx. S.F.Judy quits the Texas and Pacific Railroad to become the Pecos Valley Railroad General Manager.

1890-06-24 I.S.Osborne, Mr Hagerman’s brother-in-law, visits Eddy for the first time.

1890-06-28 EA A small group of makeshift huts that several Hispanic families are erecting beside the river is dubbed “Little Chihuahua”

1890-07-05 EA Fred Piontkowski draws up Town Company plans to use the large spring near the flume (later called Carlsbad Spring) as the water supply for the town. (This never happens.)

1890-07-05 EA J.Arthur Eddy makes his second visit from Colorado to the town site of Eddy.

1890-07-05 EA Levi P.Cochran becomes the new mail contractor between Eddy and Pecos Tx.

1890-07-12 EA C.H.Slaughter is a candidate for sheriff.

(Ice is being hauled in by wagon from Toyah, but since most of it melts before getting here it is still a decidedly rare and expensive item.)

1890-07-12 EA Eddy has its first wedding: O.T.Roseberry to Miss Mollie E.Brown, at the B.Jones residence.

1890-07-19 EA Hotel Hagerman begins its meal service. Coats required. A French chef has arrived. (This may be a joke.) (The coats were not a joke.)

1890-07-19 EA Halagueno Ditch has begun to draw its water from Rock Dam.

1890-07-19 EA H.H.Cloud has resigned as the Chief Engineer of the Pecos Valley Railroad. (He will explain years later that he had a major disagreement with management’s plan to run the railroad across the Plains of Arno north of Pecos to save money—an area known to flood in a major way when the Pecos was high. This was another of their significant mistakes.)

1890-07-19 EA Dan Lucas buys the Brent Livery Stable and renames it the City Feed Store and Wagon Yard. (A wagon yard was where ranch families were allowed to park their wagons overnight to sleep in them on their visits to town.)

1890-07-19 EA Arthur Mermod has returned to Eddy to live. He has formed the real estate partnership of Shields and Mermod. (This name is properly pronounced Mer-mo’)

1890-07-19 EA Mar Wing Sam has sold the Parlor Restaurant to Mar Que and Ah Sing. (This change in ownership was almost a weekly event for years, and probably depended on who was winning in their internal gambling competitions.)

1890-07-19 EA The first section of the Hagerman Hotel opens—with 20 rooms.

1890-07-26 EA The orchardist Maynard Sharpe arrives, buying 10 acres in La Huerta.

1890-07-26 EA The 40’ by14’ Shields and Mermod Real Estate Office at 210 South Canyon is completed.

1890-08-02 EA Ground is broken for the next Hagerman Hotel addition. Drain tile has arrived for the Hotel’s sewer system (which will run two blocks south and two blocks east to empty, untreated, into the river. It will be the town’s only sewer system for the next 20 years. Everyone else will be using outhouses or one of the few cesspools

1890-08-02 EA A “Mexican thief” is tied to a wagon wheel in front of the store “for several hours”.

1890-08-09 EA Pat Garrett has announced he is a candidate for Sheriff of Chavez County. (He loses.)

1890-08-09 EA Re: freighter Morgan is the only man who drives 10 mules.

1890-08-16 EA Tom Gray has sold his interest in Wolftown. Dave Kemp is expected to do the same before the election. (He is a candidate for sheriff.)

1890-08-16 EA The Town Company has moved into the new Eddy National Bank Building at 201 South Canal. It is downstairs in the southeast corner. The PI&ICo occupies the second floor. The Pecos Valley Railroad office is downstairs in the northwest corner. Mr Eddy’s private office and the Bank are downstairs in the northeast corner.

1890-08-23 EA Notice of final proof for the John T.Plowman homestead claim.

1890-08-23 EA Walter Paddleford and Calvin Carpenter file their first claims for homesteads.

1890-08-23 EA Re: the 15 noisy burros around town.

1890-08-23 EA Frank Downs is building a flume on his X-Bar Ranch on Upper Dark Canyon.

1890-08-23 EA Ah Sing has opened a new laundry in Eddy next to the Parlor Restaurant.

1890-08-23 EA A stage driver has been fined $5 for using “certain language” in front of the Hagerman Hotel.

1890-08-30 EA The Mexicans in Little Chihuahua have been required to move to the east side of the river. (This may have been related to the fact that the railroad was soon to arrive along the west bank of the river.)

1890-08-30 EA W.P.Seymore sells his Seven Rivers store to Rheinboldt & Fanning.

1890-08-30 EA High water on the Pecos does some damage, but Rock Dam holds—although a

false alarm about its impending demise sends many to Hagerman Heights in the middle of the night.

1890-09-06 The “Argus” dubs Seven Rivers the”Plug of the Pecos” (A vote is about to take place over which of the two towns will be the County Seat of Eddy County.)

1890-09-06 EA Kentucky parties purchase the Chism Jingle Bob Ranch at South Spring.

1890-09-06 EA McLenathen, Pierce and Rhinboldt receive the Territorial Governor’s County Commissioner appointments. (Only McClenathen survives the first election.)

1890-09-06 EA The 30-mile station on the railroad north of Pecos Tx is named Bonbright.

1890-09-06 EA Dave Kemp sells The Wolf to William Graham.

1890-09-13 EA The Hagerman Hotel has its Cowboys Opening Ball. (A later cream pitcher made of Dark Canyon clay and commemorating this event is, in 2010, on display at the Carlsbad Foundation.)

1890-09-13 EA A lack of steel holds up the railroad construction.

1890-09-13 EA A new national land law drops the maximum filling from 1,120 acres to 320 acres.

1890-09-20 EA Blue River beavers have cut 300 trees on Boston Witt’s timber claim. (The Blue River flows for one mile from Blue Spring to Black River)

1890-09-20 EA The going rate for American farm hands is $18 to $30 per month + washing and bedding.

1890-09-20 EA Irrigation expert E.S.Nettleton of Colorado has been brought in to evaluate the Rock Dam. (Hagerman later says that Nettleton badly over-estimated the amount of land that could be irrigated with the normal flow of the Pecos.)

1890-09-20 EA Charles B.Eddy (of New York State) says he has never seen a barbeque. (And he also never never “dressed western”.)

1890-09-27 EA Capt Mann has purchased H.H.Cloud’s residence at 112 North Canyon (which Mann had previously been renting.)

1890-10-07 Tom Fletcher arrives at Lookout.

1890-10-11 EA The Eddy Building & Loan Association has been organized.

1890-10-11 EA The hotel at Seven Rivers has closed.

1890-10-11 EA There are millions of tons of coal within 20 miles of Eddy. (Actually, there was

none.)

1890-10-11 EA The stage ride from Pecos Tx to Eddy costs $10. It takes 24 hours to get from Pecos to Seven Rivers by stage.

1890-10-11 EA Water rights are selling for $10 per acre plus $1.25 per acre annual water rent.

1890-10-18 EA Theodore Spencer (Charles W.Greene’s son-in-law) has moved to Eddy.

1890-10-18 EA The new Episcopal Rector, Rev.Forrester, arrives.

1890-10-18 EA A.D.Wallace is building a wooden general store on Greene between Canal and Halagueno (at 305 West Greene.) (This is soon known as the Pumpkin Store-- spelled Punkin. There was a bountiful harvest of pumpkins in 1890, which Wallace accepted in trade—to the point that they were stacked all over his store for months. Hence the name.) “This is our first store built with New Mexico lumber” (rather than being hauled in by wagon from Toyah.)

1890-10-25 EA Charles W.Greene is back in town. He expects to erect a 7-room home on Greene Heights. This is his first visit since Feb 1889. (A natural-born promoter, for a year and a half since he was dropped from the PI&I Co he has been in Chicago, New York City and the capitals of Europe promoting bond sales on his own numerous projects).

Here in this valley he will develop a mile-square grape vineyard north of Otis, and a mile due south of Otis he will develop 3 square mile Lower Greene Farm with 40 40-acre fenced farms for sale. In town he develops Greene’s Highlands Addition on the rise west of town, and, just to its south, beyond Lea, another 40 acre Greene’s Parkland Addition. Highly landscaped with numerous plantings, it will provide locations for about 12 luxury homes. He advertises it as Eddy’s future answer to Central Park in New York City. 8 miles to the northwest he and his son-in-law Theodore Spencer will soon build Spencer Dam—projected to irrigate 2,500 acres along the south side of Rocky Arroyo. He has been promoting this one heavily in Scotland as his Bonnie Glen development.

1890-10-25 EA The Argus complains continually about the “town cow” (McLenathens’ Muley-- which is running loose) for eating the cottonwood trees.

1890-10-25 EA Railroad General Manager Judy is in town to place the railroad yards. The depot will be on River Street at the east end of Mermod. (River Street had been platted one block east of Main Street—it now becomes the railroad right-of-way.)

1890-10-25 EA Water is now running through the Big Flume. (Signaling the successful closing of Rock Dam with all of those sand bags.)

1890-11-01 EA The total cost of the Hagerman Hotel, with additions, has been $60,000.

1890-11-01 EA Re: Eddy and Chavez Counties are the only counties in the Territory “in which all candidates are Americans.”

1890-11-01 EA McLenathen & Campbell have started a new brick real estate office (in the 200 block of South Canyon.)

1890-11-01 EA A prediction that pecan trees will grow well here.

1890-11-08 EA Eddy holds its first general election. 241 votes are cast. Elected are County Clerk Tom Fennessey: Treasurer, Cochran: Assessor, Nash: Probate Judge, Tomlinson: The County Commissioners are C.H.McLenathen, Dan Lucas, & B.T.Whiteaker of Lookout. In the Sheriff’s race there is a tie between Kemp and Slaughter, requiring a later runoff.

“Only 10 of the 26 Mexican voters registered actually voted.” (Construction photos show hundreds of Hispanic workers in the valley at this time, but the Argus never acknowledges their numbers. Instead, the paper continues to stress the idea that this part of the Territory of New Mexico is different—that this is the “American” part.)

Eddy has been chosen as the new County Seat over Seven Rivers, 331 votes to 127.

1890-11-08 EA The stone foundation for Charles Greene’s new residence has been completed. Lucius Anderson will build the home.

1890-11-15 EA The railroad bridge across the Delaware has been completed.

1890-11-15 EA Nearly 100,000 acres in the lower Pecos Valley have been filed upon since the beginning of construction of the Grand Canal.

1890-11-15 EA “The PI&I Co owns no land in the valley except its Main Canal right-of-way.” (Actually, the same group of investors owned much of the valley under a separate Land Company.)

1890-11-15 EA Re: the Hagerman Hotel employees none but colored servants.

1890-11-15 EA “Any industrious, economical family can make a good living off of 20 acres.” “With 80 to 100 acres, they will have a small fortune in 10 years.”

1890-11-15 EA More that 12 tents went up in southwest Eddy last week. (The Argus begins referring to this area as “Rag Town”)

1890-11-15 EA The Argus predicts that four national railroads now being built will meet at Eddy shortly.

1890-11-22 EA “This valley is destined to become the finest vineyard and orchard area in America.” (The Argus will soon begin calling our railroad the “Fruit Belt Route”)

1890-11-22 EA Prediction: The P.I&I Co canals will eventually run 150 miles down the valley from Roswell (almost to Pecos Tx). (This never happens.)

1890-11-22 EA Eddy now has 12,000 (small) shade trees.

1890-11-22 EA “The T.B.death rate in New Mexico is the lowest in the nation.”

1890-11-29 EA Harold P.Brown has arrived. He will be the Cashier for the First National Bank when it opens around 1 Jan 1891.

1890-12-06 EA The Hagerman Hotel’s six-course menu for Thanksgiving Dinner is given in detail—including the town’s first oysters.

1890-12-06 EA The Ghost Dance is spreading among non-New Mexico Indians. (It later comes to the Navajo)

1890-12-06 EA The Argus lauds the sub-irrigation that will be caused by the hard pan below the soil in the valley—says it will mean you need less irrigation. (It actually means your soil could become worthless because of the tendency this causes to get pooled water beneath the roots.)

1890-12-06 EA The average alfalfa yield of the valley’s older fields is five cuttings per year. (True.)

1890-12-13 EA Dan Lucas now owns the stage line.

1890-12-13 EA Grading will soon start on the Eastern Canal (to water La Huerta).

1890-12-14 EA The Argus pushes the growing of sugar beets here. Re: the recent McKinley Law passed in Congress which awards a 2-cent a pound bounty for any sugar grown in the U.S. (Congress was not happy with the Cuban monopoly.)

1890-12-13 EA The first railroad engine passes over the Black River railroad bridge.

1890-12-20 EA Re: On a clear day you can see locomotive smoke.

1890-12-20 EA Re: Only the lower bank of the Main Canal has been constructed in its first 3 miles. (This is lauded for providing extra water storage as the water backed up into all the little gullies on the up-hill side—but it also greatly increased evaporation areas and rates.)

1890-12-20 EA In the run-off vote Dave Kemp wins the race for Sheriff.

1890-12-20 EA 200,000 valley acres have been entered at the Land Office in Las Cruces. This is a greater portion of the lands that will be under the new Main Canal.

1890-12-20 EA Fred Piontkowski has completed the plat for the Greene Addition on the rise west of town.

1890-12-27 EA Thankfully, soon the time-check will give way to the bank check.

1890-12-27 EA The parlor of the Hagerman Hotel is soon to have a piano.

1890-12-27 EA Ground for the Charles Greene mile-square orchard and vineyard is almost ready. (Its location was 3 miles down the valley beside the approaching railroad. It will become known as the Vineyard Stock Farm.)

1890-12-27 EA This year, the school house, the hotel, and a number of families had Christmas Trees.

1890-12-27 EA Both strawberries and lettuce were picked at Seven Rivers on Christmas Day.

1890-12-27 EA J.L.Warren and Lewis Ross are establishing a commission business (for shipping wool and valley produce.)

1891 Nathan Jaffa, Roswell merchant, drills the first successful artesian well in the valley. Having a private artesian well for your own personal use becomes the most desired goal in the valley. By 1900 there are 153—but none at all had been found south of Seven Rivers.

1891 Roswell incorporates. It has a population of 400.

1891 Sheepman Paul Kroeger shifts his family to the Seven Rivers area.

1891 Eddy County Abstract is incorporated with John Franklin as Manager.

1891-01-03 EA Charles Slaughter sells his ranch on Upper Black River (the later Washington Ranch) to Buck Anderson. Slaughter is planning to return to Texas.

1891-01-03 EA The railroad has stopped 3 ½ miles from town because of a lack of steel.

1891-01-10 EA The railroad has been completed to Eddy.

1891-01-10 EA Charles Greene announces his plans for his Greene’s Highland Addition plus the Gibson and Spencer additions nearby.

1891-01-10 The first train engine pulls into Eddy. (This brings the stage route from Pecos Tx

to Eddy to an end.)

(The Pecos Valley Railroad was of course shortened to PVRR, and some wag in the community, early on, pronounced it to be the Pea Vine Railroad—a name that stuck like glue. It was known by little else until the Santa Fe Railroad eventually absorbed in into its larger system.)

1891-01-13 The official train arrives bringing Mr Hagerman’s private railroad car, “The Hesperia”. and a host of dignitaries: C.B.Eddy, Mrs Fox, Mr Judy & Mr Draper. The Engineer is Virgil McCollum Sr. Also working on the train crew is V.O.McCollum Sr. Anvils are fired.

Mr Hagerman’s separate Pecos Land and Water Company buys 70 sections of the Texas Pacific railroad lands between Pecos Tx and the Delaware.

1891-01-17 EA Rome Ohnemus and his brother Matt arrive from California on the 5th train. They have been brought in to plant and tend Mr Greene’s mile-square vineyard. 14 more Chinamen are also on the same train.

1891-01-17 EA Carpenter Lucius Anderson is to erect a temporary calaboose beside the railroad, east of Main Street near Lea. (Built of railroad ties, it was very small, very unventilated, and very hot.)

1891-01-17 EA Alice Larremore weds Doc Helyer at Seven Rivers.

1891-01-22 The First National Bank of Eddy opens for business at 201 South Canal.

1891-01-24 EA Alonzo Luckey has resigned as the PI&I Co auditor. He will enter the real estate business.

1891-01-24 EA Re: the large spring near the flume provides more water than is used by Denver (which had 25,000 people at this time.) (Later called Carlsbad Spring)

1891-01-24 EA Punkin Store Ad: Mr Wallace is buying bones. (Ground-up, the meal is used around fruit and citrus trees.) The valley has a great quantity of bones from the Big Die, as well a lot of buffalo bones to the east. Wallace starts shipping carloads of bones to California by rail.

1891-01-24 EA Mr Hagerman announces plans to build a fine home of 17 rooms atop Hagerman Heights. This home will cost $16,000, and the large oval reservoir beside it another $6,000.

1891-01-24 EA Ad for William Stone’s Billiard Hall and Temperance Saloon (selling soda water.)

1891-01-31 EA Mr Hagerman states that a flowing artesian water well at Eddy would be worth

a million dollars in increased real estate values here. The Town Company begins a deep drilling effort on Hagerman Heights.

1891-01-31 EA Re: Old Timers say that Pecos River water has medicinal qualities, particularly for liver and kidney problems.

1891-02-14 EA E.E.Clark, the PI&I Co Water Superintendent, announces that all 24 miles of the Main Canal are now flowing water. 15,000 acres are now under irrigation. (This does not mean that water has as yet reached very much of that land.)

1891-02-14 EA The foundation of the Episcopal Church (at 501 West Fox) is about completed. (Of rock, the church will be roofed by Lucius Anderson.)

1891-02-14 EA Dr Scott’s new building at Canyon (then spelled Canon in the papers) and Shaw (the southeast corner) will soon be ready for occupancy.

1891-02-14 EA Re: “The boys occasionally shoot up the Wolf.”

1891-02-17 Rev.M.S.Stamp moves to Eddy to become the Baptist minister.

1891-02-21 EA The name of Kirkwell Station has been changed to Malaga.

1891-02-28 EA Judge Freeman has arrived. His home in La Huerta will be commenced next week.

1891-03 Mrs Lycurgus Ward loses her son-in-law Lewis Mayes and her granddaughters Zula and Janie Mayes to Scarlet Fever at the X-Bar Ranch in Upper Dark Canyon. 1891-03-21 EA Mann Satterwhite has completed the contract work at Rock Dam Reservoir.

1891-03-22 EA The stage arrived today from Roswell in under 10 hours. (A record.)

1891-04-11 EA Eddy Drug has received a fancy new soda fountain from the East.

1891-04-11 EA Les Dow kills Zack White at Dow’s saloon in Seven Rivers. The killing is ruled to be justified.

1891-04-11 EA The railroad roundhouse is assuming a fine appearance.

1891-04-18 EA Pat Garrett and family, James Brent and Ash Upson have moved to Uvalde Tx.

1891-04-25 EA Re: “Mac’s Cottage” (for McDonough) and Tom Gray’s “new business” on Main. At this point two saloons go up surreptitiously in Eddy—without the exclusion clause being enforced, and without the Argus yet admitting they exist. They are operating on County liquor licenses that specify no particular

location.

1891-04-25 EA Eddy now has 12 miles of [still small] shade trees planted by the Town Company.

1891-04-25 EA The Episcopal women have raised $1,000 for their building fund with a supper and a festival.

1891-05-02 EA The new baseball uniforms have arrived. They are old gold, pea brown, and saffron yellow.

1891-05-02 EA County Surveyor Peitz has completed a new precinct count. There are now 835 people inside Eddy and 267 just outside.

1891-05-02 EA Re: Men are now “taking their annual baths” in the Pecos below the big bend beyond Wildcat Bluff. (A joke?)

1891-05-09 EA The Argus denies an El Paso newspaper report that a cyclone on May 4th has majorly damaged the Hagerman Hotel. “Just the porch was hurt.” (Old timers remember much of the hotel roof being blown away.)

1891-05-23 EA The attempt to reach artesian water on Hagerman Heights has stopped at 600 feet. (They had hit salt water.) 1891-05-30 EA Re R.W.Tansills return for a visit. Re: his national fame for being the inventor of the 5-cent Punch Cigar.

1891-05-30 EA Henri Gaullier, Swiss immigration official, visits the valley at the invitation of Mr Hagerman. Gaullier will recommend this valley to the Swiss government as an appropriate location to place Swiss settlers. There will later be questions about whether he received a payment from Mr Hagerman for this.

1891-05-30 EA E.F.Draper and family have moved here from Denver. He is the new PI&I Co Auditor.

1891-06-06 EA County Commissioner Bart Whiteaker resigns. The Governor puts in H.S. Church.

1891-06-13 EA There are now 160,000 pounds of wool stored in the Pratt Brothers’ warehouse

1891-06-13 EA Re: the June Bug is Eddy’s one down-right nuisance.

1891-06-13 EA Lycurgus Ward has made final proof on his homestead in upper Dark Canyon. “He plans to advertise his mineral springs” (which then flowed in that part of the Canyon.)

1891-06-13 EA “The Eddy stores are probably the only ones in the Territory that strictly observe

Sunday closure.”

1891-06-13 EA Lewis Ross (25) of Warren & Ross dies. He is the brother of Mrs E.B.Bronson.

1891-06-20 EA A.B.Fall pays a visit to Eddy.

1891-06-20 EA Dr Van Norman, Chief Surgeon for the Pecos Valley Railroad, has his offices in the McLenathen block.

1891-06-20 EA The County Commission has adopted the Paley Jail Company’s court house plan. (Paley, one of the country’s leading businesses in jail hardware, offered its customers a number of free court house plans. The one we chose was probably built, as well, in 50 other communities across the country.)

1891-06-27 EA The foundation has been laid for a Catholic Church at the corner of Alameda and Shaw.

1891-06-27 EA The Eddy Baptists have baptized their first 2 candidates: Minnie Moore and Mrs S.E.Felton.

1891-07-04 EA Territorial Governor L.Bradford Prince pays his first visit to Eddy, and is the 4th of July speaker.

1891-07-04 EA Ad: A.A.Mermod is now a U.S.Land Commissioner (ending the need to travel to Mesilla, later Roswell, to file on lands.)

1891-07-11 EA The Town Company’s 2nd attempt to drill to artesian water (in Halagueno Park) is down fifty feet.

1891-07-18 EA Maynard Sharpe has an acre of experimental cotton and sugar beets growing at his place in La Huerta.

1891-07-25 EA “The mosquito is a monster that has not yet made its appearance in the Lower Pecos Valley.”

1891-07-25 EA A.D.Wallace has moved his merchandise across the street to the large rock building, (previously a meat market) which he has purchased from Graham and Davis.

1891-08-01 EA The contract has been let to the Witt Brothers for a $30,000 county court house To be built of local brick. (Construction did not actually start until November.)

1891-08-01 EA Weldon and Son are being kept busy constructing cisterns. (The valley’s water supplies were all very hard water. Rain water became tremendously prized for its softness.)

1891-08-01 EA G.R.King and family have moved here from Lookout. (He and his brother had the Lookout Saloon.)

1891-08-08 EA Work will begin Monday on the McLenathen 7-room cottage in La Huerta. (It stood at the southwest corner of Canal and Orchard Lane.)

1891-08-08 EA The Argus publishes a map of the proposed railroad extension to Roswell. On this map the railroad never crosses to the east side of the river.

1891-08-22 EA Re: Roswell’s new Gross Military Academy. (This later becomes the New Mexico Military Institute.)

1891-08-22 EA E.S.Motter and A.A.Mermod are erecting cottages in the 5-Acre Addition. (This is a reference to the area that became known, shortly, as La Huerta.) Arthur Mermod was the heir to the Mermod-Jauqard Jewelry business of St Louis Mo, the St Louis equivalent of Tiffany’s. Years later someone remembered the Mermod family as being Jewish, but this has never been confirmed.

1891-08-29 EA The Great (wooden) Flume does not leak a bucket a day.

1891-08-29 EA All the machinery is not in place in the round house. It will be in operation soon. (This included a turn-table, which was later moved north to Roswell.)

1891-08-29 EA The County Commission advertises for a contractor for the Canal Street bridge to La Huerta

1891-09-05 EA Mrs Tom Fennessey has died, soon after childbirth.

1891-09-05 EA There are 181 registered students here, including “20 Mexicans and several colored.”

1891-09-05 EA Francis Tracy and his brother George are now residing on their land claim down river.

1891-09-12 EA The stone mason Alex LaBrie has moved here from Roswell and will soon start construction on the Episcopalian rock church.

1891-09-12 EA Alonzo Luckey marries Mrs Thurber at the Hotel Hagerman.

1891-09-12 EA Allan Rush of Geyser Spring Ranch has offered Governor Prince one of the springs for a National T.B.Sanatorium.

1891-09-26 EA Jeff Kuyrkandal digs his way out of the calaboose, but is recaptured four miles down river.

1891-09-26 EA A Mexican prisoner makes a break for freedom. Law officers find it funny that they take 10-15 shots at him and he is never hit. He gets away.

1891-09-26 EA Judge Freeman and his family arrive from Socorro, moving into their new cottage in La Huerta. (On Peach Lane, he would eventually find the railroad running through his front yard.)

1891-10-03 EA The officers of the Eddy First National Bank are listed. (This would be in Their 2nd year.): C.B.Eddy, President; William Bonbright, Vice President; H.P.Brown, Cashier: Other Directors: John Arthur Eddy, C.H.McLenathen, R.H.Pierce and Ash Hawkins.

1891-10-03 EA Several Chinamen are arrested at the laundry for gambling. The case is dismissed, since there is no proof that they were gambling for money.

1891-10-03 EA The Arthur Mermod cottage has been finished in La Huerta. (It stood at about 1508 North Halagueno, across the street from the Eddys’ place.)

1891-10-10 EA Tennis and croquet are becoming very popular in Eddy.

1891-10-10 EA Re: The flow of the Pecos three miles above Rock Dam Reservoir is normally 3,500 to 5,000 cubic feet per second. This is enough water to irrigate this valley and another valley as well.

1891-10-24 EA The 1891 County Road Law requires all males 21-to-55 to contribute two days of work a year, or pay $2.

1891-10-24 EA 8 of the (adobe) cottages being built for the soon-to-arrive Swiss Colony have been finished. (Many had to spend the first winter in tents.)

1891-10-24 EA Ad: John Franklin, Attorney at Law.

1891-10-31 EA A group of 94 Indiana newspaper men visits the valley in 2 Pullman cars.

1891-10-31 EA Charles and Rodolph deBremond and Henri Gaullier, their uncle, arrive ahead of the Swiss Colony.

1891-10-31 EA An article promotes this valley as a good place to grow sugar beets.

1891-11-07 EA 54 Swiss arrive. They are located on 5-acre tracts within a 4-mile radius of the new town of Vaud (“pronounced Vo”) 12 miles southeast of Eddy on the railroad. (Vaud will not get a post office until 29 May 1893.) More will follow. The Argus refers to them as a “fine class of people”. (The Argus will later mention that most of them arrived with so little money that they could only make down-payments on their land—making them vulnerable to poor harvests.)

1891-11-07 EA Eddy’s colored population numbers about 50. They are sober, intelligent and industrious. (No such compliments are ever paid to the Hispanic community.) (Part of this distinction possibly comes from the fact that so many of Eddy’s citizens came here from the South.)

1891-11-14 EA It costs 70 cents to ride the railroad from Eddy to Vaud

1891-11-14 EA The Episcopal church has been roofed.

1891-11-14 EA Dr J.W.Kisinger arrives and opens an office in the Eddy Drug.

1891-11-14 EA The deed for the court house block is transferred from the Town Company to the County Commission, and construction starts.

1891-11-21 EA “There are 375 dogs in town that need killing.”

1891-11-21 EA Excavation for the court house foundation is complete.

1891-11-28 EA Brick for the Court House is being made from the earth excavated for the basement.

1891-11-28 ECC Henri Gaullier is having a 7-room adobe home built north of the Eddy line cabin in La Huerta (at about 1826 North Canal) for his two nephews, the deBremonds.

1891-11-28 EA Ads appear for the first time for McDonough’s Cottage Saloon and Tom Gray’s Parlor Saloon (with billiards & pool)

1891-11-28 ECC The first issue appears of the Eddy County Citizen, edited by A.J.Howe. He immediately announces that its political affiliation is Democratic. (The Pecos News will say that Eddy citizens subscribed $700 in half-an-hour to establish the “Citizen” because of their disgust with the “Argus”)

1891-11-28 ECC J.Frank Joyce has arrived. He will be the bookkeeper for his 2 uncles, John R. and Charlie Joyce.

1891-12 The William Leck family moves to Eddy. (He will soon open a grocery store at 213 South Canyon.)

1891-12-05 EA The flume for the Main Canal across Black River is under construction. It will be 1050 feet long, 3 feet high and 16 feet wide. It will require 180,000 feet of lumber 1891-12-05 EA A Mexican Circus comes to town.

1891-12-05 EA Alex LaBrie now has a store here. He expects soon to start brick work on the $20,000 Tansill Building (at 101 South Canal). He has already built the Episcopal Church and several adobe cottages for the Swiss.

1891-12-05 EA The foundation of the Methodist Church has been laid (at 213 North Halagueno.)

1891-12-05 EA Methodist Elder Crutchfield and Baptist Rev Stamp both preach impressive sermons against dancing. (See below.)

1891-12-05 EA The Argus begins calling itself “the official paper of Eddy County.”

1891-12-05 EA The McLean brothers and sisters have moved into their new 2-story residence (at 309 North Alameda)

1891-12-05 EA Seventy Swiss have settled on 1,300 acres. (The deLentulus brothers acquired about a thousand of those along Black River.)

1891-12-05 EA Re: The Pecos River flow never falls below 1,000 cubic feet per second—and is usually at 5,000 cubic feet per second.

1891-12-05 ECC Eddy now has a 10-student colored school. C.H.Buchanan is the teacher.

1891-12-05 ECC A one-story brick building (the Blood Building at 108 South Canal) will be built opposite the Tansill Block. (Mr S.J.Blood of St Louis builds the building as an investment. He and his family will not arrive here until 16 Jun 1893.) 1891-12-05 ECC Capt Mann has completed the (diversion) dam at Riverton. He is n working on 17 miles of canal there. (This was another development of Mr Hagerman’s, beside the Pecos in Texas, a few miles south of the state line.)

1891-12-05 ECC Re: Graham & Crook’s “P.V.Saloon” opposite the Citizen newspaper office.

1891-12-05 ECC The Tansill Block bricks, also, are being made from the dirt excavated for the cellar.

1891-12-12 EA Re: remains of the Mormon Ditch at Double Crossing are still visible.

1891-12-12 EA Many raisin growers from Fresno County CA are relocating to this valley.

1891-12-12 ECC Re: three blacks subscribe to the “Citizen”: John DeWalt, W.H.Jones and C.H.Jackson.

1891-12-12 ECC Tom Fennessey has been around Dave Kemp so much that he, also, is

starting to chew gum.

1891-12-12 ECC A local dancing instructor at the Hagerman Hotel ends his classes with a Masquerade ball—but only 4 of the 20 who attend are women.

1891-12-19 EA A tramp can walk faster than our train. (No one had foreseen that the water available here was so mineralized that it immediately caked-up the pipes in the engines. You had to keep someone pounding on these pipes with a sledge hammer to try to break the material loose. It became common to have the train start from Pecos in the morning, and stop dead six miles south of Eddy. Unlucky passengers then got to walk into town.)

1891-12-19 EA Charles W.Greene plans to grade and beautify Greene Street. (It had only run west to Guadalupe. He is now extending it to the Heights.)

1891-12-19 EA Re: Henry Robb’s and “Old Man McLaughlin’s” water carts are bringing Eddy its drinking water. (Two springs in the area—but six miles out—had decidedly better water. This was being brought in by the barrel, at 10 cents a barrel. It was a small business here for years.)

1891-12-19 EA Pennebaker-Joyce has received a beautiful delivery wagon.

1891-12-19 EA Cicero Stewart visits from Hope (where he will soon marry Missouri Beckett.) Re: he has 3,500 sheep on the Penasco.

1891-12-19 ECC Mr Greene’s $1,200 barn at Vineyard Farm will soon be finished. (This large barn was a landmark on the road to Loving for many years—until it finally blew down in the 1960’s.)

1891-12-19 ECC It is rumored that the Pecos Valley Railroad is shifting to mules.

1891-12-19 ECC A new cemetery was laid-out yesterday south of town and east of Greene’s Parkland Section (on today’s Boyd Drive.)

1891-12-26 EA The iron Paley jail cell doors are now in place in the Court House basement (where the jail was first located.)

1891-12-26 EA The McKenzie Brothers (who ranched to the east) now have 12 miles of their 34 mile drift fence completed. (Drift fences will become a hugh legal battle here in time.)

1891-12-26 EA Mr & Mrs William McMillan and their son William III are visiting here as guests of C.B.Eddy.

1891-12-26 EA The Greenes have a “barn party dance” on the 2nd floor of their new barn south of town.

1891-12-26 EA The Argus refers to the fine article about the Pecos Valley in the current issue of Mr Tansill’s “Punch”. (To promote his 5 cent cigar, Tansill bought the rights to republish the London “Punch” in America—which he gave away at cigar stores. He used it often as a means to promote the Pecos Valley.)

1891-12-26 ECC The heaviest rains in the history of the valley are taking place. The rains have done extensive damage to the adobe buildings of Eddy—and to those of the Swiss colony. (The local soil contains too little clay to make good adobe, or good brick.)

1892 (The United States is entering a period of Depression. These hard economic times and the Panic of 93 will ultimately have a deep impact on the next decade in the Pecos Valley.)

1892-01-02 ECC Obituary for the Citizen’s Editor, A.J.Howe, “Our Jim”, who dies of tubercu- losis. The newspaper, however, continues.

1892-01-02 ECC A german dance is held.

1892-01-02 ECC William Leck buys the elegant home of Mr Judy (at 413 North Canal.)

1892-01-02 ECC The Pecos Valley Railroad has acquired a new engine (a Baldwin) and it is running on time.

1892-01-02 ECC A.Necker of Switzerland has bought 160 acres down the valley.

1892-01-09 EA Engineer H.J.Church has completed surveying the preliminary line to McKitrick Spring (6 miles to the west) for a proposed water line to bring good water to Eddy. (This was never constructed.)

1892-01-09 ECC During our recent thunder storm everything you touched emitted electricity.

1892-01-16 EA Two railroad carloads of Pecos sandstone have arrived for the court house.

1892-01-16 EA J.W.Stokes of Illinois comes on a visit, decides to stay, and takes up a claim on the (projected) Eastern Canal. (It will never reach his place.)

1892-01-16 EA Swiss C.Cuenod has established a general store at Vaud.

1892-01-16 ECC Ash Hawkins has replaced William Bonbright as the Vice President of the Eddy First National Bank.

1892-01-23 EA The first District Court of the Fifth Judicial District will be held in the new Baptist Church (at 113 North Halagueno). (Jury sequestration was in the new home at 201 North Alameda—which is later said to have been ordered from

a catalogue—arriving by rail in numerous parts ready for reassembly.)

1892-01-23 EA The first iron bridge in this section of the country opened on Jan 21st on Canal Street (going into La Huerta.) It is 100 feet long and 16 feet wide (which would allow buggies to pass, but not future automobiles) with 160 feet of approaches.

1892-01-23 EA F.G.Downs is planting 1,000 brook trout at his X-Bar Ranch in Upper Dark Canyon.

1892-01-30 EA Seven Rivers people having artesian wells dug include the Rheinboldt Brothers and J.W.Turknett.

1892-01-30 EA W.H.Ellice of Colorado Springs has arrived.

1892-01-30 EA Albert Fall visits again.

1892-01-30 EA The Hagerman Hotel’s 60 rooms are all full—and some are sleeping on cots in the parlor.

18892-01-30 ECC Capt Bowker has finished the interior of his house in La Huerta.

1892-02-06 EA McLenathen & Campbell’s new 25’ by 40’ real estate office across the street from the Hagerman Hotel (at 106 South Canyon) will have a galvanized iron front with plate glass windows.

1892-02-06 EA Re: Several School Sections are being surveyed for people who know they can not yet own them but who are going to begin farming on them anyway. (They could ultimately lose the cost of any improvements.)

1892-02-06 EA The first story of the Court House is finished.

1892-02-06 EA Alonzo Luckey receives a divorce from Inez Luckey (after five months)

1892-02-06 EA The Hotel Hagerman Bell Boys now have uniforms with brass buttons.

1892-02-06 EA Thomas Catron is here from Santa Fe for the Fifth District Court Session. Luis Baca and C.Garcia are also here—“two of the most prominent Mexicans in New Mexico.” Judge Freeman, in his opening statement, hits at the local saloons and gambling houses that are open on Sundays, in violation of Territorial Law.

1892-02-06 ECC Fred Pionkowski has drawn up the plans for William McMillan’s $6,000 to $7,000 residence in La Huerta. (The McMillan home, built for his tubercular son, will become known as Coyote Lodge.) It still stands in 2009 at the northwest corner of Guadalupe and Cherry Lane.

The size of the home was dictated by their social status, but also because the family felt there were a number of sufferers of tuberculosis among their acquaintances who would gladly pay to join their son here in the winter months when it was considered to be particularly dangerous for those with t.b. to remain in the cold damp climate of the Upper Mid West.

1892-02-06 ECC During the month of January the Pecos Valley Railroad handled 121 cars of freight and 575 passengers.

1892-02-06 ECC Re: Eddy’s Mexican population is about 10-15% of the total (something the Argus will never admit). Its Chinese population is about 3%. (The nearest Native American Reservation is that of the Mescalero Apache 150 miles away. This group will never had a significant presence in Eddy/Carlsbad.)

1892-02-13 EA The Court’s Grand Jury True Bills the saloon men, including County Treasurer William Cochran of Seven Rivers, for selling whiskey on Sunday (note in violation of Territorial Law, not of the local deed restrictions) The Grand Jury also notes the filthy condition of the lousy and overcrowded calaboose.

1892-02-13 EA The Argus says Sherrif Dave Kemp is being over-paid at 75 cents per day per prisoner to feed the prisoners in his care—who are being very poorly fed.

1892-02-13 EA The Swiss have already purchased 4,000 acres here.

1892-02-13 EA James Tomlinson, from England, is now a naturalized U.S.Citizen.

1892-02-13 EA Re: the hard “but not unfit for use” water available here in the Swiss shallow wells. (The Swiss farmers will come to believe the water is a real threat when several of their young children die across the winter.)

1892-02-13 EA Re: Rowdy Chihuahua needs to be controlled to preserve “Eddy’s reputation and the peace of its citizens.”

1892-02-13 ECC Re: The meat wagon that is circling through the neighborhoods of Eddy.

1892-02-13 ECC Cicero Stewart and his new bride, Missouri, visit from Hope NM.

1892-02-20 EA A subscription is being taken up to buy instruments for a local band.

1892-02-20 EA E.A.Bronson, President of the El Paso Bank, is erecting a fine brick building, 150 feet by 65 feet, at the southwest corner of Canyon and Fox. (In 2009 this building still stands from the corner to the alley.)

1892-02-20 EA The East Canal (in La Huerta) is being extended. (At this point the canal, only with its lower bank, is extended eastward toward Lone Tree Draw. Water never

gets to this point. Today, in 2009, the remains of that single bank can still be found in places.)

1892-02-20 EA “There are less than 50 Mexican families in the entire Pecos Valley.”

1892-02-20 EA The bell tower on the Baptist Church has been completed, and the bell has been hung.

1892-02-20 EA The Argus starts a major series of articles on the history of Switzerland.

1892-02-27 EA The Episcopal Church will have its first services and its dedication on the 17th of March.

1892-02-27 EA Charles Greene erects a 30 foot picture tower on the western edge of his Greene’s Parkland Addition so that the photographer, Stringfellow, can record, every two weeks, the changes in the Addition. (The Historical Society has, today, only the first photograph taken from that tower.)

1892-02-27 ECC Ads for John Brookhoven’s “Little Gem” and Tom Gray’s “Parlor” Saloons.

1892-02-27 ECC F.G.Hodsoll, the Lookout photographer (and farmer), visits Eddy.

1892-02-27 ECC Englishmen Penrose and Ellice become partners in a farm one mile north of Otis. (The future Tipton Farm.)

1892-02-27 ECC Ed King has sold his blacksmith shop and is now running a Confectionary and Cigar Store.

1892-03-05 EA Shields Hardware and Warren & Ross have established branches at Vaud.

1892-03-05 EA The sides of the flume are being raised five feet.

1892-03-05 EA Recent ore from the Guadalupes is running 50 to 70 % lead with 5 to 12 ounces of silver per ton. (There will be a long series of analyses from the Guadalupes, all of them highly over-optimistic about the mineral resources there.)

1892-02-12 EA The daily train is presently running twelve loaded freight cars and two passenger cars.

1892-02-12 EA Ad: John F.Matheson, Dealer in Ice, located north of the Warren & Ross warehouse. (Matheson had an ice house only. Natural ice was shipped in by rail from Kansas and stored for local sale.)

1892-03-12 ECC The clerks in Pierce’s store include Don Gilchrist, John Bolton, Harry Gilmore and old timer George Duncan.

1892-03-12 ECC First reference to the Graham & Crook saloon, the “P.V.”

1892-03-12 ECC Greene’s 270 acre Park is destined to rival New York City’s Central Park, and may eclipse it.

1892-03-12 ECC Re: In his earlier life, Charles Greene left an endless series of failed newspapers behind him.

1892-03-19 EA The Ladies’ Columbian Society of Eddy will give a ball. (The Columbia Exhibi- tion was in progress, and probably inspired the name.)

1892-03-19 EA Jay Gould, in his private railroad car, visits Eddy. Standing on Hagerman Heights, he suggests that he and James John Hagerman will both be putting large homes there. Traveling with him are his son Howard and his daughters Helen and Lillian. (The girls attend the Baptist Church here.) Whatever his plans, he dies soon after, having never returned.

A humorous article describe’s Vaud’s frantic efforts to greet Jay Gould. The train doesn’t stop, as he rolls right on through.

1892-03-19 EA Work has begun on laying pipe from McKittrick Spring to Eddy.

1892-03-19 EA Re: Charlie McDonough’s gamecock fights and boxing at his “Cottage” Saloon.

1892-03-19 EA Re: Mar Que as “Mike” and “a hustler”

1892-03-26 EA The farmers of Vaud are planting trees and grape vines.

1892-03-26 EA The PI&I Co has let the contract for a 2,000 foot artesian well try (its 3rd

attempt) to J.B.Fowler. (This particular effort will bring Amos Smith to the valley as part of the drilling crew. He soon buys out one of the drug stores and becomes known as Dr Amos Smith.)

1892-03-26 EA Mann Satterwhite has been given the contract to build a mile-long terreplein across La Huerta from the Eastern Canal to the planned large reservoir atop Hagerman Heights. (Relying on several forced-water siphons along the way, they hope to raise the water 25 feet to get it into the basin. This effort, at huge expense to Mr Hagerman, fails. There is no remaining evidence of the route of this brief terreplein today.)

1892-03-26 EA S.F.Judy resigns as General Manager of the Pecos Valley Railroad.

1892-03-26 EA Several German farm families have arrived.

1892-03-26 ECC Charles Jones, teacher of the Colored School, says three Mexican students have joined his class, and more are expected.

1892-04-02 EA Says Chihuahua is only east of the river today (on the future Hagerman lands) because Hagerman Heights will not be proved up until next month.

1892-04-02 EA The Cottage has a very successful bulldog vs badger fight.

1892-04-02 EA The Baptist Church is dedicated, free of debt. It cost $2,300 with furnishings.

1892-04-02 EA McKittrick Spring measures at 242,000 gallons per each 24 hours.

1892-04-02 EA A “China Pump” (circular water wheel) has been put in the Main Canal to raise the water to the highest points of the Greene’s Highland and Gibson Additions. (These are also tried down the valley, and then disappear from history. They apparently failed.)

1892-04-02 EA Miss Lillian Greene recently celebrated her 19th birthday with a party. 1892-04-02 ECC E.H.Every has arrived from England. He is staying with Ellice and Penrose at their farm near Otis.

1892-04-02 ECC Fred Stringfellow visited Vaud this week, taking photos of the Swiss Colony. (None of these have survived.)

1892-04-03 The Eddy Baptist Church is dedicated.

1892-04-09 EA M.deLentulus, the Swiss brother-in-law of Henri Gaullier, is expected to arrive this fall.

1892-04-09 EA Work is to be resumed on the Catholic Church.

1892-04-09 EA Eddy gets its first hack (the horse-drawn equivalent of a taxi). Re: It is not very modern, but it will get you there.

1892-04-09 EA Alex LeBrie has acquired a horse-powered saw mill, and has opened a wood and coal yard (at 302 South Canyon.)

1892-04-09 EA Ward & Courtney’s extensive grading outfit has arrived to extend the Southern Canal to 3.200 more acres south of Black River. (Very little of this land will ever be put under irrigation.)

1892-04-09 EA Re: Frank (Francis) Tracy’s fine lead and silver mine in the Guadalupes. (It was in Devil’s Den off Dog Canyon.)

1892-04-16 EA Texas oak firewood is selling for $8.00 a chord. Mesquite (which all but the rich burned) for $6.50 a chord. Ice is 2 cents a pound.

1892-04-16 EA The Eddy Brass Band gave its first public performance last Sunday. (It played on the Hagerman Hotel balcony.)

1892-04-16 EA There are now four laundries in town, all run by Chinese.

1892-04-16 EA A group has visited this area to see how much wild canaigre root is available. They have immediately started digging, shipping the root to London. (The root of this plant, which is native to the Chihuahuan Dessert, contains a high level of tannic acid—making it valuable to the leather tanning industry. It will be gathered with great zeal all across the southern dessert regions of the New Mexico and Arizona Territories.)

1892-04-16 EA Notice: On 04 Apr 1892 the Pecos Valley Town Company decided to enforce the deed clauses excluding the sale of all alcoholic beverages on town lots. (This launches the departure of the saloons from Eddy and the creation of Phenix one mile south of the town limits. It is triggered by the proving-up of Hagerman Heights and Mr Hagerman’s return from Colorado Springs to active personal involvement in the community.)

1892-04-16 EA The Episcopal Church members have subscribed $78 for a 205 lb bell.

1892-04-16 EA The Odd Fellows have delayed forming a Lodge. They cannot find a place to meet.

1892-04-16 ECC Otis is the name of the new town six miles southeast of Eddy. (Several differing claims have been advanced as to which Otis this was meant to honor.)

1892-04-16 ECC The Cottage staged a cat and dog fight last Saturday. The cat eventually lost.

1892-04-16 ECC “A young alligator was recently seen on the banks of the Pecos just below Seven Rivers.”

1892-04-16 ECC Re: W.W.Ogle’s large saddle and harness shop.

1892-04-23 EA The paper lists among local crops: oats, wheat, sugar beets and canaigre. (Apparently some farmers are planting the wild seed.) It also refers to shade trees: cottonwoods and catalpas.

1892-04-23 EA The Methodist Parsonage is being landscaped. (Originally at 406 West Stevens.)

1892-04-23 EA W.C.Webster has started a (soda water) Bottling Works on Upper Main. (At 314 North Main.)

1892-04-23 ECC S.T.Bitting has put a wooden sidewalk and a stepping block before his store.

1892-04-23 ECC Marion Edwards, formerly of Seven Rivers, has been arrested for stealing horses.

1892-04-23 ECC The McMillan residence will be ready for occupancy in a few days.

1892-04-23 B.A.Nymeyer is selling lots for a new addition (Phenix) a short distance south of Dark Canyon.

1892-04-25 The Post Office leaves Lookout, shifted to Kirkwell Station on the railroad, soon to be renamed Malaga.

1892-04-30 EA A $450 organ has arrived for the Episcopal Church.

1892-04-30 ECC The colony recently started by B.A.Nymeyer (Phenix) is said to be flourishing. (Nymeyer platted the new little town on a piece of farmland he owned just east of the railroad and due east of today’s Stevens Inn at 1820 South Canal. No one, apparently, knew how to spell Phoenix. At this time, when the papers refer to Phoenix AZ, they spell that Phenix, as well.) 1892-04-30 ECC The Mexicans of Chihuahua have been notified to vacate Mr Hagerman’s property. (They will next occupy the western river bank immediately south of the mouth of Dark Canyon.)

1892-04-30 ECC Mr Kearney Harmon, “a wealthy Japanese”, visits the valley and buys some land. (His name is never mentioned again.)

1892-04-30 ECC The bachelors of the community hold a “Smoking Concert” at the Adobe School. Ash Hawkins delivers a humorous dissertation.

1892-04-30 ECC The Eddy WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) signs a petition urging the County Commission to grant no more liquor licenses inside Eddy.

1892-04-30 ECC The Citizen urges formation of a volunteer Fire Company.

1892-04-30 ECC Another newspaper in the region suggests that the alligator was a hallucination from drinking Pecos River water.

1892-04-30 ECC Re: Vaud now has 40 well-built houses and numerous tents.

1892-04-30 ECC Some businesses are starting to paint street numbers on their buildings.

1892-04-30 ECC The Hotel Hagerman and the Bank have finally shifted from Central Time to local time.

1892-05-07 EA H.A.Bennett & Co have opened the first business in Phenix. (A saloon, of

course.)

1892-05-07 EA The contract for the Hagerman brick home of 13 rooms has been let to C.M.McLean & Co. (Some of its walls were, however, adobe.)

1892-05-07 EA Re: The Colorado House at Canyon and Bronson sets a good table. $6.00 per week board, 21 meal tickets available for $5.00. S.M.Stevens, Proprietor. (This is the earliest use of the spelling, canyon.)

1892-05-07 EA E.T.Stringfellow is erecting a neat photo gallery on Fox Street (at 210 West Fox.) 1892-05-07 EA The County Commission accepts a petition to build a public road from Eddy to Vaud. (It is soon rerouted to include a stop at Phenix.)

1892-05-07 EA Notice: the County Commission will no longer issue liquor licenses that do not specify a block and lot.

1892-05-07 EA Water in the Robb well is getting low. Most drinking water is now coming from McKittrick Spring.

1892-05-07 EA The new baseball grounds are on Greene Street north of Ed Scoggins’ house.

1892-05-07 EA The barbershops close at 8:00 p.m., except on Saturday, when they close at 10:00 p.m.

1892-05-07 EA Charles Greene has dynamited 1,200 holes in a “thin layer of limestone” (this does not accurately describe the situation) on his 3 town additions, to plant trees.

1892-05-07 EA A.B.Fall again arrives.

1892-05-07 ECC John Gould has bought the White Oaks Railroad.

1892-05-07 ECC Les Dow has sold out his Seven Rivers Saloon interest to N.O.Godbold & Co.

1892-05-07 ECC It has been suggested that the new town (Phenix) should be called “The Oasis of the Desert.”

1892-05-07 ECC B.A.Nymeyer has already sold all 12 lots in his new town. (He enlarged his plat.)

1892-05-07 ECC The saloons in Eddy were closed last Saturday promptly at midnight. McDonough and Brookhoven will keep their in-town establishments open as first class gambling houses.

1892-05-07 ECC W.W.Anderson is quarrying red limestone near the lime kilm (just beyond the flume. (There was not much red limestone there.) (Kiln was spelled kilm locally.)

1892-05-14 EA A street sprinkler is in operation, as needed.

1892-05-14 EA Water from the Fennessey well sells readily at 25 cents per barrel.

1892-05-14 EA A detailed description of Greene’s planned 240 acre Parkland is given: It is to include 50,000 trees, 15 miles of carriage drives, several ornamental lakes.

1892-05-14 EA A handsome office and headquarters for the Pecos Valley Railroad is planned (on East Mermod, east of the alley.)

1892-05-14 ECC There is some talk of starting a Chinese newspaper in Eddy. (This was a joke.)

1892-05-14 ECC A well being drilled in the basement of the Court House has struck water at four feet. (This may have been the first indication they had of the shallow ground water situation across downtown Eddy/Carlsbad.) (This well goes artesian, and they have to cap it to keep from flooding the basement.)

1892-05-14 ECC A new School District has been created for Malaga, Vaud and Otis.

1892-05-14 ECC E.M.Skeats of London has arrived. He had heard of the valley through Charles W. Greene.

1892-05-14 ECC McDonough, Bennett, and the King Brothers will be ready to open in Phenix on Saturday.

1892-05-14 ECC The Methodist Church foundation has had to be taken out and redone.

1892-05-14 ECC Stringfellow’s Photographic Studio on Fox Street is completed. He moved in last Thursday.

1892-05-21 ECC Drilling for the artesian well started Thursday. (This 3rd attempt involved a 100 foot tower that stood just north of the east end of Fox Street.)

1892-05-21 ECC Alice, the wife of W.G.Cass, has died.

1892-05-21 ECC Re: mables playing is in vogue on the streets right now.

1892-05-21 ECC Ales LeBrie is putting up a saloon and a general store for himself at Malaga.

1892-05-21 ECC The old P.V.Saloon has been turned into the Colorado (boarding) House.

1892-05-21 ECC Re: Seven Rivers had a May Festival, but Eddy did not.

1892-05-21 ECC John Brookhoven has purchased a lot in the Powers Addition which (apparently by accident) has a deed that does not have the liquor sales restriction clause. (He will soon open the “Ranch” saloon there.)

1892-05-28 EA The Hagerman Hotel now has a phonograph—“Dixie” is very popular.

1892-05-28 EA The Argus gives the complete complaint of the Pecos Valley Town Co vs. James A.Tomlinson, druggist, charged with selling liquor at his drug store.

1892-05-28 EA A group has begun gathering canaigre near Hagerman Farm east of Malaga.

1892-05-28 EA W.A.Finlay has married Miss Nannie Witt at the Witt Brothers’ W.T. Ranch.

1892-06 Stringfellow takes his 2nd panoramic view of downtown Eddy from the tower of the Hawkins home at 206 North Canyon. This photo shows the completed Hagerman Hotel, Eddy National Bank Building, Eddy County Court House, and, behind it, the Tansill Building (later part of the Crawford Hotel.) The cottonwoods have grown nicely. (This is Historical Society Photo #1892.009 )

1892-06-04 EA The first prisoner was put in the Court House Jail last Monday.

1892-06-04 EA The GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) has decorated the graves of both the Union and the Confederate Veterans in the Eddy Cemetery.

1892-06-04 EA The Bronson Building will be ready for occupancy on 5 June,

1892-06-04 EA The new town of Gaullier is being cleared on Black River. (The Argus preferred this name over Malaga, but was unable to sell it.)

1892-06-04 EA Capt Mann will return from Riverton to heighten the western wall of the spillway at Rock Dam. 1892-06-04 ECC Elliott & Jones have started Eddy’s first steam laundry.

1892-06-04 ECC Josephine Anderson is painting a series of pictures on Pecos Valley flora for a World’s Fair exhibit.

1892-06-04 ECC The colored people of Eddy have met to plan a June Teenth Celebration.

1892-06-04 ECC Riverton TX now has a general store.

1892-06-04 ECC Re: One of the Swiss farmers is going back to Germany. He just doesn’t

know a good thing.

1892-06-11 EA Re: unmarried female teachers should be preferred over male teachers, but men should be used as Principals.

1892-06-11 EA Re: County officials’ income should no longer depend on fee collections.

1892-06-11 EA The drought is causing many cattle to die.

1892-06-11 EA 14 Whites and Mexicans have been arrested at Phenix for living in adultery.

1892-06-11 EA The VVN Spring Cattle Drive has begun. They will take 2,370 cattle to Colorado. (This is the Eddy Brothers’ brand.)

1892-06-11 EA Edith Ohls has resigned her teaching position. (She will soon marry.)

1892-06-11 EA Ad: The Ash Hawkins and Albert Fall Law Firm has been formed here.

1892-06-11 EA J.J.Rascoe has resigned as Deputy Sheriff and Town Marshall.

1892-06-11 EA A Mexican is fined $12 for letting his burros feed on the cottonwoods.

1892-06-18 EA The first Theater Troop visits Eddy, performing in the Tansill Building. The Stuttz Theater Co., it puts on “East Lynne” and other productions.

1892-06-18 EA The Eddy Club incorporates. (Later the Union Club and Commerce Club, it eventually becomes the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce.)

1892-06-18 EA Re: The “Bat Cave”: a large limestone cave “a short distance up Black River from Malaga.” (This is probably the first written reference to what today is called Carlsbad Cavern but which originally was called Bat Cave. It is, however, over 15 miles up Black River from Malaga.)

1892-06-18 EA The Argus opposes the announced plan of the new Eddy Club to support a Public Library. “We are too small a town.”

1892-06-18 ECC “Pith helmets have replaced Stetsons in Eddy.”

1892-06-18 ECC “Our open ditches in town are sickness-producing.”

1892-06-18 ECC The Southern Methodist Church is ready for its roof. (The local Baptist Church was also a Southern Baptist Church.)

1892-06-25 EA County Officials have moved into the Court House (They had been renting rooms in the Bank Building.)

1892-06-25 EA “We need a telephone line from Eddy to Roswell.”

1892-06-25 EA The Argus suggests that every business should put up hitching posts to help stop runaways.

1892-06-25 EA Re: Pioneer William Miller, who painted the first house ever erected in Eddy.

1892-06-25 EA Fred Hodsoll has sailed to England for a vacation.

1892-06-25 ECC Alex LeBrie now has a canvas-covered saloon at Malaga.

1892-06-25 ECC Lookout is now totally deserted.

1892-06-25 ECC Martin M’Rose visits Eddy.

1892-06-25 ECC B.D.Thorner has 150 hands gathering canaigre.

1892-07-02 EA The Argus refers to Phenix as “Jagtown”

1892-07-02 EA Louis Wolfron has moved his short order house to Phenix. He will soon open a grocery story there.

1892-07-02 ECC The Citizen gives a detailed description of the harvesting of canaigre.

1892-07-02 ECC McLean & Co moved three (small) buildings down to Phenix last Tuesday (which the Citizen refers to as Hagerman City as a joke—holding him responsible for driving the saloons out of Eddy.)

1892-07-02 ECC R.H.Pierce has moved his entire stock to the Tansill Building (at 101 South Canal.)

1892-07-02 ECC A free hack now runs regularly to Phenix.

1892-07-02 ECC Tom Jones has married Kate Gordon at Seven Rivers.

1892-07-02 ECC John Brookhoven has opened his new saloon on the west side of town.

1892-07-09 EA The Law Firm of Hawkins & Fall has rented 4 rooms in the National Bank Building.

1892-07-09 EA Re: Alex LeBrie got wildly drunk on the 4th at Black River.

1892-07-09 EA The Town Marshall should stop the canning of dogs (which can cause run-aways.)

1892-07-09 EA A.D.Waldie & Son have opened a grocery store in the south corner room of the Bronson Building (which is where R.H.Pierce had briefly been.)

1892-07-09 EA Re: Seven Rivers had an old fashioned 4th with a barbeque, speeches, and a “jolly dance”.

1892-07-09 ECC Stone’s Temperance Hall has been sold to Philbrick & Hortan, who have opened a new Monte Carlo Club Room.

1892-07-09 ECC The Citizen congratulates Barbara Jones for being an outstanding hostess at Rocky Arroyo on the 4th.

1892-07-16 EA J.H.Nash is planning to move to Arizona. (The namesake for Nash Ditch, he had been an early arrival at Pierce Canyon and had taken part in the Lincoln County War.)

1892-07-16 EA The land between Hagerman Heights and the river is now being terraced.

1892-07-16 EA Re: Eddy has a group of 9 to 15-year-old hoodlum boys roving the streets late at night. Where are the parents?

1892-07-16 ECC Ed Lyle is having a 10-room house built at Hagerman City. (This was a house of prostitution.)

1892-07-16 ECC M.McPherson’s Confectionary in the Bronson Block sold 9,039 lemonades In five days. (Probably a joke.)

1892-07-16 ECC The King Brothers will deliver alcoholic goods from Phenix—just drop them a card, or tell the hack driver what you want.

1892-07-23 EA Post Master C.W.Howe has moved the Post Office to the Tansill Building.

1892-07-23 EA The brick is being laid on the Hagerman residence.

1892-07-23 EA Word has arrived that Alex LeBrie has died from his bout of over-drinking. (He is buried in Lookout Cemetery.)

1892-07-23 ECC Diphtheria is now frequent among the children of the Guadalupe Mountains.

1892-07-23 ECC Ad: Full line of undertaker’s goods at Bradford’s Furniture Store.

1892-07-30 EA George Blankenship dies of apoplexy. (He had for 3 years run one of the PI&I Co’s little experimental farms.)

1892-07-30 ECC There have been too many rough-and-tumble fights on the streets of Eddy recently. These must be controlled.

1892-07-30 ECC The PI&I Co is repairing and enlarging the War Ditch on Black River. (This was one of the earliest small ditches taken from the north side of Black River. The name is said to refer to the endless disputes over its waters.)

1892-07-30 ECC Twelve Italians have arrived and taken up residence on Black River. (These were farm workers being brought in to work the lands of the Swiss deLentulus Brothers. This signals the arrival of the Grandi and the Calvani families in the valley.)

1892-08-06 EA C.M.McLean is building (adobe) houses for the 50-60 Italian families that are expected on Black River.

1892-08-06 EA Eddy has still had no bad fire, but it is to get a fire engine: a $1,200 Babcock Chemical Engine.

1892-08-06 EA Richard Rule, the Editor of the Argus, has resigned. J.M.Hawkins will take over.

1892-08-06 ECC The old Parlor Restaurant of Mar Que is no more. There has been a Sheriff’s Sale of the fixtures.

1892-08-06 ECC Arthur Goetz, John James Hagerman’s personal secretary, has arrived.

1892-08-06 ECC Swiss Colonist Henry Hug has gone back to Switzerland.

1892-08-06 ECC Furniture for the Eddy Club is in place in their upstairs corner Club Room at the Tansill Building

1892-08-10 Walter Thayer marries Julia Shattuck on Rocky Arroyo. Sam Jones is his Best Man. Barbara Jones feeds over 100 guests.

1892-08-13 EA Methodist Rev Crutchfield has given his farewell service.

1892-08-13 EA Seay has moved his business building to Jagville.

1892-08-13 ECC Shooting galleries have replaced the drop-a-nickle-in-the-slot businesses in popularity here.

1892-08-13 ECC 50 two-room houses have been constructed for the Italian Colony at Vaud and on Black River.

1892-08-13 ECC The Pecos Valley Railroad management has taken possession of their new headquarters building. (This is a 2-story building across the alley near the railroad in a little park on the south side of Mermod. It is eventually going to be moved several blocks across town to become the St Francis Academy

and then the first St Francis Hospital.)

1892-08-16 The Masons organize in Eddy. Alonzo Luckey will be the first Worshipful Master.

1892-08-20 EA Contractor C.M.McLean is moving back to New York. (He built the Bronson and Tansill Blocks.)

1892-08-27 EA Alonzo Luckey says that his planned trolley (“street railroad”) to Phenix is a settled fact—that the money is already in place. (The local Historical Society has copies of a decorative map that was created to show the placement of this trolley line—which was never built.)

1892-09-03 EA The Argus prints a major blast at the Swiss Colony for their laziness and for over-using irrigation waters. Re: Vaud, today, is “sitting in the midst of a wasteland of drowned-out crops.” If this appears to come from nowhere, neither paper had chosen to report that the colony was rapidly disintegrating in a multitude of charges and counter-charges. Every Swiss family that could find a way out of this part of the valley was rapidly leaving.

It became very important to the PI& I Co to shape this exodus as due to a failure of the Swiss and not a failure of the farming or living conditions here.

1892-09-03 EA “The stretching of necks without the formality of law (re: vigilante hangings) is a laudable industry that is rapidly on the increase.” (If these were happening here, neither paper was reporting it—but something brought this up.)

1892-09-03 ECC J.F.Woods has opened a grocery store in Malaga.

1892-09-03 ECC Re: A New York firm has ruined the Punkin Store’s new sacks by spelling it Pumpkin.

1892-09-03 ECC The Methodists will hold the first services in their unfinished church next Sunday. It has cost $7,000. (This was a Southern Methodist Church.)

1892-09-03 ECC The marriage of George Witt to Belle Gilreath in Missouri had been announced for the 25th of August.

1892-09-08 Torello Calvani arrived in New York City on this date. He was immediately put on a train for Malaga.

1892-09-10 EA Current school figures: Lookout “which has the Italian children”, 20: Dark Canyon, 28: Seven Rivers, 40.

1892-09-10 EA James P.Day died on Rocky Arroyo on Sept 4th. He has been a cattleman there since 1887.

1892-09-10 EA The colored people have had their first religious service. It took place at the Rock School. Previously a butcher shop, and then the location of the Punkin Store, this long rock structure at 308 West Greene was acquired for supple- mental school space in the fall of 1892. Jennie Potter is its first teacher.

1892-09-10 EA The PI&I Co is going to put 160 acres into canaigre.

1892-09-10 EA Bonds for a $15,000 school have been issued. (This will be the Red Brick School at 400 North Halagueno.)

1892-09-10 ECC Edmund deLentulus is expected to arrive by train tomorrow with 40 more Italians.

1892-09-10 ECC J.D.Forehand’s fencing outfit is working just south of Vaud.

1892-09-10 ECC Our Vaud correspondent says only the incompetent farmers among the Swiss are leaving.

1892-09-10 ECC The County Commission has granted a right-of-way for the street car line to Phenix.

1892-09-10 ECC Irv Osborne and his wife (Hagerman’s sister & brother-in-law) have arrived to prove-up on their desert land claims.

1892-09-10 ECC The large diversion dam on the Pecos at Riverton was almost completely destroyed by recent floods.

1892-09-17 EA 20 Belgian families and 32 American families from Louisiana are expected to settle at Malaga.

1892-09-17 ECC The condition of the cemetery is deplorable since it is unfenced and cattle are allowed to wander there.

1892-09-17 ECC E.Oscar Hart has severed his ties with Hotel Hagerman and has returned to Colorado Springs

1892-09-17 ECC The town site of Malaga has been laid out, canaigre is being planted around it, An Italian store is being built.

1892-09-17 ECC Swiss C.Cuenod of Vaud was the first man in the valley to plant canaigre—last August. (Apparently meaning 1891.)

1892-09-17 ECC The Phenix businessmen are laying out a baseball field and a horse racing and pleasure grounds. They have organized a baseball team.

1892-09-17 ECC The Citizen laments that the Court House grounds has not yet been landscaped.

1892-09-23 EA (At this point the Argus shifts to a publishing date one day ahead of the Citizen.) James John Hagerman has announced plans to start a dam near Seven Rivers this winter (McMillan Dam). He is also starting a 7 foot high dam 150 feet long just east of Eddy (today known as Tansill Dam, then known as Hagerman Dam) and an “Underground Flume” to carry water almost a mile to Wildcat Bluff from this dam. He will use these waters to run a power house there. There will be a 40 foot wide tree-lined avenue going up to his new home.

(Tansill Dam, today, is well over 300 feet long. Each major flood swept around its west end and forced the construction of a longer and longer dam.)

There was a sort of logic to the Underground Flume. At the Dam, any turbines would have to be driven by a 7-foot fall of water. There was a slight drop on land between the Dam and Wildcat Bluff, but the river dropped rapidly in that stretch. At Wild Cat Bluff the turbines could be driven by a 20-foot fall of water. You went underground to prevent trash and sand from blowing into the water headed for the turbines—and by going two feet underground you were able to still farm the space above your wooden tunnel. 1892-09-23 EA A.N.Pratt visits from Wisconsin.

1892-09-24 ECC McLendon and Martin M’Rose have formed a horse buying business.

1892-09-24 ECC G.C.Davis, colored, has been engaged by the School Board to take charge of a school for colored children. It will be in the Main Street building that was formerly C.M.McLean’s carpentry shop.

1892-09-24 ECC Sidney Gilmore has received a small table that is said to permit communication with the dead.

1892-09-24 ECC The artesian well (third try) is now down 1,500 feet. They are finally through the gypsum, and expecting water at any time.

1892-09-30 EA The power house at Wildcat Bluff will send a 5 inch stream of water up the hill to the Hagerman Heights reservoir. (Good-by, terreplein.) Its additional power will run the street car line and several street lights.

1892-09-30 EA Pecos Valley-grown sugar beets are now being served (cooked?) at Hotel Hagerman’s tables.

1892-09-30 EA The railroad plans to build stations at Malaga and Otis.

1892-09-30 EA The people of Vaud have formed a church association.

1892-09-30 EA Construction of the $8,000 Hondo Reservoir has begun. (This is a sad tale all its own.)

1892-09-30 EA Miss Occott and Miss Wilkin plan to open a private school.

1892-09-30 EA E.Benjamin is now the law clerk for Hawkins & Fall.

1892-10-01 ECC Phenix will get a school for Mexican children and a general store. (Little Chihuahua, on the banks of the Pecos, is within easy walking distance of Phenix.)

1892-10-01 ECC W.H.Mullane has arrived with his family. He plans to open a printing business. (He will soon be publishing the Eddy Current.)

1892-10-01 ECC J.F.Dunaway visits from the Guadalupes.

1892-10-01 ECC Re: Lon Bass of Phenix.

1892-10-01 ECC The long storage reservoir at Riverton has been completed.

1892-10-07 EA E.W.Doll is rapidly recovering from his gunshot wound. (Mr Doll was shot, though not seriously, by Phenix saloon owner O.Eastinel—who is later fined $50 for carrying arms, and for wounding Mr Doll.)

1892-10-08 ECC Work will start this week on the new reservoir (McMillan) near Seven Rivers.

1892-10-14 EA Josephine Anderson is doing a painting of the 104 varieties of wild flowers in the Pecos Valley.

1892-10-14 EA F.T.Blackmore and his bride, the former Edith Ohl, are back from Philadelphia where they wed on October 5th.

1892-10-14 EA Materials for a telegraph and telephone line to Roswell have been shipped.

1892-10-14 EA There are 13 students in the colored school.

1892-10-14 EA Charles W.Greene writes a long article playing down the reported ill affects of alkaline water on crops. (Which probably indicates it’s a real problem.)

1892-10-14 EA Work has begun on the Hagerman reservoir on the hill, and excavation has also started for the Underground Flume. (This is to be a wooden plank tunnel 8 feet wide by 4 feet high, buried under several feet of earth, running one mile from Hagerman’s dam to Wildcat Bluff. It was awesomely expensive to build.)

1892-10-14 EA C.S.Demorest has bought 80 acres of PI&I Co land near Otis.

1892-10-15 ECC Roswell’s upcoming Fair will have a hay palace.

1892-10-15 ECC Joe Morgan and Joe Hunt have Blue Ribbon Beer at the Lone Wolf. (So it’s still there.)

1892-10-15 ECC School Board Member Lucius Anderson is upset with the school children who are constantly using their nigger-shooters to shoot out the windows at school.

1892-10-15 ECC The Knights of Pythias are trying to organize here.

1892-10-21 EA Eddy’s Masonic Lodge will begin with 15 Charter Members.

1892-10-21 EA The Argus insists that the Citizen’s several ads for saloons are for places that “are out on the prairie” and not in town.

1892-10-21 EA Henri Gaullier of Switzerland is here. (trying to save the colony.)

1892-10-22 ECC Hagerman Farm (east of the Pecos, east of Malaga) should be able to start paying for itself next year.

1892-10-22 ECC Mann Satterwhite has 50 men and 30 teams working on the (McMillan) dam near Seven Rivers.

1892-10-22 ECC Re: Henri Gaullier is “not at all discouraged by the outlook for his Swiss Colony.”

1892-10-22 ECC Of the 56 trees planted on the town site in the spring of 1889 (before the Halagueno Ditch waters had been brought over from La Huerta) only two remain.

1892-10-22 ECC McDonough at Phenix is adding a 50 foot long concert hall (dance hall) to his saloon.

1892-10-22 ECC A.Vasquez has opened a restaurant in connection with Brown & Seay’s saloon in Phenix. (This is the first mention of any Hispanic-American business.)

1892-10-28 EA Joseph Plowman shot three mountain sheep in the Guadalupes last week. (He sold the meat to the Hagerman Hotel.)

1892-10-28 EA The Seven Rivers Dam will cost $180,000. It will be 1,686 feet long, 300 feet wide at the base, 10 feet wide at the crown, with spillways on both sides of the lake. It will take 175 teams to construct. Blauvelt is the Chief Engineer.

1892-10-28 EA W.G.Kerr has opened a grocery store in the old Eddy Drug building.

1892-10-28 EA 23 dwellings and two stores have been completed at Malaga.

1892-10-28 EA City Engineer Church is drawing up plans for a handsome 25 acre cemetery to be next to the present location.

1892-10-29 ECC The Citizen denounces the Argus for exaggeration and humbug. It says the Argus only exists to boom real estate.

1892-10-29 ECC Eddy now has a Democratic Party Club (called the Joseph Club across the Territory.)

1892-10-29 ECC The school for Mexican children at Phenix opened 17 Oct.

1892-10-29 ECC J.D.Neff is building a 12 foot by 20 foot butcher shop in Phenix.

1892-10-29 ECC Announcement: The Citizen will henceforth call Rock Bluff Dam by the name of Eddy Dam.

1892-11-05 ECC The Citizen blames the Eddy Town Co for “willfully misleading the Swiss with humbug a year ago.”

1892-11-05 ECC A bale of cotton—an unusual sight in Eddy—has arrived for Otto Olson’s mattress factory.

1892-11-05 ECC W.L.Riggs has been raising a wild civet cat for a year.

1892-11-05 ECC Conway and Hawkins claim to have shot ducks at Willow Lake—where ducks have never stopped. (This is the first mention of little Willow Lake two miles south of Malaga.)

1892-11-05 ECC A year ago there were not over 500 acres in cultivation between Eddy and Black River. Now there are 10,000.

1892-11-05 ECC There are now 61 business firms in Eddy.

1892-11-05 ECC Postal Authorities have been petitioned by 144 persons wanting to have their mail delivered at Phenix.

1892-11-05 ECC Jonathan Burleson visits Eddy. He was on the Goodnight-Loving cattle drive when Loving was wounded by Indians. He says this happened at our Wild Cat Bluff. (The origin of that belief—which Charles Goodnight, however, denied.)

1892-11-05 ECC Eddy has its first bad fire in the basement of the Tansill Building—but it is

put out without much damage.

1892-11-05 ECC The Cassigoli Brothers at Vaud have harvested a fine crop of Mexican beans.

Hank Harrison of Rattlesnake Spring marries Ida Ward. (However, a woman shortly appears, with her son and proof that she is still the legal wife of Hank Harrison, who has just made himself a bigamist. Ida Ward sues him for breach of promise. In time, he successfully gets a divorce, and does remarry Ida in April of 1893. They lived happily ever after.)

1892-11-11 EA W.I.Church of Galveston has arrived. He will join the PI&I Co’s auditing office.

1892-11-11 EA J.Morgan’s largest freighting outfit ever seen in this valley has just taken out 23,000 pounds of potatoes loaded in 2 hours at the Warren Grain Commission. It consisted of five wagons drawn by a single team of 16 mules.

1892-11-11 EA Dave Kemp has again been elected Sheriff, and Tom Fennessey Probate Clerk. (The Democrats again sweep the local elections.)

1892-11-11 EA W.A.Kerr has opened a grocery store in the former Parlor Restaurant.

1892-11-12 ECC The businessmen at Phenix are giving a grand barbeque Saturday night celebrating the election. (Dave Kemp is one of their fellow businessmen.)

1892-11-12 ECC Re: The black janitor of the Bank Building brought in 46 tame pigeons from Deming in 1890, and now has 200.

1892-11-12 ECC W.W.Bush (the half-brother of Dave Kemp) has just arrived. He has been appointed the Deputy Sheriff to replace W.W.Anderson.

1892-11-12 ECC The wire for the telegraph line to Roswell has arrived.

1892-11-12 ECC The colored community has organized a Methodist Sunday School. (Many are listed in the article.)

1892-11-12 ECC The first mention of Francis NM. (This was a railroad siding 3 miles southeast of Otis. It was a farming area that never developed into a town.)

1892-11-12 ECC No tipping is allowed at the Eddy Club.

1892-11-12 ECC New ad: E.W.Doll: builder/contractor.

1892-11-16 EC A new newspaper, the “Eddy Current”, makes its first appearance. It’s Editor is William H.Mullane. It is a weekly that is soon published on Fridays. It is a Democratic paper.

1892-11-18 EA Judge Freeman held the first court session ever held in the Eddy County Court House on Monday, the 14th of November.

1892-11-18 EA Tom Fennessey, Probate Clerk, has married Miss Ada Hargan on 13 Nov.

1892-11-19 ECC A local company is examining sulphur deposits at the head of the Delaware.

1892-11-19 ECC There are now two hacks running to Phenix.

1892-11-19 ECC The telegraph poles have arrived.

1892-11-19 ECC Bud Godbold has opened Seven Rivers 2nd saloon in competition with Dow. (There is a major construction site 4 miles east of town at the new Reservoir, With hundreds of resident workers.)

1892-11-19 ECC The Hotel Hagerman is for the first time on a paying basis

1892-11-19 ECC The colored people in Eddy now number about 80. (They are expected to live either in servants quarters or in a four-block area at the southeast corner of Eddy. The Hispanics are expected to live outside Eddy.)

1892-11-19 ECC Re: Rocks are being thrown regularly at the train as it passes south through Phenix. Someone could get hurt.

1892-11-19 ECC A school has been started at Vaud in the Railroad Freight Depot.

1892-11-19 ECC A survey by Sheriff Kemp shows 1,510 residents in Eddy and its immediate area. He has proposed a vote for the town’s incorporation.

1892-11-25 EA C.M.McLean is building a residence at Canal and Cherry Lane in La Huerta. (Which corner is not known.)

1892-11-25 EA Professor Foex has arrived.

1892-11-25 EA E.W.Doll and J.D.Cody are exhibiting (for $1 per person) a petrified man that they discovered in a cave (McKittrick Cave) west of town. (Brought into town with great fanfare, the 8 foot-tall figure cause a sensation—until someone recalled that a 9 foot-long box had arrived by train for the two men a few days before. It was a concrete figure made for them by a gentleman in California who had made a career of turning out such figures.)

1892-11-26 ECC The Citizen’s Editor reports on having gone out with the group to recover the petrified man from McKittrick Cave. He found the figure “well worn.” (Its feet had had to be broken off to get the figure into the cave to begin with.)

1892-11-26 ECC The Cassigoli Brothers of Vaud are importing pure olive oil from Italy by the keg, and bottling it at Vaud for their customers.

1892-11-26 ECC The regular Missionary Priest from San Elizario who visits the Catholic congregation here says most of the Mexicans are now living in Phenix. He stays for a week, christening babies and performing other needed rituals.

1892-11-26 ECC Sheriff Kemp has appointed W.T.Williamson Special Deputy for Phenix.

The “Eddy County Citizen” leaves us at this point. While it did continue to publish for some time, only this first year of its issues has so far been found on microfilm, and none of the actual newspapers appear to still exist.

1892-12-02 EA Architect Walter Douglass has decided to locate here. (This young Colorado Springs architect was brought to Eddy by Mr Hagerman to design and supervise the construction of Hagerman’s large home. By this point Douglass had also designed the Mermod home in La Huerta, and he will go on to design a number of structures here before ultimately returning to Colorado Springs.)

1892-12-02 EC (At this point the Current briefly publishes a daily paper plus a once-a-week summary on Fridays).

1892-12-02 EC The Masonic Lodge furniture has arrived. (It first meets upstairs in the Tansill Building.)

1892-12-02 EC The Eddy Band is meeting in Fred Piontkowski’s office. They have ordered four more instruments.

1892-12-02 EC Articles of Incorporation have been filed for the town of Hope.

1892-12-09 EA Fat antelope and deer are brought into market almost daily.

1892-12-09 EA J.A.McLean and Alonzo Luckey have received the contract to put a telephone and telegraph line from Eddy to Roswell. 85 miles for $3,000. (The distance is a little overstated.)

1892-12-09 EC Jay Gould is dead.

1892-12-09 EC E.W.Doll, contractor, has left town, fast.

1892-12-09 EC McLenathen & Campbell Real Estate has become McLenathen & Wilson.

1892-12-09 EC Phenix saloon men C.F.McDonough and H.A.Bennett have just made a failed attempt to use a County Liquor License to open a saloon back in Eddy—in a tent near the railroad at Greene Street Bridge. They have been arrested, and

Judge Freeman has closed their saloon by injunction.

1892-12-09 EC Architect Douglass is preparing plans for the Frederick Dominice home in La Huerta. (This home would stand at the southwest corner of Guadalupe and Cherry Lane.) He is also preparing plans for the new (Red Brick) school. (Frederick Dominice had arrived to protect the interests of the Swiss banks that had invested heavily in PI&I Company bonds.)

1892-12-09 EC W.A.Miller is putting the finishing touches on the Hagerman Heights mansion. It should be ready for occupancy in a few days.

1892-12-09 EC 75 Secretan families have arrived from Louisiana. They will settle at Malaga. (They are never mentioned again.)

1892-12-09 EC Capt Mann’s three new houses are completed. (These were at 310, 312 & 314 North Halagueno. Two were for rental.)

1892-12-09 EC A large force of men is now constructing the Underground Flume.

1892-12-09 EC F.G.Horton is the new Editor of the Eddy County Citizen.

1892-12-16 EC The petrified man and discoverer J.B.Coates and family have left town quietly.

1892-12-16 EC A.W.Greene has brought in a steam carousel for the holidays.

1892-12-16 EC Stone masons continue to work on the Hagerman Heights reservoir.

1892-12-16 EC The Lucas Brothers have incorporated the Grape Vine Ditch Company with T.J. and R.M. Fletcher.

1892-12-23 EC A white man and a Mexican man have been arrested, “charged with a nameless crime.”

1892-12-23 EC “A Kangaroo Court was held in this city last night, and as a result the town is now short a man.” (One suspects that these two items interrelate, and that at least the white man was tarred-and-feathered and run out of town. But who knows?)

1892-12-30 EA The vote for the incorporation of Eddy was 220 in favor, 16 against.

1892-12-30 EA Phenix saloon-keeper E.S.Lyell has been arrested for pistol whipping the colored cowboy Warner Little (who had won $600 at Lyell’s gambling tables Christmas Eve.)

1892-12-30 EA All of the Phenix saloons held an open house on Christmas Day. One of them gave a free dinner to the multitude and held a domino dance.

1892-12-30 EA Young Mexican gambler Celzo Zammeron of Phenix has committed suicide. Re: unlucky both at love and cards.

1892-12-30 EC Dee Harkey, late of the Two Brothers Saloon at Phenix, has accepted a position with A.D.Wallace.

1893 (Across this period there is a fairly constant reporting of violence within the Hispanic-American community. A killing seems to be occurring there about once every two months.)

1893 In 1893 Robert W.Tansill begins development of mile-square Tansill Farm just south of Cass Draw.

1893 In 1893 Phil Kircher becomes a blacksmith at Eddy. He will soon become the partner and brother-in-law of Rom Ohnemus in the O.K.Blacksmith Shop

1893 Otis siding receives a post office—which will last until 1901.. 1893-01-06 EA Local sportsmen staged a rabbit roundup on New Years Day, killing 138.

1893-01-06 EC Gold Fever has swept across the community (after a reported find of gold in the northern Ocotilla Heights.) People are digging everywhere with every conceivable type of instrument. 13 mines have been staked in the last 24 hours.

The Plowman Brothers and Mr Hertzog have the richest mine in the new gold field, “The Gold King”

1893-01-06 EC A mining district will shortly be organized. New ore is being discovered every day. The field is just beyond the lime kilm. W.W.Anderson staked out the first claim there over a year ago. His tunnel now runs for quite a distance.

Allen Hardware has telegraphed an order for a carload of miners picks and other mining supplies.

1893-01-13 EA W.W.Bush has been appointed Deputy Sheriff and Chief of Police.

1893-01-13 EC T.W.Spencer heads an irrigation enterprise planning to reclaim 2,500 acres 8 miles west of town. A dam will be built. It is called the Bonnie Glen Irrigation Company.

1893-01-13 EC The Current Editor is irritated by the “naked urchins” swimming near Greene Street Bridge without benefit of clothing.

1893-01-13 EC Spencer Dam will create a reservoir covering 500 acres, of an average depth of thirty feet. It will irrigate “as fine a fruit land as ever laid out of doors.”

1893-01-13 EC Surveyor Poutz has been almost buried under samples of ore people want examined

1893-01-20 EA Dr R.E.Moon, Eddy’s only dentist, has offices in the Tansill Block.

1893-01-20 EC The lots at Malaga will soon be put on sale

1893-01-20 EC It is a cold day when Eddy does not have a runaway team or two.

1893-01-20 EC Early Sunday morning Roswell had a terrible fire that destroyed eight businesses.

1893-01-20 EC The Northern Methodists in town are putting up a Tabernacle (a small weatherized octagonal tent.)

1893-01-20 EC Reverend Stamp last Sunday baptized six in the Pecos behind Hagerman Dam in the presence of an immense audience. Photographer Harper took a picture.

1893-01-20 EC The Knights of Pythias have organized.

1893-01-20 EC The Odd Fellows are trying to organize.

1893-01-20 EC The foundation of the (Red Brick School) has been laid. (On the block where Edison School would later stand.) This two-story building had nine rooms, built in the shape of three/fourths of a Greek Cross. The Contractor was Lucius Anderson.

1893-01-20 EC Re: The large herds of antelope (actually prong horns) that the stage drives through on its trips to and from Roswell.

1893-01-27 EA J.D.Forehand, Contractor, has 40 men clearing a section for the PI&I Co two miles south of town.

1893-01-27 EA The Guadalupe ranchers are shifting their wool and goat trade to Eddy. (Before this they had had to move everything to and from El Paso.)

1893-01-27 EC The Pecos Valley Town Company has acquired the lands of the current graveyard. Engineer Church is drawing the plans for a beautiful cemetery.

1893-01-27 EC Warning: “Many unscrupulous parties are inducing people to file on lands that have no chance of ever receiving irrigation water.”

1893-01-27 EC S.I.Roberts and his brother, bothfrom Denver, are having a dry goods store erected across the street from the Hagerman Hotel.

1893-01-27 EC The Eddy Club has acquired a $600 piano.

1893-02-03 EC Joe Nash says he hunted buffalo where Eddy now stands. (This contradicts all of the assertions that buffalo never crossed to the west side of the Pecos.)

1893-02-03 EC In St Louis it is only a cent for a beer, while over in Phenix it is 2 for a quarter.

1893-02-03 EC The miners have organized the New Mexico Gold and Silver Mining Company, with $100,000 in stock to be issued to provide moneys for development. The President is C.O.Merrifield. At their meeting A.J.Hill predicted an immense smelter works at Eddy soon. (The group raises money and hands it to Merrifield to go East to arrange for a smelter. He, and the money, are never seen again. It turned out that the original gold discovery was made in a salted mine.)

1893-02-03 EC The Warren Grain Commission sells McAllister Coal for $13 a ton.

1893-02-10 EA Charles W.Greene has been reelected President & General Manager of the Bear Valley Irrigation Company at Redlands CA. (Another of his many projects.)

1893-02-10 EA Jeff Miller has become the new General Manager of the Pecos Valley Railroad, and will be the first to occupy the new mansion being built by the railroad at 601 North Canal.

1893-02-10 EA The E.M.Skeats have occupied their new Greene Heights residence.

1893-02-10 EA Pennybaker-Joyce has changed hands. It is now Abraham Pratt and Company.

1893-02-10 EA City Engineer Church is to lay out the new town of Hagerman, near Roswell, next week. (At this time, the area still had no railroad—but its line had been staked.)

1893-02-10 EA The E.McQueen Grays have arrived from England with his sister-in-law Miss Touzel and a young man named Edgar.Knowles.

1893-02-10 EC Architect Douglass is drawing up the plans for the Vaud school house. (Mr Hagerman will give each of the little communities on the railroad a Douglass- designed school house.)

1893-02-10 EC Eddy has 800 more people today than it had four months ago.

1893-02-10 EC A tunnel is being excavated around Spencer Dam. It will be 3 ½ feet high, 5 feet wide, and 130 feet long. It will permit 5,000 acres to be irrigated. J.Hertzog is the contractor.

1893-02-10 EC Eddy’s new school will cost $10,000. It will permit Eddy, for the first time, to

offer eight grades instead of six. (The school was later said to have cost $12,000.)

1893-02-10 EC Re: “Mr Pierce was, for years, the only man with sand enough to open a store in Seven Rivers in its wild and wooly days.”

1893-02-10 EC The Hagerman private railroad car, The Hesperia, is said to be the finest ever built for a railroad official.

1893-02-10 EC Oliver Lee and others have killed Matt Caufield and Charlie Rhodes at Hueco Tanks. (The paper says they needed to be killed—later puts the killings near The Point of the Mountains.)

1893-02-15 The J.F.Lavertys move to Eddy. ( He will later be one of our appointed Mayors) 1893-02-17 EA Mr & Mrs Hagerman have arrived with furniture for their new home on the Heights. (This appears to be her first trip here.)

1893-02-17 EA Mr McQueen Gray has already bought 320 acres west of Vaud for $8,000. He already has Satterfield’s force of 25 teams plowing the land and putting out fruit trees and alfalfa.

1893-02-17 EC Both Albert Fall and Ash Hawkins are members of the Territorial Legislature.

1893-02-17 EC El Paso now has 500 Chinese residents.

1893-02-24 EA The Swiss Colony’s S.M.Perusset is drowned while hauling cane to Seven Rivers. (His wagon overturned in South Seven Rivers.)

1893-02-24 EA Deputy U.S.Marshall King and Ed Lyell arrest two blacks at Phenix for carrying revolvers (which were commonly carried by the whites there.)

1893-03-01 The PI&I Co advances the price of all of its lands from $25 per acre to $30 + an an annual water right fee of $5 per acre.

1893-03-03 EA The first telegraph is received from Roswell.

1893-03-03 EA The Otis Depot will soon be completed.

1893-03-03 EA Arthur Mermod has sold Englishmen W.H.Ellis and Gilbert Crampton the 17 acres north of his house in La Huerta, where they each plan to build. (Their houses will later become the Tracy and Tansill homes.)

1893-03-03 EA The people of Badger have chosen Hope as the name for their Post Office.

1893-03-03 EC The price of a Territorial Gambling License has gone to $200.

1893-03-10 EA The petrified man has resurfaced in Texas, where it is being billed as one of The Younger Brothers.

1893-03-10 EA A new railroad siding has been laid at Phenix for the ice and beer warehouse.

1893-03-17 EA The contract for the Vaud school house has been let.

1893-03-17 EC The county line between Lincoln and Eddy Counties in the Penasco area has just been discovered to be 6 miles too far west. The line is being moved, and it puts about half of Badger’s citizens, including 4 of its school directors, in Lincoln County.

1893-03-17 EC The Rheinboldt Brothers store in Seven Rivers has been returned to J.T.Fanning

1893-03-24 EA The Jinglebob Brand (once of John Chism) has been purchased by the Hanford Land and Cattle Company of Kansas.

1893-03-24 EA Judge Freeman inserts the missing liquor clause into John Brookhoven’s deed, forcing Brookhoven to move his in-town saloon to the School Section with The Wolf.

1893-03-24 EA After a jury trial, Dr J.A.Tomlinson is fined $500 by Judge Freeman for selling liquor as a beverage in his drug store.

1893-03-24 EA A Grand Jury indicts all of the saloon and gambling house men of Phenix for staying open on Sundays in violation of Territorial Law. Judge Freeman suspends their sentences after receiving universal promises of future good behavior.

1893-03-24 EC Denton Robinson of the Guadalupes recently visited Seven Rivers.

1893-03-24 EC Jube Johnson, the colored violinist at Philbrick’s Phenix saloon, provides the best music ever heard in Eddy.

1893-03-24 EC W.A.Miley’s restaurant in Phenix is a credit to the place.

1893-03-31 EA Re: There are presently 2 millionaires living here, and another 9 millionaires from England and the United States visiting here in the Charles Greene and C.B.Eddy excursion parties.

1893-03-31 EA The Crampton residence has been started in La Huerta.

1893-03-31 EA The new 25 acre cemetery has been completely fenced, 1,000 trees planted, and a group of curving driveways laid out.

1893-03-31 EA A class of young school children (hopefully under 4 feet tall) has hiked through

the newly completed Underground Flume.

1893-03-31 EC Charles A. Otis of Cleveland’s Fells & Otis Steel Works is visiting Mr Eddy.

1893-03-31 EC Nearly 300 people attended the 3 ½ hour Grand Opening performance at the Silver King Saloon in Phenix. (Dave Kemp will turn out to be a silent partner.)

1893-04-03 EA (The Argus briefly tries to publish twice a week.) The Silver King (the largest saloon in Phenix) plans to now hold regular Sunday sacred concerts, proceeds to go to charity, no alcohol to be sold.

1893-04-07 EA Capitalist R.J.Bolles, visiting here with C.B.Eddy and Mrs Fox, has agreed to buy the Fox Section adjoining Francis for $20,000.

1893-04-07 EA The Irv Osbornes have arrived from Michigan and moved into the mansion on the Heights. (They, rather than the Hagermans—who preferred Colorado Springs—will be its regular occupants. The Hagermans come in on occasional short visits.)

1893-04-07 EA Daniel Bills has arrived, arranging for power from the Hagerman Power House to run an ice plant.

1893-04-07 EC The Power House at Wild Cat Bluff is almost completed.

1893-04-07 EC Francisco Tarango is killed by Tom Williamson in a Phenix dance hall shoot- out that leaves two other Mexicans wounded, as well.

1893-04-07 EC Charles Blodgett has been elected the new Mayor of Eddy.

1893-04-10 EA The Masons have received a dispensation to open a Lodge here after two turn-downs. “A near-by Lodge objected” (The Roswell Lodge had already been formed.)

1893-04-14 EA A.D.Wallace assaults one of the Chinamen for pushing his child. (His child, and others, were yelling insults at the Chinese—common practice for young boys in most American communities at the time.) The case goes to court, and the Chinaman is fined $15.95 for court costs.

1893-04-14 EA F.G.Draper is having a $3,000 residence built in La Huerta at the northwest corner of Canal and Cherry Lane. (Later known for years as the Mudgett place.)

1893-04-14 EA C.J.Demorest has arrived from Florida. He will farm near Otis.

1893-04-14 EA The President has appointed Col W.T.Thornton as the new Governor of the Territory of New Mexico.

1893-04-14 EA McLenathen & Wilson Real Estate has become McLenathen & Tracy.

1893-04-14 EC J.F.Pool has taken over the Stringfellow Photo Studio.

1893-04-21 EA Water was turned into the Underground Flume on the 15th. There was a small problem that will keep it from being used at full capacity while repairs are made. (Years later we would learn from someone who had been present as a young boy, that, in the excitement of it all, someone forgot to open the lower end of the tunnel before the water was let in at the upper end. The tremendous water pressure that built up blew the tunnel’s roof timbers sky-high, in an explosion that “sounded like a giant cannon going off.” Much of it had to be re-roofed.)

1893-04-21 EA The old calaboose is being moved to Phenix, for use there.

1893-04-21 EA Work on the artesian well has been suspended. ($20,000 had been spent. It was said good water was found, but not artesian water.)

1893-04-21 EA Pecos Valley Railroad Superintendent Miller has sent gangs of well diggers to Dark Canyon (hoping to find softer water to use in the railroad engines’ boilers. Their eventual success will lead to the railroad standpipe at the south end of Standpipe Road.)

1893-04-21 EC Re: At least, Chinese gamblers (at Phenix, where they were occasionally winning) keep the money here. (One of the great anti-Chinese themes in America was that they chose to live on next-to-nothing so that the rest could be sent home to their families in China.)

1893-04-21 EC A new Federal law requires that all Chinese must register and have an I.D.photo taken. (These were all Chinese men, since U.S. law did not permit Chinese women to legally migrate to the U.S.)

1893-04-21 EC Over $100,000 has already been spent on Hagerman Heights.

1893-04-27 Four Blacks are united in a double wedding by Rector Bennett at Grace Episcopal Church: Henry Barber and Ann Wiggans, J.A.Coleman and Addie Elliott. Both men are employed at the Hagerman Hotel.

1893-04-28 EA 252 students are enrolled in the Eddy schools. But average daily attendance during the past month has been 129.

1893-04-28 EC The Hagerman Power House is in operation, although with only 10 inches of water running in the Underground Flume.

1893-04-27 Eddy’s first church wedding: James Cameron & Beatrice Freeman wed at

Grace Episcopal Church.

1893-04-28 EC The Pecos Valley Railroad announces, for the first time, that its extension to Roswell will go north into La Huerta—and virtually right through the front yards of several homes recently built there—including that of Judge Freeman.

1893-04-28 EC Philbrick & Rhodes have purchased the Brown Seay saloon in Phenix.

1893-05-05 EA Judge Freeman, in a flowery charge to the jury, attacks all gamblers as being in the same class as prostitutes—but, lamentably, the Territorial Legislature has licensed this group.

1893-05-05 EC Mr Bill’s ice plant machinery has arrived. He will be in business by June 1st.

1893-05-05 EC The hundreds of roses set out in Charles Greene’s Rose Park are doing well.

1893-05-05 EC Miss Olive Clark of Denver (later Olive Tracy) is now a stenographer in the Legal Department of the PI&I Company.

1893-05-05 EC Notice from E.McQueen Gray: “I am not responsible for the debts of Edgar Knowles.” (It turns out that this young man, from a prominent aristocratic family in London, had gotten into sufficient trouble at home to cause the family to pay Mr Gray to take him off to America until he had out-grown his present stage of youthful indiscretion. During his first few years here he will spend most of his time either drinking, gambling, or going off on endless hunting trips.)

1893-05-05 EC Mr Dominice has organized a local Loan & Trust Company.

1893-05-05 EC A crowd beats a man accused of indecent exposure with children.

1893-05-12 EA A new Pecos Company, with 5 million capital, has been organized under New Jersey law by Mr Hagerman to succeed the Pecos Valley Town Company, The Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company, and the Pecos Valley Railroad Company.

1893-05-12 EA Only two gambling places are left in Eddy. The others have all shifted to Phenix. Re: Ed Woerner now runs a gambling table at Lot 7, Block E, in Phenix.

1893-05-12 EA The Vaud school house has been completed. (It’s first teacher, in the fall, will be Dan Fisher. When he starts all but two of the students are Swiss.)

1893-05-12 EA Ad for the new Emmons and Pratt Lumber Yard at the southwest corner of Shaw and River Streets.

1893-05-19 EA Mr Ludlam will open a store at Otis.

1893-05-19 EA Architect Douglass had drawn the plans for H.P.Brown’s $3,500 residence at 405 North Canal. (This will later be the home of Daddy Heard.)

1893-05-19 EC Spencer Dam will be completed tomorrow.

1893-05-19 EC Walter Kinder has moved to Eddy. He immediately ordered eight boats that he plans to rent for use on Hagerman Lake (behind Hagerman Dam.)

1893-05-19 EC The Arno Irrigation System is being created about 3 miles downriver from Riverton Tx.

1893-05-19 EC Dr A.R.Smith has bought an interest in O.G.Myhrs’ Prescription Pharmacy. (He later acquires the Pharmacy and renames it the Pecos Valley Pharmacy. His son Milton will again rename it the Corner Drug when he inherits it.)

1893-05-26 EA The chain gang from the County Jail is being used to clean up the streets and alleys.

1893-05-26 EC Twenty settlers from Denver have created Menton, on the Pecos just over the state line.

1893-05-26 EC The first grapes are on the Greene’s Vineyard vines.

1893-05-26 EC I.S.Osborne is building a two-story double business building at 208 South Canyon.

1893-05-26 EC Superintendent Young has sent Mr Hagerman the first orange blossom from the Heights orchard. (Another attempt that failed.)

1893-05-26 EC J.Arthur Eddy (the brother of Charles) has been put in charge of prospecting in Lower Dark Canyon for a railroad water supply.

1893-05-29 The Vaud Post Office opens, Mrs Alma B.Phillips is the first Post Mistress.

1893-06-02 EA A long article describes Guadalupe Cave (which we now call McKittrick Cave.

1893-06-02 EA A large portion of Phenix burned down at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday. Harry Bennett’s saloon and all the buildings to the north were destroyed. “One hundred Mexicans watched, and did nothing to help.”

The loses were: Lewis Brooks, $1,000 in stock. Bennett & Gastinel, $5,000 in stock and building. C.F.McDonough, $1,500 on building. King Brothers,

$2,500 in stock and building. William Green, $700 in grocery stock.

1893-06-02 EA The Argus says that Doll and Coates took in $100 at $1-a-person to see the “petrified man”. “The railroad had received a 500 lb box from Los Angeles the week before.”

1893-06-09 EA Harry Bennett is rebuilding in Phenix. The King Brothers are putting up an adobe building. William Green is building a new little grocery store. Only the Brooks place is not being rebuilt.

1893-06-09 EA Dr Franklin is having a Douglass home built at 411 North Halagueno. (This will later become the Crawford home.)

1893-06-16 EA B.A.Bennett is disposing of all of his interesst in Phenix to Lyle, Rhoads and Philbrick, Bennett is moving to San Angelo Tx.

1893-06-16 EC The Green Brothers have sold their meat market to George Pendleton, who has hired Dee Harkey to run it.

1893-06-16 EC The workers digging the Dark Canyon well have hit a huge amount of water. Several wells and a tunnel are planned.

1893-06-16 EC Mr and Mrs S.J.Blood of St Louis have arrived.

1893-06-16 EC Ad for photographer J.F.Pool, the successor to Stringfellow.

1893-06-16 EC The Marshal Reddicks have moved to Eddy from Pecos Tx.

1893-06-16 EC The Farwell Rooming House at 508 West Greene is not complete. (It will later become the first location of the Eddy County Hospital.)

1893-06-16 EC The Laffertys have moved to Eddy.

1893-06-23 EA The Pecos is running the highest known in years.

1893-06-30 EA Two Phenix lady beer-jerkers fight—everyone in town tries to crowd into the courtroom to see the two and to hear the details.

1893-06-30 EC “Ten acres here, properly worked, is more productive that 160 acres in Iowa or Nebraska” (For some reason the Current is suddenly sounding like the Argus.)

1893-06-30 EC The Brick School is now completed and ready for next term.

1893-06-30 EC The Cass Store on Main Street burns.

1893-07 James Barrett kills two men at the McMillan Dam construction camp. He will later be hanged here in Eddy County’s only legal hanging, ever.

1893-07-07 EA A.G.Draper, hired to examine the books of Eddy’s public officials, says Sheriff Dave Kemp owes the County $5,362.34 for taxes and penalties collected but not turned-over, + $3,703.34 paid him by the County for services illegally claimed. That County Clerk Tom Fennessey owes $731.31.

1893-07-07 EC Albert Fountain is at the Hagerman Hotel.

1893-07-07 EC The Eddy Fire Department has reorganized. S.S.Mendenhall is now the Chairman. (Strange title.)

1893-07-14 EA Dentist Anson Bearup is now headquartered in Eddy.

1893-07-14 EC Workers have struck a 300,000 gallon-per-day water well in Dark Canyon.

1893-07-14 EC Jay Hartigan has brought in some orange trees. After all, our waters are no worse than those in the California foothills. (It was, however, our freezing temperatures that were the problem.)

1893-07-14 EC Quong Wah the laundryman was almost lynched for “threatening to drown a 7-year-old girl.” The Court fines him $131.05.

1893-07-14 EC Jailer John Waldie is hit from behind with a brick by an unknown assailant. (Lon Bass, jailed “Phenix gambler”, will later be charged with this.)

1893-07-14 EC Pat Garrett visits from Texas.

1893-07-17 Arthur Mermod opens a U.S.Land Office in Eddy.

1893-07-21 EA Sheriff Bud Frazier of Pecos Tx has arrested Marshall Jim Miller.

1893-07-21 EC The high Pecos has washed out one half mile of our railroad track near Red Bluff. (On the Plains of Arno.) (This flood also destroyed the new dam at Riverton, and Hagerman and his associates abandoned any further efforts to create an irrigation system there.)

1893-07-28 EA On Saturday butcher Dee Harkey ejected a 16-year-old colored girl from his shop. He and her employer, gambler George High, then chased each other, High armed with a pistol, Harkey with a cleaver. Both were arrested. The Judge fines Harkey $5 plus court costs for his assult on the girl.

1893-07-28 EA The Railroad Company has run three miles of 6 inch pipe from its new Dark Canyon wells to the round house.

1893-07-28 EA Mains and hydrants are being put in downtown for fire protection. The water will come from the large reservoir atop Hagerman Heights. 1893-07-28 EC The farmers have agreed to reduce Mexican farm workers’ wages from $1.50 per day to $1.25 per day. (Economic hard times are spreading across the United States.)

1893-07-28 EC S.I.Roberts has been made the new Fire Chief. (Eddy Hose Company #1 will organize on August 23rd.)

1893-08 The Episcopal Church Women’s Guild sets up the town’s first public Hospital. They . will run it until 08-1894, when the Eddy Hospital Association will be set up to take . over its operation

1893-08-04 EA A detailed description of Seven Rivers: It has one general store, two boarding houses, two saloons, twenty families, about one hundred people total.

1893-08-04 EC Dr Amos Smith’s family has arrived. (This brings his wife and small sons to town, including Milton.)

1893-08-04 EC The Ellice home is being constructed in La Huerta. (It will become the Tansill home, and later the Ussery home.)

1893-08-04 EC Mr Bronson’s El Paso National Bank has gone under.

1893-08-04 EC The Railroad Standpipe on Dark Canyon is under construction. (It was placed over one of the newly excavated wells, while a tunnel was dug from that well to another about one hundred feet further west.)

1893-08-11 EA Cloud Bursts! Water Spouts! Deluges! A major flood comes down the valley carrying the timbers of the Seven Rivers bridge, which first destroy the bridge at Rock Dam and then the small Halagueno Ditch flume. Next, the new La Huerta wagon bridge and then Hagerman’s Dam and his Greene Street Bridge go. The large Wooden Flume goes when Rock Dam (our Avalon) breaks. “In twenty minutes 900 feet of the dam had been cut down twenty feet. The dam had been washed away all the way to bedrock in two hours.” The irrigation system is back to square one.

Re: Little flooding occurred in Eddy. There was one foot of water at the corner of Greene and Canyon, but not further north.

(James John Hagerman immediately wires that he will use his personal fortune, to what ever extent necessary, to restore the system to its pre-flood capacities—and his word was, indeed, as good as his bond. Only personal advances from Hagerman and Charles B.Otis will keep the PI&I Company

afloat over the next months—barely.)

(This flood gave Phenix a second lease on life. Before the flood virtually all major construction in the valley had been completed, and the large work crews, which had been the life-blood of Phenix, had moved on. Now those crews had to be reassembled in the valley to take on a major period of reconstruction that lasted for months.)

(At almost this same time Mr Hagerman’s Mollie Gibson Mine in Colorado is flooded out, and he loses that major source of his income.)

1893-08-11 EC Jim Dawson, the bar keep at The Wolf, has shot out five teeth of the man called Tarantula (in a game of seeing who could shoot closest to a man’s face without hurting him.) (Within 3 months Tarantula has died from the affects.)

1893-08-11 EC The new Ice Factory was washed away. (Neither the Argus nor the Current ever mentions that Mr Hagerman’s Power House was also destroyed. All we have left of that venture today is a stone wall leaning out into the river just upstream from Wild Cat Bluff. It was apparently the leaning of that foundation wall during the flood that destroyed the Power House. The Underground Flume goes unused for several months and is then dismantled.)

1893-08-18 EC Mar Que wins $125 gambling at Phenix—but is robbed of that amount when he is on the hack returning to Eddy.

1893-08-25 EA In Phenix, The Sheriff’s Department is arresting a dozen people, charging them with violating the Edmunds Act by living together without benefit of marriage.

1893-08-25 EC Last night the Chinamen of Eddy succeeded in flooding the Fargo Game at Stone’s Saloon in Phenix. They made over $500.

1893-08-25 EC E.A.Shields has resigned at the Pecos Co’s Immigration Commissioner.

1893-08-25 EC The E.K.Palace Restaurant has reopened in the Bronson Block.

1893-08-25 EC Eddy is initiating a three-year High School program. (Its first.)

1893-08-25 EC A bell tower and bell are being erected atop the Red Brick School.

1893-09-01 EA The town has voted $300 annually to rent its first fire house (put in a new Osborne Building to be built at 210 South Canyon--This will also be our first City Hall.)

1893-09-01 EA Much of the west side of 200 South Canyon burned this week.

1893-09-08 EA The Town Trustees pass an ordinance prohibiting gambling in Eddy. The opponents initiate a drive for a vote to disincorporate Eddy, while shifting their locations to Phenix.

1893-09-08 EC The original Adobe School is being changed into a Charity Hospital.

1893-09-08 EC Reconstruction of Eddy Dam (the old Rock Dam) has begun.

1893-09-08 EC Richard Rule has moved to El Paso.

1893-09-15 EA Dee Harkey has bought the King Brothers’ Saloon in Phenix—he will rename it “Harkey & Company”.

1893-09-15 EA Ad: Olive Clark is now a Notary Public.

1893-09-15 EA Ash Hawkins has resigned as Vice President of the Bank. Frederick Dominice has taken that position.

1893-09-15 EA Eight men insist they have located gold on the flats east of Vaud.

1893-09-15 EA In Pecos Tx, Jim Miller and M.Q.Hardin have been indicted for a conspiracy to murder Sheriff Frazier.

1893-09-15 EC Charles Greene makes an unexpected return to Eddy from California, amidst growing discontent that his workers here have not been paid in four months. He rents the Court House courtroom to speak on this valley’s economic problems, which he blames on the poor national economy. 500 to 600 attend his speech. Within an hour he has left town again, boarding the next train out. (His economic world was composed of big gambles that were now collapsing around him. He will soon declare bankruptcy, lose everything here, and not return again to Eddy/Carlsbad—although his family will continue to live here for a number of years.)

1893-09-15 EC Only four of the nine rooms in the new Red Brick School will be used this fall.

1893-09-16 The opening of the Oklahoma Strip.

1893-09-22 EA Mr Hagerman’s next Power House will be built at the Dam itself rather than at Wild Cat Bluff.

1893-09-22 EC Joseph Hayman will start a dry goods store in Osborne’s old building. (A Jewish-American, he appears to be the first Jewish businessman in Eddy.)

1893-09-29 EC W.H.Slaughter has been named Post Master (replacing Charles B.Eddy, who had been Post Master in name only. Charles Greene Jr did the actual work.) 1893-09-29 EC The Pecos Valley Railroad has added its first sleeper car.

1893-09-29 EC Dee Harkey is doing a good business at the Kings’ old stand in Phenix.

1893-10-06 EC Otis School is now under roof.

1893-10-13 EC The Dark Canyon Standpipe has been completed.

1893-10-13 EC Beer prices in Phenix have gone up to 35 cents a bottle, 3 for a $1.

1893-10-13 EC Fifteen Chinamen have been arrested here for not complying with the Geary Law requiring registration and an I.D.photo.

1893-10-17 Territorial Governor Thornton visits, and is shown the valley.

1893-10-20 EA The Town Company’s pressed brick factory has gained a new foreman, Wm McBurney of Scotland. He plans to use a bed of good clay that he has found in Dark Canyon.

1893-10-20 EC Many of the town’s cottonwoods are now dying from lack of water. (Remember, there is no irrigation available now.)

1893-10-20 EC Eight Chinese laborers without registration certificates have been sent to Las Cruces to appear before Judge Fall.

1893-10-27 EC Judge Ananias Green, a widower, has married Mrs C.C.Gorman.

1893-10-27 EC W.T.Dawson, known as “Tarantula,” has died from the wounds he sustained at The Wolf in August.

1893-11 Both papers have run numerous items, but neither has chosen to mention that a mass exodus is now taking place from the valley. Those small farmers who had been enticed into coming here had, in virtually every case, bought their land with a down-payment. Now there was no water to produce a crop, and they could not make their next payments. Almost half of the valley lands are going to revert to the Pecos Company in the next few months, and hundreds of small farmers and their families are going to find out, the hard way, that the story was just too good to be true. The Company immediately begins a massive advertising campaign to attract-in the next set of farmers.

1893-11-03 EC Otis School is now open, but there are only six students. (Certainly a good indirect indication of the exodus.)

1893-11-03 EC Construction of St Edwards Catholic Church has resumed.

1893-11-10 EC Sheriff Kemp and W.H.Johnson have both been arrested for a fight involving a knife. (The case is later dismissed.)

1893-11-10 EC Two hundred Mexican laborers strike at the Eddy Dam construction site over their pay of $1.25 for a more-than 10 hour day. They are replaced by other Mexican workers.

1893-11-10 EC The Bitting family has come to live in Eddy.

1893-11-17 EA “Ten acres is enough to make a living.” (This is total insanity.)

1893-11-17 EA A.J.Fountain is here for the Court session.

1893-11-24 EA Water is back in the East Canal (which is diverted before the now-missing Flume. This will permit the farmers in La Huerta to survive in a much better fashion than any of those farmers located below the Flume, across the river.)

1893-11-24 EC McKittrick Spring rancher H.C.McLaughlin shoots at W.G.Hall, i.e. One-Eyed Riley, for dallying with McLaughlin’s wife. (Hall will eventually move to El Paso and set up a saloon and brothel there.)

1893-11-24 EA Seven Rivers Dam (soon named McMillan Dam) has been closed, and a lake has begun to accumulate there.

1893-11-24 EA The scour-gate is being cut out at Eddy Dam. (This tunnel through the dam had been one cause of the failure of the dam in the big flood.)

1893-11-26 The Corner Stone for St Edwards Catholic Church is laid, with ceremonies.

1893-12-01 EA Dr Tomlinson has been fined $500 for selling liquor at his drug store without a license. (This is the judgment in his recent trial.)

1893-12-01 EA The Eddy Light and Power Company has been incorporated.

1893-12-08 EA The Underground Flume’s 30,000 feet of boxing and 450,000 feet of timber has been successfully taken out.

1893-12-08 EA The Fire Department’s Hose Company #2 has been organized.

1893-12-08 EA Dentist Anson Bearup is now located here permanently. His family will arrive in two weeks.

1893-12-08 EA Little Clabe Merchant has been taken to El Paso on charges of cattle theft.

1893-12-08 EA The Charity Hospital is about to use up the $400 raised for it by the Episcopal Women’s Guild.

1893-12-08 EA Hank Harrison has for the second time wed Miss Ida Ward.

1893-12-08 EC Walter Kinder and his crew have recovered 60,000 feet of flume and bridge timber lying along the river from here to Pecos Tx.

1893-12-15 EA Dr Amos Smith will soon build a residence (at 101 North Halagueno.)

1893-12-15 EA Miss Lavica Gordon and Sam Jones have married.

1893-12-15 EA J.H.Nash has removed to Holbrook Az.

1893-12-22 EA Little Clabe Merchant has been acquitted in El Paso.

1893-12-22 EA William McMillan Jr and his friends feel they have found the ruins of seven Aztec cities in Pierce Canyon.

1893-12-22 EA S.S.Mendenhall will immediately build a residence (at 302 North Canyon).

1894 EC The Eddy Current will disappear from this chronology for a year because no known copy exists of any of its issues for 1894.

1894 (In 1894 the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, aimed at punishing Cuba, places a 40% duty on all raw sugar imported to the U.S.—this will kindle new interest in growing sugar beets in the U.S.—and the Middle Pecos Valley.)

1894 The tower is moved from the center of the Baptist Church to the northeast corner, where it is made the entry.

1894 L.E.Ryan marries Flora Stokes. .

1894-01-01 The Otis Post Office is now in Ludlam’s Store.

1894-01-05 EA The Greene Street private bridge over the Pecos has been reopened.

1894-01-05 EA The first attempt to refill Eddy Dam (which EA calls 6-Mile Dam) has failed with a washout.

1894-01-12 EA Whist has taken Eddy in a big way.

1894-01-12 EA Mermod Street is being continued from Halagueno to Guadalupe by

Charles Greene.

1894-01-19 EA The “Hebrew merchant Joseph Hayman” has been held-up crossing Dark Canyon on the way home from Phenix.

1894-01-26 EA The Fisher Brothers have bought the Cassogoli Brothers’ Store in Vaud.

1894-01-26 EA Walter Kinder has moved his boats to Eddy Dam Reservoir. (Kinder will later begin referring to this as Lake Avalon, and the name sticks.)

1894-02-02 EA The Amos Smith family is in its new home at 101 North Halagueno.

1894-02-02 EA The Democrats have their first Eddy County organizational meeting. Listed in attendance: D.L.Kemp, Tom Fennessey, Ed King, Cameron, Bateman, Blodgett, Franklin, the Nymeyers.

1894-02-09 EA The Eddy Argus has purchased the Eddy County Citizen.

1894-02-09 EA Drugist Tomlinson has finally paid his $500 fine.

1894-02-09 EA A section of land near Pecos Tx is to be planted in cotton. The Argus says it is not a good crop for this valley—that it has too small a return.

1894-02-09 EA The Hagerman Canal Dam (at Double Crossing—which also was taken out in the big flood) will be refinished in about a week.

1894-02-09 EA Ellice and Every are considering putting in a large brick factory using Dark Canyon clay.

1894-02-09 EA Mrs Hagerman and Mrs Fox have had a formal reception at Hagerman Heights—tails & top hats required.

1894-02-23 EA Phil Kircher has opened a blacksmith shop at the southwest corner of Canyon and Greene

1894-02-25 The Seven Rivers reservoir has been christened McMillan Dam & Reservoir.

1894-03-02 EA Mrs Sam Jones died a few days ago.

1894-03-02 EA The Hagerman Hotel is being wired for electricity.

1894-03-02 EA Mr Hagerman has chosen the name of McMillan for the future railroad station near the big reservoir. (This name will not stick. The citizens who soon accumulate near that siding first refer to their community as White City. Later, after a short move, they will christen it Lakewood.)

1894-03-09 EA J.Arthur Eddy has married socially prominent Mrs Susie N.Tredway in St Louis.

1894-03-16 EA The Eddy Presbyterian Church has organized.

1894-03-16 EA Re: Sheriff Kemp gets to keep 5% of all of the taxes he collects.

1894-03-16 EA The old Pennebaker Joyce Store has been reopened as a Prager-Jaffa Store. (This did not last long.)

1894-03-16 EA The Electric Plant/Ice Plant (on the railroad “Y”) is almost completed. 350 lamp customers have already been engaged.

1894-03-23 EA The Cassagoli General Store at Vaud has been closed—as has the Post Office, temporarily. (The store will be acquired by the Fisher Brothers.)

1894-03-23 EA You will have to pay to drive across McMillan Dam, but it saves you a half hour over using the old ford.

1894-03-23 EA Little Clabe Merchant has married Mrs Laura B.(Slaughter) Collier.

1894-03-23 EA A Mexican girl has died in Phenix from an overdose of morphine.

1894-03-30 EA President of the Railroad James John Hagerman announces his intent to extend the railroad northward from Eddy to Roswell.

1894-03-30 EA At a road company production of “The Hidden Hand” in the Tansill Building a peeping tom falls through the ceiling of the women’s dressing room.

1894-03-30 EA Reconstruction of the La Huerta wagon bridge is in progress.

1894-03-30 EA James Barrett has been sentenced to hang for his murder of two men at the McMillan Dam construction camp.

1894-03-30 EA Henri Gaullier is building an impressive business block in Roswell.

1894-03-30 EA The Fisher Brothers’ store is doing well at Vaud.

1894-04-06 EA S.I.Roberts is elected Mayor of Eddy. “The Power of the Court House Gang is Broken!”

1894-04-06 EA Sheriff Kemp has paid off $700 of his $1,800 debt to the County.

1894-04-06 EA The Colored Methodist Church has organizing here. It has eight members.

1894-04-06 EA Joseph Stephens is here on a visit.

1894-04-06 EA The stage route north now goes through the town of Hagerman, making it a longer trip by 4-miles.

1894-04-06 EA The H.P.Browns have moved into 405 North Canal.

1894-04-12 Jim Miller is shot, but not killed, by Sheriff Frazier at Pecos.

1894-04-13 EA Charles Goodnight passed through Eddy the other day.

1894-04-20 EA Pecos Valley Railroad Engine #5 has been rechristened the “C.A.Otis” for his major help since the big flood.

1894-04-20 EA The La Huerta Wagon Bridge is about to open. Mrs Tansill and Mrs Fox, as promised, are hostesses at a nighttime dance on the bridge lit by Chinese lanterns.

1894-04-24 Charles B.Eddy is forced to resign as Vice President and General Manager . of the Pecos Irrigation & Improvement Co., the Pecos Valley Town Co. and the Pecos Company. (Francis Tracy Sr will later say that this came after a failed attempt by Eddy to wrest control from Mr Hagerman.)

1894-04-27 EA Mr Hagerman turns on the machinery for the new Westinghouse Incandescent System of 700 lights.

1894-04-27 EA “The Argus” shifts to the Bronson Building to have more room.

1894-04-27 EA J.M.Murdock has accused One-Eyed Riley of wife stealing.

1894-05-01 The Eddy County Hospital Association is set up to take over the running of the Eddy . Charity Hospital. It will initiate monthly subscription dues.

1894-05-04 EA Ash Hawkins will marry Miss Clara Gardiner in St Louis.

1894-05-04 EA William N.McMillan (the son) will marry Miss Lucy Fairbanks in Massachusetts.

1894-05-04 EA The railroad has washed out at Red Bluff. 1400 feet of track was taken out.

1894-05-06 Two (Jewish) “Arab Peddlers” who had passed through Eddy and Phenix two days before are ambushed and murdered on Delaware Creek.

1894-05-11 EA Reconstruction has begun on the Hagerman Power Dam (which we know as Tansill Dam today.)

1894-05-18 EA Les Dow is a candidate for Sheriff.

1894-05-18 EA The de Lentulus vegetable wagon comes to Eddy twice a week—it aveages a profit of $10 a trip.

1894-05-25 EA Miss Mary Canfield is the first graduate of the Eddy 10-grade High School.

1894-05-25 EA F.Hodsoll is taking photographs of growing crops for the Company.

1894-05-25 EA The Malaga Post Master has been accused of letting his 16-year-old daughter open someone else’s letter.

1894-06 to 09 Rev William Lee Lawrance is Eddy’s first Presbyterian Minister. (The church is not finished until May 1896.)

1894-06-01 EA Sheriff Kemp has settled his debt with Eddy County, paying $2,610.15.

1894-06-01 EA Arthur de Lentulus has sold all but 120 acres of his Esperanza Farm on the banks of Black River.

1894-06-08 EA Con Gibson has been killed by J.M.Denson at Ed Lyell’s Saloon in Phenix.

1894-06-08 EA The W.C.Mann residence in La Huerta has been destroyed by fire.

1894-06-08 EA The railroad bridge into La Huerta is compete.

1894-06-15 EA J.M.Denson assaults the Current’s W.H.Mullane with a club. Denson is fined. (He objected to Mullane’s coverage of the Con Gibson killing.)

1894-06-15 EA Black River is running the highest ever seen. The Black River flume and railroad bridge are swept away, as well as the Delaware railroad bridge. Sally Chism Robert’s adobe homestead house at Miller (later to be called Artesia) melts in the high waters. (By this point she is divorced from Mr Robert.)

1894-06-22 EA The Bonnie Glen Reservoir behind Spencer Dam is now holding 12 feet of water. (This does not last very long. It turns out that the reservoir leaks like a sieve. Spencer Dam will never function.)

1894-06-26 Vaud is renamed Florence, apparently because of the Italian families that are relocating in that area as the deLentulus brothers plan to return to Europe

without them. Benjamin Fisher becomes the first Post Master of Florence. The post office of Florence exists from 1894 to 1908.

1894-07-04 Several frame buildings on the west side of 200 South Canyon are destroyed by fire.

1894-07-06 EA The Black River Flume has been repaired.

1894-07-13 EA According to “Engineering Record” McMillan Dam is 2 to 3 times longer than any other dam in the U.S.—though not taller. The only longer dam in the world is in India.

1894-07-20 EA Re: Joe Jaffa, “the Roswell Swell” recently returned to Roswell, is shipping onions and green apples by Express to several young Eddy ladies.(Sent here to open a Jaffa & Prager branch store, there was a Ball in Eddy shortly after his arrival. Every woman there refused to dance with him, presumably because he was Jewish. He immediately returned to Roswell in disgust, and the store never opened in Eddy.)

1894-07-20 EA Charles deBremmond is moving to Roswell. (He will marry Charlotte Scarlitt in October.)

1894-07-27 EA A flood has taken out the Delaware Railroad Bridge. Dark Canyon is “booming”.

1894-07-27 EA Re: Eddy Dam’s seepage problems have still not been solved.

1894-07-27 EA H.P.Brown has resigned as Cashier of the Eddy First National Bank. Cab Conway has taken his place. (Brown, who is also County Treasurer, leaves town suddenly—and is then discovered to be $10,167 short in his books.)

1894-07-27 EA James Hardeman says he has discovered gold near Lone Tree (six miles to the East.)

1894-08 Eddy ships out the New Mexico Territory’s first full trainload of wool, ever.

1894-08-03 EA Charles W.Greene has announced a new Orchard Company, planting directed by Parker Earle.

1894-08-10 EA A half section on the Felix ½ mile from Hagerman is being put into a large orchard. Parker Earle is directing the planting.

1894-08-10 EA Probate Clerk Tom Fennessee has skipped town.

1894-08-17 EA The Pecos Orchard Company incorporates: Tracy, Kemp, Finlay, Greene, etc. They plan to have 2,000 acres in apple orchards by fall—and eventually plan to have 10,000 acres.

1894-08-17 EA One Eyed Riley is again in jail, this time for illegally taking a horse.

1894-08-24 EA Parker Earle is to plant a 1,000 acre apple orchard for Mr Hagerman at South

Spring.

1894-09-01 As of the first of September, there were only two remaining members of the Territorial Bar still in Eddy: A.A.Freeman and Ash Hawkins.

1894-09-14 EA James Barrett was hanged at 1:30 p.m. today on a scaffold near the Cemetery. (built by Lucius Anderson.) (Old timers would later remember that the town turned out in force, many with picnic baskets. School was dismissed in Florence so the students could attend the event. “It drew better than a circus.” Sheriff Kemp pulled the lever.)

1894-09-14 EA Today the first train reached Hagerman.

1894-09-22 J.M.Denson is accused of attempting to rape Mrs Juan Areola of Phenix. (He says he had mistaken her tent for that of a prostitute.)

1894-10-05 EA The Eddy Dramatic Club puts on its first play: “Mess Mates”

1894-10-05 EA Coyote Lodge is being wired for electricity.

1894-10-05 EA Eddy’s first lady bicyclist appears: Mrs E.D.Bean.

1894-10-05 EA Eddy’s Masonic Lodge has finally been granted a Charter.

1894-10-05 EA James John Hagerman wires that he has arranged for a canaigre processing plant at Eddy.

1894-10-05 EA Charles Greene’s son-in-law, Theodore Spencer, has died in Cincinnati.

1894-10-05 EA The Pecos Valley Railroad has completed its 14 foot square well at Dark Canyon. (It is still there, though now boarded-up.)

1894-10-06 The railroad reaches Roswell. (This will bring the stage route from Eddy to Roswell to an end.)

1894-10-06 Ash Upson dies at the home of Pat Garrett in Uvalde Tx.

1894-10-12 EA Amos Smith has bought out Tomlinson’s Drug Store in the Bronson Building.

1894-10-13 Roswell launches “the longest most gala celebration ever in the valley” over the arrival of the railroad. James John Hagerman makes his very first trip to Roswell for the celebration. Territorial Governor Thornton as well as Antonio Joseph and C.A.Otis are also present. A special train brings many from Eddy.

1894-10-19 EA John Walker marries Annie Dow at Seven Rivers. She is the sister of Les Dow.

1894-10-19 EA The James John Hagermans are visiting in Eddy for several weeks. (This was the longest recorded stay that they ever made here.)

1894-10-26 EA Charles McLenathen has been appointed to replace H.P.Brown on the Town Board (today’s equivalent of a City Council)

1894-11-02 EA Re: Mr Creighton is Principal at the Red Brick School.

1894-11-09 EA John Walker beats Les Dow for Sheriff of Eddy County.

1894-11-16 EA A.D.Wallace is now a merchant at Weed NM

1894-11-16 EA The Hagerman Power Dam is now completed.

1894-11-23 EA Martin M’Rose has been indicted for receiving stolen cattle.

1894-12-07 EA Malaga has a sorghum mill.

1894-12-21 EA Rev Uriah Tracy (the father of Francis & George) is the new Rector of Grace Episcopal Church.

1894-12-21 EA Bud Frazier of Pecos Tx is shifting to Eddy to engage in business.

1894-12-21 EA The E.McQueen Grays have a large livestock show at Croftonhill, west of Florence, with a special train bringing guests from Roswell and Eddy.

1894-12-28 EA Ex-Sheriff Frazier has again shot Jim Miller at Pecos Tx.

1895 Bob Causey will open his first blacksmith shop in Eddy.

1895 The John R.Means family arrives in the Guadalupes—first living in the old Ranger Station.

1895 August Rayroux arrives in Eddy. His family will join him in 1897.

1895 Jesse Magby comes to the Guadalupes as a cowhand, from Texas.

1895 Sallie Chism Robert Stegman names the new Post Office at Miller Siding Stegman. No one listens. (She has established a homestead there.)

1895-01-02 EC (We have tri-weekly Eddy Current copies at this point.) The Gambles & Lansford Hardware Store is closing out.

1895-01-04 EA Judge Hamilton has replace Judge Freeman as District Judge. (A political party change in Washington caused this.)

1895-01-04 EA Capt Mann and his family are shifting to Colorado.

1895-01-04 EA Dr Tascher has leased the A.A.Mermod residence in La Huerta.

1895-01-04 EA Hose Company #1 wears blue trousers, a red shirt, and a blue belt. Hose Company #2 wears a dark blue uniform with a wide white stripe on the pants.

1895-01-09 EC The Current says ex-County Treasurer Brown was found $10,171.67 short.

1895-01-11 EA Mrs Osborne holds a whist party at her Hagerman home on the Heights 1895-01-11 EA Ex-Probate Clerk Tom Fennessey is now in Mexico.

1895-01-11 EA The bidding at the Croftonhill horse show was very slow.

1895-01-11 EA Ex-Sheriff Kemp is refusing to turn over his tax collections since County Treasurer Brown’s departure—he says no one else is authorized to take them.

1895-01-11 EA Fred Mendenhall is opening a store at Hagerman. (He leaves Eddy 25 Jan)

1895-01-11 EA Fire Chief Draper has resigned.

1895-01-11 EA A wagon train of 28 persons passes through on its way to the Sacaramento Mountains.

1895-01-12 EC The stonework is now finished on the Hagerman Power Dam.

1895-01-18 EA Someone said to be the train robber Bill Cook is brought through town, under arrest. A crowd gathers to watch him eat at the Hotel Hagerman. (It turns out to be a mistaken identification.)

1895-01-18 EA The Seven Rivers School has been closed temporarily because of diphtheria.

1895-01-18 EA Dee.Harkey has been elected Constable and S.I.Roberts Justice of the Peace in the Precinct Elections.

1895-01-18 EA The Dark Canyon wooden spillway (which permitted the water of the Main Canal to get from one side of the Canyon to the other) is being replaced with a concrete and earth version, to stop washouts—“several of which occurred last summer”. (first mention.)

1895-01-18 EA One Power Pump is now in operation at the Hagerman Power Dam.

1895-01-18 EA The Electric & Ice Power Plant has been erected, but still needs power.

1895-01-18 EA Lake McMillan is filled to capacity.

1895-01-18 EA D.H.Burditt has been elected Justice of the Peace at Seven Rivers.

1895-01-23 EC Capt Kinder has built a 25-person sailboat for “Lakeview Lake’. (This was his first attempt to rename Eddy Reservoir. He will next come up with Avalon—the name of the lake from which the Lady of the Lake raises up Ex Caliber in the Legend of King Arthur.)

1895-01-25 EA The Chinese proprietors of the E.K.Restaurant get into a fist fight with a horse trainer over the price of a dozen oysters.

1895-01-25 EA Ex-Tax Collector Dave Kemp and his Assistant W.W.Bush have settled their accounts with the County Commission, paying $5,466.

1895-01-25 EA A movement is underway to create a Territorial Military Company here.

1895-01-30 EC Eddy has just suffered the coldest day in 8 years—at 5 degrees centigrade. Re: several sheep herders lost parts of their limbs.

1895-02-01 PVA (At this point the Eddy Argus rechristens itself the Pecos Valley Argus.)

1895-02-01 PVA Re: An immigrant family’s 5 boys who hide inside an organ box on the train to avoid the railroad passenger rates coming to Eddy.

1895-02-04 Natalie (40), Mrs.Amos Smith, mother of Milton, etc., dies of tuberculosis.

1895-02-08 PVA Hagerman Town now has 17 children—enough for a school.

1895-02-08 PVA The McMillan spillway will be widened from 140 feet to 300 feet.

1895-02-08 PVA Mrs W.A.Miller is hostess at a Hearts card party.

1895-02-09 EC The Eddy Hospital is presently closed, since there are no patients.

1895-02-13 EC The Current sadly announces that Frederick Dominice is about to move back to Switzerland.

1895-02-15 PVA Re: Valentines Day was “not much observed here.”

1895-02-15 PVA Judge A.A.Freeman has relocated to Socorro.

1895-02-15 PVA Re: the “opium fiend” one-eyed darkey Coleman, who had been jailed for vagrancy, has escaped.

1895-02-15 PVA Plans are afoot to erect a $1,800 stone Presbyterian Church at Eddy.

1895-02-15 PVA Frederick Domenice has resigned as Vice President of the Bank, although he will continue as a Director. R.H.Pierce is the new Vice President.

1895-02-22 PVA The Eddy Brick School is said to have the best library in the Territory.

1895-02-22 PVA Mr Hagerman reorganizes the Light & Ice Company after buying it out.

1895-02-22 PVA Music Teacher R.H.Shipler leaves town—his creditors auction off his banjo.

1895-02-23 EC The Town Board has passed a new deadly weapons law.

1895-02-23 EC Mrs.Harry Hart has died at 31 of childbirth.

1895-03-01 PVA One-Eyed Riley has escaped from the Pecos Tx jail.

1895-03-02 EC McLenathen & Tracy becomes Tracy & McEwen.

1895-03-06 EC Re: Charles Greene is now living in Chicago.

1895-03-08 PVA One-Eyed Riley has been recaptured and sent to the Texas State Pen for six years.

1895-03-08 PVA A new County law requires a $10 dollar tax per night for you to run a dance hall with your saloon.

1895-03-09 EC The Barrett scaffold at the Cemetery has finally been torn down.

1895-03-09 EC John Wesley Hardin, “reformed desperado” recently paid a visit to Eddy.

1895-03-15 PVA Lycurgus Ward has sold his ranch to Morgan Livingston.

1895-03-15 PVA 25 Swedes have arrived, locating at Malaga. (Among them is J.D. Wersell.)

1895-03-15 PVA John Wesley Hardin procured bond for his cousin J.M.Denson while here.

1895-03-22 PVA Martin M’Rose of Seven Rivers skips town after being indicted for cattle theft.

1895-03-23 EC Martin M’Rose was able to escape from the Midland Sheriff. It is believed he has gone to Mexico.

1895-03-29 PVA Bank Cashier Cab Conway is given a monkey with a cup by his friends.

1895-03-29 PVA Rev M.C.Stamp of the Eddy Baptist Church has died of consumption.

1895-04 The railroad Gospel Car Emanuel has arrived at Eddy for a month-long revival.

1895-04-01 EC A bad windstorm takes out the windows of the Methodist Church.

1895-04-05 PVA Constable Dee Harkey has had Vic Queen arrested in Juarez Mexico.

1895-04-05 PVA Lucius Anderson has been elected Mayor of Eddy.

1895-04-05 PVA The annual cattle drive has started up the valley. It is expected to arrive At Roswell by May 1st, at Ft.Sumner by June 1st.

1895-04-12 PVA Dee Harkey has been named a Cattle Inspector for the New Mexico Cattle Sanitary Board.

1895-04-12 PVA Martin M’Rose is in the Juarez jail.

1895-04-17 EC G.A.Frazier, who shot at Jim Miller of Pecos Tx, is now living in Eddy.

1895-04-19 PVA A.J.Fountain has been visiting in Eddy.

1895-04-20 EC Sheriff Walker has gone to Juarez to extradite Martin M’Rose and Vic Queen on cattle theft charges. (He fails to get them.)

1895-04-24 EC A new larger fire bell has arrived.

1895-04-26 PVA Dee Harkey is charged with violating the Edmonds Act. (Harkey had charged Deputy Sheriff Bass with this, and Bass retaliates by charging Harkey.)

1895-04-26 PVA “There are only about 300 Mexican people in the Pecos Valley” (This is the closest to reality that the Argus has come so far.)

1895-05-03 PVA Malaga is getting a rock school house.

1895-05-10 PVA The new fire bell tower has been competed.

1895-05-16 EC Dee Harkey goes to the Court at Socorro with a petition “signed by virtually everyone in Eddy” complaining about the conditions in Phenix.

1895-05-16 EC Postmaster Slaughter has moved the Post Office from the Tansill Building to the west room of the Bronson Building.

1895-05-17 PVA Ad for Architect Douglass, now located in Roswell.

1895-05-23 EC Re: Johnson Grass, the terror of California, is now beginning to spread here.

1895-05-24 PVA Dark Canyon is running. The three railroad bridges in Texas have all washed out.

1895-05-24 PVA The Ice & Electric Light Factory has been “steamed-up” for the first time.

1895-06-05 Lillian Greene marries Sidney Gilmore at Grace Church.

1895-06-06 EC Young Tommy Carson has died of strychnine poisoning. He was herding sheep in Johnson Canyon.

1895-06-14 PVA Mr & Mrs Creighton are moving to Roswell.

1895-06-14 PVA Martin M’Rose and Vic Queen are now out of jail in Juarez.

1895-06-20 EC Martin M’Rose has been killed by law officers in El Paso.

1895-06-20 EC Judge Peitz has moved to Las Cruces

1895-07-04 EC County School Superintendent Fred Nymeyer has married Miss Emma Mechan.

1895-07-04 EC The small Piontkowski son is scalded to death in a wash day tragedy.

1895-07-11 EC Ron Bass, Ed Collins, and others are arrested in Phenix for violoations of the Edmunds Bigamy Act.

1895-07-11 EC Tom Fennessey has moved to Texas.

1895-07-11 EC The Philbrick family is moving to Phoenix Arizona.

1895-07-11 EC The Delaware Railroad Bridge has again washed out.

1895-07-11 EC Tom Jones has purchased from Bud Frazier the Owens Feed Yard and Stables.

1895-07-19 PVA The Pecos is flooding again—the highest water since 1893.

1895-07-19 PVA E.H.Every has returned to England.

1895-07-26 PVA Dee Harkey has been arrested in Roswell for publicly flourishing a weapon

1895-07-26 PVA The body of Wing Huey has been shipped to El Paso for temporary burial. When the body is reduced to bones, these bones will be returned to China for final burial.

1895-07-26 PVA McMillan Station now has a Post Office.

1895-08-02 PVA Eddy’s lady cyclists only peddle at night—and they avoid moonlight.

1895-08-09 PVA John Wesley Hardin was forced to leave Phenix the other day by Lon Bass. (Hardin did not want to pay up on his losses.)

1895-08-15 EC The McLean-Gilmore Hardware store has gone broke.

1895-08-16 PVA Stock Growers Detective Les Dow catches two with a stolen calf at A shack near the Railroad coal bin.

1895-08-16 PVA Sherlock S.Benson has been arrested for cattle theft in a shootout at the McNew/Oliver Lee ranch house near the Point of the Mountains’ Bone Spring.

1895-08-22 EC Harkey & McDaniel have arrested Alf Necker for dressing a stolen calf

1895-08-22 EC Colored Minister W.P.Roberts leaves town fast over charges that he has been playing around here with a young girl.

1895-08-30 PVA Constable Harkey catches cattle thief Tom McCullough after chasing him to Dona Ana County.

1898-08-30 (By this point John Wesley Hardin has been killed in El Paso.)

1895-09-05 EC Young Willie Rascoe accidentally? shoots a Mexican boy to death at the Dark Canyon swimming hole.

1895-09-05 EC The Current says the Argus is wrong—moonlight bicycle parties are very popular among the women of Eddy.

1895-09-06 PVA B.F.Moon is now the Malaga Post Master.

1895-09-12 EC The U.S.Government’s sugar beet bounty is ruled unconstitutional.

1895-09-20 PVA The Eddy County produce display at the 4th National Irrigation Congress in Albuquerque takes First Place.

1895-09-27 PVA A large group from the Albuquerque Irrigation Congress visits Eddy.

1895-10-03 EC A large Phenix group (including Lon Bass, and the past photographer Stringfellow) has departed by train for Globe Arizona where there is new Railroad construction in progress and where Lyle & Kemp have already erected a large saloon. (Phenix pretty much comes to an end at this point)

1895-10-04 PVA The Phenix overland group leaves for Globe. (This included the prostitutes and musicians. It was this group that serenaded Dee Harkey as it left town.) Justice of the Peace W.K.Stalcup, who is in the group, is arrested near Seven Rivers for failure to turn in $613 worth of fines he has collected.

1895-10-04 PVA Dr Amos Smith’s safe has been robbed of $6,200. 1895-10-11 PVA A headgate is being erected at Spencer Dam to try to prevent the runoff that recently cost 19 feet of the water that had collected behind the dam.

1895-10-11 PVA Upper Black River has asked for a school.

1895-10-18 PVA S.T.Gilmore has moved to Dallas Tx.

1895-10-18 PVA John Queen has been accused of stealing cattle.

1895-10-18 PVA Stock Growers Association Detective Lew Dow has arrested McNew, an associate of Oliver Lee, for cattle theft.

1895-10-18 PVA A new building for the Electric Light Plant is being erected near Hagerman Dam.

1895-10-25 PVA A Mexican woman has committed suicide at Phenix with morphine.

1895-10-25 PVA I.S.Osborne is raising 300 hogs on the farm at Hagerman Heights.

1895-10-25 PVA Sheriff Walker has arrested W.W.Bush and D.L.Kemp for cattle theft. (The charges will be dismissed against Kemp.)

1895-10-31 EC Re: the remaining Swiss families are barely getting by.

1895-11-01 PVA The site has been selected in Roswell for the construction of the New Mexico Military Institute.

1895-11-01 PVA Col.Overmeyer has purchased the mile-square Tansill Farm for $100,000.

1895-11-01 PVA W.W.Bush has shot and killed Joe Gunderlach (known as Joe Watson) at the back door to the Hotel Hagerman.

1895-11-07 EC W.W.Bush has been acquitted of the charge of stealing cattle.

1895-11-08 PVA Alphonse Barbay from Switzerland has died. (He appears to be the only member of the Swiss Colony buried in the Carlsbad Municipal Cemetery.)

1895-11-08 PVA C.C.Blodgett and Ash Hawkins are leaving Eddy.

1895-11-15 PVA Judge Fall visits Eddy for the farewell dinner for Franklin, Hawkins and Blodgett. (Hawkins & Franklin will soon set up a law firm in El Paso Tx.)

1895-11-20 The Eddy Club disbands. (The flood has destroyed the dream. and Eddy is noticeably fading away.)

1895-11-22 PVA The trial of Augustin Lerma for the murder of the two “Arab Peddlers” begins. (There will be testimony that he was arrested in Texas with some of their goods still in his possession. He will be found guilty.)

1895-11-28 PVA The plans for the Schlitz Brewing Company’s Sugar Beet Factory here are given in detail.

1895-12-05 EC The Board of Education investigates alleged “immoral behavior” by some of the older students at the Brick School.

1895-12-06 PVA Re: Four wild swans have been killed at Eddy Dam—they are being mounted.

1895-12-06 PVA S.S.Mendenhall is moving back to Roswell.

1895-12-06 Roswell hangs two Mexicans accused of murder.

1895-12-06 PVA Dr Amos Smith remarries, to Mrs I.D.Thickston of Illinois.

1895-12-13 PVA The Post Office at Seven Rivers has been discontinued.

1895-12-13 PVA Capt and Mrs Mann return. He suffered a stroke while in Colorado and is now an invalid.

1895-12-13 PVA R.W.Tansill is improving the old “Opera House” (a warehouse at 108 East Main occasionally used for entertainment events and dances) by adding a stage.

1895-12-20 PVA A.N.Pratt has bought the lumber business of W.A.Finlay.

1895-12-20 PVA Bids are out for a 28’ by 45’ First Presbyterian Church, to be of stone.

1895-12-20 PVA Parker Earle has put out 60,000 trees in Mr Hagerman’s South Spring Orchard.

1896 In 1896 the Methodist Church was wired for electricity.

1896 In 1896 Robert Tansill bought the Hagerman Power Dam.

1896 Torello Calvani and Ersilla Grandi, both deLentulus employees, wed.

1896 Bachelor William W.Galton arrived from England, purchasing unimproved farm land at Francis.

1896 In 1896 the cattle industry shifts to fences, corrals and windmills.

1896 Merchant & Parimore, owners of the large San Simon Ranch in southeastern Arizona, acquire the large Dug Well Ranch east of Eddy, and rename it the San Simon as well. The ranch runs from the Pecos east to the Texas line, and runs north to south for 70 miles. It has, however, only 4 waterings for cattle.

1896-01-03 PVA Mr & Mrs M.C.Church have moved to El Paso.

1896-01-03 PVA Jeff N.Miller has resigned as General Manager of the Pecos Valley Railroad.

1896-01-10 PVA The last troops have been removed from Ft.Stanton.

1896-01-10 PVA Dee Harkey pursues the missing County Treasurer Harry P.Brown to St.Louis, but does not get his man.

1896-01-17 PVA The first ad appears for the town’s new photographer: J.F.Butler.

1896-01-22 Candidate William Jennings Bryan speaks at the Court House on bi-metalism. He speaks for 3 hours. Only about 100 attend. He is taken on an outing to Eddy Reservoir.

1896-01-23 EC Charles B.Eddy has resigned as the President of Eddy First National Bank. R.H.Pierce has been chosen as the new President.

1896-01-24 PVA I.Wallace Holt has laid out a town site at McMillan Siding.

1896-01-29 Vic Queen returns to Eddy from Juarez to face the cattle theft charges. (These charges will be dismissed in April.)

1896-01-30 EC Roswell’s new Joyce-Pruitt Co. has bought out Jaffa-Prager. The owners

are John R.Joyce (the first) and Aurelius Pruitt.

1896-01-31 PVA Reverend Father H.Kempker has arrived from Prescott Az to lead the local Catholics.

1896-02-01 Col Albert Fountain and his small son disappear as they cross the Tularosa Basin, returning to Las Cruces from Alamogordo. 1896-02-06 EC The Ash Hawkins family has left for El Paso.

1896-02-06 R.W.Tansill Jr (the son) dies in La Huerta at the Motter place.

1896-02-07 PVA Tom Fennessey and family have returned to Eddy.

1896-02-13 EC Alonzo Luckey has been found insane. (He had gone east for his health.)

1896-02-14 PVA Mr Hagerman has announced that he will soon extend his railroad northeast from Roswell to join with the Santa Fe System.

1896-02-21 PVA Alonzo Luckey has been placed in an insane asylum in Illinois.

1896-02-21 PVA Mr Hagerman’s Pecos Valley Railroad has been put in the hands of the receivers. Re: “It was a railroad that began nowhere and went nowhere.” (It is reorganized, however, in 1897)

1892-02-27 EC Re: The Fitzsimmons boxing match opposite Langtry Tx has just taken place.

1896-02-27 EC Mr Ward has built a fine residence in La Huerta (near the railroad on the north side of Peach Lane.

1896-03-05 EC Pat Garrett has been hired by the friends of Col Fountain to find his killers.

1896-03-05 EC Cicero Stewart has moved from Hope to McMillan.

1896-03-05 EC Effie Leck has married Tom Cowden. They will live in Midland.

1896-03-06 PVA Mr Hagerman’s Pecos Company has been replaced by a new Pecos Valley Company.

1896-03-06 PVA Tracy & McEwan have purchased the B.T.Kellough Hardware Store.

1896-03-12 EC A Deputy Sheriff has killed Eli Chevallier (Dee Harkey’s friend) in

The Barfield Saloon at Phenix.

1896-03-12 EC J.Frank Joyce returns from Roswell to take charge of the Eddy Joyce-Pruitt Store. Mr Pruitt is shifting to Roswell.

1896-03-12 EC Harry P.Brown, past County Treasurer on the run, has been caught in Denver.

1896-03-12 EC A Deputy Sheriff arrests the actual murder fugitive Lee Hunt here.

1896-03-13 PVA Ad for the “Tansill Opera House”, Wm A.Miller, Manager.

1896-03-13 PVA Re: the Jones Brothers Stable.

1896-03-20 PVA General R.S.Benson replaces Col Overmeyer as the purchaser of Tansill Farm.

1896-03-26 EC R.H.Pierce, H.P.Brown’s bondsman as County Treasurer, pays off Eddy County’s missing $8,768.55

1896-03-26 EC James John Hagerman and C.A.Otis come down from Roswell on The “Hesperia”. They announce that a sugar beet factory has definitely been arranged.

1896-04-03 PVA Pat Garrett has been named the Sheriff of Dona Ana County. (On Aug 15th it will be announced that the Governor has just appointed him to fill the unfinished term of Sheriff there, however.)

1896-04-03 PVA A large bonfire celebrates the announcement of the soon-to-start work on a local sugar beet factory.

1896-04-09 EC John Selman has been killed by George Scarborough in El Paso.

1896-04-09 EC There has been a bad train wreck near Guadalupe (south of Orla Tx).

1896-04-10 PVA Olive Clark has resigned from her position with the Town Company. She will move to Denver.

1896-04-16 EC Vic Queen is unindicted on the cattle theft charges. He is now free.

1896-04-16 EC Dee Harkey has arrested a drunk who took over a local barber shop.

1896-04-16 EC The new chemical fire engine (horse-drawn) is being tested.

1896-04-24 PVA W.W.Bush has been found not guilty of the murder of Joe Gunderlach. (Joe made the mistake, while attempting to expel Bush from the Hotel,

of drawing a weapon. Bush therefore gets off on a plea of self defense.)

1896-04-25 Rev.J.Mid Hill commits suicide, drowning himself in the Penasco River.

1896-05-07 EC The preliminary hearing is underway for the Klasner couple’s murder of Mr.Guyse on the Upper Hondo.

1896-05-08 PVA Dave Kemp accuses Les Dow of stealing cattle.

1896-05-08 PVA 76 feet of the wooden flume has gone out. (The newspapers gave no indication of high water at this time.)

1896-05-08 PVA Mr Demorest is opening a grocery store at Otis.

1896-05-15 PVA The Eddy-Bissell Cattle Company is going out of business.

1896-05-18 The rockwork on the Presbyterians’ one-room Austin limestone chapel is finished. Lucius Anderson is the contractor. (The Church will not be enlarged beyond this until 1917.)

1896-05-21 EC The first High Mass at St Edwards will soon be celebrated.

1896-05-28 EC Bud Frazier of Pecos Tx has been acquitted of attempting to murder Jim Miller.

1896-05-29 PVA Monroe Kerr has moved to Toyah Tx.

1896-06-04 EC Les Dow has announced as a candidate for Eddy County Sheriff and Tax Collector.

1896-06-04 EC The Hotel Hagerman has been renamed the Hotel Windsor

1896-06-11 EC Cicero Stewart is an announced candidate for Eddy County Sheriff and Tax Collector.

1896-06-11 EC Rev.Kemper is seeking 10 acres near Eddy so that he can move the Hispanics from Phenix, where, he says, it is too dangerous for them.

1896-06-11 EC Last week Bruce Jones married Miss Besing at Seven Rivers.

1896-06-11 EC Dee Harkey has returned with John Scott (the arrested man who attempted to jump off the train.)

1896-06-12 PVA The Eddy Odd Fellows have reorganized.

1896-06-12 PVA The H.S.Church family is moving to San Francisco CA.

1896-06-18 EC Editor Mulane has a fight with School Supt.Fred Nymeyer and J.S.Crozier.

1896-06-25 EC Mr Musy has arrived. He will be the Superintendent of the Sugar Beet Factory.

1896-07-10 PVA Vic Queen is charged with shooting a Mexican at Phenix.

1896.07-16 EC John Bolton and Lena Hill are married..

1896-07-17 PVA The Musys will occupy the Dominice residence in La Huerta

1896-07-23 EC William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech is printed in full.

1896-07-24 PVA The Railroad has brought in a mammoth steam pump for its Dark Canyon Well.

1896-07-31 PVA Dr Kinsinger is moving back to Iowa.

1896-08-07 PVA The Sugar Beet Factory is under construction.

1896-08-08 EC W.H.Angell has bought the Jones Brothers’ Livery Stable (and The “Current” has changed its day of publication)

1896-08-08 EC The Mansion House boarding house is now the Eagle House.

1896-08-14 PVA John Denson, private citizen, gets involved in the struggle around a Mexican knifing of a Mexican at Phenix.

1896-08-15 EC W.W.Ward makes final proof on his Wagon Tire Draw homestead.

1896-08-28 PVA Les Dow has moved his family to Eddy so that his boys can go to school.

1896-08-28 PVA Cab Conway leaves for Silver City.

1896-08-28 PVA The R.R.Stringfellow family, pioneers in the valley, are moving to Sherman TX.

1896-08-29 EC A company has been formed to work the Guadalupe Sulfur deposits. (at Guadalupe TX, south of Orla)

1896-09-04 PVA Eddy has fifteen bicycles.

1896-09-05 EC The Tom Fennesseys departed for El Paso on the 30th of August.

1896-09-05 EC Conway and Hawkins have formed a Law Firm in Silver City.

1896-09-11 PVA Frank E.Downs has leased his Dark Canyon ranch and will spend a year in Oklahoma.

1896-09-11 PVA Father Kempker brings 28 Hispanic children to the first day of school. The School Board rents the old adobe school on Main as the School for Hispanic students.

1896-09-11 PVA The Presbyterian Church is being roofed.

1896-09-12 EC Father Kempker is purchasing 10 acres for a new community for the Hispanic families. (This is the start of San Jose—later it will be said that the Company gave the 10 acres to Father Kempker.)

1896-09-12 EC J.W.Kinsinger has resigned as Mayor of Eddy.

1896-09-12 EC Dee Harkey arrests Denton Robertson in Reeves County TX for buying stolen cattle. Vic Queen is said to be involved.

1896-09-18 PVA The Eddy Mexican School has 32 pupils.

1896-09-18 PVA Miller has killed Frazier with a shotgun at Toyah TX.

1896-09-22 Helen Calvani is born. She will be the first Anglo baby baptized at the New St Edwards Church. (It still stands at 213 North Guadalupe.)

1896-09-24 Eddy Lodge #21, Order of the Odd Fellows, is chartered.

1896-09-25 PVA Popular William A.Miller, valley pioneer, is killed by an electric shock at Tansill’s Opera House. Work stops at the Sugar Beet Factory so that everyone can attend the funeral.

1896-09-26 EC Roswell has hanged Antonio Gonzales.

1896-10-02 PVA John Denson and Mr Aerhart are killed by Barney Riggs at the Johnson & Heard Saloon in Pecos TX.

1896-10-03 EC Father Kempker is giving one sermon in english and one sermon in spanish each Sunday.

1896-10-16 PVA Dark Canyon is running the highest ever known. It is one foot over the railroad bridge. Hackberry Draw is flooding. The Dark Canyon and Black River railroad bridges are out, as well as the Black River Flume.

1896-10-16 PVA The First National Bank of Eddy has closed its doors.

1896-10-16 PVA The Cass Draw railroad bridge is out. Seven inches of rain has fallen in 3 days. Water got into the basement of the Court House and the prisoners had to be moved. 1500 feet of the Main Canal has been washed out in the Cass Draw area.

1896-10-17 EC Dave Kemp has sold his half of the Silver King Saloon in Phenix to Walter Paddleford (and Lyell).

1896-10-17 EC The entire town of Malaga was under a foot a water for 36 hours.

1896-10-23 PVA George Musgrave killed George Parker 20 miles south of Roswell on the 19th.

1896-10-23 PVA Vic Queen has again been accused of cattle theft.

1896-10-23 PVA The Sugar Beet Factory’s whistle has blown for the first time. The factory’s machinery was started with ceremony by six prominent community ladies.

It is housed in a very large brick building that is said to be the largest commercial structure in the Territory of New Mexico. Over four stories high, it sat where the “Carlsbad Current Argus” building is sitting in 2009.

1896-11-06 PVA McKinley has been elected President. Les Dow has been elected Sheriff.

1896-11-15 Popular barkeep Argyle Rhodes is killed at Phenix, as well as 2 Hispanics: Andreas Calderon and Romolo Numes, in an outbreak of gunfire between the Anglos and the Hispanics. It is though Rhodes’death was accidental— that someone was trying to shoot unpopular Mr Fee instead and missed.

1896-11-20 PVA George B.Loving is visiting Eddy.

1896-11-21 EC The Mexican families are moving out of Phenix fast. The 10-acre tract (one mile away) already has seven houses.

1896-11-21 EC P.F.Blodgett is visiting Eddy at this time, as well as Capt Fred Pabst.

1896-12-04 PVA Sheriff-elect Dow was in the posse that killed Bob Hayes of the Black Jack Gang close to the Arizona line last week.

1896-12-11 PVA Miss Jenny Pratt has arrived to live with her brothers.

1896-12-11 PVA W.A.Otis and C.A.Otis Jr are visiting here. The Osbornes are giving a dinner at The Heights in their honor.

1896-12-18 PVA Mr Demorest has moved to Otis.

1896-12-19 EC Re: the grass hay being harvested on the prairies to the east and northeast.

1896-12-25 PVA The Dark Canyon Spillway is being replace and improved.

1896-12-26 EC The Company’s past Immigration Officer, G.O.Shields, is publishing articles in the East at this time blasting the Company’s dishonesty and incompetence.

1896-12-31 Francis G.Tracy and Olive Clark marry in La Huerta at the Every home, which he has acquired. (It sat near the southeast corner of Guadalupe and Cherry Lane.)

1897-01-01 PVA Lake Avalon is announced as the now official name, replacing 6-Mile or Eddy Reservoir.

1897 Dr and Olive Doepp move to Eddy.

1897 The Clabe Prudes move from Ft Davis TX to the Bullis Spring Ranch at the north end of the Guadalupes.

1897-01-01 Les Dow assumes office as the Eddy County Sheriff

1897-01-07 Young Will Merchant arrives at the New Mexico San Simon. He will direct its operations until the rest of the family moves to Carlsbad in 1902.

1897-01-08 PVA Recently 4 simultaneous weddings took place at Seven Rivers, 3 of them thought to be in jest—but it turns out they, too, were official. The 3 couples are now desperately seeking divorces.

1897-01-09 EC The farmers are complaining about the way their tare is being weighed at the Sugar Beet Factory.

1897-01-10 Ed S.Shattuck (known as Ned) marries Sallie Middleton at Eddy.

1897-01-12 Young cowboys Mart Larrimore, Matt Burts, and Tom Nelson shoot-up the McMillan Saloon before they ride out of town.

1897-01-15 PVA The Town Trustees repeal the anti-gambling ordinance, letting gambling houses back into town. (It was decided they could be better controlled by town ordinance than by letting them float, uncontrolled, out at Phenix.)

1897-01-15 PVA E.McQueen Gray presents a chapel organ to the school at Florence.

1897-01-16 EC Dee Harkey is easily reelected Constable.

1897-01-16 EC J.E.Laverty has been appointed Mayor.

1897-01-22 PVA R.H.Pierce has purchased the Bronson Building, 123-125 South Canyon. Joyce-Pruit will move to his old building from their current location in the Tansill Building.

1897-01-29 PVA The Castalian Club organizes. Limited to 20 men, it plans to present the members’ intellectual papers. (Needless to say, this quickly fell apart. By the second month they were turning to Oxford Graduate E.McQueen Gray to provide a long series of readings from Shakespeare in place of those never-appearing intellectual papers.)

1897-01-30 EC The local public schools have closed for lack of moneys to pay teacher salaries. (These shortened school years will occur frequently over the next few years.

1897-02-06 EC The Town Trustees (under great pressure from the churches) have again made gambling illegal in Eddy.

1897-02-12 PVA S.T.Bitting has bought the J.H.Gilmore Hardware (who had apparently bought out Tracy.)

1897-02-12 PVA The 3,000 foot flume (terriplain?) running north from Hagerman Heights to the East Canal has been done away with—as well as almost 3 miles of ditch.

1897-02-18 Newly-installed Sheriff Les Dow (36) is shot before the Post Office at 207West Fox. He dies hours later. D.L.Kemp and Will Kennon are arrested

for the shooting. (They will ultimately be acquitted March 30 1898.)

1897-02-24 Cicero Stewart is named Sheriff. (His first term will last until Dec 31 1906)

1897-02-26 PVA The Sugar Beet Factory’s first season came to an end yesterday. (It will continue to process material on hand until 19 March.)

1897-02-27 EC Cassigoli has purchased the F.Agostine Grocery on Canyon near Greene.

1897-03-06 EC Re: The Sugar Beet Factory has been exempted from local taxation.

1897-03-06 EC The Pecos Valley Trust Co has a foreclosure sale of the Pecos Valley Town Company’s Hagerman/Windsor Hotel. Mr Tansill briefly buys it for $5,000, but the Pecos Valley Trust Co then buys it from him for the same amount.

The Pecos Valley Trust Co also forecloses on the Eddy Electric & Light Co.

1897-03-12 PVA Indications are that every valley farmer who planted sugar beets during the first season will plant double that acreage next season.

1897-03-13 EC Arthur deLentulus has moved to Kentucky.

1897-03-19 PVA The Eddy Club has been reorganized. It will now be the Union Club.

1897-03-21 Tom Fletcher marries Sallie Collier at Lookout.

1897-03-23 A heavy frost kills the next peach crop.

1897-03-26 PVA H.P.Brown has been returned here for his embezzlement trial.

1897-04-02 PVA Mehan & Co General Store has closed.

1897-04-02 PVA I.S.Osborne is improving Lea Street. He is planting rows of trees on both sides, and plans to create a cinder roadway. (These cinders were a by- product of the Sugar Beet Factory.)

1897-04-02 PVA Lillie Spencer has sued W.H.Spencer for a divorce.

1897-04-02 PVA August Rayroux has become a Citizen of the United States.

1897-04-09 PVA Constable Harkey has delivered Denton Robertson to Pecos TX on a horse stealing charge.

1897-04-09 PVA Lucius Anderson has been reelected Mayor of Eddy without opposition. 72 votes were cast.

1897-04-09 PVA Re: The most popular excursion now is to Lake Avalon to use Capt. Kinder’s boats. The most popular longer excursion is to McKittrick Cave.

1897-04-10 EC The farmers lose the use of year-long ditch water diversions for their cattle. (Up to this point water had remained in the Main Canal year round, except for an occasional cleaning, and the farmers all had little streams running from the nearest ditch to their barnyards.)

1897-04-16 PVA The Pecos Railroad Construction & Land Company has been incorporated to take the Pecos Valley Railroad northeast from Roswell.

1897-04-17 EC C.W.Greene Jr has moved to El Paso.

1897-04-24 EC D.Clark is hauling bat guano to Roswell for G.O.Faulkner’s celery farm.

1897-04-30 PVA A local chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union has been reorganized in Eddy with 17 members. (It quickly became a significant force in the town’s fights with the saloons.)

1897-04-30 PVA This week’s rains washed out the railway at several places, but it was quickly repaired.

1897-05-01 EC The El Paso killers of Martin M’Rose have been acquitted in short order.

1897-05-03 The Research Circle has its first meeting. It will later become the Literary Club 15 Feb 1898 and then the Women’s Club 03 May 1904. It begins as solely a group of Episcopal women meeting under the leadership, soon, of Jennie Pratt.

1897-05-07 PVA The bonds to build a military institute at Roswell have been sold.

1897-05-07 PVA The outlaw Black Jack is said to have been killed at Clifton AZ.

1897-05-08 EC Black Jack, ne Tom Ketchum, is said to have been killed in Arizona.

1897-05-14 PVA The Klasners have been acquitted of killing Buck Gyse, but Ad Casey has Been sentenced to 15 years in the Penitentiary for the killing.

1897-05-15 EC Frederick Hodsoll is going on a visit to Michigan, and then expects to move back to England.

1897-05-15 EC The black porter William Jones and Miss C.Riggs have married.

1897-05-15 EC S.L.Ogle has moved back to Texas. W.W.Ogle will also move there on the 1st of September.

1897-05-21 PVA John Franklin has sold his residence at Halagueno and McKay to Mrs.Les Dow. (This will later become the Flowers home.)

1897-06-04 PVA A new and better Dark Canyon spillway has been constructed to deal with the major damages caused in the floods of Oct 1896.

1897-06-05 EC A petition is protesting the hiring of a lady principal for the Brick School.

1897-06-11 PVA Mr & Mrs Jake Owen have a new daughter.

1897-06-11 PVA A.T.Windham and W.H.Angell have combined their 2 Livery Stables.

1897-06-11 PVA Miguel A.Otero has been appointed Governor of the New Mexico Territory.

1897-06-19 EC The Pecos Valley & Northeastern Railroad has been incorporated by Mr. Hagerman to extend the railroad from Roswell.

1897-07-02 PVA Joyce-Pruit is busy moving to its new location at 125 South Canyon.

1897-07-02 PVA The Jim Miller trial for murder moved to Eastland TX has ended in a hung jury.

1897-07-03 EC One tenth of the sugar beets in the fields have been damaged by bugs.

1897-07-03 EC The Hagerman/Windsor Hotel is finally to get a bar. A new deed has been accepted by the Court that has no alcohol sales exclusion clause.

1897-07-09 PVA The Rhinboldt Brothers have built a small cannery for tomatos on their farm five miles south of Miller Siding.

1897-07-10 EC Amos Smith’s Drug Store has moved to the north end of the new Pierce Building. (Very briefly.)

1897-07-23 PVA E.McQueen Gray’s long narrative poem “Rio Pecos, Pecos River” is printed in full.

1897-07-24 EC A vandal has broken all of the front windows of Jewish merchant Joe Hayman’s Store.

1897-07-30 PVA Mrs Virgil Lusk (36) of Clayton Wells Ranch dies at the Windsor Hotel. She leaves a husband and six small sons.

1897-08-07 EC Re: Not a single farmer has ever been able to meet his payments off of the product of forty acres here.

1897-08-07 EC The Silver King has been auctioned off in Phenix. It was bought by William Woerner, their six year employee.

1897-08-13 PVA Grape shipments are being made from Eddy almost every day.

1897-08-20 PVA Mr & Mrs G.W.Witt have a new daughter, born at Lucius Anderson’s Hospital.

1897-08-20 PVA Dr Amos Smith has purchased the Bronson Building (On the south side of 200 West Fox.)

1897-08-20 PVA Only Capt.Kinder’s sailboat will remain at Lake Avalon.

1897-08-20 PVA Harry Bennett, past Phenix saloon keeper , has died at San Antonio TX.

1897-08-21 EC The Town Board has agreed to grant liquor licenses inside Eddy. (They had decided that having uncontrolled Phenix just outside of town was far worse.)

1897-08-25 The Sugar Beet Factory’s second season begins.

1897-08-27 PVA C.W.Cowden has purchased the C.M.McLean store, as well as the McLean brick home in Rio Vista. (The Rio Vista area was in the 1000 block of North Guadalupe Street.)

1897-08-27 PVA Last night three masked men cut off the long hair of a man on South Canyon. (This may refer to a Chinaman.)

1897-09-03 PVA The A.S.Goetz family has rented the Ash Hawkins house at 206 North Canyon.

1897-09-04 EC Bruce Jones, 19, had a son on Aug 19th. (This is treated as a birth to an unusually young married man.)

1897-09-04 EC The Mexican Community is going to put on three night performances, in costume, of “Los Pastores” at the Opera House to raise money for St.Edwards Church.

1897-09-07 Charles W.Beeman marries Miss Julia Cook at Lookout NM.

1897-09-11 EC I.S.Osborne is particularly proud of his Lovers Lane on Lea Street.

1897-09-17 PVA I.S.Osborne has shipped, en toto, 800 to 1000 crates of grapes.

1897-09-17 PVA Constable Harkey has arrested W.F.Baker and R.L.Wilson of the BonTon Meat Market for cattle stealing. He dug up several buried hides.

1897-09-18 EC The basement of the Brick School contains about three feet of water—but the Board of Education says it is just running through.

1897-09-18 EC Fifty pounds of Kuykentall tomatos are shipped out of Eddy each day.

1897-09-27 Mrs Rome Ohnemus, Sadie, dies at 25 of consumption.

1897-10-01 PVA L.O.Fullen, the Argus Manager, has been named Post Master.

1897-10-01 PVA Miss Jennie Pratt has been elected President of the women’s Research Circle .

1897-10-02 EC Dave Kemp’s attempt to lease the Windsor Hotel has fallen through.

1897-10-08 PVA The WCTU has ordered a bronze water fountain for the street in front of 126 South Canyon. (The location of one of the town’s new saloons.)

1897-10-08 PVA The Pecos Valley Railroad is building a large stock pen at Lakeview Siding (just east of Lake Avalon.)

1897-10-09 EC Photographer R.Butler is back (briefly.)

1897-10-10 The Pecos Valley Railroad discontinues its Sunday train.

1897-10-15 PVA H.P.Brown has been sentenced to one year in the Penitentiary for embezzlement and fined $17,537. Re: a petition to Governor Otero asking him to pardon Brown “signed by almost everyone in the business community.”

1897-10-16 EC Question: Why are all White persons acquitted here, and all Mexicans found guilty?

1897-10-16 EC The Roberts Brothers Store will go out of business at once.

1897-10-16 EC A Grand Jury has indicted Dave Kemp and Will Kennon for the killing of Les Dow.

1897-10-16 EC Drugists Amos Smith and T.F.Blackmore have been true-billed for selling liquor without a license.

1897-10-22 PVA U.R.Christman is found guilty of stealing a calf from R.S.Benson. He gets 3 years in the Penitentiary. “The first conviction for cattle stealing, ever, in Eddy County.” (The standing joke had been that any jury you impaneled in Eddy County would have at least 3 members who had done the same thing, themselves, when younger.)

1897-10-22 PVA Dave Kemp has been charged with contempt for intimidation of the witness Bruce Jones in the Wallie Bush/Horgan cattle theft case. He gets a $25 fine and 60 days in jail. Bush and Horgan are also found guilty. Both get one year in the Pen.

1897-10-22 PVA The Dow murder trial has been shifted to Chavez County.

1897-10-23 EC Augustin Lerma, found guilty of the “Arab Peddlers” murders in 1894, has been released from jail. The Judge has ruled that there was no proper instruction to the jury at the trial. Re: Lerma did not want to leave the jail. It has been providing him with free room and board.

1897-10-29 PVA Tranquilino Espejo is found not guilty of killing Argyle Rhodes.

1897-11-05 PVA Re: Capt Kinder’s sail boat at Lake Avalon is named “Lady of the Lake”

1897-11-05 PVA W.A.Kerr, “the jolly grocer” has leased the Hotel Windsor.

1897-11-06 EC The Robert W.Tansills are here for the winter.

1897-11-11 The Sugar Beet Factory’s processing season begins.

1897-11-12 PVA Fred E.Bryant has married Minnie Parker. The couple will live in the Ellice home in La Huerta.

1897-11-19 PVA A petition has successfully gotten Dave Kemp released from jail after 26 days.

1897-11-19 PVA Little Clabe Merchant recently got into a knife fight with Hal Herring at a Blue Springs roundup.

1897-11-26 PVA A Baptist Church has been organized in Florence. (Actually, they just moved the defunct Lookout Baptist Church charter to Florence.)

1897-12-03 PVA The WCTU drinking fountain has arrived.

1897-12-10 PVA Bishop Kendrick has given Episcopal Confirmation to Mrs F.C.Tracy, Mrs F.G.Bryant, Miss Clark, and Marie Rayroux.

1897-12-17 PVA The WCTU fountain is in place.

1897-12-17 PVA Cab Conway (36) has died of heart disease at Silver City NM.

1897-12-18 EC W.Welch has married Miss Livingston at the Upper Dark Canyon ranch home of Morgan Livingston.

1897-12-22 The Hospital Association of Eddy County sets up Articles of Incorporation.(These are published in the Argus on 07 Jan 1898.)

1897-12-24 PVA A.L.Douglass has sold his Blacksmith Shop to Ohnemus & Kircher. (They will rename it the O.K.Blacksmith Shop.)

1897-12-24 PVA A.J.Crawford of Midland TX has visited Eddy for the first time. He is erecting sheep corrals near the Sugar Beet Factory. He has contracted for 2,500 tons of their pulp to be used as sheep feed.

1897-12-25 EC The “Current” states its opposition to drift fences.

1898 In 1898 Mr Hagerman had to sell his Cripple Creek gold mine, the “Isabelle”, at a loss to cover his Pecos Valley financial problems.

1898 In 1898 the Ed Middletons, the Queens, and the McCollaums all moved into the Guadalupes.

1898 In 1898 William T.Reed Jr, (Charles Greene’s step-son) became the owner-editor of the Pecos Valley Argus—which he will run until 15 Feb 1924.

1898 In 1898 Duggan Rickman and Fred West moved to Eddy.

1898 In 1898 Ned and Sallie Shattuck homesteaded on Roberson Draw in the Guadalupes.

1898 By 1898 there were 200,000 acres under ditch in the Lower Pecos Valley, but only 12,500 acres under cultivation.

1898 In 1898 Eddy was in the midst of the doldrums, as many of its inhabitants continued to look elsewhere for better opportunities.

1898 In 1898 U.S.Department of Agriculture Specialist Thomas Means was brought here to discover why productivity was now so low on the area’s alfalfa fields. He explained that it was due to a root disease caused by over-irrigation with the highly mineralized waters that were being produced by evaporation in our reservoirs. He recommended a much wider use of animal fertilizers, and the use of deep-plowing.

1898-01-01 EC Re: Dozens of people from Eddy are loafing around El Paso, unable to find jobs.

1898-01-07 PVA Territorial Governor Otero has extended a pardon to Henry P.Brown.

1898-01-07 PVA This year’s sugar beet processing campaign is practically over—a very short campaign. Re: It has been an off-year for sugar beets all across the country.

1898-01-08 EC The Eddy County Hospital Association has been organized out of the remains of The Eddy Hospital Association.

1898-01-14 PVA Calves and sheep are both selling at an all-time high in Eddy.

1898-01-14 PVA Dee Harkey and Trav Windham have gone to Eastland TX to testify in the Jim Miller case—who is charged with killing Bud Frazier at Toyah.

1898-01-15 EC Munroe Kerr and Mattie King have married at Van Horn TX.

1898-01-21 PVA Amos Smith has moved his Pecos Valley Drug Store from the Pierce Building to the east end of his own building across the street to the south. The Post Office and the Eddy Drug are moving from the Smith Block to the Pierce Building.

1898-01-28 PVA Jim Miller has been acquitted in Eastland.

1898-01-28 PVA A.J.Crawford is building more corrals. The pulp-feeding experiment has proved a success.

1898-02-03 The Eddy County Hospital has incorporated. The Mann residence at 314 North Halagueno has been turned into a 4-room Hospital. (About 1900 this Hospital will shift to a 2-story frame building on the alley at 508 West Greene.)

1898-02-04 PVA A long article on the sulphur deposits near Guadalupe TX.

1898-02-04 PVA The Woodmen of the World have organized in Eddy.

1898-02-05 EC Re: Eddy has the only Ice Factory and Electricity Plant in the valley.

1898-02-05 EC Mayor Lucius.Anderson and several others are headed for the Klondike Gold Fields.

1898-02-11 PVA A.T.Windham has purchased the T.F.Blackman Transfer Business. (In today’s terms, a Moving Business.)

1898-02-11 PVA A recent enumeration shows Eddy County to have 85,000 cattle and 100,000 sheep.

1898-02-12 EC The Post Office moved today from the Smith Block to the north room of the Pierce Building where it will be with Eddy Drug.

1898-02-18 PVA Mrs.Mann will be in charge of the new Hospital at 314 North Halagueno.

1898-02-18 PVA Miss Willie Jones has wed J.M.Summey at her parents place, the William Jones. (All are African-American)

1898-02-18 PVA The Knights of Pythias and the Masons have given Mayor Anderson and W.S. Knowles a farewell banquet. Half a dozen men have already left for the Klondike.

1898-02-18 PVA The Research Circle has been renamed the Literary Club.

1898.-02-19 EC Yesterday the U.S.Battleship Maine was blown-up in Havana Harbor.

1898-02-19 EC U.S.Bateman will be the Mayor Pro Tem in the absence of Mayor Anderson.

1898-02-19 EC Re: Eddy has a mill at the Power Dam which grinds corn meal, graham, and all kinds of feed—at 500 bushels a day. (It does not make flour, however.)

1898-02-19 EC W.H.Slaughter and wife have moved to Jerome AZ

1898-02-19 EC Mr C.W.Cowden has purchased the stone residence of Mr Church (in Rio Vista?).

1898-02-25 PVA A reprint of the Jim Miller defense of his killing of Bud Frazier. (From the Pecos TX paper?)

1898-02-25 PVA Mrs Peter Corn (32) has died at Seven Rivers.

1898-02-25 PVA Rom Ohnemus and Miss Lulu Johnson married on the 20th.

1898-02-25 PVA E.McQueen Gray has self-published a book of poems: “The Alamo and Other Verses”.

1898-02-25 PVA Eddy is to have a saloon. W.Barfield will be allowed to move a Phenix building to a lot south of Hotel Windsor—to be called The Green Tree Saloon. (The ads call this the Barfield & Cantrell saloon.)

1898-02-25 PVA August Rayroux has purchased a 10-acre tract in La Huerta (above the canal at the north end of today’s Sandy Lane.)

1898-02-25 PVA George Wardman of Pittsburg has purchased the McMillan Place (Coyote Lodge) in La Huerta. Fifteen acres and all the furnishings for $5,250.

1898-02-26 EC Dee Harkey is presently working for the Cattlemen’s Association.

1898-03-04 PVA Mr Wardman will continue the name of Coyote Lodge.

1898-03-05 EC Eddy County will have no Court session this term. All of the money is needed in Roswell for the Dave Kemp trial.

1898-03-05 EC Tom Gray has purchased the Fennessey property in Rio Vista. He has already moved in.

1898-03-05 EC A heavy freeze has killed most of the peach blossoms.

1898-03-05 EC W.F.Cochran has found a fine spring in Devil’s Den in the Guadalupes that the Indians had covered over to hide.

1898-03-05 EC Last week Henry Jones and Henry Lemons fought at Seven Rivers—rock vs pistol.

1898-03-05 EC Eddy has opened the first office in New Mexico for enlisting volunteers for the War with Spain.

1898-03-11 PVA James J.Dolan has died at Lincoln.

1898-03-11 PVA The Green Tree Saloon has opened.

1898-03-11 PVA Mrs C.H.McLenathen has become the owner of the Dominice property in La Huerta.

1898-03-18 PVA The Argus begs everyone to raise sugar beets—even on vacant town lots.

1898-03-19 EC Two Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy are in town to consider Eddy for a School for Girls.

1898-03-21 The Kemp trial for the murder of Les Dow begins in Roswell.

1898-03-25 PVA Emiel Skeats warns that you must continue to add nitrogen to the local soil to grow sugar beets. (That is what potash does, but potash is going to show up here 25 years

too late for the sugar beets.)

1898-03-26 EC Heavy freezes are destroying the peach crop.

1898-03-30 Dave Kemp and Will Kennon are acquitted of Les Dow’s murder in the RoswellCourt.

1898-04-08 PVA R.G.Stegman of Miller (Sally Chism’s 2nd husband) has purchased Eddy’s Electric Light Plant.

1898-04-08 PVA N.Cunningham has been elected the Mayor of Eddy. There was no opposition, and only 49 votes were cast.

1898-04-09 EC Annie R.Ward has sued John Lucas for breach of promise. Her father, L.T.Ward, has sued him for seduction.

1898-04-10 Dave Kemp marries Mrs Mary Asbury.

1898-04-11 The contract is let for the extension of the railroad northeast from Roswell.

1898-04-15 PVA August Uihlein of Milwaukee has bought the Hotel Windsor. (He is one of the major Sugar Beet Factory investors here.)

1898-04-15 PVA A.J.Crawford has acquired 360 acres of Greene’s property along the south side of Lea Street.

1898-04-15 PVA N.Cunningham, it turns out, cannot be Mayor. He is already on the County Commission. The Town Trustees put J.E.Laverty back in as Mayor.

1898-04-16 EC First reference to a “Mexican Settlement” across the canal south of Otis. (This will eventually become known as Cuba.)

1898-04-18 Phil Kircher marries Mary Ohnemus.

1898-04-22 PVA The Pecos Valley Railroad has been purchased by the Pecos Valley and Northeastern Railroad for $1,500.

1898-04-29 PVA Professor Foex has shifted to NMMI at Roswell.

1898-05 The Alonzo and Jesse Kilgore families homestead Soldier Spring in the Guadalupes.

1898-05-07 EC The McLenathens have moved to the Dominice place which she recently purchased.

1898-05-10 William Galton of Francis marries Miss Minaude Wilson of Otis.

1898-05-13 The Daniel Beach family arrives in the valley. They spend the first winter camped at Blue Spring before building a small house beside Black River south of the Julian Smith homestead.

1898-05-13 PVA Buck Anderson has bought the McLenathen place in La Huerta (at the southwest corner of Canal and Orchard Lane.) Five acres for $1,000.

1898-05-20 PVA Francis Tracy is representing the Swiss capital investors here.

1898-05-27 PVA Deputy Sheriff Bud Johnson has been killed by L.E.Pratt at Hope.

1898-05-27 PVA Last week Walter Thayer bought the F.E.Downs 280 acre place in Upper Dark Canyon. He will water a small orchard.

1898-05-27 PVA Mr Hagerman and the (Swiss) bondholders have reached an agreement in New York City. (He will receive the northern properties of the old Pecos Valley Company in the Roswell area, they will receive the southern properties in the area around Eddy.)

1898-05-28 EC Yesterday Thomas Roger hanged himself from a cottonwood north of the school, on Halagueno Street.

1898-06-03 PVA Sheriff Cicero Stewart and Constable Harkey pursue Estebar Ruiz at Phenix--on their bicycles.

1898-06-03 PVA Capt Kinder is leaving—but 16 citizens have bought the sail boat.

1898-06-04 EC Tom Fletcher and John Eaker have bought the deLentulus farm near Malaga.

1898-06-10 PVA The widow of Les Dow has married Frank Rheinboldt.

1898-06-10 PVA J.E.Laverty has resigned as Mayor. The Town Trustees have chosen M.J.Murray as his replacement.

1898-06-10 PVA The remains of Denton Robertson have been discovered in his burnt-out hut a few miles west of Eddy.

1898-06-11 EC The Eddy Railroad Shops (and the turntable) are being moved by Mr Hagerman to Roswell.

1898-06-15 The Eddy Brothers’ El Paso & Northeastern Railroad reaches the newtownsite of Alamogordo (which the Eddy Brothers founded.)

1898-06-17 PVA The Windsor Hotel has been renamed. It is now The Schlitz Hotel.

(It was the Schlitz Brewing Company that had brought in the Sugar Beet Factory—which had previously gone bankrupt in Canada.)

1898-06-18 EC Judge Green says Alamogordo has so many people from Eddy that it looks like that town is Eddy, itself.

1898-06-24 PVA “Ten acres is enough under irrigation.” (Some people never learn.)

1898-06-24 PVA Capt Curry of Roswell (who created this area’s Rough Riders group) is stuck with his men at the port of Tampa. (They never reach Cuba.)

1898-06-24 PVA Augustin Lerma has now killed Senior Marianna in a Phenix brothel.

1898-07-01 PVA Kemp & Woerner are moving their Central Saloon into the previous Post Office location in the Bronson (now Smith) Block. (Kemp shot Dow in front of this location.)

1898-07-02 EC Cicero Stewart has announced as a candidate for Sheriff.

1898-07-04 Eddy has a 4th of July Rodeo. Dee Harkey later says that Will Rogers,area cowboy, participated in this rodeo. (He is not mentioned in thenewspaper coverage, but only a few figures are.)

1898-07-08 PVA Constable Harkey arrests Dave Kemp for illegally carrying a firearm. (Dee Harkey will later say that, at his insistence, Dave Kemp agrees to leave Eddy at this time.)

1898-07-09 EC Frank Jones has married Maggie Campbell at Seven Rivers.

1898-07-09 EC The Town Council has passed an ordinance permitting gambling at the Kemp & Woerner saloon.

1898-07-15 PVA H.J.Hammond has opened the Bank of Eddy in the old National Bank Building. (The Bank of Eddy is never mentioned again.)

1898-07-15 PVA Patty’s Warehouse (which had been Tansill’s Opera House) is being moved from 102 North Main to the Sugar Beet Factory for storage use.

1898-07-16 EC Clyde Emerson has leased the Tansill Building’s first floor south room for an Opera House.

1898-07-16 EC The Swiss Bond Holders have agreed to a reorganization of the PI & I Co.

1898-07-20 The Walter Thayer family moves from Rocky Arroyo to the X-Bar in Dark Canyon, which they have purchased from Frank Downs for $1,200.

1898-07-23 EC The Swiss Bond Holders have chosen Robert Tansill as the receiver for the New PI & I Co.

1898-07-23 EC Pat Garrett and posse have had a shootout with Oliver Lee and Jim Gilliland near Alamogordo. Deputy Kearny was killed.

1898-07-29 PVA The north end of the wooden flume went out on the 21st of July. (There was, again, no mention of high water at this time.)

1898-08-05 PVA Fred Nymeyer is moving to Alamogordo.

1898-08-12 PVA The Joe H.James family has moved here from Midland. They are living in the Van Doren home in La Huerta. (At Canal & Cherry Lane.) (They purchase the old Joe Nash ranch 26 miles east of Eddy.)

1898-08-13 EC The new Opera House will seat 300 people. The stage is elevated three feet.

1898-09-03 EC (Little) Clabe Merchant of Black River has completed a fine residence there. He recently had a big house warming.

1898-09-03 EC Re: The break in the flume hurt this year’s sugar beet crop.

1898-09-16 PVA A.J.Crawford has returned to town with a bride. His brother, L.S.Crawford, also newly married, has moved here as well.

1898-09-16 PVA Eddy has an outstanding exhibit at the Omaha Trans-Mississippi Exposition.

1898-09-17 EC The citizens of San Jose celebrated Diez y Seis with a mimic bull fight and numerous kinds of games.

1898-09-23 PVA The Mexican suburb here is named San Juan. (The Argus is wrong about that.)

1898-09-23 PVA Yee Bo is closing his E.K.Restaurant to move back to China.

1898-09-24 EC 1898 has been the valley’s rainiest year in years.

1898-09-24 EC Yee Bo is returning to China with $15,000.

1898-09-24 EC People are calling the new town of Alamogordo “Eddymogordo”

1898-09-30 PVA Eddy now has a 12-member Brass Band.

1898-10-01 EC S.A.Nelson has 9 acres of celery at Seven Rivers that is doing well.

1898-10-07 PVA Fred Nymeyer has resigned as Eddy County School Superintendent.

1898-10-08 EC Blackmore’s new store, the “Fair”, is immediately south of the Green Tree Saloon.

1898-10-08 EC F.W.Rankin has bought the Ice Plant from the Pecos Valley Trust and will move it to Roswell.

1898-10-14 PVA Robert Weems Tansill has gained the title of “The Great American Invalid”

1898-10-14 PVA Elfego Baca is here as interpreter for the Court.

1898-10-14 PVA The Tansill Block skating rink is open Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays.

1898-10-15 EC Dr Amos Smith has taken out a saloon license and has opened up a club room at the back of his Drug Store.

1898-10-21 PVA Augustin Lerma has received 20 years in the Penitentiary for the killing of Mariana.

1898-10-21 PVA Eddy Postal Clerk Martini Mancini has accepted an NMMI teaching position in Roswell.

1898-10-28 PVA All the skates fell apart, so the skating rink has gone out of business.

1898-10-28 PVA The Grand Jury says the Court House is in bad need of repair—Re: big cracks in the tower. (With local brick being of such poor quality, virtually all of the buildings built with them soon developed major cracks. Many ultimately had to be condemned and torn down.)

1898-11-04 PVA J.H.Ayers and family of Texas have moved to Malaga.

1898-11-04 PVA W.J.Barber has purchased the very handsome R.H.Pierce residence at 201 North Alameda.

1898-11-05 EC Re: One man estimates that 1,000 Eddyites are now in the Alamogordo area.

1898-11-05 EC The Sugar Beet Factory’s new processing season has opened.

1898-11-05 EC At this point Alamogordo has only 12 houses.

1898-11-11 PVA Jerome Edwards has married Jennie Slaughter, sister of Mrs George Lucas and Mrs William Bush.

1898-11-18 PVA The ladies Literary Club plans to open a Library in the rear of the McLenathen & Tracy Building.

1898-11-18 PVA The “Argus” has moved to a new location in the first floor south room of the Bank Building. (203 South Canal.)

1898-12 The first Christmas Cards arrive at Eddy.

1898-12-02 PVA Henri Gaullier has died in New York City.

1898-12-03 EC Photographer Pool now lives at Anson TX.

1898-12-09 PVA The Black River Flume is to be abandoned. A diversion dam will be put in one-fourth mile down river.

1898-12-09 PVA J.H.Ayers has bought a 40 acre farm outside Malaga.

1898-12-17 EC The Lower Greene Farm (one mile south of Otis), at mortgage sale, has gone to James John Hagerman for $9,700.

1898-12-23 PVA S.I.Roberts has a new son and heir. (The arrival of Gene.)

1898-12-23 PVA Aniseto Baisa, “the only Mexican resident of La Huerta”, has a new son.

1899 In 1899 Livestock shipments from the South Y cattle pens reached 400 cars per week during the season.

1899 In 1899 the Willard Bates family moved into the Carlsbad area.

1899 In 1899 the Grammar family arrived, first living briefly near Queen, and then shifting to Walnut Canyon—where they lived for 16 years in a tent and a cave.

1899 In 1899 land sales in the Pecos Valley again picked up—following the connection of the railroad to Amarillo.

1899 In 1899, shortly after the railroad reached Amarillo, James John Hagerman went bankrupt. He later retired to his South Spring residence.

1899-01-07 EC $50,000 worth of equipment has been placed in the (open-pit) sulphur mine at Guadlupe TX.

1899-01-20 PVA D.W.Gerhart has leased the Hotel Windsor for a year.

1899-01-20 PVA Henceforth, water will be cut out of the canals during the off-season.

1899-01-21 EC Editor Mullane has begun his 2-story business block at the northeast corner of Canyon and Fox.

1899-01-28 EC Otero County has been created, largely through the efforts of Ash Hawkins.

1899-02-03 PVA The third campaign of the Sugar Beet Factory has ended.

1899-02-11 EC The Pecos Valley & Northeastern Railroad has been completed to Amarillo. Mr Hagerman drives a golden stake in Amarillo to celebrate the occasion.

1899-02-11 EC The Gerhart Packing House (at 227 South Canyon) this week turned out its first cured meats.

1899-02-15 John Queen and Frances Plowman marry at the Plowman ranch on Black River.

1899-02-17 PVA Mr & Mrs Hagerman plan to be in Eddy for a long time on this visit. He badly needs a rest.

1899-02-24 PVA Eddy has hit one degree above zero.

1899-02-24 PVA Buck Anderson is making extensive alterations to his place in La Huerta.

1899-02-24 PVA A “genuine nigger minstrel show” plays to a packed house at the Tansill Opera House.

1899-02-24 PVA Pecos Valley cattle can now reach Kansas City in 38 hours. (848 miles.) (Before the connection to Amarillo our trains had to first move south to Pecos—a detour that usually meant an added expense of 3 extra days on the road to the Kansas City stockyards—or any other major markets for our various farm and orchard products, most of which spoiled on the road.)

1899-02-24 PVA Jack Brogden has gotten a fine artesian water well near Seven Rivers (the first one to come in so far south.)

1899-03-03 PVA High winds have blown down the old windmill and tower at Bolles Farm.

1899-03-03 PVA The Eddy Schools have closed for the year (after a 6-month term.)

1899-03-03 PVA Dee Harkey has bought 160 acres from Emily Carpenter on Black River. (She had discovered that the William Cass homestead was not properly recorded in Santa Fe, and had acquired possession of the Cass homestead.)

1899-03-03 PVA The “El Paso Times” is seriously advocating a new state made up of West Texas and Southern New Mexico.

1899-03-03 PVA Seth Mills, long-time Dark Canyon water wagon driver, has sold his business to Thomas Ezell.

1899-03-04 EC Re: There must be 3,000 acres of sugar beet production for the Factory to prosper. At present there are only 2.000 acres.

1899-03-04 EC Our Beet Sugar Factory is the greatest manufacturing institution in the Territory of New Mexico.

1899-03-04 EC The PI & I Co will now charge in-town property owners for watering their cottonwood trees.

1899-03-10 PVA The Phenix calaboose has been moved back to Eddy.

1899-03-10 PVA Uncle Bob Gilbert has sold his historic Penasco ranch (and long-time stage stop) To Will Marabel and Green Cardway.

1899-03-10 PVA The Greene Park section adjoining town (at today’s Boyd Drive and Lea) will be sown to alfalfa.

1899-03-10 PVA Irv Osborne is building a brick building 2 lots north of Gerhart’s to be occupied by Fred Brown’s Blacksmith Shop.

1899-03-11 EC Dee Harkey brings in a live beaver caught at his new place on Black River.

1899-03-11 EC Barfield & Cantrell will erect a new building just south of Carle’s Bakery at 124 South Canyon.

1899-03-17 PVA The Gerhart Packing House has been destroyed by fire. (This was the end of the original Pennebaker-Joyce building at the northwest corner of Greene & Canyon.)

1899-03-18 EC Only one floor of the Mulane Building will be built at this time.

1899-03-18 EC Re:Bitting’s Bank and Store are three doors south of Hotel Windslor.

1899-03-18 EC Oliver Lee and Gililand have surrendered to Judge Parker of Las Cruces.

1899-03-24 PVA The U.S.Department of Agriculture will map the valley’s distribution of alkali and of seepage water in a study of our major drainage problems.

(The 1899 Soil Survey, by P.E.Harroun, states that there are already many abandoned farms in the area, ruined by salty water—that gets noticeably saltier south of Roswell --and waterlogging from canal seepage.. He states that the valley has a great deal of poor gypsum soil, short in phosphates, and that sugar beets and alfalfa have not done well due to root rot. Also, that attempts at fruit raising, truck farming and grapes have all failed, partly because of the lower valley’s late Spring frosts.)

1899-03-24 PVA Eugene Wuesthoff of Milwaukee plans to put in a 2-story brick building just north Of Blackmore’s Drug.

1899-03-25 EC The first local ad for bottled Carlsbad Spring Water—available at Gambles. (The

name was chosen by the Tansills, who owned the spring, and who had been told that the waters were very similar to those at the famous spa of Karlsbad, Austria.)

1899-03-31 PVA The Hotel Windsor has officially become the Hotel Schlitz.

1899-03-31 PVA Capt W.C.Mann has died at Clayton NM.

1899-04-01 EC M.J.Murray has been elected Mayor.

1899-04-07 PVA “The future of Eddy is brighter now than ever before in its history.”

1899-04-14 PVA The W.P.Mudgetts of Odessa have acquired a ranch here.

1899-04-14 PVA The Hotel Schlitz is currently so full it is putting cots in the parlor.

1899-04-14 PVA Shiner & Hargus have opened the Pecos Valley Hotel, a first class dollar hotel.

1899-04-14 PVA The sulphur mine near Guadalupe will close. They have run out or ore.

1899-04-14 PVA The Railroad has shut off the water to the WCTU fountain—it was being abused by herders bringing in livestock to water there in the dead of night.

1899-04-14 PVA W.G.Cass has killed J.H.Carpenter near Old Lookout.

1899-04-14 PVA Re: The “sensational” trial of Mrs Claud Osavey (the traveling companion of Bill Washington on his first visit to the valley) charging Emmett Yates with assault. (She is Native-American, and he makes the assumption that she is a prostitute.)

1899-04-15 CC The Eddy Brothers have laid out Tularosa townsite.

1899-04-21 PVA Re: the new Black River diversion dam is in place.

1899-04-21 PVA There has been a serious washout of the railroad just north of Pecos TX.

1899-04-21 PVA The PV&NE Railroad plans to erect stock yards and loading pens about one half mile below Phenix (at the South Y)

1899-04-22 CC The SeBe Jones family (a play on his C.B.initials) has moved to Eddy from Texas.

1899-04-28 PVA A special meeting has called for a May 23rd vote on whether Eddy should change its name to Carlsbad as well, joining the Spring.

1899-04-28 PVA Mrs McLenathen, in very poor health, has left for Berkley CA.

1899-04-28 PVA Water is being turned back into the WCTU fountain, but only during the daytime.

1899-04-28 PVA J.S.Crozier is moving away from Eddy.

1899-04-28 PVA The Mullane Building is getting its second story.

1899-05-01 Due to “internal dissention” the old Volunteer Fire Department has been disbandedand a new Volunteer Fire Department formed with Rome Ohnemus as Chief. It has22 members. (Ohnemus will be Chief for 19 of the next 33 years.)

1899-05-03 Fr Herman Kempker dies here.

1899-05-03 The Wells Fargo Express opens an office here.

1899-05-05 PVA Four horse thieves caught by Stewart, Harkey and Clark near St Augustine Pass are thought to be Tom Ketchum, Varlay Musgrave, Dan Johnson and Sam Morrow. (One does actually turn out to be Jim Nite of the Bill Dalton Gang.)

1899-05-05 PVA E.S.Motter, Trustee, has bought the Northern Canal near Roswell at auction for $47,700.

1899-05-05 PVA Two Mormon missionaries visit, including Elder Walter Cluff. This is treated as a very unusual event for Eddy, so it may be the first such visit.

1899-05-05 PVA Mrs Miles Stone has been killed in a run-away accident at Florence.

1899-05-06 CC A Post Office has been created at Miller Siding, but it has been named Stegman since New Mexico Territory already has a town named Miller.

1899-05-12 PVA Judge Leland refuses to allow further prosecution here under the Edmunds Act. He says it is being used for personal spite.

1899-05-12 PVA W.A.Kerr has moved to Alamogordo.

1899-05-12 PVA Mrs Nannie Robb dies at 52. The first local member of the Methodist Congregation, she is given a huge funeral by her fellow members.

1899-05-13 EC Ed Bass has sold his Black River place to the Bell Brothers of Midland.

1899-05-19 PVA “Eddy is destined to be famous as a Spa.”

1899-05-19 PVA Re: Prairie schooners from Texas pass through here regularly.

1899-05-19 PVA Barfield and Mullane are presently building at 128 South Canyon. (The Barfield Saloon will go into the north room of the Mullane Building.) Barfield will soon start another building on the next lot north, as well, for the Sumney Barbershop.

1899-05-23 By a vote of 83 to 43 the name of Eddy is changed to Carlsbad. (It was later said by the Tansills that this was done to placate Mr Hagerman, who had come to hate the Eddy name as much as he had come to hate Charles B.Eddy, himself.) There is a victory parade across the new bridge into La Huerta.

1899-05-26 PVA Partners Parramore & (Big) Clabe Merchant arrive from Arizona with the first trainload of stock for the New Mexico San Simon. (Little Clabe, who had already been here for some time, was the nephew of Big Clabe—the son of Big Clabe’s twin brother.)

1899-05-26 PVA Dr Amos Smith has bought the next building south of his Drug Store—the old Cassigoli Brothers Store.)

1899-05-26 PVA Re: Eddy is the largest cattle shipping point in the Southwest.

1899-05-26 PVA The new town of Portales has been hit by gold fever.

1899-05-27 CC Re: It is now the ranchers who are running Carlsbad: They hold most of the positions on the Town Board, on the County Commission, and on the local School Board.

1899-06-02 PVA A bad PV&NE train wreck near Canyon TX has left Engineer J.P.Brown dead.

1899-06-02 PVA Over 1,700 acres of sugar beets have already been planted.

1899-06-02 PVA Aubrey Gist has purchased Sitting Bull Falls from Jim DeMoss. He is moving in Angora goats.

1899-06-02 PVA The Lee Gilliland trial is in progress at Hillsboro. The chief prosecution witness against the defendents was to have been Les Dow. (Lee and Gilliland are shortly acquitted--after only seven minutes of deliberation by the jury.)

1899-06-03 CC The “Eddy Current” is now the “Carlsbad Current”.

1899-06-03 CC Beet pulp has cost sheep feeders money every time they have tried it.

1899-06-09 PVA Frank Downs is visiting from his new home in Connecticutt.

1899-06-09 PVA A.G.Draper has resigned as Auditor of the PV&NE Railroad and has returned to Carlsbad. (The Drapers were living in Amarillo.)

1899-06-09 PVA W.L.Bobo of Galveston has been hired to teach here.

1899-06-09 PVA The Guadalupes ranchers have created a new log cabin school near the W.F. Cochran place.

1899-06-10 CC The caterpillar pest is once again desecrating the cottonwoods.

1899-06-10 CC The Green Tree Saloon has moved into new quarters.

1899-06-15 Louis O.Fullen becomes the new Carlsbad Post Master.

1899-06-16 PVA The foundation of the Wuesthoff Block is being laid. This fills the last gap, on either side of the street, between Fox & Mermod on Canyon.

1899-06-24 The first Rough Riders Reunion takes place at Las Vegas NM.

1899-06-30 PVA Re: Carl Carpenter of Lone Tree. (This referred to a small neighborhood of ranches four miles east of Carlsbad.)

1899-06-30 PVA J.M.Pardue is hauling rock for his new building on Canyon between Tracy & McEwan and B.T.Killough.

1899-06-30 PVA Sheriff Stuart and Deputy Clark deliver Jim Nite to the Texas Penitentiary, where he faces a 104 year sentence.

1899-06-30 PVA Sheriff Cicero Stuart has received a $600 reward for the capture of Nite.

1899-01-01 CC The “Carlsbad Current” begins to be published at the Mullane Building, 128 South Canyon.

1899-07-07 PVA Bill Mullane and D.J.Thomas have had a fight—which Thomas wins.

1899-07-07 PVA Nib Jones and W.F.Cochran had an altercation at the Chinese Restaurant.

1899-07-07 PVA Mail can now be sent to Carlsbad NM. It has become our official name.

1899-07-08 CC Jerome Edwards has left for Arizona.

1899-07-08 CC Iron rods will be used to strengthen the Court House walls.

1899-07-14 PVA Bill Edwards has gotten into a fight with Lincoln Freeman, which Edwards loses. Re: “he tanks up and fights frequently.”

1899-07-21 PVA The editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican” states that Bill Mullane “has been licked forty-levin times in six years.” “Some men are born to get licked, and others are born to do the licking.”

1899-07-21 PVA Five miles of railroad have been washed out near Arno TX.

1899-07-21 PVA The Round House crew has relocated to Roswell. The machinery will soon follow.

1899-07-21 PVA Dr F.F.Doepp, the cousin of A.S.Goetz who visited here 3 years ago, has gotten married in Chicago.

1899-07-22 CC Re: In the negotiations between the Swiss Bond Holders and Mr Hagerman we should have had enough sense to make sure that Mr Hagerman wound up with our end of the valley, not the Roswell end. (Re: all of the help he was now giving Roswell.)

1899-07-22 CC Tom Black Jack Ketchum has been captured during a failed attempt by his gang to rob the Cimarron train. (It was actually the train from Trinidad to Clayton.)

1899-07-28 PVA Yee Sing’s Laundry is being moved from just south of the McLenathen & Tracy office to the Eureka House on Main.

1899-07-29 CC The Territorial Board of Public Lands is now ready to lease the School Sections for five years.

1899-07-29 CC Witt & Roberts have been hired to put the bolts through the Court House. (After Judge Leeland announced that he would hold no more court sessions in Carlsbad until the building was strengthened.)

1899-07-29 CC Sam Ketchum (brother of Black Jack) has died in the Santa Fe Penitentiary from blood poisoning. (Both brothers were widely known here. They had been ranch hands in the Guadalupes.)

1899-07-29 CC Baker E.E.Carl has moved to California. The Odd Fellows will purchase his property (at 207 West Mermod.)

1899-08-02 The Eddy Missionary Baptist Church has voted to change its name to First Baptist Church. (The change will not actually occur until Feb 23, 1910.)

1899-08-04 PVA S.T.Bitting has bought the old Yee Sing Laundry site from John R.Joyce.

1899-08-04 PVA $1,000 has been raised by public subscription to make another attempt to find artesian water here—this time on the Vineyard Stock Farm.

1899-08-04 PVA J.W.Conway has arrived from Pecos TX. He will put a saloon in the north half of the new Wuesthoff Building next to the Schlitz Hotel.

1899-08-04 PVA The Osborne Building, which is also known as the City Hall & Fire Dept. Building, has been sold. The Fire Department must move.

1899-08-04 PVA The old Black River Flume, 50,000 feet of plank and timbers, is being demolished.

1899-08-05 CC The new name for the Barfield & Cantrell Saloon is the Carlsbad Saloon.

1899-08-05 CC J.M.Sumney (African-American) has purchased the Osborne Building presently being used as the City Hall. He will convert it to a restaurant and barber shop.

1899-08-11 PVA The death of Emma Hardcastle (11) has led to the suicide of her friend Beulah Bryant.

1899-08-11 PVA Jim Nite has been found guilty in Texas and sentenced to life in prison.

1899-08-12 CC The Town Council has rented the room over the Carlsbad Saloon for a City Hall.

1899-08-12 CC The waters from McMillan Dam Spillway are about to cut into the Seven Rivers Cemetery. Lee Turknett will help you move your family graves.

1899-08-18 PVA D.H.Lucas has purchased the Railroad Company’s handsome 2-story residence at 601 North Canal.

1899-08-18 PVA Sheriff Stewart has captured a member of the Ketchum Gang at Virgil Lusk’s tent 20 miles northeast of town. (Mack McGinnis was captured, but another gang member, Franks, got away.)

1899-08-18 PVA Mr Hagerman has received the Northern Canal from Receiver Robert Tansill, “and the thousands of acres appertaining thereto.”

1899-08-18 PVA The Bank of Carlsbad (which was the Joyce bank) has moved into the southern half of the Mullane Building. (For his newspaper office Mullane builds a one-story extension along Fox Street between the main building and the alley--which is still standing in 2009.)

1899-08-18 PVA Fred Von Piontkowsky has died of Yellow Fever in Mexico City. (While living and working in Eddy Piontkowski had chosen not to use his full name and title. Several men in the Swiss Colony made that same choice.)

1899-08-25 PVA Willow Lake is our choice fishing spot. A Fishing Club is being organized there. They have already erected a neat 20 feet by 12 feet building.

1899-08-25 PVA A hundred watch as Mack McGinnis is taken to the train for his trip to the Territorial Penitentiary.

1899-08-26 CC There is strong talk in certain quarters of changing the town’s name back to Eddy.

1899-08-26 CC Re: The Main Canal can only properly irrigate 10,000 acres. The PI&I Co should stop booming further land sales.

1899-08-26 CC Elfego Baca is here again as interpreter for the Court.

1899-09-01 PVA Sheriff Cicero Stewart went to Trinidad CO to help identify Tom Ketchum.

1899-09-01 PVA W.E.(Bill) Washington was in Carlsbad yesterday, having arrived from the Oklahoma Indian Territory.

1899-09-02 CC The “Current” says that while the “Argus” was recently booming a great week for the cattle and ranch industries here, “it was actually one of the most disasterous weeks for them in history.” (No explanation—but possibly related to a drift fence decision?)

1899-09-08 PVA The Satterwhite alfalfa farm near Hagerman, owned by C.G.Livingston, has been sold to W.E.Washington.

1899-09-08 PVA The repairs at the Court House have been completed by Witt and Roberts.

1899-09-08 PVA The receivers for the Eddy First National Bank have finally paid off depositors at 100%.

1899-09-09 CC People are still stealing water from the public fountain.

1899-09-09 CC The Board of Trustees has voted to repair City Hall—and to move the fire bell tower.

1899-09-09 CC Conway and Camp’s Parlor Saloon has opened in the Wuesthoff Building.

1899-09-15 PVA The Fire Department has resigned in a body in a dispute with the Town Trustees.

1899-09-15 PVA The Masonic Lodge has received its paraphernalia.

1899-09-15 PVA The Norman Crosby Library is being set up by the Ladies Literary Club. A Mr Palmer of Washington D.C. has donated 800 volumes.

1899-09-15 PVA Complaining witness Mrs Claud Osavey fails to appear in the case vs Amos Yates. The case is dismissed.

1899-09-16 CC The town now has four saloons.

1899-09-22 PVA Bruce Jones has been found guilty of larceny of cattle.

1899-09-22 PVA Jennie Edwards has sued for divorce from Jerome Edwards.

1899-09-22 PVA Tracy & McEwan Hardware is moving across the street into the south half of the Wuesthoff Building.

1899-09-22 PVA Dr F.G.Moehlau has been committed to the Territorial Asylum at La Vegas.

1899-09-22 PVA The Town Trustees have created a new Fire Department and Chief—who is now D.W.Gerhart.

1899-09-29 PVA Cass has been found not guilty in the murder of Carpenter on a plea of self defense. (William Cass and his family will now move to Lakewood because of continuing dispute over ownership of what had been his Black River homestead.)

1899-09-29 PVA Bruce Jones has received a year in the Penitentiary and a $500 fine.

1899-10-07 CC Lucius Anderson has returned home from the Klondike.

1899-10-07 CC Sisters Berchman and Mary Angela of Ft Stanton TX are here to explore the possibility of placing a Sanitarium and Female Academy here.

1899-10-14 CC The McLenathens are moving to California because of his wife’s health, but he will still be here much of the time.

1899-10-14 CC McGinnis is convicted at Raton and given life in the Penitentiary.

1899-10-21 CC Buck Anderson has added an addition to the old McLenathen place in La Huerta.

1899-10-21 CC George Wardman, who bought the McMillan place, has added more land.

1899-10-21 CC Mr & Mrs Rayroux have resigned from the Wardman place and moved to their own adjoining place.

1899-10-21 CC Cyrus James has bought the 2nd Mermod place (apparently just west of the southwest corner of Canal and Cherry Lane.)

1899-10-28 CC H.J.James has bought the E.P.Draper residence in La Huerta (at the northwest corner of Canal and Cherry Lane.)

1899-10-28 CC Lawyer Franklin is preparing to move to El Paso to become the partner of Ash Hawkins.

1899-11-11 CC Kemp and Woerner have moved their Central Saloon to the previous location of T.F.Blackmore’s Drug Store 3 doors south of the Schlitz Hotel.

1899-11-11 CC Re: Sugar beets only do well on new land—or with considerable fertilizing.

1899-11-18 CC Matheson and Holfin are erecting a wool scouring plant near the site of the old ice factory.

1899-11-18 CC Kemp & Woerner’s Saloon is robbed of $800.

1899-11-18 CC Constables D.D.Clark and Dee Harkey have arrested John Underwood near the Point of the Guadalupes for cattle theft.

1899-11-25 CC The rains have caused a washout at Arno.

1899-11-25 CC Sheriff Stewart has bought the C.B.Jones place on the southwest corner of Canyon at Hagerman.

1899-11-25 CC Rheinboldt’s Canning Factory near Lakewood will be moved to Roswell.

1899-11-29 30 feet of the Hagerman (now Tansill) Power Dam has washed away.

1899-12-02 CC J.H.Reed and Rosella Queen have married.

1899-12-09 CC The fourth processing campaign for the Sugar Beet Factory has begun.

1899-12-16 CC The Hospital Association will buy the Farwell property at 408 West Greene. (It had previously been a boarding house.)

1899-12-16 CC Buck Anderson is deadly ill in Texas.

1899-12-23 CC Buck Anderson has died at Mineral Wells TX.

1899-12-23 CC C.A.Otis of the Otis Steelworks, Cleveland OH, is presently visiting here.

1899-12-30 CC Elliott Hendricks has bought out retiring S.I.Bitting’s Dry Goods Store (for whom he had been working.)

1900 It is later said that there were thousands of acres of apple orchard in the valley at this time—all nearly gone by 1916.

1900 Mr.Hagerman sells his Colorado Springs mansion and takes up permanent residence at South Springs, which he acquires in 1900.

1900 Luke Fletcher is born at Lookout NM

1900 It is later said that nearly half the farms in the valley had been abandoned by this point in time.

1900 In 1900 George Lee Newton arrives. He will own and operate the Eddy Drug until his death in 1906.

1900 In 1900 Charles and Nellie (Swigart) Adams arrive with 8-year-old George. They establish the large Buckeye Sheep Ranch in the later Lovington area.

1900 In 1900 a major enfluenza epidemic hits the valley. Grandma Anderson takes care of 60 of the patients, and does not lose one.

1900 In 1900 the T.J.Hoose family arrives by wagon with their 7-year-old son Arthur. 1900-01-06 CC Mrs F.Foex has died.

1900-01-06 CC Nib Jones is improving his ranch house at Spencer Dam.

1900-01-13 CC Rom Holt of Midland is here inspecting the local alfalfa farm he recently purchased and will be managing.

1900-01-20 CC The Sugar Beet Factory has run out of beets and has shut down for the season. This year only 5,000 tons were raised. “The present $4.00 a ton does not give the average grower wages for labor. That price should be $5.00 per ton.

1900-01-27 CC The machinery for the wool scouring plant has arrived. It is to be in the old ice factory.

1900-02-03 CC The Hospital was moved to the Farwell House on Thursday.

1900-02-03 CC The Woodmen of the World have unveiled a monument to member J.H.Carpenter.

1900-02-10 CC Cowman Ed Toner is visiting Eddy. (He is a relative of the James family.)

1900-02-17 CC 80 acres of Greene’s Park have been sold to Mr McKeen for $500.

1900-02-17 CC The Cassigoli Brothers are moving to Colorado.

1900-02-17 CC Pioneer Tom Gardner of McMillan is selling his ranch and moving to Colorado.

1900-02-24 CC Harkey and Clark have arrested Charley Watson for cattle theft. They found 3 calves penned at the Dave.Kemp ranch near Florence.

1900-02-24 CC Dave Kemp is testifying in the Jim Miller trial at Vernon TX.

1900-03-03 CC Mr E.G.Queen of the Guadalupes died on the 19th of Feb. He was buried on the hill above his home. (This is the start of Queen Cemetery.)

1900-03-10 CC Mr Bessing has moved to Capitan, the newest Eddy Brothers company town.

1900-03-10 CC In the 1900 Census Carlsbad has a population of 962. (The Argus will later say 961).

The Eddy County census count is 3,229.

1900-03-17 CC Re: in 1899 the Company sent out probably 250,000 pieces of advertising—and only attracted 35 new families.

1900-03-17 CC Re: do not now boom Carlsbad for health seekers. “Probably no other town in the U.S. has been so persistently boomed as this one”—and there is probably no place where the evils of such booming are more apparent.

1900-03-17 CC Mrs Carpenter has been awarded $400 from W.G.Cass for killing her husband.

1900-03-24 CC Miss Nanny Rascoe has married Mac Fletcher of Otis.

1900-03-24 CC 30,000 cleaned cottontails have recently been shipped from Bongan TX to St Louis at 15 cents a piece. We should do that same thing here.

1900-03-31 CC Three attempts to dig wells in Dog Canyon have all been abandoned.

1900-03-31 CC 16-year-old Florence Hunt has committed suicide—thought to have been caused by an infatuation with Jerome Edwards.

1900-03-31 CC Tuesday evening 30 of Carlsbad’s leading citizens notified Jerome Edwards and gambler Martin Cook that it was time to leave town—and they did so.

1900-03-31 CC Drugist T.E.Blackmore has moved his drug store to El Paso TX.

1900-04-07 CC Tom Jones has sold his home on Rocky Arroyo to Walter Thayer for $2,000.

1900-04-07 CC M.P.Kerr has been elected Mayor by 70 votes, with no opposition.

1900-04-07 CC El Paso’s George Scarborough, who killed Martin M’Rose and John Sellman, has been killed at Deming NM.

1900-04-07 CC Jerome Edwards has gone to Wyoming.

1900-04-14 CC Conway & Camp’s Parlor Saloon is now just Conway’s.

1900-04-14 CC Re: Arthur O’Quinn’s ice delivery wagon.

1900-04-14 CC J.F.Matheson’s Wool Scouring Plant will begin operation next week. (It actually opened on 11 May.)

1900-04-14 CC H.M.Sims and G.W.Medley have purchased the Hagerman Farm east of Malaga for $20,000.

1900-04-14 CC A.J.Crawford lost 650 sheep in last week’s freezing rain on the Plains.

1900-04-14 CC Re: Every old citizen of Roswell has a supreme contempt for Carlsbad.

1900-04-21 CC Captain J.S.Shattuck died Wednesday (of consumption.)

1900-04-21 CC Mr Brenise is the only remaining member of our German Colony.

1900-04-21 CC Re: the Sugar Beet Factory is working to get a first class sanitarium in Carlsbad.

1900-04-28 CC Mr Peter Corn has wed Mrs Fannie Dalton at McMillan.

1900-04-28 CC The north wall of Barfield and Cantrell’s saloon has settled about six inches.

1900-04-28 CC The Sugar Beet Factory is putting its 1,500 company acres into alfalfa—to be plowed under later for fertilizer.

1900-04-28 CC The Sugar Beet Factory will not operate in 1900.

1900-05-12 CC Re: Hackberry Draw recently ran a raging torrent.

1900-05-12 CC The Town Board has disbanded the current Fire Department.

1900-05-12 CC The Town Board has instructed the Town Marshall “to keep certain females off the streets.”

1900-05-12 CC Fr Elias Mayer has arrived to take charge of St Edwards Catholic Church.

1900-05-26 CC Henry Jones, who attempted suicide with a knife across his throat, has been sewn up. Re: he suffers from “something resembling epilepsy.”

1900-05-26 CC L.W.Holt will open his new adobe school at McMillan with a ball.

1900-05-26 CC J.R.Fusselman has sold his house (at 311 North Halagueno) to A.J.Crawford.

1900-06-02 CC The old railroad station at Otis has been dismantled.

1900-06-16 CC Luther Foster and friends get into a fight with a group at Hope Church. The fight leaves Wilburn dead.

1900-06-23 CC The Town Board has put out a force of 9 men to kill the cottonwood caterpillars.

1900-06-23 CC J.M.Pardue is about to erect a 25 foot by 125 foot one-story stone business building next to Kelloughs (at 207 South Canyon.)

1900-06-30 CC Bill Jones of Rocky Arroyo has 1,200 fruit trees, all loaded. Peaches, prunes, apricots & apples.

1900-07-07 CC Fr Patrick has died in La Huerta.

1900-07-07 CC Cowden and Crawford have established the First National Bank of Carlsbad.

1900-07-14 CC A.C.Heard and family have located permanently in Carlsbad. He has purchased the fine residence erected in Jan 1894 by Bank Cashier H.P.Brown (at 405 North Canal.)

1900-07-14 CC The planned purchase of Hagerman Farm by Sims & Medley has fallen through.

1900-07-14 CC The “Current” attacks the poor quality of Carlsbad schools—says this is a major community problem.

1900-07-14 CC Re: Fencing material will be cheap now that the cowmen have been compelled by the Federal Government to pull down all drift fences on Government lands. (Thus begins a new game of putting up temporary fences that are briefly taken down when you learn the inspector is coming.)

1900-07-21 CC J.M.Jump will erect a Livery Corral and office at 101 North Canyon

1900-07-21 CC Joyce-Pruit is establishing another bank. The firm has been doing banking as a sideline since the failure of the old (Eddy National) bank three years ago.

1900-08-11 CC A major peach harvest is in progress at the Tracy & Sharpe orchards southeast of town. The “Current” publishes a letter signed “correspondent” that says that half the valley’s fruit is wasting on the ground because of the lack of a market.

1900-08-11 CC The City has purchased the E.Krause Building at 219 South Canyon which it will convert into the City Hall and Fire Station (until 1923.)

1900-08-25 CC Charles Goodnight and his lawyer are giving 10-year leases in this area to ranchers at 1 cent-per-acre on the basis of an old Mexican Land Grant claim that has come into their possession. The San Simon has leased 297,000 acres from them. (The Land Grant will turn out to be a fraud.)

1900-09-08 CC Charles H.Klauder has been granted a 25 year franchise by the Town Board for a telephone system here. Phones will cost from $3.00 to $5.00 per month.

1900-09-08 CC Horace J.James has died here.

1900-09-08 CC The Town Board has given $100 to B.G.Stegman (the husband of Sallie Chism) to help him repair the power dam—in exchange for 16 street lights.

1900-09-08 CC The Town Board has given the City Marshall 2 weeks to remove all women of questionable character beyond the city limits.

1900-09-15 CC Re: The discovery of large deposits of guano is being mentioned as something destined to become a major new New Mexico industry. (This appears to be the second reference in these newspapers to the Bat Cave.)

1900-09-15 CC S.I.Roberts is about to begin construction of a residence at 501 North Canyon.

1900-09-15 CC Tom Ketchum has been found guilty, and has been sentenced to hang.

1900-09-22 CC Another big flood came down the Penasco and Black Rivers last week, doing much damage to the Penasco’s bordering farms.

1900-09-29 CC Mr J.M.Pardue has moved into his new rock business building.

1900-10-06 CC The Eddy County Teachers Association has been organized.

1900-10-06 CC The fire bell and tower have been moved to the new City Hall.

1900-10-13 CC W.G.Brown has commenced erection of his Blacksmith Shop at 207 West Fox.

1900-10-13 CC Former resident George Owings and another confess to being train robbers in their Tucson trial.

1900-10-20 CC The front of the new City Hall is being opened up to permit the entry of fire fighters’ horse carts and chemical engines.

1900-10-20 CC Dave Kemp has sold his ranch at the mouth of Last Chance Canyon to Paul Ares. Mr Kemp, however, still has his ranch at the head of Last Chance.

1900-10-20 CC William T.Reed, the “Pecos Valley Argus” Business Manager, has married Leila Christian.

1900-11-03 CC Pat Garrett addressed the Republican Party meeting here on the 30th.

1900-11-10 CC Rancher R.L.Hall has been murdered by Red Seeley near the Point of the Guadalupes. (Hall owned the D Ranch.)

1900-11-17 CC Maynard Sharpe, the well-known orchardist, has died in La Huerta.

1900-11-17 CC On Nov 13th there was a foreclosure sale for the Pecos Valley Sugar Beet Company.

1900-11-23 PVA Kemp & Woerner have purchased the Parlor Saloon. They will close their Central Saloon.

1900-11-24 CC The Illinois Trust & Savings Bank has foreclosed on the PI & I Co. The canal system and dams were sold in a Special Master Sale, acquired by a reorganizing committee.

1900-11-24 CC The S.I.Roberts are in their new home.

1900-11-24 CC F.M.Jump is in his new Livery Stable.

1900-12-01 CC Otis farmers are considering raising cantaloupes. They would need to be shipped to market in ice.

1900-12-01 CC Dave Kemp has sold his Last Chance and Dunaway Seep locations. (These, also, appear to go to Paul Ayers at this time.)

1900-12-01 CC William Mullane has sold the “Carlsbad Current” to John L. and C.C. Emerson.

1900-12-08 CC About 50 health seekers are presently living here.

1900-12-08 CC Kemp & Woerner have sold their old saloon location (at 217 South Canyon) to William Leck, who will move his store there.

1900-12-08 CC The home of George Lucas (at 513 North Canyon?) was destroyed by fire on the 4th.

1900-12-08 CC The Joyce-Pruit Company has bought the H.J.Hammond stock in the First National Bank of Carlsbad. John R.Joyce (the first) is now the new President.

1900-12-14 PVA President McKinley has appointed Daniel H.McMillan to be the new 5th Judicial District Judge.

1900-12-15 CC The local saloons have agreed to close on Sundays.

1900-12-15 CC By a vote of 2 to 1 Pecos TX has abolished its earlier incorporation.

1900-12-15 CC J.R.Linn (A.J.Crawford’s brother-in-law) has opened a wallpaper and

paint store here. (He is the father of Jenny Lynn.)

1900-12-22 CC A.B.O’Quinn is marketing both uncarbonated and carbonated versions of Carlsbad Spring Water throughout the Southwest.

1900-12-22 CC Hagerman Heights has been removed from the market. (Attempts to get a group of doctors from the East to purchase it for a sanitarium had failed.)

1900-12-28 PVA Sugar Beet Factory General Manager A.S.Goetz is moving to Fort Worth.

1901 Ed Shattuck and John Plowman become partners, buying out the Ed Bass 2N2 brand.

1901 Mr Grantham moves to town, living in the Palace Hotel. His family will join him a year later.

1901 Miller Siding (eventually Artesia) gets its first general store.

1901 The Joel Farrells move to the area from Texas, buying out the Grapevine Spring Ranch 48 miles southwest of town.

1901-01-05 CC George McBiles has bought the transfer business of George Lucas.

1901-01-11 CA J.H.James is now Chairman of the Eddy County Commission.

1901-01-12 CC Mayor Kerr has resigned since he cannot be both Mayor and County School Superintendent at the same time. The Town Trustees have chosen John L.Emerson as the new Mayor.

1901-01-18 CA The new post office at Monument NM has been established.

1901-01-19 CC William Driver has married Miss Annie Ohnemus.

1901-01-25 CA Frank Rheinboldt has foreclosed on the motgage of Les and Mollie Dow.

1901-02-02 CC The Santa Fe Railroad has bought the Pecos Valley & Northeastern.

1901-02-08 CA The Official 1900 Census figures give Eddy County 3,229, Carlsbad 963.

1901-02-08 CA Robert W.Tansill has bought the La Huerta home place of E.S.Motter (which was the old Mann place)—40 acres beside the river.

1901-02-09 CC C.H.Klauder has obtained a 5-year lease on the Hagerman Dam and Power House from Mr Hagerman.

1901-02-09 CC B.F.Stegman has sold the Electric Light Company to C.H.Klauder and Mr Rauch, owners of the Telephone Company.

1901-02-16 CC Red Seely has received a 15 year sentence for killing Bob Hall.

1901-02-22 CA Grocer Leck has added a porch and board sidewalk to his new grocery location.

1901-02-22 CA Finlay and Murray have bought a fine 2nd-hand hearse.

1901-02-22 CA N.Toby of Waco, a retired architect, has bought the 5 acres south of Mrs W.R.Anderson’s home at Canal & Orchard Lane. He plans to erect a 2-story 10-room home. (The Current says he got 22 acres.)

1901-03-01 CA The post office at Otis has been discontinued.

1901-03-01 CA The new company name is the Electric Power Light and Telephone System of Carlsbad. One light, all night, costs $1.25 per month.

1901-03-01 CA The Avalon Dam repairs are complete and water is back in the canal.

1901-03-01 CA S.I.Roberts has added an upstairs front balcony to his place at 501 North Canyon.

1901-03-09 CC Monument NM has one store, one post office, one wagon & one dog.

1901-03-15 CA James J.Hagerman has bought 100,000 acres from the Santa Fe RR Company for a ranch east of the Pecos, east of Hagerman NM.

1901-03-15 CA J.M.Daugherty of Abilene has obtained the large ranch and herd of recently killed L.L.Hall. (This is the 300,000 acre D Ranch.)

1901-03-15 CA W.E.Bill Washington has bought 3.500 acres a few miles south of Hagerman NM.

1901-03-16 CC Kerr’s Grocery is moving to the Tracy & McLenathen building.

1901-03-22 CA W.H.Slaughter, a past Post Master here, is now a Territorial Representative for Otero and Dona Ana Counties.

1901-03-22 CA Lowenbruck & Angell, Butchers, have leased the School Section northwest of town for pasture.

1901-03-23 CC W.A.Watkins has rented the Hagerman Farm east of Malaga.

1901-03-29 CA The Federal Government has extended to April 1, 1902, the deadline for removing drift fences from Federal lands.

1901-04-05 CA The valley’s farmers have promised to raise 300 acres of cotton to encourage building a gin here.

1901-04-05 CA Allen C.Heard is elected Mayor. Only 39 votes are cast in the city election.

1901-04-06 CC Marion Edwards is sentenced to 15 months in the Penitentiary for assault and Battery.

1901-04-12 CA The Florence-Carlsbad area has promised to raise 150 acres of cantaloupes.

1901-04-19 CA The Court is hearing the Geyser Springs case of J.W.Rush vs E.C.Russell and T.J.Fletcher.

1901-04-26 CA A California drilling firm has filed a 400 acre placer claim for oil in Happy Valley.

1901-04-26 CA The former Mermod Place is La Huerta is for sale. Contact Cyrus James.

1901-04-27 CC Everyone is out staking 20 acre placer claims for oil in Hackberry Draw.

1901-04-27 CC G.W.McBiles is back in his old Transfer Business.

1901-04-27 CC Sam B.Smith is being called the Oil King of the Pecos Valley. (His homestead was in Lower Dark Canyon.)

1901-04-03 CA Black Jack Katchum was decapitated when he was hanged at Clayton NM.

1901-04-03 CA The Penasco has been dry for two months at Badger/Hope, but is now coming back.

1901-05-04 CC Dave Kemp, B.A.Nymeyer and others have formed the Excelsor Syndicate Oil Company.

1901-05-04 CC The 2-story Toby residence near the bridge in La Huerta is nearing completion.

1901-05-04 CC Henry Jones and Daisy Alberta Kuykendall have married at the home of Frank Jones

1901-05-04 CC Dan and John Lucas have sold their ranch at the head of Black River to G.T. Reynolds for $14,000. This includes 3,000 cattle and 80 horses.

1901-05-11 CC Eastside ranchers are unhappy about the poor condition of privately-owned Greene Street Bridge.

1901-05-11 CC Dee Harkey has been fined for disorderly conduct.

1901-05-11 CC Six “unfortunate women” have each contributed $9 to the Court charged with “waywarness”. (Three are Anglo, three are Hisanic.)

1901-05-11 CC Lowernbruck & Angell have gotten permission to reroute the road to the Flume around the school section northwest of town so that they can fence it.

1901-05-18 CC Rome Ohnemus has been elected Chief of the Fire Department.

1901-05-18 CC The Brick School House is to get running water.

1901-06 Jim White will later say that it was in June of 1901 that he saw the departing cloud of bats and discovered the Bat Cave.

1901-06-01 CC Seven girls of ill repute were jailed overnight. Flitting about the streets in negligee costume has become common here.

1901-06-01 CC Carlsbad has had Oil Fever for 40 days, now.

1901-06-01 CC Cloudcroft Lodge has opened on C.B.Eddy’s new railroad south from Cloudcroft to little Moscow in the timber country.

1901-06-01 CC Dave Kemp, Ciscero Stewart and others are incorporating the Pecos Valley Standard Oil Company.

1901-06-01 CC Kemp & Woerner’s Saloon is exhibiting three photographs of the hanging of Black Jack Katchum.

1901-06-07 CA R.W.Tansill has received the final decree on his receivership of the PI&I Company.

1901-06-08 CC The new Carlsbad Syndicate Oil Company has 1800 acres in Hackberry Draw district.

1901-06-08 CC Barney Riggs recently came in from Pecos TX to visit his wife and children.

1901-06-08 CC The U.S.Meat Market is about to move to the McLenathen red brick building at 207 South Canyon.

1901-06-08 CC The Bloom Cattle Company has bought the Beckett homestead near McMillan as its headquarters.

1901-06-21 CA Dave Kemp is having great success selling Pecos Valley Standard Oil Company Stock in Omaha Nebraska.

1901-06-28 CA R.W.Tansill has become the owner of the beautiful Ellice & Every home in La Huerta.

1901-07-12 CA James John Hagerman has sold the Heights to R.W.Tansill—who hopes to find buyers interested in placing a sanitarium there.

1901-07-13 CC Willard Bates is exhibiting a mad stone from a white deer. It is for snake and skunk bites.

1901-07-19 CA The Hagermans are moving their furniture from the Heights to South Spring.

1901-07-20 CC Drillers are on the ground of the Standard Oil site west of town. We can hope that they will at least hit artesian water.

1901-07-20 CC W.L.Bobo and his prancing team of horses are again a familiar sight on our streets.

1901-07-20 CC Katie Ohnemus has married Sam Aiken.

1901-07-20 CC Lowenbruck & Angell Meat Market is now just Lowenbruck’s.

1901-07-27 CC A Big Five Oil Company will also probably incorporate here.

1901-07-27 CC Sheriff Stewart is fining the prostitutes every day.

1901-07-27 CC Ananias Green is now living at Lone Tree Draw.

1901-08-03 CC A Mexican Baptist Church is being formed here.

1901-08-03 CC Re: George Newton now owns the Eddy Drug Company.

1901-08-16 CA The Fisher Brothers, farmers near Florence, have sold out and Are returning to Indiana.

1901-08-16 CA The Tansills are moving into their new home in La Huerta.

1901-08-16 CA Re: W.L.Bobo is now the local agent for Mutual Live Insurance.

1901-08-17 CC Lone Tree School has been ruled to be legal.

1901-08-23 CA The Standard Oil Co drilling rig has started drilling 4 miles west of town.

1901-08-23 CA William Jones of Rocky Arroyo has bought a $600 piano.

1901-08-24 CC Hooley Cochran has found gold and silver in the ore bed near his home.

1901-08-24 CC Mr & Mrs A.J.Crawford have returned from visiting the Buffalo Exposition.

1901-08-30 CA Mr McLenathen and son have returned to Carlsbad, following the death of his wife in California.

1901-08-31 CC Joyce Pruit Company has bought the 3 lots east of the Schlitz Hotel from C.B.Eddy for $6,000.

1901-08-31 CC Ab Vest is the new mail carrier between Carlsbad and Monument.

1901-09-06 CA Billy Kerr of Ironton OH has moved to Carlsbad to live.

1901-09-06 CA Capt R.W.Trayner of Rocky Arroyo has married an accomplished vocalist in California.

1901-09-07 CC Re: Mrs William Jones is a Campbell. Her mother, brother and sister are currently visiting her from the Oklahoma Indian Territory.

1901-09-07 CC The electric line is being extended into La Huerta.

1901-09-07 CC S.T.Bitting has moved a large 2-story frame house to the corner of Canal and Stevens.

1901-09-07 CC The Mexican School has successfully enrolled 30 out of the possible 102 children.

1901-09-13 CA President McKinley has been shot.

1901-09-14 CC Milton Smith is in Elgin IL attending a watchmaking and engraving course.

1901-09-14 CC Fire destroyed much of the Pecos TX business district on the 11th.

1901-09-20 CA It becomes unlawfull to kill any game animals on Territorial lands—only permitted on private lands.

1901-09-20 CA Mrs Trayner sings at the local memorial service for President McKinley.

1901-09-20 CA A group of Eastern capitalists visits, interested in the Hagerman Heights Sanitarium proposal. (This falls through.)

1901-09-21 CC Cyrus James has purchased the Swanson cottages.

1901-09-21 CC Ed Toner and Sam Camp fight at Barfield & Cantrell’s Saloon. Each is fined $5.00 and costs.

1901-09-27 CA C.H.McLenathen has moved two houses to 301 and 303 North Canal.

1901-09-28 CC Re: E.Quinones has a blacksmith shop at Phoenix. (This is a rare correct spelling of that suburb.)

1901-10-05 CC Ed Collins, in delirium tremors, injures himself jumping from the 2nd

story gallery in front of the Mullane Building. (A house of prostitution was at this second-story location.)

1901-10-11 CA The Turkey Track Cattle Company, Will Edwards, Manager, has purchased the magnificent Holt Ranch at McMillan.

1901-10-12 CC Mrs Sam Akins (formerly Katie Ohnemus) dies at 19. (Her infant child dies on 2 Nov.)

1901-10-12 CC Willingham and Waller have bought the Holt Mercantile at McMillan.

1901-10-12 CC Negro Tom Harvey gets 100 days in jail for “assault with words on a white woman.” “The law-abiding colored population of Carlsbad owe it as a duty to take this fellow, with his beastly attitude, and give him a good sound whipping with five minutes to leave town. They may well regard his action as a menace to their future peace and prosperity here. Had he chosen some well-known woman, rather than one almost wholely unknown, he would now be in his grave. If the negroes do not take some action the white citizens may give Harvey a dose too strong for his constitution.” (The editors of the Current, at this time, are Emerson & Emerson—two brothers out of the Deep South.)

1901-10-12 CC Mrs Dave Blocker is now proprietor of the Eagle Hotel.

1901-10-19 CC Mr & Mrs Trayner are now in their new home on Rocky Arroyo.

1901-10-19 CC Will Merchant and Jack Heard will enter the roping contest at the San Antonio Fair.

1901-10-25 CA A house-warming party and dance are given for Capt R.W.Trayner and wife.

1901-10-25 CA The Standard Oil drilling operation west of town has run out of money. (Drilling is restarted Nov 1st by local subscription.)

1901-10-26 CC The Pecos Valley Railroad has started a weekly stock train from Carlsbad.

1901-10-26 CC The Trayners of Rocky Arroyo have had a house warming with 40 to 50 guests.

1901-11-01 CA Edgar von Piontkowsky has married in Mexico City.

1901-11-02 CC William Duncan and Maggie Plowman have eloped in the Guadalupes.

1901-11-02 CC Re: Three oboxious visitors, would-be Lords, staying with someone in the area (probably Edward Knowles.) “One publically hugged and fondled a coper-colored black guitar player at the Hotel Schlitz.” Re: A prominent citizen (E.McQueen Gray?) has kept their names out of this article.

1901-11-02 CC Hayworth & Matheson have bought the A.R.O’Quinn beer and ice business.

1901-11-02 CC W.J.Barber has bought the Mullane Building (126 South Canyon.) for $5,000.

1901-11-02 CC Dr and Mrs Doepp have arrived for the winter. He expects to practice here.

1901-11-08 CA Carlsbad gets New Mexico Territory’s first rural mail service. (The route runs 12 miles south to Florence.)

1901-11-08 CA High water has taken out 35 feet (later amended to 58 feet) of the Tansill Power Dam. Much of Roswell is under water.

1901-11-09 CC Re: Southerners strongly object to President Roosevelt dining with Booker T.Washington at the White House.

1901-11-15 CA The Beach family, which had just arrived on Black River, has been hit by typhoid fever. (It will spread to others on Black River.)

1901-11-15 CA Willoughby Hegler of Chicago is here for the winter.

1901-11-15 CA Francis G.Tracy has bought from John Crompton of England the La Huerta home in which the Tracys have been living.

1901-11-16 CC Jerome Edwards receives 30 days in jail for stealing a pistol from Sam Cornett.

1901-11-22 CA J.Frank Joyce has wed Tilden Atkinson in Missouri on 20 Nov.

1901-11-22 CA William McMillan Sr has died in St Louis.

1901-11-22 CA C.H.McLenathen has been confirmed in the Episcopal Church.

1901-11-23 CC R.M.Beyer has acquired the Ellice & Every farm north of Otis.

1901-11-23 CC (A poem is reprinted attacking President Roosevelt, titled: “Nigger In the White House”)

1901-11-23 CC Silas Ussery ( a neighbor of the Beach family on Black River), has died of typhoid at 37.

1901-11-23 CC Dan Lucas and Jake Owen say as late as 1880 or 1881 the Pecos Valley was still frequented by large herds of buffalo east of the river.

1901-11-29 CA A Mr Swihart has arrived. (This is Mr & Mrs Swigart, with Donald and 3-month-old Dorothy.)

1901-11-30 CC Re: earrings are back in fashion.

1901-12-06 CA Ad: Re: R.L.Bates’ Legal Tender Café on Canyon is opposite the Post Office.

1901-12-06 CA The new Rayroux water well in La Huerta is almost artesian.

1901-12-06 CA Claire May Dudley, a sister of Mrs Green Ussery (and another Beach family neighbor) has died of typhoid fever.

1901-12-07 CC Arno TX is to get a $60,000 reservoir on the Pecos.

1901-12-07 CC Re: The Elite Saloon is “Summey’s Place.”

1901-12-07 CC Re: The town should provide benches for its T.B.-suffering “sun bathers”.

1901-12-07 CC E.H.Gamble has bought the Pecos Valley Grocery from George M.Pendleton. 1901-12-13 CA The plan to receive guests at Hagerman Heights has been cancelled by Mr Hagerman in a disagreement over furniture.

1901-12-20 CA Mrs W.C.Mann has died at Clayton NM.

1901-12-20 CA L.Wallace Holt of McMillan plans to shift to Barstow TX.

1901-12-20 CA C.W.Greene of Chicago is currently visiting here.

1901-12-20 CA Rom Holt has married Edna Barber at the W.J.Barber home (201 North Alameda.)

1901-12-20 CA Pat Garrett has been appointed Customs Collector at El Paso. 1902 James John Hagerman builds a large 2-story home at South Spring.

1902 Vic Queen, with the help of his brother John, sinks a guano shaft into the Bat Cave for Californian Abijah Long.

1902 Dayton is created, named for its founder J.D.Day. (It will receive a post office in 1903.)

1902 Finlay-Pratt Hardware opens at 110 South Canyon. The business exists there for 55 years, becoming Pratt-Smith and then ultimately Smith Hardware.

1902 Huling Ussery later estimated there were 200,000 sheep in Eddy County at this time.

1902 In 1902 C.C.Lewis built the town’s first plant for man-made ice, at 106 East Church.

1902 The Acre Brothers, major sheep ranchers, came to this area.

1902-01-04 CC The Bitting Bank has moved into Bitting Building. (Elliott Hendricks will soon move his store into the other half.)

1902-01-04 CC A.C.Hawes is the new owner of the Westwater copper mine in Dog Canyon. Mr Westwater is still the manager.

1902-01-04 CC Re: R.R.Causey’s fine spurs.

1902-01-04 CC Colored barber D.W.Williams gave a New Years luncheon for 43 of his gentlemen friends.

1902-01-04 CC George Wilcox has sold Coyote Lodge to J.M.Day

1902-01-10 CA Dr C.H.Wright is preparing to erect a rock office building north of the Freeman & Cameron Law Office (at 110 North Canyon.)

1902-01-11 CC The County Board has bought the Greene Street Bridge—and has gotten the right-of-way for a road going east across the Heights property, both for $500.

1902-01-15 O’Quinn & Little open a grocery store opposite the Hotel Schlitz.

1902-01-17 CA Tracy & McEwan Hardware has become Tracy-Roberts (& McLenathen) Hardware.

1902-01-18 CC Last fall Sam Jones and John Fanning recently roped and killed five gray wolves near Moseley Springs for the bounty.

1902-01-18 CC J.B.Delbridge has bought the Dominice place in La Huerta from Mrs Ada Chambers.

1902-01-18 CC The brief “Pecos Valley Stockman” newspaper has closed its doors.

1902-01-24 CA The McLenathen rental cottage at 301 North Canal is now ready for J.Frank Joyce and his new wife to move in.

1902-01-25 CC The Chinese-run English Kitchen Café has closed. The Bates Brothers’ Legal Tender Café has won the competition.

1902-01-25 CC J.M.Daugherty has taken over the Hall’s D Ranch 50 miles south. It has 300 Sections and 6,000 cattle

1902-01-25 CC J.L.Dearborne has moved from Roswell to take a position with the Tracy-Roberts Hardware Store. 1902-01-31 CA The Eddy Brothers’ El Paso & Northeastern Railroad has joined up with the Rock Island Railroad at Santa Rosa NM.

1902-01-31 CA The longtime partnership between (Big) Clabe Merchant and J.P.Parramore has come to an end. Merchant has received the New Mexico San Simon.

1902-01-31 CA The Rocky Arroyo school house has been moved further east.

1902-02-01 CC J.M.Summey has sold his Elite Barbershop to Jack Wilson.

1902-02-01 CC Tracy-Roberts is adding an 18 x 20 tin shop at the rear.

1902-02-01 CC Charles Anderwirth (27) has died of alkaline poisoning and has been buried in the Lookout Cemetery.

1902-02-07 CA Bob Osborne has returned to town to work with the blacksmith W.G.Brown.

1902-02-08 CC An unimpressive performance by a “hypnotist” at the Opera House leads to a brawl. Some scenery is torn down and destroyed.

1902-02-08 CC Dr Wright will soon be moving in. He will have two commodious rooms.

1902-02-08 CC Rome Ohnemus has received a 4-year contract to carry the mail between

Carlsbad and Monument.

1902-02-14 CA F.G.Hodsoll, the photographer, is now living in London.

1902-02-15 CC F.M.Jump has painted his Livery Stable red.

1902-02-15 CC Miss Paralee Kuykendall has wed Alva B.Coffee.

1902-02-15 CC Tom Gordon has married Miss Etta Franks.

1902-02-15 CC A carload of cotton has been shipped from Florence to Barstow for ginning.

1902-02-21 CA Mrs Charles W.Greene is dying at the Hotel Schlitz. (Her husband soon arrives.) (She does die, and is buried at Chicago IL.)

1902-02-21 CA Vic Queen and his wife have arrived after his extended absence in Old Mexico.

1902-02-22 CC John B.Reed has married Mary Plowman.

1902-02-28 CA J.J.Rascoe Sr has moved to Roswell (where he will become Town Marshal)

1902-02-28 CA W.G.Bass has sold the Union Meat Market to W.P.McIntosh.

1902-03-01 CC P.S.Blodgett is now General Manager of the Lake Shore Railroad, Cleveland Ohio.

1902-03-01 CC Re: Ed Burleson, goat man of Dark Canyon.

1902-03-07 CA A hugh smelter is being considered for the Guadalupes. (It will never happen.)

1902-03-07 CA The Standard Oil drilling rig has started drilling again.

1902-03-07 CA Westwater (first mention) is getting a grocery store. (This townsite was some- where in the area of Upper Dog Canyon or Devil’s Den.)

1902-03-07 CA Dr Kinsinger now lives in Roswell.

1902-03-08 CC J.D.Walker is now sole owner of the City Livery Stable. Mr Hess is out.

1902-03-08 CC Standard Oil of New Mexico has bought the Westwater copper mine for $30,000.

1902-03-10 Rebekah Lodge No.13 (Odd Fellows) is formed here.

1902-03-14 CA A visiting engineer (Thomas J.Johnson) has recommended a solid masonry flume with concrete arches, which would double the capacity.

1902-03-14 CA A.D.Greene and W.T.Reed have bought the “Argus” from the Pecos Valley

Trust Company. Mr Fullen will continue to be the Editor.

1902-03-14 CA The drain ditch along the west side of South Alameda has been deepened.

1902-03-14 CA Bachelor William R.Witt has died at their Black River ranch.

1902-03-14 CA George Musgrave of the Black Jack Gang has been captured at Alamogordo.

1902-03-15 CC Sam Jones has married Fannie Gordon. His brothers Tom and Nib are presently married to her sisters.

1902-03-21 CC (Much attention to copper and oil.) (A shift to a new day of publication.)

1902-03-21 CC L.S.Crawford is having a 6-room house built on Canal Street just north of the Tansill Block.

1902-03-21 CC A store is being constructed at Westwater.

1902-03-21 CC T.C.Horne has returned from the East with a new bride.

1902-03-28 CC W.G.Woerner is having a rock house built at 302 South Halagueno.

1902-03-28 CC The Devil’s Den ore has assayed at 26% copper.

1902-03-28 CC James deMoss is using his 6-mule team to carry supplies to Westwater.

1902-03-28 CC William Elbert Smith and Bernice Hutchinson have married. “Both are rather youthful to marry.”

1902-03-28 CC The Mexicans have organized a second Baptist Church here.

1902-04-04 CA The debate continues over the Beals Land Grant claim to this area and to much of West Texas.

1902-04-04 CA W.P.Mudgett has bought the old Draper place in La Huerta from Mrs H.J. James for $2,500.

1902-04-04 CA Eddy County is $25,000 in the black.

1902-04-04 CC Charles deBremond has a 60,000 acre sheep ranch on the Mescalero Reservation.

1902-04-04 CC Dolph Lusk (known as “Little Puss” is now living in Monument.

1902-04-04 CA Dan H.Lucas has been elected Mayor. Only 70 votes were cast.

1902-04-04 CA The local Old Fiddlers Carnival was a hugh success.

1902-04-04 CC Dr Charles Whicher has married Miss Sue Darlington of Iowa.

1902-04-04 CA Mexican sheep herders are in short supply. They are now expecting a $20 to $40 advance when they hire-on.

1902-04-11 CC D.H.Lucas is the new Mayor.

1902-04-11 CC Barney Riggs has been killed at Ft Stockton.

1902-04-11 CC Mrs Mary Toner (74) has died at her son-in-law’s, J.H.James.

1902-04-11 CC Re: The “dark cell” (in solitary) at the County Jail

1902-04-11 CA Bert Leck has opened-up his fountain. He offers cherry phosphates and ice cream.

1902-04-11 CA The J.H.and Silas James families have moved into the Eddy Brothers ranch house in La Huerta (on North Guadalupe.)

1902-04-11 CA W.P.Lucas has purchased the Swanson place on North Canal from Cyrus James.

1902-04-11 CC Eugene Little and Bud Rascoe have bought-out the O’Quinn Grocery. (At this point the “Current” goes to the same publishing day as the “Argus”.)

1902-04-18 CA Jim Lorton has been appointed Post Master at Westwater. The grocery store has been completed.

1902-04-18 CC W.G.Woerner’s new rock residence (at 302 S.Halagueno) will have 8 rooms.

1902-04-18 CA There is a rumour that Carlsbad is about to get its first automobile.

1902-04-18 CC The schools have closed for the year. They have run out of money.

1902-04-25 CC Rome Ohnemus will fit a 2 ½ horsepower gasoline engine to a buckboard to deliver the mail to Monument. “Listen for the whistle.” (He soon gets a 1902 Model Holsman Horseless Carriage, which will later be put on view at the White’s City Museum.)

1902-04-25 CA Barney Riggs has been killed by Buck Chadborn at Fort Stockton.

1902-04-25 CC Allen “Daddy” Heard gives a picnic for all of the first and second grade students.

1902-04-25 CC Saddlemaker E.S.Kilpatrick has started working for J.T.Cooper. His ad says: “I can make anything that can be made of leather.”

1902-04-25 CA Jesse J.Rascoe has become the Marshal of Roswell.

1902-05-02 CA The Carlsbad Schools have a graduating class of three: Edna Allen, Sadie Moore and Myrtle Bush.

1902-05-02 CC The Legal Tender Café now offers ice cream on Sundays.

1902-05-02 CC The Pecos Valley Standard Oil Co.will locate its Westwater machinery just across the line in Texas for taxation reasons.

1902-05-02 CA Milton Smith has returned from Elgin Horological College, and is now the Pharmacy’s official jeweler, engraver and watchmaker.

1902-05-09 CC At Westwater they are tunneling in search of water.

1902-05-09 CA Seven Rivers has produced an egg with golden lettering saying: “Prepare to meet your God!” (Homer Wilder made the egg and put it in Peter Corn’s hen house where Mrs Corn found it. It sparked a very emotional, if brief, revival period in Seven Rivers.)

1902-05-09 CA In Alamogordo, Mrs Tom Fennessee is suing for divorce on grounds of abandonment.

1902-05-09 CA A nine-mile-long fire in the Guadalupes has destroyed much fine range.

1902-05-09 CA E.H.Middleton has been killed in a fall from a cliff near his Dark Canyon ranch home.

1902-05-16 CA A Chicago Syndicate is expected to build a $250,000 sanitarium on Hagerman Heights.

1902-05-16 CA Hugh, the young son of Sheriff Stewart, falls off a horse on his head and is almost killed. (He will never fully recover.)

1902-05-23 CA The Ed Motters are moving to Chicago.

1902-05-23 CA Jesse J.Rascoe is also a Deputy for Sheriff Stewart in the Hope/Badger district.

1902-05-23 CA Les Bates has severed his ties with the Legal Tender Café. He plans to ranch.

1902-05-23 CA John T.Bolton has become a 3rd Degree Mason.

1902-05-23 CC The rock foundation for the new concrete flume has been located.

1902-05-23 CA Last year the Irrigation Company had 9,130 acres under contract for water. This year it has 12,600 acres.

1902-06-06 CA Thomas J.Johnson of Chicago is the consulting engineer for the planned concrete flume.

1902-06-06 CA George Wardman has disposed of Coyote Lodge to C.W.Merchant for $6,000. Wardman is moving to Colorado Springs. The house cost $28,000 to build. The sale includes all furniture, horses, vehicles, rare wines in the cellar, and a fine piano.

1902-06-06 CA Dark Canyon and Rocky Arroyo are in flood. Rocky is the highest ever known in history.

1902-06-13 CC Clay McGonagill is as admired by the ladies as ever.

1902-06-17 (The Federal Reclamation Act of this date will lay the way for Government purchase of the Carlsbad Irrigation Project in 1906.)

1902-06-20 CA Baird & Rascoe have opened the Alamo Saloon in the old E.K.Restaurant slot in the Smith Block.

1902-06-20 CA The Westwater Post Office is functioning.

1902-06-20 CC A lady equestrian is fined $100 for riding her horse on the sidewalk.

1902-06-20 CC The first railroad carload of Westwater ore has been shipped.

1902-06-20 CA The Lige.and John.Merchant families have arrived from Abilene.

1902-06-27 CA Clarence Bell from Tennessee is now the bookkeeper for the First National Bank.

1902-06-27 CA The Pecos Valley Railroad Shops at Roswell are being moved to Amarillo.

1902-06-27 CC Westwater Mine has hired James DeMoss and Jim Long to build a cement-faced reservoir dam.

1902-07-04 CA B.A.Nymeyer has bought the Blackmore place at 306 North Canal, and the family has moved in.

1902-07-04 CA Gamble and Pardue’s Pecos Valley Grocery is now just Pardue Grocery.

1902-07-04 CA The Standard Oil Company is now operating the Westwater Mine.

1902-07-04 CA Free rural mail delivery is now to be made available everywhere.

1902-07-04 CA Drilling on the oil well has been suspended indefinitely.

1902-07-11 CA Black River reports a 30 foot rise. The Dark Canyon spillway has been washed-out. (Not mentioned: the wooden flume also washed out.)

1902-07-11 CA Dark Canyon has flooded the southern part of town. The town’s two railroad bridges have been badly damaged.

1902-07-11 CA Several hundred feet of railroad track were washed away north of here.

1902-07-11 CA Crozier & Ullery Furniture has become Crozier & Purdy Furniture.

1902-07-11 CA F.G.Tracy is selling all of his peaches in Colorado.

1902-07-11 CA Much of a block of downtown Roswell has been destroyed by fire.

1902-07-18 CC T.F.Blackmore has opened a Drug Store in the north half of the Osborne Building.

1902-07-18 CC Citizens, led by Post Master Fullen, hold a protest meeting over District Judge Dan McMillan “and his affair with a Cleopatra.”

1902-07-18 CC Will Merchant has moved to South Dakota where he has bought a ranch. He will stock it with San Simon cattle.

1902-07-18 CA Two Barstow men have leased 2,000 acres from the Pecos Irrigation Company, including 900 in La Huerta, to grow cotton.

1902-07-18 CA Flood damage to the railroad from Red Bluff to Pecos TX is the greatest in the railroad’s history.

1902-07-18 CC Peter Westwater is moving to Dayton NM

1902-07-18 CC Re: A Negress named “Gold Tooth Annie” should be run out of town.

1902-07-25 CA We need a Dark Canyon bridge.

1902-07-25 CC L.S.Crawford is finishing a beautiful home (at 201 North Canyon.)

1902-07-25 CC The Carlsbad Improvement League has been formed.

1902-08-01 CC Samuel Akin has married Nannie Johns.

1902-08-01 CC C.C.Emerson and Laura Anderson have married in Colorado Springs. Blanche Harney was her bridesmaid.

1902-08-01 CC J.D.Walker and George M.Pendleton have bought the stable of F.M.Jump.

1902-08-08 CA The Merchant Livestock Company is incorporated—without Will.

1902-08-08 CA The new Blackmore Drug Store in the Osborne Block is opposite the Fire Department.

1902-08-08 CC The Town Council is upset by the prostitutes on Mulberry Drive going up to Hagerman Heights.

1902-08-08 CC “Gold Tooth Annie” has been moved to El Paso Tx.

1902-08-08 CC F.M.Jump has moved to Roswell.

1902-08-08 CC The Emerson Brothers have started a second newspaper in Roswell, the “Roswell Journal”.

1902-08-08 CC Josephine Witt is running for County Superintendent of Schools. (She loses.) 1902-08-15 CA President Roosevelt has established the Lincoln Forest Reserve in the White Mountains.

1902-08-15 CC The Judge has ruled that C.H.Klauder is the sole owner of the Electric Light, Power & Telephone Company—not Mrs Tansill, who owns the dam.

1902-08-15 CC W.G.Brown is buildling a home just south of the Presbyterian Church.

1902-08-22 CA Jesse Rascoe has been defeated in the Roswell Marshal election.

1902-08-22 CA The Jump Livery Stable has been sold to Walker & Pendleton.

1902-08-22 CA W.A.Wheeler has bought the Bell place in Rio Vista.

1902-08-22 CA Solomon Luna has made his first visit to Carlsbad.

1902-08-22 CA Ranch cook “Uncle Dick” Jackson (Black) has died. [The 25 year servant of Dan & John Lucas, he always wore women’s clothing (and went barefooted) while cooking. Ranchers from across the southwest came to his funeral—which was said to have the longest cortege ever–before seen in Carlsbad.]

1902-08-22 CA Several Russian Mulberry trees have been planted here.

1902-08-29 CC Joseph C.Stevens has transferred ownership of the cemetery land to the city.

1902-08-29 CC Fred Mendenhall has escaped from the insane asylum where he was Placed last June.

1902-08-29 CA The C.C.Emersons are moving to Roswell (where the brothers have started the “Roswell Journal” newspaper.)

1902-08-29 CC Big Clabe Merchant, much upset by the latest drift fence decision, is advocating ranching in Canada.

1902-09-05 CA L.A.Swigart has bought the Wersell place in La Huerta.

1902-09-05 CC Monument School has opened.

1902-09-05 CA Albert K.Seavy has married Anna Ward, sister of W.W.Ward.

1902-09-05 CA Jesse Rascoe Jr has now moved to Roswell to join his father. Baird and Simpson now own the Alamo Saloon.

1902-09-12 CA W.T.Reed has bought out the A.D.Greene interest in the “Argus”, and is now the paper’s sole owner. (Fullen is still the Editor.)

1902-09-12 CC Green Ussery has bought a lot on North Canyon Street (601) just north of the J.W.Aiken place.

1902-09-12 CC U.S.Bateman has sold his place on Canyon just north of the Court House to Morgan Livingston.

1902-09-12 CA J.F.Farrell has sold 500 head of horses/

1902-09-12 CC The home of the Tobys is called “Riverside”

1902-09-12 CC A drawing of the Tansill Block shows Crozier’s Opera House downstairs on the south, the Crozier Real Estate Office in the middle office, and the Purdy Furniture and Undertaking establishment

in the north corner.

1902-09-19 CC A railroad engine and 3 cars leave the rails near the Depot, but no one is injured.

1902-09-19 CA The Improvement League is seeking the removal of all houses of ill fame to outside the city limits.

1902-09-19 CA The Standard Oil Co’s Guradalupe claims have sold 300 tons of good copper ore to the El Paso smelter.

1902-09-26 CC Dr Wright, much beloved, has died here. (His rock building near the court house had just been completed.)

1902-09-26 CA Ed Scoggin has 135 bee colonies.

1902-09-26 CA An A.J.Crawford horse has won a pacing race in Roswell.

1902-09-26 CC C.J.Demerest of Otis has married Mrs Akers.

1902-09-26 CA Fred Butler, George Tracy and Sam Blocker killed a bear in the last days of their recent Guadalupes outing.

1902-10-03 CA Red Seeley has been acquitted of the murder of Bob Hall.

1902-10-03 CA Re: Mexican-Americans were excluded from the recent Democratic Primary here.

1902-10-03 CA Mrs W.P.Johns is the new Matron of Eddy County Hospital.

1902-10-03 CA Rev E.S.Goodson will become the new Methodist minister here.

1902-10-03 CA Buck Stobaugh now owns the Mermod place in La Huerta.

1902-10-10 CC The J.D.Walker livery building is to become a saloon, a restaurant, and a barbershop. The building is now owned by W.E.Bass.

1902-10-10 CA The Town Council has tabled the Improvement League request to remove all houses of ill-fame outside the town limits.

1902-10-10 CA J.L.Emerson has married Miss Roberta Laverty.

1902-10-10 CA The Republican County Commission has produced “the first serious Republican ticket, ever, in Eddy County.”

1902-10-10 CA There is a new town ordinance forbidding spitting on sidewalks and

requiring cuspidors in all businesses.

1902-10-10 CA The Hotel Schlitz Manager says that the hotel always lost from $150 to $1400 a month during its PI&I Co ownership.

1902-10-10 CA Charles Rascoe has bought the City Livery Stable property and plans to put in a saloon. (The Two Johns Saloon.)

1902-10-17 CA Five women have been endicted for keeping bawdy houses and have been given 30 days to move outside the town limits.

1902-10-24 CA (Clay McGonagil is winning many area roping contests at this time.)

1902-10-24 CC W.E.Bass is the new proprietor of the Jump Livery Stable at the Northeast corner of Canyon and Mermod.

1902-10-24 CA Plans for a concrete flume are put on display. (It is later said that the Santa Fe Railroad and the President of the Schlitz Brewing Company contributed heavily for its construction.)

1902-10-31 CA P.S.Blodgett has died in Cleveland, Oh.

1902-10-31 CA George McBiles, the transfer man, is crushed to death by a falling safe in Carlsbad.

1902-11-07 CA Sallie Chism Stegman has filed for divorce from B.G.Stegman.

1902-11-07 CA Herman Harjes, his wife and his 2 daughters have arrived from Paris France by private railroad car. They have rented Hagerman Heights for 8 months. The Osbornes, who had been living there, have removed to 105 South Alameda. (Mr Harjes was heir-apparent to the Harjes banking fortune of France. His wife Marie, a aT.B.sufferer, was one of the eight daughters of the wealthy Jonathan Graves family of New York City. Her father owned this country’s leading wall paper manufacturing firm.)

1902-11-07 CA Major Martini Mancini has become an American Citizen in Roswell.

1902-11-14 CA Louis Ramuz, a Swiss farmer of Florence, has opened a shoe shop in the Osborne Building. He is an excellent shoemaker.

1902-11-14 CA J.F.Brogden has married Blanche Ward of Hope.

1902-11-21 CA H.F.Christian plans to build a house on Canal at Shaw.

1902-11-21 CA The bawdy houses’ occupants are preparing to leave town.

1902-11-21 CC Westwater’s second shaft, started last summer, has hit a perpendicular vein of ore.

1902-11-21 CA Standard Oil ore has been running 15% copper and 10% lead.

1902-11-21 CA The Cadwell Brothers have bought 160 acres surrounding the Malaga Townsite and plan to put it into orchard.

1902-11-28 CC The Hoover & Wilson Shooting Gallery has moved to the west room of the Smith Block.

1902-11-28 CC R.L.Bates has acquired the Eagle Hotel (at 103 East Mermod.) The old Legal Tender Café location is to close.

1902-11-28 CC Mrs John Reed, the daughter of J.W.Plowman, has died during the stillbirth of twins.

1902-11-28 CA The old flume is being torn down.

1902-12-05 CA The Improvement League is seeking to end all music in saloons here.

1902-12-12 CC Welch & Seay have opened the Two Jims’ Place Saloon in the old Walker Livery Building.

1902-12-12 CA Developers are creating the new town of Miller (the forerunner of Artesia.)

1902-12-12 CA Te Lee, the Chinese laundryman, has opened a restaurant.

1902-12-19 CC The Blackmore Drug Store has moved to the old Legal Tender Café site.

1902-12-19 CC John Choat has killed an immense wolf in the Guadalupes.

1902-12-19 CA The Dark Canyon Spillway is being enlarged.

1902-12-19 CA Francis G.Tracy is adding 1,800 trees, mostly peach, to his 40 acre orchard 3 miles southeast of town.

1902-12-19 CA Will Turk has been killed by J.E.McDonald in Hope.

1902-12-19 CC The Woodmen of the World have started a new 2-story building opposite the City Hall.

1902-12-19 CA Dr A.R.Smith’s new 2-story business block on South Canyon has

been completed.

1902-12-26 CA Riverton Tx is to get a 250,000 acre irrigation project with 87 miles of canal. 30 miles of canal have already been completed.

1902-12-26 CA George D.Lucas will build a house at Canyon and Bonbright. (The future Masonic Temple site.)

1902-12-26 CA Herman Harjes has received three blooded gray hounds for wolf hunting.

1903 In this year Abijah Long files a mineral rights claim on the 40 acres that included the Bat Cave.

1903 The Anderson Sanatorium is built (at 102 West Shaw)

1903 The mail route from Carlsbad to the Knowles area is begun, carried by Rube Knowles. (It will be discontinued in 1908.)

1903 The original adobe Catholic Church of San Jose is built, giving its name to that community. (There was, however, no resident priest until 1905.)

1903 Artesia gets its first school house, fire department, newspaper, drug store, library and bank charter.

1903 Green Ussery builds a 5-room house at 601 North Canyon.

1903-01-02 CA Monument now has a Post Office.

1903-01-02 CA Re: Carlsbad is “The Queen City of the Pecos Valley” and “The Peach City”.

1903-01-02 CA The new Improvement League meets, raising many ideas on how to improve Carlsbad.

1903-01-02 CA The (Chinese-run) English Kitchen will soon open.

1903-01-02 CA Three of the forms for the concrete arches are completed at the flume.

1903-01-02 CA Capt.Trayner and his wife are returning to England.

1903-01-02 CA (Big) Clabe Merchant is in town collecting endorsements for drift fences.

1903-01-09 CA Obituary for Robert W.Tansill (58). (He died Dec 31st at his home in La Huerta of heart failure.) (Re consumption as “The great white

destroyer.”

1903-01-09 CA The Rock Island Railroad is said to be headed for Carlsbad.

1903-01-09 CA The Improved Order of Red Men is organizing here.

1903-01-09 CA “There is no better vineyard land in the world than here”

1903-01-15 Artesia is laid out by John Richey, H.W.Hamilton and Mack Smith.

1903-01-16 CA Blacksmith Robert L.Causey has wed Miss Agnes Bogle.

1903-01-16 CA John Emerson and D.W.Jackson have bought out the William Leck Grocery. They will convert it to a Pharmacy.

1903-01-16 CA Tracy/Roberts Hardware will soon get a 30 feet by 100 feet corrugated iron warehouse across the alley from their store (at 108 South Canal.)

1903-01-16 CA The Cadwell Brothers have bought the 160 acres that includes the townsite of Malaga.

1903-01-16 CA W.A.Kemp (67+), father of Dave Kemp, died here on 13 Jan. He has lived here since 1891.

1903-01-30 CA T.C.Horne has bought two lots opposite the A.L.Heard place. He plans to build a place.

1903-01-30 CA Tom Gray has bought the old Mermod place in La Huerta.

1903-02-01 Jennie James marries Elliott Hendricks.

1903-02-03 The Sugar Beet Factory burns to the ground. (The heat was so intense it warped the rails on the nearby main line of the railroad. It was 3 blocks to the nearest fire hydrant. Uninsured, the loss was placed at $125.000.)

1903-02-06 CA John J.Daper has bought 10 acres at the northwest corner of Canal and Church where he plans to build a handsome home (at 901 North Canal) His land runs from Canal to Guadalupe.

1903-02-06 CA John Lowenbruck has sold his U.S.Meat Market to the Williams Brothers. Lowenbruck plans to buy the City Café.

1903-02-06 CA Chinese New Year was celebrated by “the local Chinks”.

1903-02-13 CA Kircher has bought-out Ohnemus, ending their long standing partnership in the O.K. Blacksmith business. The name will continue.

1903-02-13 CA Construction has started on the Four Mile Irrigation Company dam. (For The Downes place northeast of Otis and east of the river.)

1903-02-17 The Carlsbad Railroad Depot burns down. (This original Depot stood atthe west end of Mermod Street. The fire occurred on a bitterly cold night,and Volunteer Fireman Phil Kircher caught pneumonia—which ultimatelyled to his death.)

1903-02-20 CA Popular local hotel man G.H.Hutchins is killed by Little Clabe Merchant at the back door of the Schlitz Hotel.

1903-03-27 CA J.F.Matheson has moved his Wool Scouring Plant to Roswell.

1903-02-27 CA James Stokes (15) dies—the brother of Mrs Sol Scoonover and Mrs John Brown.

1903-03-27 CA Joyce Pruit & Co has bought the Pierce Building (which holds both their store and the Eddy Drug.)

1903-03-03 Charles W.Greene dies in New York City of a heart attack.

1903-03-06 CA Capt Etienne de Pelissier Bujac has moved to Carlsbad from Houston. (By the next week he had rented the south half of the McLenathen/Tracy Building for his law office.) He recently resigned from the Army because of health reasons. (Malaria picked up in the Philippean jungles.)

1903-03-06 CA A new canal is being planned to run from Arno Tx to Horsehead Crossing. --30 miles. (It will start from the Dixieland Dam.)

1903-03-06 CA E.McQueen Gray is giving concerts at the Tansill Opera House with his Magnificent new gramophone.

1903-03-13 CA Jack Bass and Dora Larremore will marry 18 March.

1903-03-20 CA The Territorial Governor has quarantined all Texas cattle until November.

1903-04 The Nathan Roberts family moved from Brownwood Tx to ranchland 14 miles east of future Hobbs. He originally hauled freight from Carlsbad to the Monument area.

1903-04-03 CA Mrs Armandine Penton, the sister of Mrs Harjes, is here with her daughter for the summer. (She had two young daughters in their early teens.)

1903-04-03 CA The A.N.Pratt Lumber Company has been sold to M.D.Groves.

1903-04-03 CA The “Carlsbad Current” is now a semi-weekly (briefly).

1903-04-03 CA Dee Harkey, the new cattle inspector for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association, has bought the Tom Gray property in Rio Vista and will move his family there.

1903-04-10 CA A.D.Greene has retired as the long-time Editor of the “Argus”. Here since 1888, he is moving to El Paso.

1903-04-10 CA A Town Ordinance outlaws hitching posts on downtown Canyon Street.

1903-04-10 CA The Dominici property in La Huerta has recently sold to William Beverly.

1903-04-10 CA F.G.Tracy will test grow two acres of Egyptian cotton for the Government Bureau of Plant Husbandry.

1903-04-17 CA A.J.Crawford has joined Mr Bolton & Mr Beeman in incorporating the Carlsbad Grocery Company.

1903-04-17 CA Tracy/Roberts is now building its warehouse.

1903-04-24 CA Re: considerable salt is being brought into town from the salt lake east of Florence (across the river.)

1903-04-24 CA Jack Heard has married Miss Mable Gray.

1903-04-26 Mrs Rome Ohnemus (the 3rd?) dies at 25 of tuberculosis.

1903-05-01 CA William H.Mullane has bought the “Current”.

1903-05-01 CA The Woodmen of the World have organized their women’s group here.

1903-05-01 CA Someone is dynamiting the best fishing pools here both above and below Hagerman Dam.

1903-05-01 (By this point, photos of the concrete flume construction show its completion to the south bank, with only the arches still buttressed with forms.)

1903-05-07 Bruce Jones kills Earnest Sowell in Alamogordo.

1903-05-08 CA The Dayton townsite has been incorporated.

1903-05-08 CA Carlsbad now has a 9:00 o’clock curfew for all under 17.

1903-05-15 CA A Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star has been organized here.

1903-05-15 CA John Boeglin has bought Lot 8 of Block 30 and is already building a home.

1903-05-15 CA R.Ramuz has shifted his family from Florence to the Mullane homestead 10 miles southwest of Carlsbad.

1903-05-22 CA The Concrete Flume has been completed and water is back in the Main Canal.

1903-05-29 CA Ed Collins (35) dies. Here since 1891, for the last eight years he has Worked for the Barfield & Cantrell Saloon.

1903-05-29 CA The Methodist Parsonage on Stevens southwest of the church is being turned around to face the same direction next to the church.

1903-06-05 CA Capt Bujac has completed plans for his new home in North La Huerta, “Monte Vista”. (In 2010 it still stands a block west of 1739 North Canal.)

1903-06-05 CA Tom Kindel has gone to Dog Canyon to work in the copper mine. His family will follow shortly.

1903-06-05 CA The Methodist Parsonage (at 210 W Stevens) will be relocated at 209 North Halagueno to face the same direction as the church.

1903-06-12 CA Abe Wilson has bought out the Kemp & Woerner Saloon.

1903-06-12 CA A box of one pound of treated opium being shipped by an El Paso firm (apparently legally) to a Carlsbad Celestial broke open in the mail room. Everything is stained.

1903-06-12 CA The demolition of the Sugar Beet Factory ruins is about completed.

1903-06-19 CA There is again major high water on the Pecos.

1903-06-26 CA Judge McMillan of the Fifth Judicial District has been replaced.

1903-06-26 CA The Hotel Schlitz now has the town’s only concrete sidewalk.

1903-06-26 CA Capt Bujac has married Mrs Julia Armandine Penton in Bismark ND. (Their unexpected departure from town just before an announced wedding here is described.)

1903-07 The valley’s first artesian well comes in at Miller. Shortly afterward the “world’s largest artesian well” comes in three miles east of that siding.

1903-07-03 CA Plans for an Equestrian Club here have been announced.

1903-07-03 CA Joyce Pruit & Co. has started a new building at 104 South Canyon. It has now become Joyce-Pruit Co. The new building will be 100 feet by 150 feet, directly opposite the Hotel Schlitz.

1903-07-03 CA Ad: The Office Bar: George Burrows, Manager.

1903-07-03 CA Ad: Causey & Osborne, Blacksmithing. (Causey became widely known for his spurs. World Champions Clay McGonagill and Richard Merchant both used them.)

1903-07-04 Capt Bujac is the speaker at the 4th of July celebration.

1903-07-06 The law firm of Bujac & Brice is created. Brice has just arrived from Nevarro County, TX.

1903-07-06 The Bitting Bank is renamed the National Bank of Carlsbad.

1903-07-10 CA Fire Chief Ohnemus wants a horse for the Fire Department.

1903-07-10 CA E.McQueen Gray’s Equestrians do a “Lancier’s Drill” at the ball grounds.

1903-07-10 CA Re: Among popular local legends, the San Simon ghost.

1903-07-10 CA Re: E.McQueen Gray’s gramophone concerts on the Hotel Schlitz veranda are enjoyed by many on Wednesday and Saturday evenings.

1903-07-17 CA Capt Bujac has bought the 40 acres of the old Eddy Bissell Land and Cattle Co that includes the small Eddy office building just south of where his new home will be located.

1903-07-17 CA The Commercial Committee of the Union Club has been organized. (This would appear to be the start of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce.)

1903-07-31 CA Ground has been broken for the first house in Dayton.

1903-07-31 CA The just-completed 2-story building of the Woodmen of the World has settled so badly that it may have to be condemned.

1903-08-07 CA The new Colored Methodist Church has been dedicated.

1903-08-14 CA The Brick School is getting an addition. (Up to this time a “T” shaped building, this addition on the northeast side completed the cross.)

1903-08-21 CA Capt Bujac has started work on “Monte Vista”.

1903-08-21 CA E.T.Judkins has bought the Witt Brothers’ Blue Spring Ranch.

1903-08-28 CA Ramsey/Brady Co is shipping guano from here to the Sandwich Islands. (Now known as Hawaii.)

1903-09-11 CA M.B.Huling, long-time Delaware River rancher, has married.

1903-09-18 CA The long-running Court House sanitary drainage problem, and that of the Schlitz Hotel, as well, has finally been solved. (This had been caused by the closeness of the water table to the surface in the downtown area. The new “solution” is not described.)

1903-09-18 CA South Chavez County is to get a new Negro Town. (This refers to the birth of Blackdom NM)

1903-09-25 CA Vic Queen has bought the entire town of Westwater from J.S. Crozier. (It apparently had one building.)

1903-10-09 CA Elmore Freeman (32), the son of Judge Freeman, has committed suicide.

1903-10-09 CA Fire Chief Ohnemus has refused to let the Department’s chemical engine leave the city limits (which stopped at the Canal Street Bridge entering La Huerta), but he has been overridden by Mayor Klauder.

1903-10-16 CA Re: All local Ministers recently refused to marry a divorced couple. (This may refer to Capt Bujac and Mrs Armandine Penton)

1903-10-16 CA An Episcopal Parsonage is being built just west of the church.

1903-10-23 CA The Volunteer Fire Department has publically “divorced itself” from Mayor Klauder.

1903-10-23 CA Francis G.Tracy is growing 30 test varieties of Egyptian cotton on 2 acres for the Department of Agriculture.

1903-10-23 CA The only cotton gin in the Territory of New Mexico is now being constructed at Carlsbad (at the west end of Tansill Dam.)

1903-10-23 CA Dave Kemp has married Miss Ada Patty.

1903-10-23 CA The first local Official Board for the Christian Church has been

organized here.

1903-10-30 CA The new railroad depot will be built at the east end of Fox Street.

1903-11-06 CA J.Frank and Tilden Joyce have received a new son, John R. II, on November 3rd.

1903-11-20 CA Hugh Freeman has published a piece of sheet music titled “A Little Girl’s Sorrow”.

1903-11-27 CA R.T.Ohnemus (66), the father of Rom & Frank Ohnemus, died here at his home on 23 Nov

1903-12 The first High Mass is held at San Jose Catholic Church..

1903-12-11 CA Capt and Mrs Bujac will move into “Monte Vista” next week.

1903-12-11 CA Work has started on a concrete Tansill Dam with a penstock at the west end. (The remains of that penstock are at the center of today’s dam.)

1904 Jim Tulk establishes a store and Post Office in the Guadalupes that he names Queen NM.

1904 The Elizondo family builds a small home on their ¼ Section claim in the sand hills on the northeastern edge of La Huerta.

1904 The Toffelmire family moves to Carlsbad. He is a contractor, and his first job here is the new railroad station.

1904 Will Rogers, a young cowpoke on a local ranch, takes part in his first rodeo ever in Carlsbad. (Yes, that Will Rogers.)

1904 The Carlsbad Baptist Church gets electricity.

1904 The brick McLenathen Building at the northwest corner of Fox and Canyon is built. Roberts/Dearborne Hardware will become its first tenent.

1904-01-01 CA Frank Ohnemus has married Ernestine Grandi.

1904-01-08 CA Opposition stops the cutting-down of the cottonwoods in the 100 block of South Canyon.

1904-01-08 CA E.McQueen Gray will deliver a lecture on “Macbeth” at the Hotel Schlitz.

1904-01-08 CA Capt Bujac and Mr Brice have been admitted to the New Mexico Territorial Bar.

1904-01-15 CA Billy Kerr has just returned from a trip to Europe, the Holy Lands and Japan, which he made with his brother Howard,

1904-01-15 CA Re: the workers on the Power House construction: “Mexicans” receive 15 cents an hour, “Americans” get 17 ½ cents.

1904-01-15 CA J.D.Stamp has married Gertie Nymeyer.

1904-01-22 CA The Masons (who have been meeting on the 2nd floor of the Tansill Building) have purchased the lot at 102 North Canyon. (The livery stable which had been there, will be moved eastward across the alley.)

1904-01-22 CA Work is now underway on the new train depot at the east end of Fox Street.

1904-01-22 CA Many grapes are being planted this spring.

1904-01-22 CA B.J.Kyykendall has found copper at the head of Spencer Draw.

1904-01-29 CA Will Merchant and his bride are back in Carlsbad.

1904-01-29 CA The Carlsbad House, a hotel at about 106 South Main, burns, as does Robert Causey’s small home.

1904-01-29 CA The widow of Silas Ussery has married Wll McBride.

1904-01-29 CA E.McQueen Gray was considered the finest amateur Shakespearian actor that ever appeared in England. According to Lord Tennison, he is “the only man who knows how to read Shakespeare.”

1904-01-29 CA Re: The Ramuz ranch is near the mouth of Dark Canyon.

1904-01-29 CA Governor Otero and Senator Andrews visit, campaigning for reelection.

1904-02-05 CA The concrete dam is now finished, replacing the old wooden Tansill Dam.

1904-02-05 CA Capt J.C.Lea of Roswell has died.

1904-02-05 CA Excavation has begun for a rock Christian Church at 300 West Stevens.

1904-02-12 CA Reynolds and the Lucas Brothers have bought the ranch and cattle of Little Clabe Merchant.

1904-02-19 CA J.O.Wersell is moving his dairy from North La Huerta to 1,000 acres east of town—where he is building a house.

1904-02-19 CA The Episcopaleans are planning to have services in French on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month to serve the Frence and Swiss Colonies here.

1904-03-04 CA Little Clabe Merchant is found innocent in the Hutchins killing. Capt Bujac “of the great eloquence” gets him off, saying that Hutchins fired first—amidst arguments that the gun on Hutchins had been planted.

1904-03-04 CA Joyce-Pruit is opening a branch in Artesia.

1904-03-11 CA C.C.Lewis has bought a tract of land north of town to erect an Ice Plant. He is the brother of J.W.Lewis.

1904-03-11 CA Tailor Jacob Smith (of Germany) has married Sara Halbronn.

1904-03-11 CA The Brunswick Bowling Alley has opened.

1904-03-18 CA Mrs Percy Pine Lewis has rented the Anderson place in La Huerta (at the southwest corner of Canal and Orchard Lane.). She is accompanied by her son Fred Lewis (who soon moves on.)

1904-03-18 CA The Colored Methodist Church, which was just west of the Catholic Church (apparently in San Jose), burns down.

1904-03-18 CA Andrew Ramuz (25) has died

1904-03-18 CA William V.Johnson has bought the William T.Nelson ranch of 160 acres near Seven Rivers.

1904-03-18 CA Marsha Kuykendall has married M.Jaques Cox at Rocky Arroyo. .

1904-03-25 CA The Ancient Order of United Workmen, the oldest fraternal-insurance Order in America, has organized here

1904-04-01 CA Capt Bujac gets his law partner Brice nominated for Mayor. He is elected to that position by 08 Apr..

1904-04-01 CA The townsite of Francis is no more. The railroad has taken down the siding sign.

1904-04-01 CA E.McQueen Gray is preparing to erect a fine home at the southwest corner of Stevens and Canal. The Elliott Hendricks will build a home across the street to the north.

1904-04-01 CA A “new Chink restaurant,” the American Kitchen, has opened in the Blackmore Building.

1904-04-08 CA The original McLenathen & Campbell building at 108 South Canyon is moved to 209 West Mermod.

1904-04-08 CA Ysidora Miranda and Cinto Hernandez are arrested for shooting up San Jose.

1904-04-08 CA Final proof on the John D.Forehand homestead.

1904-04-08 CA Brice has been elected Mayor.

1904-04-08 CA A Priest makes a monthly visit to both the San Jose and Saint Edwards Churches.

1904-04-15 CA The Mathesons have moved to Roswell to operate a Scouring Mill there

1904-04-15 CA Dr J.W.Kinsinger, formerly of Carlsbad, has retired in Roswell..

1904-04-20 Etienne Bujac the Third is born. (He will become Bruce Cabot)

1904-04-22 CA All Carlsbad retail stores are now closing at 7:00 P.M., except on Sunday. (It had been later.)

1904-04-29 CA Bruce Jones has been adquitted of murdering Earnest Sowell in Alamogordo.

1904-04-29 CA Armandine Bujac is deeply ill.

1904-04-29 CA James Hogg (65) has died at his home near McMillan.

1904-05-03 The Literary Club (previously the Research Circle) is now renamed the Women’s Club.

1904-05-04 Hugh Freeman (29) is killed in La Huerta in a freak accident draggedby a run-away buggy horse.

1904-05-06 CA J.M.Day, the founder of Dayton, has died.

1904-05-06 CA Re: the Eddy County Hospital has twelve “light and airy” rooms.

1904-05-06 CA Re: Many Eddy County peach orchards produce from $400 to $600 per acre profit

1904-05-06 CA Carlsbad Hardware has on display Carlsbad’s first automatic shot gun..

1904-05-10 Julia Armendine Graves Bujac dies at 38 (Being a long-time T.B. sufferer, she proves unable to stand the strains of childbirth.)

1904-05-13 CA An ordinance is past vs spitting, over worries that Consumptives might do it and spread their disease.

1904-05-13 CA The saloons once again seek to be allowed to have music, but their request is denied.

1904-05-13 CA J.H.Johns is named the first (unpaid) sexton of the Carlsbad Cemetery “to stop the practice of people who drift onto the grounds and dig graves most any old place, often in the streets.

1904-05-20 CA The Superintendent of Schools recommends that 7th & 8th grade teacher Sara Kernodle not be rehired, starting a major tempest. (She will come to have a private school, supported by the town’s leading families.)

1904-05-20 CA Sam D.Jones files on his homestead.

1904-05-27 CA Beatrice McGuinn and Alice Leck comprise a the town’s first 12-grade graduating class of two..

1904-05-27 CA Tracy-Roberts Hardware is shifting to the old Joyce-Pruit location at 127 South Canyon. It carries Studebaker buggies.

1904-06-03 CA A new company has been formed with Dr Doepp as President that plans to erect a Sanatarium, bath house, cabins, and a tent city at Carlsbad Spring. They also plan to have a 12-person launch on the lake. (None of this except the bath house ever happens.)

1904-06-03 CA Isadore Miranda kills Harvey Camp at the corner of Lea and Canal. (The newspaper never carries any explanation.)

1904-06-03 CA Carl Gordon has married Alice Rayroux, “a member of Mrs.R.W. Tansill’s family for a long time.”

1904-06-03 CA C.W.Beeman is the new County Commissioner from the south

1904-06-10 CA Gelrge Wiliams and Josephine Witt have married in Missouri.

1904-06-10 CA The Public Utilities Company has been organized. .

1904-06-17 CA Mrs Percy Pine Lewis has now bought the Anderson place in La Huerta,

Five acres for $2,000. [At this point, Mrs Lewis (44) invites into her home to live with her fellow T.B.sufferer Billy Kerr (21).]

1904-06-17 CA Aubrey Gist on his goats: “My partners and I invested $2,500 five years ago in Angoras, which have paid 12% on the investment. We bought a ranch in the Guadalupes.” Re: You do not need to feed stock in the Guadalupes during the winter.

1904-06-24 CA E McQueen Gray has been ordained an Episcopal Priest in El Paso.

1904-07-01 CA John Draper has married Tina Nymeyer

1904-07-01 CA E.McQueen Gray has been ordained an Episcopal Minister in El Paso. Re: He is one of only 6 surviving scholars who have received the Degree of Master of Literature from Oxford University..

1904-07-01 CA Arthur Mayes has married Mary Weaver at Florence.

1904-07-08 CA Fred Nymeyer has married Zena Leck

1904-07-15 CA The new ice plant is of adobe, 30 feet by 32 feet, with a 31 foot by 12 foot boiler room. 1904-07-15 CA Re: A Sarah Kernodle experiment indicates that we can commercially raise silk worms here.

1904-07-15 CA The Town Board of Trustees gives both Mrs Tansill and the competing Public Utilities Company franchises. (This begins a period of several years when every alley had two sets of power poles in Carlsbad.)

1904-07-22 CA The Joyce Family’s First National Bank moves to its new location at 102 South Canyon. (It has been in the Mulane Building at 128 South Canyon.) The Joyce-Pruit Store will soon open at 104-108 South Canyon.

1904-07-22 CA Ed Scoggins has 150 hives of honey bees.

1904-07-29 CA Mr Harjes’ bloodhound pack has been pursuing bears on the Benson Farm. (One wonders if there were any.)

1904-07-29 CA Bujac & Brice have moved into the newly relocated building at 209 West Mermod.

1904-07-29 CA The architect for the new Joyce-Pruit building is J.M.Nelson of Roswell.

1904-08-01 CA The Joyce-Pruit store at Artesia opens.

1904-08-05 CA Joyce-Pruit Carlsbad has a celebration for its new store location. Re: The building cost about $25,000.

1904-08-05 CA The new 2-story E.McQueen Gray home at 113 North Canal (with pillars) is almost finished. It is to be called “Baronald”, the name of his father’s estates in Scotland.

1904-08-05 CA Gordon & Childress have moved their livery stable across the alley to the east to permit the Masons to start construction of their 2-story Lodge Building at 102 North Canyon.

1904-08-05 CA Ramsey & Company have started a site for a cotton gin at the west end of Tansill Dam.

1904-08-05 CA Re: the Mexican Baptist Church in San Jose.

1904-08-05 CA The Woodmen of the World Building has been saved, although “crooked”. The Lodge has also gotten new furnishings.

1904-08-12 CA The C.C.Lewis Ice Plant has begun operation. Ice under 100 pounds, 75 cents per hundred. Ice over 100 pounds, 60 cents per hundred.

1904-08-12 CA J.B.Cherbino has Rambouillet sheep, as does A.J.Crawford.

1904-08-12 CA Homestead filing for Encarnacion Quinonez (The first Hispanic homestead listing in the paper.)

1904-08-12 CA The Will Merchants have a new baby boy. (Bill Jr)

1904-08-12 CA 5,000 crates of peaches are expected to be shipped this season.

1904-08-19 CA The paper laments the vandalism of tombstones & monuments at the cemetery.

1904-08-19 CA Miss Sarah Kernodle is not within the published list of Carlsbad Public School teachers.

1904-08-19 CA I.T.Frank of McKitrick Canyon visits Carlsbad.

1904-08-19 CA Dayton NM has just gotten a new school, and a hotel is planned.

1904-08-19 CA The new township of Lakewood (organized by Charles McLenathen) has replaced the town of McMillan. (This township is on the railroad, almost 3 miles west of McMillan.) “Two hundred acres of town lots, streets and parks are being laid out.”

1904-08-26 CA Re: Sitting Bull Falls camp—the first time the name has appeared in local papers?

1904-08-26 CA Will Welch is now engaged to Miss Mamie Hoose.

1904-08-26 CA Several young men of Artesia are charged with disturbing the peace in an attempt to drive out a Negro man from the town.

1904-08-26 CA Capt Bujac is visiting in Colorado Springs. (He is visiting Mary Robintson, with whom he has established a relationship during a train trip they had happened to share from Denver to Dallas.)

1904-09-09 CA Every family in La Huerta has signed a petition to get their own elementary school there. They have forty students.

1904-09-09 CA “James John Hagerman should stop bad mouthing Carlsbad.”

1904-09-16 CA The Public Utilities Company announces it will extend its telephone lines to Lakewood, Dayton and Artesia.

1904-09-16 CA The sale of cemetery lots is begun (before this they had been free and you went where you wanted) to provide funds for cemetery maintenance.

1904-09-16 CA J.D.Boyd’s water wagon is now owned by Joe Hudgins.

1904-09-23 CA La Huerta gets its own 1-room elementary school.

1904-09-23 CA The name of the Francis Tracy home in La Huerta is said to be “The Bungalow”

1904-09-23 CA Bill Jones invites everyone to a barbeque at his place on Rocky Arroyo. 100 attend, dancing till dawn.

1904-09-23 CA The formal opening of the new Joyce-Pruits takes place. “One of the season’s biggest social events.”

1904-09-23 CA Lakewood gets an artesian well just east of town, at 330 feet depth.

1904-09-30 CA A wash-out of the railroad near Red Bluff puts a railroad engine in the ditch.

1904-09-30 CA The L.A.Pipkin 5-room home in the northern part of town has burned down.

1904-10-02 A “Mighty Flood” sweeps down the valley. “The biggest ever.” TheCurrent Argus of 07 Oct states that: The flood waters went around both ends of Tansill Dam. There was a mass exodus to Greene Heights and the hills over a

false report that McMillan Dam had broken. (Sheriff Stewart is portrayed as getting especially histerical.) The Ramsey Brothers lost their gin building and their cotton press, although they successfully moved their other gin machinery. They will build their next gin on their former spot north of the Railroad Depot. The Electric Light Power House at the east end of Tansill Dam was swept away.

Parts of Greene Street, Main Street and Canyon Street were flooded. The Woodmen of the World Building’s foundation settled even further, making the building totally unusable. R.P.Love got 16 inches of water in his La Huerta home. (This home sat where Armandine would next be built.) The Commerce Club has held an emergency meeting, and is pushing to get the National Government to buy-out the ruined Irrigation System, but that such a request requires the existence of a Water Users Association here. The flood also takes out Avalon Dam and all of the area bridges. McMillan Dam is saved only by dynamiting a hole in its western embankment to permit more water to escape. The new concrete flume did remain intact, but was washed-out at both ends. The flood, as well, took out the Dixieland dam on the Pecos near Pecos Tx. The dam was never rebuilt. Some Roswell streets were four feet under water.

1904-10-07 CA The Ramsey Brothers plan to rebuild the gin—but will go back to the original location away from the river and near the railroad.

1904-10-14 CA A Pecos Water Users Association has been organized.

1904-10-14 CA Artesia, just fourteen months old, votes $10,000 for a public school.

1904-10-14 CA A major rise in the Hondo has put 18 inches of water in some Roswell stores.

1904-10-14 CA The flooding in Carlsbad puts three feet of water on lower Canyon Street. The new Woodmen of the World building is left 12 inches out of plumb, and must be torn down. All bridges were washed away. The concrete flume is being used as a temporary bridge to La Huerta.

1904-10-14 CA Eusebio Pompa has married Sebastina Griego at San Jose Catholic Church.

1904-10-21 CA The E.McQueen Grays and Mrs Touzel have moved into their new house in town. It cost about $10,000.

1904-10-21 CA The Woodmen of the World Building is now being torn down.

1904-10-21 CA That area’s first oil well has been started 10 miles west of Lakewood.

1904-10-28 CA The Ramsey Brothers have their new gin going. (This swift action was necessary because the flood came in the middle of the cotton harvest.)

1904-11 Dayton townsite, having suffered major damage in the big flood, is moved from north of the Penasco to its present location.

1904-11-04 CA Etienne Bujac III is christened at Grace Church. In a violation of all tradition Col Bujac serves as his own son’s God Father, and Mary Robinson of Colorado Springs, not the child’s aunt Mrs Harjes, serves as his God Mother. The Harjeses are not present.

1904-11-05 The corner stone for the Masonic Temple is laid (at the 2nd-floor level.)(Gene Roberts, Lodge historian, will later say that the building cost$10,000—but that $7,000 of that had to be borrowed from new memberJohn R.Joyce Sr.) (Ullery Furniture & Mortuary, managed by Dick Thorne, will soon lease and occupy the building’s lower floor.)

1904-11-11 CA Teddy Roosevelt has been elected President of the United States. (The up-to-then pipe dream of getting the Federal Government to take over its first western irrigation system now began to seem at least possible.) Carlsbad had noone in the Rough Riders, but Roswell did have one, Charles Ballard, and he became Carlsbad’s entry to the Oval Office. Once inaugurated, Roosevelt would direct the Department of Interior to launch an extensive study of what it would take, and at what cost, to put the flood-destroyed irrigation system back into operation.

1904-11-11 CA The Methodists have formed a Ladies’Aid Society.

1904-11-18 CA Mrs Gertrude Doepp dies at 29. (She married the Doctor in 1899.)

1904-11-18 CA El Paso TX has outlawed gambling.

1904-11-18 CA The H.E.Robb home at the southeast corner of Fox and Alameda has been sold to G.E.Benson.

1904-11-18 CA Mrs Tansill has had a new coffer dam put across the new river channel which has, since the flood, been going around the west end of her dam.

1904-11-25 CA Finlay/Murray Hardware has moved next to the new Joyce-Pruits (on the south). Hess Brothers Grocery is moving to the south side of Finlay/Murray.

1904-12-02 CA The Federal Government has let the contracts for Hondo Dam. (This dam, 20 miles west of Roswell, is mostly remembered for how little water it ever held.)

1904-12-02 CA The Ullery Furniture and Mortuary is to go into the first floor of the Masonic Building.

1904-12-16 CA J.W.Campbell from the Indian Territory is here visiting his family.

1904-12-23 CA A new town ordinance forbids horse races here on Sunday.

1904-12-23 CA Lakewood now has a saloon.

1904-12-23 CA A New York City physician has suggested tent life for treatment of tuberculosis.

1904-12-24 Sol Schoonover wins a roping bet against Clay McGonagill that Sol canrope and tie one steer before Clay can rope and tie ten. (The organizersarranged for Clay to get 10 of the wildest steers ever seen, brought infrom Mexico.) 500 people observe the contest.

1904-12-29 Hub Brogdon dies of pneumonia at the home of Reuben Segrest.

1904-12-30 CA The replacement bridge for Canal Street into La Huerta is about to be started. (For several months a cable-boat, charging 25 cents a trip, carried people back and forth to their homes in La Huerta.)

1905 A cadre of Federal engineers and soil experts arrive to evaluate the valley and its irrigation problems..1905 Fr Juvenal Schnorbus becomes the first resident Priest at San Jose Catholic Church.

1905 D.G.Grantham comes to Carlsbad to practice law. He will bring his family out to join him in 1906.

1905 Jess Wheeler, AT&SF Brakeman, moves from Roswell to Carlsbad.

1905 The Pecos Water Users Association is organized to provide local input in the Bureau of Reclamation Irrigation District. It will be replaced in 1933 with the Carlsbad Irrigation District.

1905-01-06 CA The new Masonic Building has now been occupied.

1905-01-06 CA Large forces of men (under the direction of E.M.Myers of the U.S.Reclamation Service) have begun to repair the McMillan and Avalon Dams.

1905-01-06 CA A new 2-story frame hotel of 18 rooms is being built at the northeast corner of Fox and Main for Capt Holland. (This will later be named the Palace Hotel.)

1905-01-06 CA A wood timber diversion dam is going up in the gap at Avalon to permit it to again provide irrigation waters.

1905-01-06 CA Dan Lucas has sold his home at 613 North Canyon to Elliott Hendricks.

1905-01-13 CA The long E.McQueen Gray poem, “The Mesa”, appears.

1905-01-13 CA The Woodmen of the World have shifted their meetings to the old Masonic rooms upstairs in the Tansill Building.

1905-01-13 CA George H.Webster, the owner/manager of the Vineyard Stock Farm, is a graduate of Yale.

1905-01-13 CA The Public Utilities Company (always called the “P-U”Company here) has decided to build its own power dam 6 miles down river. (This is the present Lower Six Mile Dam.)

1905-01-20 CA Bob Osborne has left Causey & Osborne to be the blacksmith at the Hondo Reservoir project. Blacksmith Bob Causey has returned to Carlsbad from Arizona.

1905-01-21 The new Masonic Temple is dedicated.

1905-01-27 CA Emerson & Jackson Drug at 122 South Canyon has become the Star Pharmacy, now owned by Hoffman & Emerson.

1905-01-27 CA The St Edwards Catholic Church plans to erect a Parsonage (at 211 North Guadalupe.)

1905-02 A.V.Logan becomes the first Mayor of Artesia. He holds that office until July 1905.

1905-02-03 CA The Commerce Club will move its meeting rooms to the 2nd floor of the old National Bank Building. (201 South Canal.)

1905-02-03 CA Harper Silliman has bought the old Ellice & Every farm a mile north of Otis.

1905-02-03 CA John Lowenbruck will reopen the U.S.Meat Market two doors north of City Hall at 209 South Canyon.

1905-02-10 CA Dr Bearup has sold his Dark Canyon homestead place (just northeast of the Railroad Standpipe) to Mary Maybury.

1905-02-17 CA W.G.Woerner has sold his Hub Clothing Store to A.E.Seigner, and is moving to Fort Worth.

1905-02-17 CA Government Engineer E.M.Myers is directing the work at Avalon.

1905-02-24 CA Los Angeles Capitalists have funded a 2 ½ million dollar company to develop oil in a 25 mile by 6 mile area centered on the T21S R23E area.

1905-02-24 CA Railroad service has been increased to one through-train every day of the week for passengers, except Sunday, plus a freight train three days a week. The passenger train going south departs at 8:30 p.m. That going north Departs at 8:10 a.m.

1905-02-24 CA The Bank of Artesia has incorporated.

1905-02-24 CA Rev E.McQueen Gray is now the District Missionary for the Episcopal Diocese.

1905-02-24 CA The Public Utilities Company dam will cost over $8.000. It is to be 260 feet long and 8 feet high.

1905-03-03 CA The Eddy Drug, with the Post Office, has moved one door north to the old Morrison & Richards Dry Goods location.

1905-03-03 CA Doc Vest has married Miss Nellie Merrifield of Hope NM.

1905-03-03 CA The Carlsbad Racing Association has been formed. It plans to create a new race track one mile southwest of town.

1905-03-03 CA A.J.Crawford announces he will now handle others’ wool as well, as a commission business.

1905-03-03 CA The New Mexico Territory now has its first libel law.

1905-03-03 CA A.J.Crawford has entered the Wool Commission business.

1905-03-03 CA B.L.Walker has leased the City Livery Stable from E.F.Bass.

1905-03-03 CA Re: A Woodmen of the World event will include a cake walk.

1905-03-10 CA Capt Bujac has returned from an extended visit to San Antonio Tx.

1905-03-10 CA Peaches from the Francis G.Tracy and R.M.Love orchards have taken first and second prizes at the St Louis Exposition.

1905-03-10 CA Roswell has proclaimed itself the “Pearl of the Pecos”.

1905-03-10 CA Re: R.B.Knowles has a store at Monument NM

1905-03-15 General R.S.Benson, who had been here since 1896, dies here. His surviving sons are Wells, Guy and Holly. A Union Captain in the Civil War, he purchased the Tansill Farm when he arrived here.

1905-03-17 CA Government Engineers have measured the normal flow of the Pecos to be 3,000 cubic feet per second.

1905-03-17 CA J.B.Roberts is building a drug store in Lakewood.

1905-03-17 CA It is illegal to sell tobacco or alcohol to minors, or to let them gamble. Vertually every saloon in Carlsbad is charged with one or the other.

1905-03-17 CA A.J.Holland has named his new hotel the Texas Hotel.

1905-03-17 CA W.K.Worton has opened a private boarding house in the Downs place at 407 West Fox.

1905-03-24 CA Artesia makes a second attempt to created a new county out of northern Eddy County, but again fails.

1905-03-24 CA J.W.Stokes has sold his farm (near Lower Six Mile Dam) to William Allen and is moving back to Lamar Missouri.

1905-03-24 CA Re: A Mexican wedding dance at the Opera House “turns into a drunken brawl.” (If this happens at any Anglo dances it is never mentioned.)

1905-03-31 CA The village of Artesia has banned gambling.

1905-03-31 CA Joyce-Pruit holds its annual Spring millinary grand opening. “Almost every woman in town attends.”

1905-03-31 CA The Lakewood Town Company has planted 3,000 cottonwood trees.

1905-03-31 CA Twelve Polish families have started a 2,600 acre colony near Lakewood.

1905-03-31 CA The ladies of Carlsbad wish to organize a Cemetery Association to improve the cemetery grounds.

1905-03-31 CA Re: Will Merchant is the Assistant to County Treasurer J.D.Walker.

1905-03-31 CA Rev E.McQueen Gray has received the Masonic 3rd Degree.

1905-03-31 CA The Ft Stanton Sanitarium has been destroyed by fire.

1905-03-31 CA The updated Sanborn Insurance Map of Carlsbad is now being drawn.

1905-04-07 CA The Territorial Attorney General has voided Carlsbad’s 4 April city election because voters had to select ballots from two piles, in public view. The old officials will remain in office. Another election is not permitted for one year.

1905-04-07 CA Re: The Eddy County artesian water belt is “the best in the world”

1905-04-07 CA It is believed here that the Federal Government will eventually purchase the Carlsbad Irrigation System.

1905-04-07 CA The Star Pharmacy has opened a soda fountain.

1905-04-07 CA Dannelly & Locke have purchased the Star Stables from the Ward Brothers.

1905-04-07 CA Mr Webster, who has had the Vineyard Stock Farm for six years, has sold it to W.J.Fox and his brother.

1905-04-07 CA Re: The ordinance creating a Cemetery Association did pass.

1905-04-14 CA Artesia’s recent town election has also been voided. (It took place in the wrong year.)

1905-04-14 CA D.S.Kuykendall is in from Rocky Arroyo with the season’s first load of garden truck. (Which he sold, for years, going up and down the streets of town in his wagon, ringing his bell.)

1905-04-14 CA Past Eddy teacher E.O.Creighton (38) has been killed in a steer roping accident near Dexter.

1905-04-15 The most-recent Mrs Sam Jones dies. Married 2 ½ years, they hadone child.

1905-04-21 CA Re: Westwater still has a Post Office.

1905-04-21 CA The Carlsbad City Council has approved a sewer system.

1905-04-21 CA Mrs Sam Jones has died at 19. She had a child several months ago.

1905-04-21 CA John Stewart has married Maggie Bass.

1905-04-21 CA The new race track is one mile west “on the south line of the city” (which puts it on the south side of Lea Street.)

1905-04-28 CA Dr R.J.Boatman and wife are moving to Mexico.

1905-04-28 CA Public sale is announced of the property of “David Horton, a lunatic.”

1905-04-28 CA The Bearups have moved into the old Scoggins farm house (at 507 West Greene) from their place near Dark Canyon Wells.

1905-05-05 CA Jenny Linn, Roy Allison and Frank B.Smith will be this year’s graduating Seniors. (Frank B.Smith, however, is not later listed among CHS graduates.)

1905-05-05 CA The Lakewood Oil Company has organized.

1905-05-05 CA Mary Wallace of Tennessee will marry Richard Thorne of Ullery Furniture and Mortuary.

1905-05-05 CA Re: W.L.Bobo, “The Duke of Carlsbad.” (He was known as the town swell.)

1905-05-12 CA The Public Utilities Company, which is now in the old National Bank Building’s south room, has shifted to a larger telephone switchboard.

1905-05-12 CA A cattle dipping vat has been completed at the (South Y) stock pens.

1905-05-12 CA Someone burned the outhouses at the School in celebration of the end of the school year.

1905-05-19 CA William Mullane has begun publishing the “New Mexico Sun” newspaper here. (No copies are known to exist.)

1905-05-19 CA The new steel and concrete La Huerta Bridge on Canal Street has opened, dedicated with a jubilant Virginia Reel. (The invitation-only dance there was organized by Olive Tracy.)

1905-05-19 CA The Bank of Artesia has moved into its own building.

1905-05-19 CA Since the new La Huerta bridge is steel and concrete, there is a $10 fine for driving your beggy faster than a walk across it. “Faster driving will loosen the bolts.”

1905-05-26 CA Charles B.Eddy has sold his El Paso & Northeastern Railroad to Phelps Dodge (which had been paying him hugh amounts for his high-grade coal being shipped from his mine in the old Maxwell Land Grant near Clayton.) (This makes Eddy a wealthy man, and he retires to one of the leading Men’s Clubs

of New York City.)

1905-05-26 CA “Julian Smith has the best live spring in Eddy County at Castle Spring.”

1905-05-30 Marie Harjes dies in Carlsbad. Her body is returned to Franceto be buried in the family plot at Versailles. (Lady Astor isamong those who attend the funeral.) Her husband Herman and her daughters Vermania and Hope return to Versailles with thebody, to live again in France.

1905-05-31 CA Capt Bujac makes a sudden trip to Colorado Springs that prevents him from making his announced Memorial Day speech at Carlsbad Cemetery.

1905-06-02 CA Water undermines the temporary coffer dam at Avalon and 60 feet goes out, leaving the farmers, once again, without irrigation water. It will take 60 days to repair.

1905-06-09 CA A.A.Beeman, who owns the Carlsbad Grocery, has married Effie Jones.

1905-06-09 CA Capt Bujac has returned from Colorado Springs with a new bride—Jane Robinson Bujac, the 23-year-old daughter of Mary Robinson. (Rumor soon reports that he first proposed to the mother, but was turned down—and then proposed to the daughter the next day, and was accepted.)

1905-06-09 CA The Railroad’s Dark Canyon wells have been reworked, and are getting a much stronger flow.

1905-06-09 CA Hagerman town now has a Masonic Lodge.

1905-06-09 CA The Eddy Drug soda fountain drink menu lists 33 different drinks available.

1905-06-16 CA Will Woerner is back in town.

1905-06-16 CA A confidence man plays an elaborate hoax in Artesia, claiming to be an English noble.

1905-06-16 CA While the County Jail prisoners were eating their usual meal at the Legal Tender Café two escaped.

1905-06-23 CA Francisco Pompa has married Clara Zuniga at the San Jose Catholic Church. It was a “very swell wedding” climaxed with

an Opera House dance. They will live at Seven Rivers where he farms.

1905-06-30 CA Government Engineers say a great portion of the waters behind McMillan Dam escape through a cave under the eastern hills. They are considering the feasibility of a third reservoir.

1905-06-30 CA Saddle maker Ed Kirkpatrick has returned to work for J.T.Cooper.

1905-06-30 CA The Star Pharmacy now offers a circulating library of books for rent.

1905-06-30 CA W.S.Jolly is the one non-Chinese man here who speaks Chinese fluently.

1905-06-30 CA The Main Canal is so leaky that it loses two-thirds of its water before it gets to the farmers—causing subirrigation and major damage to farm lands.

1905-07-07 CA For the town’s 4th of July Celebration Capt Bujac organizes a reenactment of the Charge up San Juan Hill. An estimated 2,500 visitors are here for the 4th.

1905-07-07 CA Re: Capt Bujac has received several complimentary letters from President Roosevelt for his heroic military service both in Cuba and the Philippeans.

1905-07-07 CA Re: 250 people attend a 4th of July Celebration at Westwater, “an old abandoned Post Office” Westwater was for years a trading point on top the Guadalupes. It is an ideal picnic and camping ground with several springs.

1905-07-07 CA Marie Harjes has been buried in the family vault at Versailles. Mrs Astor was among those attending the services.

1905-07-07 CA Jesse Rascoe visits from Roswell wearing his regulation policeman’s uniform—the first such uniform ever seen in Carlsbad..

1905-07-14 CA Re: The Hotel Schlitz now closes its dining room to visitors during the summer

1905-07-14 CA Why is the city sprinkler only doing Canyon Street?

1905-07-14 CA A Boarding House here is feuding over whether or not gentlemen should always wear coats at dinner.

1905-07-14 CA Re: A crowd usually congregates at the Depot in the evening to watch the train come in..

1905-07-14 CA There is a “Carlsbad Colony” camping out at the Thayer Ranch during the hot summer months.

1905-07-14 CA The electric lights are on again. The Public Utilities Co power house at Lower Six Mile Dam is functioning.

1905-07-14 CA The Tracys, Mrs Tansill, the Swigarts and others have formed a private company to pump river water at the Tobey place to water their La Huerta orchards.

1905-07-21 CA The Catholic Sisters of Wichita have offered to establish a non-denominational boarding school here if the citizens will provide a location and building delivered to them furnished. They will maintain it. Re: Roswell has just gotten a Sisters Hospital.

1905-07-21 CA Mrs Tansill has sought an injunction to stop the Public Utilities Company (which had leased the west bank at the dam as well) from interfering with the rebuilding of Tansill Dam.

1905-07-21 CA Shipment of peaches is down this year. The lack of irrigation water reduced the size of the crop.

1905-07-28 CA High water has taken out the Penasco railroad bridge near Dayton. The flood has also taken out a section of the new Public Utilities Co. Lower Six Mile Dam. (There go those lights again.)

1905-07-28 CA In the flooding, both approaches to the new La Huerta Wagon Bridge sank, making it unusable until fixed. A 30 foot by 20 foot hole washed out in the west side of the earthen terreplain right at the north end of the concrete flume.

1905-08-04 CA Lumber is going to the new town of Queen for Mr Tulk to build a general merchandise store.

1905-08-04 CA The McLenathen & Tracy Real Estage Company has moved into the Brice-Hull Building.

1905-08-04 CA Mr Tracy markets all of his peaches in Colorado.

1905-08-04 CA Mr & Mrs J.F.Farrell have new twin boys.

1905-08-04 CA Re: The many complaints of local businesses against the growing mail order business going to Montgomery Ward.

1905-08-04 CA A.J.Crawford says Eddy County has 75,000 sheep. “He is now one of the largest and most successful wool growers in the Southwest.”

1905-08-11 CA Fire has damaged the interior of the Legal Tender Café.

1905-08-11 CA The County School Board has voted to permanently close the Old Dark Canyon School.

1905-08-11 CA William Leck is returning to the grocery business.

1905-08-18 CA R.J.Toffelmire is beginning work on the new Lakewood 2-story school.

1905-08-18 CA Dr Whicher says Carlsbad is practically immune from Yellow Fever.

1905-08-25 CA The Judge has ruled that Mrs Tansill can extend her dam to the west bank of the river, even though that area is under lease to the competing Public Utilities Company.

1905-08-25 CA A committee plans to to buy the old PVRR General Office, now unused, for the Catholic Sisters’ School. Mr Stevens of New York has donated a piece of land for it (the north 100 block between Guadalupe and Mesquite.) (The physical moving of this large building from 107 East Mermod to the northwest corner of that new block was considered by all to be one of the most impressive things accomplished in little Carlsbad in years.)

1905-09-01 CA Miss Flora Clark, sister of Mrs Olive Tracy, has resigned from her teaching position here.

1905-09-08 CA W.H.Hull has bought the Blood Building.

1905-09-08 CA The decision has been made to build the Public Utilities Company six mile dam two feet highter with concrete.

1905-09-08 CA Effie Mays, sister of Arthur Mays, has married George Stone.

1905-09-08 CA The Hotel Schlitz its traditional male waiters with women.

1905-09-08 CA The Old Settlers Reunion in Roswell draws 20 people from Carlsbad.

1905-09-08 CA R.L.Kemp of Roswell has bought J.L.Johnson’s Lumber Company here. (On Main Street.)

1905-09-08 CA W.E.Bass is again managing the City Livery Stable.

1905-09-08 CA W.E.MacArthur has completed his store building at Monument NM

1905-09-08 CA Sister Superior Ursula and Sisters Florentine and Virginia have arrived. Tuition in their new school will be $1 per month at the primary level, $2 per month for the higher grades.

1905-09-15 CA Bert Leck will marry Miss Norah Ward of Buffalo Gap TX. 1905-09-22 CA Wells Benson has received a Bronze Medal for his apples at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

1905-09-22 CA John R.Joyce (Sr) represents more capital than any other one man in the valley.

1905-09-22 CA Sol Schoonover has bought out the Barfield & Cantrell saloon.

1905-09-22 CA The Irrigation Company bond holders (largely in Europe) have agreed to the Federal Government’s offered price. Joy reigns supreme in Carlsbad. (The Federal Government paid $150,000 for the entire system—about 10 cents on the dollar.)

1905-09-29 CA The Carlsbad Commercial Club has been brought back to life in the general enthusiasm over a Government-run irrigation system.

1905-09-29 CA Dr A.R.Smith has been sued for divorce by his second wife.

1905-09-29 CA Crappie, never before known in this area, have been stocked at Willow Lake and Castle Rock Spring, as well as big mouthed bass.

1905-09-29 CA Lakewood now calls itself the Oil City.

1905-10-06 CA Mis Kernodle’s Private School has 14 students, the Sisters’ School has 32. The Carlsbad public schools have 759 students.

1905-10-06 CA Artesia has shipped its first two railroad cars of hay.

1905-10-13 CA Four cases of diphtheria close the public school.

1905-10-27 CA The electric lights returned on the 25th.

1905-10-27 CA The County has redesigned the fences it recently put outside the jail to stop conversations from those outside. These new fences do permit air to come in.

1905-10-27 CA The lame Chinaman who has run the laundry on South Canyon for

the last ten years has fallen victim to two malicious attackers who cut off his que.

1905-11-03 CA Dentist Anson Bearup has moved his dental office from the Hotel Schlitz to the Blood Building.

1905-11-10 CA The Boatmans are back from Mexico.

1905-11-10 CA The Public Utility Company’s telephone service is considered to be The best in the Southwest.

1905-11-10 CA The Groves Lumber Company has incorporated.

1905-11-10 CA Mrs Cesarine Lewis (and Billy Kerr) have moved from their La Huerta residence to The Heights.

1905-11-24 CA W.A.Finlay says the Government bought the irrigation system because C.L.Ballard of Roswell, a former Rough Rider, got an audience for our delegation with President Roosevelt. Mr Ballard enjoys the friendship and esteem of the President.

1905-12-01 CA The Federal Government has accepted ownership of the Carlsbad Irrigation Project. (At about this same time Herbert J.Hagerman, son of James John Hagerman, is appointed Territorial Governor of the Territory of New Mexico.)

1905-12-08 CA C.H.Klauder has purchased the Star Pharmacy from J.L.Emerson and C.F.Hoffman.

1905-12-22 CA Barbara (Ma’am) Jones (67) died at Rocky Arroyo on the 20th of December.

1906 The McCollaum Brothers begin goat ranching in the Guadalupes.

1906 A baptistery is built in the Carlsbad Baptist Church. (Before this point their baptisms had taken place in the Pecos River.)

1906 The bell tower is added to Grace Episcopal Church by the Harjes family in memory of Armandine Graves Penton Bujac.

1906 Green Ussery buys the Holderman ranch on Upper Black River.

1906 There were no graduates from Carlsbad High School in 1906.

1906-01-05 CA Ad for the Stock Exchange Saloon.

1906-01-05 CA C.R.Brice is the current Mayor of Carlsbad.

1906-01-05 CA Herbert J.Hagerman will become the Governor of the Territory of New Mexico on 22 Jan. He will be our youngest governor ever.

1906-01-12 CA The Improved Order of Red Men has its first organizational meetingat Carlsbad. They are Kikapoo Lodge #23.

1906-01-12 CC Ed Motter is visiting his sister here, Mrs.R.W.Tansill

1906-01-12 CA The Government Engineers occupy the second floor of the Pecos Irrigation Company building. 1906-01-19 CA Will Robinson (whose “Tenderfoot” columns appear here for years)

starts the “Roswell Tribune”

1906-01-19 CA Past Sheriff J.D.Walker is leaving the valley because of his son’s health.

1906-01-19 CA Re: Fred Dearborne is one of the pioneers of Roswell.

1906-01-19 CA An excursionist train of 50 home seekers visits.

1906-02-02 CA J.W.Tulk has become the Post Master of Queen NM

1906-02-02 CA J.T.Cooper has acquired a 1/3 interest in the Carlsbad Hardware, and has moved his saddle shop there.

1906-02-02 CA Re: The rancher W.J.Barber (at Barber Crossing on Rocky Arroyo) moved to this area in 1885.

1906-02-02 CA Louis Wolfrom has died.

1906-02-02 CA J.J.Russell and A.C.MacAdams are the present owners of Geyser Spring Ranch.

1906-02-02 CA Hillman S.Queen has married Abbie Tulk.

1906-02-09 CA The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood have moved into their handsome new home. (This was the old Pecos Valley Railroad office building which had been moved from the east end of Mermod to the northwest corner of the 100 block between Guadalupe and Mesa.)

1906-02-09 CA The Fraternal Council of the American Patriots is trying to organize here.

1906-02-16 CA C.H.Klauder has bought out Hoffman, and now is sole owner of the Star Pharmacy.

1906-02-23 CA The Hub Clothing Store has gone out of business.

1906-02-23 CA The Public Utilities Company will replace the Santa Fe Railroad in providing water to the city. The Company plans to sink a well in Greene Heights (next to the Main Canal, a block north of Mermod Street.)

1906-02-23 CA 13 Harjes polo ponies have been shipped to New York City for sale.

1906-02-23 CA The Green Usserys are now living at 601 North Canyon.

1906-03-02 CA The Federal Government has given approval to start the reconstruction of Avalon and McMillan Dams. The town rejoices.

1906-03-02 CA A.J.Muzzy, brother-in-law to the F.G.Downes, is visiting from Connecticut.

1906-03-02 CA N.P.Johns has died.

1906-03-02 CA The Star Pharmacy has moved to the east side of Canyon Street to a 27 feet by 100 feet building (at 122 South Canyon.)

1906-03-09 CA The Presbyterians are now building a Parsonage just north of their church.

1906-03-16 CA Major W.V.Johnson has sold the old Seven Rivers Townsite to Mrs F.A. Scherer.

1906-03-23 CA The Santa Fe Railroad is replacing the wooden railroad bridge into La Huerta with a steel bridge with concrete piers.

1906-03-24 Adele Bujac is born.

1906-04-06 CA A new 20-room stone hotel is being built be Granville Reed on the west side of Canyon just south of Greene Street.

1906-04-06 CA Mrs Percy Pine Lewis and her lady companion Mrs Boyce (and Billy Kerr) are now living at the Heights.

1906-04-06 CA J.A.Froman is putting up a new lumber yard at the corner of Fox and Main.

1906-04-06 CA H.F.Christian is now building a new house on Guadalupe “at the foot of Fox.” (201 South Guadalupe.)

1906-04-06 CA The Anderson Sanitarium is getting a large addition.

1906-04-06 CA The “Argus” says that the local Democrats continue to refuse to let the Hispanics vote in their Primary.

1906-04-06 CA The new Mayor will be A.R.O’Quinn, by virtue of having won the Democratic Primary.

1906-04-13 CA Phelix Poppa (Felix Pompa) “a Mexican character in Carlsbad for many years,” has died.

1906-04-13 CA The south side of Mermod, from Canyon to the railroad, is getting a concrete sidewalk.

1906-04-13 CA Dr Doepp has brought the first car to Carsbad. (A Buick)

1906-04-20 CA Because there were no bids, the U.S.Government will do the work on Avalon and McMillan Dams and the new Dark Canyon Siphon itself.

1906-04-20 CA The Green Usserys have a new baby girl.

1906-05-11 CA A new Kuykendall Mining Company has been formed.

1906-05-11 CA J.P.Roundtree is putting in hard maple roller-skating rink in the large room of the Tansill Block.

1906-05-25 CA Will Rickman is moving to Arizona. Jesse Rascoe Jr now lives in Morenci, AZ.

1906-05-25 CA Will Merchant wins the Democratic Primary for Eddy County Treasurer.

1906-06-08 CA The first ad appears for the “recently established” Robb & Co Photo Studio at 214 North Canyon, a block north of the Court House.

1906-06-08 CA Ananias Green has died. He has been in the valley since 1886.

1906-06-08 CA L.E.Foster of the Reclamation Service will select the 20,000 acres to be put under irrigation by the Government Project.

1906-06-15 CA Mrs Percy Pine Lewis has bought the Heights. For the first time since the 1904 Flood Hagerman Heights is receiving irrigation water pumped from Tansill Dam.

1906-06-22 CA The Women’s Club plans to establish a reading room for men.

1906-06-22 CA The Reclamation Service has completed the construction of Hondo Reservoir.

1906-06-29 CA Mr Muzzy has bought controlling stock in the Public Utilities Company.

1906-07-06 CA The much-advertised 4th of July Barbeque did not materialize.

1906-07-13 CA Green Ussery has purchased the Tansill home in La Huerta. Mrs Tansill is

moving to Chicago.

1906-07-13 CA Ground is broken for the Odd Fellows Building to be built at 207 West Mermod.

1906-07-13 CA J.D.Walker is building a residence for his family at the southeast corner of Fox and Halagueno.

1906-07-20 CA The reconstruction of Avalon Dam is underway. The Government photographer Lubken has arrived to document the work.

1906-07-27 CA The Oriental Cement & Plaster Company has been formed. They plan to develop their rich bed of gypsum at once.

1906-07-27 CA Oil has been discovered 5 miles west and 1 mile north of Lakewood.

1906-07-27 CA A brick building has been built at the west end of Eddy County Hospital to hold An operating room.

1906-07-27 CA Re: Carlsbad is the only town left in the County that still permits legal gambling. There is a rumour that a piece of land south of town is being eyed for a new gamblers Phenix. There are already some 60 professional gamblers here.

1906-08-03 CA The new Mexican School House is about completed.

1906-08-03 CA Governor Hagerman has pardoned Garland Livingston, who got 2 ½ years on a horse stealing charge.

1906-08-03 CA Capt Bujac has drawn the plans for his new residence beside the river. (Armandine)

1906-08-03 CA The Bureau of Reclamation has completed enlarging the footings of the flume’s concrete piers.

1906-08-03 CA Ramsey Grocery has been bought by Charles & Willie Rascoe. It is now the Rascoe Brothers Grocery.

1906-08-03 CA Goo Chow has sold his interest in the American Kitchen Café to E.Tung Wah and E.Poy.

1906-08-10 CA The Star Stables has closed.

1906-08-10 CA The Dayton Post Office has been moved ¼ mile further west. George Penell is now the Post Master.

1906-08-17 CA John T.Edwards, raised on Rocky Arroyo, has returned for a visit.

1906-08-17 CA Jim Morrison is building a 7-room frame residence at the northwest corner of Canal

And McKay for Mr Fant. (This will become the long-time J.Frank Joyce home.)

1906-08-17 CA J.D.Rackley has bought the old 40 acre Scoggins place.

1906-08-17 CA The Democratic Party has proposed Capt Bujac as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. (Statehood is not going to arrive for six years.)

1906-08-17 CA North Carlsbad (north of Church Street?) is being laid out in streets and lots.

1906-08-24 CA Kerr & Lichte Grocery has become Kerr & Fraser’s Pecos Valley Grocery Co.

1906-08-24 CA Capt Bujac is improving seven acres on the river bank, recently bought from N.Tobey.

1906-08-24 CA A.J.Heard has launched a new township of Oasis just south of Knowles.

1906-08-24 CA John T.Rives is opening a second cement plant at Acme south of Malaga.

1906-08-31 CA J.E.Laverty’s grocery store downtown has burned down.

1906-09-09 The International Order of Odd Fellows lays the cornerstone for its new building.

1906-09-14 CA Dr Bearup has purchased the two-story Jolly place at the southwest corner of Alameda and Mermod.

1906-09-14 CA L.Wallace Holt has bought back his old home place near Lakewood.

1906-09-21 CA Rome Ohnemus and Acrey have become dealers for Hoepman Automobiles (which placed an engine on a standard buggy.)

1906-09-21 CA Re: The new town of Knowles near Monument.

1906-09-21 CA Carder & Grosse have bought the City Livery Stable from W.E.Bass.

1906-09-21 CA Mr & Mrs N.Tobey, the parents of Mrs Cole, are moving to Dallas.

1906-09-21 CA Bill Washington of Lake Arthur is buying the Geyser Spring Ranch from Russell and Farrell.

1906-09-21 CA El Paso Guano & Fertilizer Co. is building a dryer and warehouse at the (South Y) stock pens. (They had previously shipped their guano from Malaga.)

1906-09-28 CA The Public Utilities Company’s Greene Heights water will has been completed.

1906-09-28 CA (Morrison & Richards Clothing Store closes for the Jewish holiday.)

1906-09-28 CA W.G.Brown’s Blacksmith Shop has received the contract to build the forms for the new concrete siphon that is to take the Main Canal under Dark Canyon.

1906-10-05 CA Part of the Tansill Building lower floor has been rented by the Public Schools for additional classroom space.

1906-10-05 CA Judge D.G.Grantham has bought the Tomlinson residence (originally the Mrs C.W.Greene residence) on Greene Heights.

1906-10-12 CA The “Argus” accuses Capt Bujac of being responsible for not letting Hispanics vote in the Democratic Primary.

1906-10-12 CA The Palace Hotel dining room will henceforth be open to the public. (It became the popular place for many of the better families to eat after church on Sundays.)

1906-10-16 Willoughby Hegler marries Miss Alice Leck.

1906-10-19 CA Wm Reed, editor of the “Argus”, says Bujac & Brice came to his office, threatened him, and made him sign a statement promising that he will never again print items about Bujac.

1906-10-26 CA The first concrete has been laid on the Dark Canyon siphon.

1906-10-26 CA The Ramsey Gin is shifting to electrical power this season.

1906-10-26 CA The cotton gin at Florence is almost completed.

1906-10-26 CA El Paso Guano Co expects to ship 3 carloads of guana a week.

1906-10-26 CA The Government says 13,000 acres of excessive holding in the valley must be sold. (It tries valiantly to limit the farms to 160 acres in this irrigation project, but never succeeds in enforcing this.)

1906-11-02 CA Carrie Nation spoke at the Court House on the 31st of Oct, both afternoon and evening. (But she sadly did not physically attack any of the local saloons.)

1906-11-02 CA George L.Newton, owner of the Eddy Drug Co., has died.

1906-11-02 CA Bob Halley has wed Allie Belle Purdy.

1906-11-02 CA C.F.Drake becomes sole owner of the “Current” (Bujac sells his part interest.)

1906-11-09 CA Capt Bujac beats out Judge Freeman as the county’s Constitutional Delegate by about 100 votes. Cisero Stewart is defeated by Christopher for Sheriff.

B.A.Nymeyer loses his bid for reelection as County Surveyor.

1906-11-18 A great blizzard on the Caprock puts A.J.Crawford out of the sheep business, killing 1,000 of his sheep.

1906-11-23 CA The Knights Templar organize in Carlsbad. (The installation was Nov 22nd.)

1906-11-23 CA A new railroad is being proposed from El Paso to Carlsbad. (Never built.)

1906-11-23 CA C.F.Drake has sold the “Current” back to Mullane.

1906-12-07 CA Probably only 8 sheep herders died in the recent blizzard. (The regional press had reported many more.)

1906-12-07 CA William E.Ball has bought the T.B.Sullivan place east of Florence.

1906-12-07 CA W.J.Barber and J.R.Holt have bought the Eddy Drug.

1906-12-14 CA J.T.Plowman has sold his ranch on top the Guadalupes to George Tracy.

1906-12-21 CA Malaga is experiencing a boom (created by A.M.Higday, who earlier had successfully boomed Lake Arthur.)

1906-12-21 CA Lakewood’s new brick school is now in use.

1906-12-28 CA It is hoped that a proposed El Paso to Kansas City short line railroad will pass through Carlsbad.

1907 Tracy & McLenathen began growing cotton commercially between the rows of trees in their large La Huerta orchard. (At this time there were only 474 acres of cotton in Eddy County.)

1907 The first known photo was taken in the East Tunnel at Bat Cave—at Devil’s Spring.

1907 E.T.Carter shifted from ranching and farming in the Hagerman area to selling real estate in the Carlsbad area. (His family arrives in 1909.)

1907 The Reclamation Service office staff here included L.E.Foster, Project Manager, and in late 1909 Victor Minter, Chief Clerk.

1907 Lake Arthur NM was incorporated

1907-01-11 CA B.A.Nymeyer (the younger) has been born at Carlsbad.

1907-01-11 CA The family of A.J.Muzzy, new Manager of the Public Utilities Company, has arrived.

1907-01-11 CA Grace Episcopal Church has received a new walnut wood altar, a tribute to Grandma Anderson.

1907-01-11 CA Rev E.McQueen Gray is now a General Missionary of the Episcopal Church.

1907.01-11 CA Judge Dye has rented part of Wright Brother’s building just south of the Doepp Building on Canyon.

1907-01-11 CA Re: Artesia and Hagerman are trying again to get their own county.

1907-01-18 CA Fred Dearborne is now managing Tracy-Roberts Hardware.

1907-01-18 CA Bill Washington has bought the Geyser Spring Ranch from J.J.Russell.

1907-01-18 CA Rev E.McQueen Gray will be moving to Albuquerque (but not his family, at this time.)

1907-01-18 CA The Epworth League has organized here.

1907-01-18 CA Finlay & Murray Hardwear has ecome Finlay-Pratt Hardwear.

1907-01-29 The end walls of the flume are being redesigned to stop future canal breaks at that point (which had occurred several times.)

1907-02-01 CA The Pond residence has been finished at the north end of Alameda.

1907-02-08 CA S.S.Ramsey’s cotton gin near the depot has burned down.

1907-02-08 CA The Odd Fellows have moved into their new building at 207 West Mermod, which is one of the largest lodge halls in the Territory.

1907-02-08 CA Re: In Scotland E.McQueen Gray would be called Baron.

1907-02-08 CA The home of Jake Owen has been destroyed by fire.

1907-02-15 CA Frank, the only son of the Lucius Andersons, has died in British Columbia.

1907-02-22 CA McLenathen & Tracy have occupied the old Bujac & Brice quarters.

1907-02-22 CA The Woolverton Practical Business College Company has opened on The first floor of the new I.O.O.F. (Odd Fellows) Building.

1907-02-28 Dugan Rickman and Maud Gray marry at the J.Frank Joyce residenceAt 301 North Canal.

1907-03-01 CA Artesia wants a bridge across the Pecos to the east.

1907-03-01 CA Work on the memorial tower at Grace Church is proceding nicely.

1907-03-08 CA The Reclamation Building (the old Eddy National Bank Building), is getting cement sidewalks.

1907-03-08 CA The Public Utilities Co. is going to erect a standpipe and reservoir on Greene’s Heights.

1907-03-15 CA Professor Powell’s wife (the mother of Lorene) has died.

1907-03-15 CA The Daughters of the American Revolution have organized here.

1907-03-15 CA Re: The old Robb place in Happy Valley is a 2-story rock & frame house sitting on 80 acres.

1907-03-22 CA Governor Hagerman attends a dinner honoring Territorial legislators at the Palace Hotel. (This is the first major event not to take place at the Schlitz.)

1907-03-22 CA Will Smith has been accidentally killed by his friend professional gambler Bob Faulkner at Dayton.

1907-03-29 CA Water is running in the Main Canal for the first time in over 2 years.

1907-03-29 CA Mermod Street now has a bridge across the Main Canal.

1907-03-29 CA J.C.Wilson will soon be developing his Malaga Townsite. He plans to bring in railroad excursion parties twice a month.

1907-03-29 CA A 1040 pound bell for Grace Episcopal Church (dedicated to the memory of Armandine Graves Bujac) has arrived.

1907-03-29 CA Artesia and Roswell have abolished gambling by ordinance.

1907-04-02 Water, for the first time ever, is going through the Dark Canyon siphon.

1907-04-05 CA Carlsbad’s Mrs Louis Fullen has a comic opera touring major cities: “The Rose of Alabama”

1907-05-05 CA Artesia’s “Pecos Valley News” takes a swipe at Editor Mullane’s inclination to drink too much..

1907-04-12 CA George Fee, the old Phenix saloon man, has died of over-drinking.

1907-04-12 CA The new Jake Owen home is almost completed

1907-04-12 CA George Crozier of Roswell has gotten the Hotel Schlitz lease. His family is moving here..

1907-04-12 CA Mrs John Bolton is now Grand Worthy Matron of the Territory’s Order of the Eastern Star. 1907-04-19 CA Miss Elizabeth Garrett, blind pianist (and daughter of Pat), gives a concert at Carlsbad. She is enthusiastically applauded.

1907-04-19 CA Governor Curry has replaced Gov Hagerman (who the President had required to resign—after less than a year in office.) (Curry had been a Rough Rider with Roosevelt.)

1907-04-19 CA The School Board votes to reduce teacher salaries.

1907-04-19 CA James Lusk has wed Zula Jackson.

1907-04-19 CA The Carlsbad Post Office is moving across Canyon Street tomorrow.

1907-04-19 CA Re: The “Tenderloin District” has a fire. (Just south of the Missouri Hotel on South Main Street.)

1907-04-26 CA Charles A.Greene (the son) has moved to El Paso to live

1907-04-26 CA The old Mermod place in La Huerta has been sold by J.A.Stobaugh to W.E. McLendon.

1907-04-26 CA Two more building burn in the “Tenderloin District” “Both buildings were tenanted by prostitutes.”. Re: If you permit licensed gambling you cannot do away with prostitution.

1907-05 Milton Smith and Leah Hutchinson (later Hughes) graduate from high school here.

1907-05-10 CA Lewis E.Foster of the Reclamation Service here has married Claire Waltz in El Paso.

1907-05-10 CA A humorous letter from New York City signed “E Pluribus Unium” is printed here. (John R.Joyce, the elder, was in New York City at this time.)

1907-05-10 CA Re: Miss Kernodle is teaching the 7th & 8th grades in the public schools.

1907-05-17 CA E.McQueen Gray has become a U.S.Citizen.

1907-05-17 CA 160 men are working on Avalon Dam.

1907-05-24 CA The Guadalupe National Forest has been organized.

1907-05-24 CA A cement block house is being built on Alameda (at Fox). Carlsbad’s first.

1907-05-31 CA Re: El Paso Guano & Fertilizer Company’s guano is now coming into the railroad here (at the South Y) from the Bat Cave. The Company expects to double its capacity by running day and night. They are able to ship 3 to 4 railroad cars a week. The Bat Cave is estimated to contain about 60,000 tons. The finished product sells for $18 to $30 per ton.

1907-05-31 CA There are almost 3,500 acres of alfalfa in the valley this season.

1907-05-31 CA Mr & Mrs Pond have a new 10 ½ pound baby boy.

1907-05-31 CA The Peter Corns have moved into the W.C.Reiff place west of town, having sold their place at Seven Rivers.

1907-05-31 CA Mrs.E.M.Williams has purchased the Selina Skeats cottage on Guadalupe (actually on Stevens) near the Catholic Church.

1907-06-21 CA The Camerons and the Freemans are moving to Seatle Washington. (They actually move to Victoria, British Columbia.)

1907-06-21 CA Oriental NM now has a Post Office. Mrs B.Harbert is the Post Mistress.

1907-06-21 CA Re: the L.A.Swigarts live in La Huerta.

1907-06-21 CA Tracy-Roberts has replaced its long-time wooden porch with a drop-awning.

1907-06-28 CA Dr Doepp has married Olive Noel of Artesia NM at Wichita KA.

1907-06-28 CA When last heard from, Uncle John R.Joyce (the elder) was at Monte Carlo.

1907-06-28 CA Artesia sets up an alfalfa palace just north of Carlsbad’s Masonic Building for the New Mexico Irrigation Celebration to be held here July 3, 4 & 5.

1907-06-28 CA The Cole and Tobey families vacate “Riverside” (where “Armandine”- will be built.)

1907-07-03 A big 3-day Irrigation Celebration takes place here to honor the return ofwater, (at last), to the local irrigation system.

1907-07-05 CA The Public Utility Company strings hundreds of lightbulbs across the 100 block of South Canyon (which had been blocked-off to vehicle and wagon

traffic) for the Celebration

1907-07-05 CA The Caman’s Band of Winfield Ks is brought in by train to entertain the celebrants. When the band played “Dixie” the crowd cheered and threw their hats in the air. (They also cheered the “Star Spangled Banner”)

1907-07-05 CA Carlsbad gets to see its first motion pictures at the Tansill Opera House, brought in from Roswell during the Irrigation Celebration. The films are accompanied by a tenor and a pianist.

1907-07-05 CA There is also a prettiest baby contest (under 18 months) with 28 entries.

1907-07-05 CA Ed James’ horse “Durango Prince” wins the mile trot.

1907-07-05 CA Schoonover’s Saloon has been robbed of $1,500. (This turned out to have been done by Schoonover, himself.)

1907-07-12 CA The Guadalupe Forest Allotment Program is explained. (Only those with allotments could use the forest for grazing.)

1907-07-12 CA L.S.Crawford has purchased the Buck Cowden place in Rio Vista. (1013 North Guadalupe.)

1907-07-19 CA When the flow down the river from Avalon is completely shut off, 180 second feet of water passes through the Tansill Dam Power Plant from the many springs down stream from Avalon.

1907-07-19 CA Sal Schoonover is known as “The Wolf”. For a long time he had a picture of a wolf printed over the door of his saloon wuh the legend: “The Old Wolf’s Place.”

1907-07-26 CA You can only legally hunt quail during November, December & January.

1907-07-26 CA The El Paso Guano & Fertilizer Co. can supply one fourth of California’s demand from the Bat Cave.

1907-07-26 CA Lucius Anderson is looking for a gold mine in the Guadalupes.

1907-07-26 CA Morgan Livingston and partners have bought S.T.Bittings’ National Bank of Carlsbad.

1907-08-23 CA C.H.McLenathen and his son have taken Miss Marie Rayroux to Virginia to enter Mary Baldwin University.

1907-08-23 CA The Railroad’s Standpipe Well is 90 feet deep and 18 feet in diameter, with 75 feet of water in the hole, which is cemented top to bottom. Winding stairs

are to be added.

1907-08-23 CA Roswell’s Nathan Jaffa has been appointed Secretary of New Mexico by the President. He came to America in 1878 at 15 to Trinidad CO. In 1886 he and W.S.Prager, deciding to create a partnership, shifted to Roswell. In 1890 he Married Miss Bessie Straus.

1907-08-30 CA The day Avalon Dam is completed owners of farms of more than 160 acres are obliged to put the surplus on the open market. (Instead, most farmers simply divided their land into 160 acre parcels that they deeded to their immediate relatives for a dollar.)

1907-08-30 CA The D Ranch (at the Point of the Mountain) ships out 1,000 yearlings and 2-year-old steers.

1907-09-20 CA Contractor Toffelmire has completed the A.A.Beeman cottage (a 2-story house still standing at 402 North Halagueno.)

1907-09-20 CA Pryor to Jan 1907 Carlsbad only had fire protection in the daytime, since the Railroad only turned water into the pipes during the day time. Our new Public Utilities Co water system operates day and night.

1907-09-20 CA The Diez y Seis celebration at San Jose included a parade of “gaily decorated floats, wagons, carriages and buggies.”

1907-09-20 CA In District Court, five women are charged with corrupting society, fined, and given until 01 October to get out of town.

1907-09-27 CA The Daughertys move into the town’s first cement-block home, at 411 West Fox. (Two-storied, catercornered from Grace Episcopal Church.)

1907-09-27 CA Bat Cave contains one of the largest deposits of bat guano in the world.

1907-10-04 CA A.J.Crawford has returned from his trip to Alaska.

1907-10-04 CA The County Commission is asked to create a road from Otis to Florence to Malaga paralleling the railroad. (Up to this time the only road followed section lines—and you zigzagged south to these towns.)

1907-10-04 CA The final proofs are published for the Alonzo Killgore and James DeMoss homesteads in the Guadalupes.

1907-10-04 CA The A.J.Crawfords have returned from a 3-month sojurn on the Pacific Coast. Mr Crawford visited Alaska and crossed the Arctic Circle.

1907-10-04 CA A “Jack-the-Peeper” is keeping the neighborhood around McKay and

Canal upset.

1907-10-11 CA Marshall Riddick, Joyce-Pruit’s long-time buyer, is planning to move elsewhere because of his wife’s health.

1907-10-11 CA The County Commission votes to build a new separate jail building, and also to build a Greene Steet Bridge.

1907-10-18 CA Peter Corn and family, long-time residents near South Spring, are planning to move to Globe AZ.

1907-10-18 CA Arthur A.Mermod has committed suicide in St Louis MO. He was married, But not living with his wife.

1907-10-18 CA Dr J.L.Davis has bought the Carlsbad Spring. He plans to build a bath and boat house, and will put in a concrete wall around the spring next Spring. Twentyfive families in town are constant users of the Spring waters.

1907-10-18 CA Ad: Sam Lee Laundry

1907-11 Reconstruction is completed on Avalon Dam.

1907-11-01 CA The Delaware and Red Bluff railroad bridges are washed out for 3 weeks.

1907-11-01 CA Arthur O’Quinn’s Carlsbad Hardware has sold out to Tracy-Roberts and Finlay-Pratt.

1907-11-01 CA Dr R.J.Boatman moved, this week, into his new building across the alley west of the Tansill Building. The building is half office and half residence.

1907-11-15 CA Re: Many new inhabitants are arriving in Malaga NM. (Where there was a major land sale promotion going on.) They are buying town lots & farm land. (More accurately, when you bought farm land you were given a lot in Malaga.)

1907-11-15 CA Work has begun on the new Jail Annex. The Sheriff’s living quarters are on the first floor. It is being built twenty feet north of the Courthouse.

1907-11-15 CA J.Frank Joyce has bought the elegant home on Canal Street recently built by A.B.Fant. It has 8 rooms and all modern conveniences. (401 North Canal)

1907-11-15 CA O.C.Epperson has opened a blacksmith shop here.

1907-11-15 CA The W.L.Muggeridge gin at Florence is the only gin currently operating in the valley.

1907-11-15 CA Dr McMierson is building an office here.

1907-11-22 CA An automobile mounted on iron railroad wheels visits from Pecos TX.

1907-11-29 CA An eight foot-wide sidewalk is being build around Court House Square.

1907-11-29 CA The new town of Vaughn NM has been formally opened. (There was already an old town of Vaughn NM next door.)

1907-11-29 CA Richard Thorne has purchased Ullery Furniture and Mortuary.

1907-12-01 John T.Bolton becomes Carlsbad’s new Post Master.

1907-12-06 CA Robb & Company, Photo Studio, has been formed. Both the husband and wife are trained photographers. (Their shop was at 214 North Canyon.)

1907-12-10 William Hieskell Jones dies at 78. “Our oldest surviving settler, he failed rapidly after his wife’s death two years ago. He moved to Seven Rivers in 1873 and to Rocky Arroyo in 1887.”

1907-12-13 CA The Malaga Land and Improvement Company incorporates.

1907-12-13 CA Capt Bujac has sold “Monte Vista” to W.G.Rogers of Lake Arthur. The Captain had earlier bought 10 acres on the river, and has started a new 8-room home there.

1907-12-20 CA Governor Curry has paid his first visit to Carlsbad.

1907-12-20 CA W.E.Cass has married Eunice H. Mayes.

1907-12-27 CA The McKeen Brothers’ 2-story home at 311 North Alameda, originally built for Murray Harris, has burned down. It was one of the first substantial residences built in Eddy.

1907-12-27 CA The children of Carlsbad, in appreciation for many buggy rides and picnics, gave Daddy Heard a big arm chair for Christmas.

1908 The irrigation system’s cultivated acres had dropped to 7,637 by 1908.(By 1912 this had risen back to 16,000 acres.)

1908 In 1908 the survey was completed for a buggy road from Carlsbad to El Pasovia Van Horn TX (Before this, the only road went by way of Pecos TX)

1908 The Pardues, the Rossons, the Dyes and two dozen others move from Tennessee together, settling in the Loving NM area. (But the Dyes return to Tennessee in 1909.)

1908 The Butcher family arrives, homesteading a ranch in the Easau Hills southof Carlsbad.

1908 The Fred Zimmerman family arrives, locating in a large ranch-style house near the southeast corner of Canal at Peach Lane.

1908-01-01 Legalized gambling comes to an end across the Territory of New Mexico.

1908-01-03 CA Tom Gray is now manager of the D Ranch at the Point of the Mountains.

1908-01-03 CA The Eddy Place in La Huerta is being converted into a T.B.sanitarium (with floored tents for the patrons.) To be run by Dr J.P.Jones of Chicago.

1908-01-10 CA Monroe Kerr has sold his Pecos Valley Grocery to Fraser-Bateman Co. He and his son W.P.Kerr will open a new grocery.

1908-01-10 CC Ed Magby and Miss Williams have married in the Guadalupes.

1908-01-10 CA J.W.Campbell has opened the Carlsbad Feed Store next to the “Current” office.

1908-01-10 CA Oil has been hit eight miles northwest of Lakewood on Four Mile Draw.

1908-01-10 CA The Florence gin produced over 300 bales of cotton last season.

1908-01-17 CA Only Sal’s Place,“The Cowboys’Home”, has continued gambling past the Jan 1st deadline.

1908-01-17 CC Ed Toner has resigned his position as Cattle Inspector for the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.

1908-01-17 CA (Coverage continues on the expected Carlsbad-to-El Paso railroad.)

1908-01-17 CA The current leaseholder of the Vinyard Stock Farm hopes to raise potatoes there.

1908-01-17 CA James M.Dye and D.G.Grantham have formed a new law firm in the former Freeman & Cameron office east of the Court House. (The old Mann shack)

1908-01-17 CA A big 2-story hotel is going up at Malaga. 200 lots have been sold. [You got a free town lot with each purchase of 20 acres of (unirrigated) farm land.]

1908-01-24 CA Juan Galindo is murdered in a tent behind Francisco Pompa’s place.

1908-01-31 CC A hunting party recently killed twelve javalina hogs 40 miles to the east.

1908-01-31 CC A party of “26 Bohunks from Rumania” came in from Fort Worth Monday, hired by Acrey Brothers of Rocky Arroyo to herd sheep. The Acreys are disgusted with the Mexican herders, who expect $25 per month and a one-to-six month advance.

1908-01-31 CC R.O.Beckett has leased Geyser Spring Ranch from Farrell and Russell.

1908-01-31 CA Ad: Carlsbad Dairy, J.O.Wersell, proprietor.

1908-01-31 CA The Carlsbad Scotish Rite Masons have received their Charter.

1908-01-31 CA Mrs S.I.Roberts and the children are moving to Long Beach CA for her health.

1908-01-31 CA T.C.Horne has become a partner in the Elliott Hendricks Drygoods Store.

1908-02-07 CA Twelve tents have already been added to the Eddy Place Sanitarium. Dr Jones has a chemical compound which destroys the T.B.germ when introduced into the circulation.

1908-02-07 CA R.O.Beckett has leased the Geyser Spring Ranch of Farrell and Russell.

1908-02-07 CA Re: The Acrey Brothers, Rocky Arroyo sheepmen, have hired 26 recent Rumanian immigrants as sheep herders.

1908-02-07 CA J.J.Draper & Son have purchased a 2/3 interest in the Star Pharmacy from Mr Klauder.

1908-02-07 CA The young ladies’ secret society, the “Hildegards” meets at the home of Myrtle Harkey.

1908-02-07 CA Several Mexican shacks in San Jose have been removed as the request of the owner of the land.

1908-02-14 CA Article on the new law firm of Grantham and Dye.

1908-02-14 CA (T.B.deaths are being announced almost weekly.)

1908-02-21 CA Ad for the J.C.Penny store here

1908-02-24 Monroe P.Kerr, past Mayor and County Superintendent of Schools, dies. Over 300 school children attend his funeral.

1908-02-28 Pat Garrett is killed east of Las Cruces by Wayne Brazeal?—or by Jim Miller? (Wayne Brazeal was the nephew of major area rancher W.W.Cox. Brazeal confesses.)

1908-02-28 CA Re: 12 miles of the road to Monument is a sand bed. Attempts are being made to grade it.

1908-02-28 CA The land boom at Malaga is based on an expectation that the Government is going to soon extend irrigation to 10,000 more acres in that area. (This does not happen, nor was it ever apparently planned.) The land sale is a scam.

1908-02-28 CA A good hotel is now being constructed at Malaga.

1908-03-06 CA Gertrude Jones recently received a divorce from Henry Jones.

1908-03-13 CA C.L.Higday has sold his interest in the Malaga Land and Improvement Co. to John Hortshorn. (Today’s Higby Hole on Black River may be an incorrect recollection of Higday. Noone can remember a Mr Higby.)

1908-03-13 CA A Hispanic applies for a six-month marriage license here.

1908-03-20 CA The Grace Episcopal Church tower has been completed (in memory of Marie Harjes.)

1908-03-20 CA An extensive survey of Black River has been completed by the Territorial Engineer (in hopes of ending a hugh dispute over who had what water rights to the river.)

1908-03-27 CA The El Paso Guano & Fertilizer properties, including the cave and drying plant, have been sold to Englishman H.Arundell Bell for $38,000.

1908-03-27 CA Re: a gang of half-grown boys has been getting drunk and visiting the houses of ill-fame.

1908-03-27 CA The Judge sentences four women who tried to reopen the “Green House” to either six months in jail or leaving the Territory. “They caught the morning train.”

1908-03-27 CA Sal Schoonover is found guilty of running a bawdy house.

1908-03-27 CA L.O.Fullen has moved to Roswell NM.

1908-04-10 CA Dayton NM has been granted permission to incorporate by the Eddy County Commission.

1908-04-17 CA Sal Schoonover and family are moving to Mexico (to avoid his being jailed on charges of running a house of prostitution above his saloon.)

1908-04-17 CA Capt Bujac is a delegate to the Territorial Democratic Convention.

1908-05-01 CA Mrs W.G.Woerner, here since 1893, has died.

1908-05-01 CA Re: the astonishing generosity of Colonel John R.Joyce (the older), who “deals out his wealth to worthy causes like it was so much chicken feed.”

1908-05-08 CA The Women’s Club has received permission to build a free reading room in Halagueno Park to hold the Norman Crosby Library.

1908-05-15 CA W.R.Hegler is building a house on his claim south of town.

1908-05-15 CA Torello Calvani has bought an 80 acre farm north of Florence.

1908-05-15 CA Florence High School has graduated 5 girls. Carlsbad High School has graduated 4 girls and 2 boys [Myrtle Harkey, Leon Mudgett, Elma Smith (later Mudgett), Anna Klauder, Nellie Eakin (later Mitchiner) and Rupert Ezell.]

1908-05-15 CA Mr Foster has figured out how to clean the moss out of the canal (which was continuous-running, year-round) without turning-out the water—a sixty foot chain, heavy railroad irons, and two-mule teams pulling up-stream.

1908-05-15 CA Edgar Knowles is now manager of Croftonhill Farm. He is growing some cotton as an experiment.

1908-05-22 CA Avalon Dam is finished. The Government’s official photographer, Lubkin, is here again, taking views of the country.

1908-05-22 CA R.J.Bolles has disposed of his home in Colorado Springs and has come to live on his farm south of town.

1908-05-29 CA Mrs M.F.Chaytor has moved to town, accompanied by her niece Miss McKneely. Mrs Chaytor is working at Hendricks Dry Goods Store.

1908-05-29 CA Woerner (whose saloon had been immediately south of the Schlitz Hotel) is moving to the old Schoonover spot at 126 South Canyon.

1908-05-29 CA The Lookout School and its one-acre lot are being sold. (It became a Baptist Church.)

1908-05-29 CA Past Governor Prince made his first return visit here in sixteen years on the 22nd. He was royally entertained.

1908-05-29 CA Malaga School is to get an addition.

1908-05-29 CA The J.A.Snyder family has moved to the valley.

1908-05-29 CA See George Frederick, the Slack-Wire Wizzard, at the Women’s Club Minstral Show at the skating rink (in the Tansill Building.)

1908-05-29 CA The Women’s Club will immediately erect a Library bungalow at the center of Halagueno Park.

1908-05-30 Capt Bujac and E.McQueen Gray give the Memoral Day addresses at the Cemetery that are later published and sold here for 5 cents a copy toraise money for cemetery beautification. (Capt Bujac, who spoke forthe South, always received the wildest applause.)

1908-06-01 Florence NM is officially renamed Loving NM. Robert E.Tucker is named its first Post Master.

1908-06-05 CA C.H.McLenathen (54) and his ward Miss Marie Rayroux (24) have married in Virginia.

1908-06-08 The Walter Crafts come to Carlsbad for his health. They first farm RiversideFarm on later East Fiesta Drive.

1908-06-12 CA Miss S.A.Kernodle has bought the northwest corner property at Canal and Luckey from S.T.Bitting for $1,000.

1908-06-12 CA W.C.Brown has added a rubber tire machine to his blacksmith shop.

1908-06-19 CA Delaware Creek recently had a six foot rise.

1908-06-26 CA Capt and Mrs Bujac have moved into their handsome new home, “Armandine”.

1908-06-26 CA Hagerman Heights has gotten irrigation back for the first time in four years. Mrs Tansill has installed a centrifical pump to serve the property.

1908-06-26 CA Work has started on the new cotton gin near the Greene Heights standpipe.

1908-07-03 CA John G.Lucas has married Mrs Luella Slaughter Bush. (At this point three Lucas brothers had married three Slaughter sisters.)

1908-07-03 CA Nancy E.Thurmond is the new Post Mistress of Knowles NM

1908-07-10 CA E.J.Kirkpatrick has returned to Carlsbad. He will work for Tracy-Roberts as a saddle maker.

1908-07-10 CA The Malaga Land & Improvement Co starts running full-page (and misleading) ads.

1908-07-10 CA The mail route from Carlsbad to Monument and Knowles has been replaced by One from Midland TX.

1908-07-10 CA Roy Burnett acquires the old Delaware Cattle Company (the old Hall Ranch, the “D”Ranch)

1908-07-17 CA Beeman & Co Grocery has sold out to Jaffa-Prager.

1908-07-31 CA The Territorial Medical Board votes censure on Dr.J.P.Jones at the Carlsbad Tubercular Sanatorium in La Huerta (the Eddy Place) for his unproven chemical intravenous treatments.

1908-08-07 CA The Carlsbad Mineral Springs Company has incorporated. They plan a large hotel, etc, etc, etc.

1908-08-14 CA Mr Kilgore of Carlsbad has bought the Lake Arthur Mansion Hotel.

1908-08-28 CA Lillian (Greene) Gilmore’s husband Homer has been killed in a Mississippi duel.

1908-08-28 CA Past Conductor Warren Gossett has moved his family to Lakewood, where he plans to farm.

1908-09-11 CA Allen Heard and associates have incorporated a Knowles Townsite Co. (This becomes the New Knowles—at the site of the old Oasis?)

1908-09-18 CA Re: There is a new gas and oil well at Dayton with a strong flow of natural gas.

1908-09-18 CA The City Council has approved a license for an in-town house of prostitution. The license costs $90.

1908-09-18 CA The Reclamation Service is again working on McMillan Reservoir—after months of delay.

1908-10-02 CA The Harshorns have bought the Lower Hagerman Farm east of Malaga.

1908-10-02 CA The entire old town of Knowles is said to have moved to the new Knowles Townsite.

1908-10-02 CA Pearl NM (10 miles west of future Hobbs) has become a Post Office. Mrs Pearl Roberts is Post Mistress. (The Post Office will come to an end in 1929.)

1908-10-02 CA Capt W.C.Michner has bought the old Tobey Place in La Huerta.

1908-10-09 Open House and reception for the new Library reading room.

1908-10-09 CA Eddy County has won the Hearst Trophy at the 16th National Irrigation Congress at Albuquerque for the best display by a county.

1908-10-09 CA Loving now has a new Groves Lumber Yard.

1908-10-16 CA Carlsbad now has its own cotton gin (on Greene Heights)

1908-10-16 CA Dayton now has a 75-barrel-a-day oil well.

1908-10-23 CA The Superintendent of Schools is having the ball park fenced and grandstands built. (The location was later known as Firemen’s Park—the 400 block of South Canal.)

1908-10-23 CA The first telephone line to Rocky Arroyo has been completed.

1908-11-05 The plan for the J.W.Lewis Cass Draw Ditch is filed.

1908-11-06 CA C.J.Demorest has sold his Otis place and is moving back to Iowa.

1908-11-06 CA Tom Ball, farmer near Loving, has married Edna Nymeyer.

1908-11-06 CA Dr J.T.Pettet of Kansas has bought the Carlsbad Tuberculosis Santarium in La Huerta.

1908-11-13 CA L.Wallace Holt has died in Roswell.

1908-11-27 CA Detailed account of the High School cornerstone ceremonies.

1908-11-27 CA At Lake McMillan the East Dike (to shut-off sink holes at the base of the hills) is well underway.

1908-11-27 CA Eddy Drug will open a branch at Knowles NM.

1908-11-27 CA Mr Edgar Knowles of Croftonhill (the E.McQueen Gray ward) and Miss Weaver of Loving have married. (This teminated the longtime payments coming to Gray from the Knowles family in London.)

1908-12-04 CA The Irrigation District has been granted a 9-month delay in starting repayments to the Federal Government (until Dec ’09).

1908-12-04 CA Billy Kerr has received (from Cesarine Lewis) a $3,000 Kessel Touring Car—the finest in the Pecos Valley.

1908-12-04 CA Richard H.Judkins of Blue Springs Ranch has married Belva A.Cass.

1908-12-11 CA Two Santa Fe Railroad trains hit head-on seven miles east of Canyon City Texas. Both engineers are killed.

1908-12-11 CA John Draper, John Holt and Bert Schwerdtfeger have all purchased new Buicks.

1908-12-25 CA Re: The average farm-holding under the Carlsbad Project is only 60 acres (vs the 160 possible—which does not address the several large farm-holdings, however, still far beyond the government’s 160 acre limit.)

1909 The first Model T Fords are sold.

1909 Charlie White comes to New Mexico—first to the Queen area.

1909 The Hammond oil well comes in near Artesia—the first dependable producer in Eddy County—although only at 6-10 barrels a day.

1909 Walter Glover arrives in the area of the Point of the Guadalupes.

1909 W.F.McIlvain moves to Carlsbad—first opens a 1 cent-to-1 dollar store.

1909 The J.R.Boyd family arrives..

1909 The large 2-story farm house just northeast of Loving, later owned by Hayden Kimbley, is built.

1909-01-01 Cicero Stewart returns to the Eddy County Sheriff’s position.

1909-01-08 CA The Public Utilities Co is erecting a telephone exchange building at 307 West Fox.

1909-01-15 CA Tracy-Roberts Hardware has become Roberts-Dearborne Hardware.

1909-01-22 CA Carlsbad’s P.E.O.Chapter A, the first in New Mexico, is started.

1909-02-19 CA The Woodmen of the World plan to organize here.

1909-03-19 CA The students have moved into Carlsbad’s first separate High School (at 400 North Canyon.)

1909-04-19 The Jim Miller gang is lynched in Oklahoma—on the same day that Brazeal isacquitted for the Pat Garrett murder.

1909-04-23 CA The High School has organized a Cadet Military Company with Capt Gene Roberts as Commander, and Lt George Adams as 2nd in command.

1909-05-07 CA Re: Carlsbad Spring has been encased with a concrete basin.

1909-05-14 CA The new Public Utilities Company telephone exchange is described in detail.

1909-05-20 A major fire takes place in the Masonic Building. While the building survives,the 2nd floor is much weakened—and the new carpet is shrunk by all that water.

1909-05-21 CA Carlsbad High School 1909 graduates are Jane Groves, Camille Grantham, Buna Hurd, Carrie Dye and Nellie Lucas.

1909-06-11 CA Rev E.McQueen Gray has been appointed President of the University of New Mexico

1909-07-02 CA The E.T.Carter family has moved to Carlsbad.

1909-07-16 CA Re: The Knowles NM Bank is under construction.

1909-08 Work starts on the Bill Jones 2-story rock home on Rocky Arroyo, designed byCapt Bujac.

1909-08-13 CA Blossom Brown shifts to Carlsbad from Pecos TX to enter our 11th Grade.

1909-08-20 CA Sam Smith has traded his Greene Heights home (at 113 South Olive) to Frank Jones. (Frank’s brother Tom also had a home in this same block.)

1909-09-03 CA Lone Tree has completed a 24 x36 foot school house.

1909-09-03 CA J.B.Loving visits—says his father was shot at the island beside Wildcat Bluff. (This disagrees with the Charles Goodnight account, which placed the event eight miles down river. The debate has continued ever since.)

1909-09-15 James John Hagerman dies while on a visit to Milan, Italy.

1909-09-17 CA William Jennings Bryan gives his Prince of Peace speech to 800 in the new high school auditorium. (He was here as a Chataqua speaker.)

1909-09-17 CA Billy Kerr has started construction of his Carlsbad Auto Company at the southeast corner of Fox and Canal.

1909-09-24 CA Alonzo Kilgore, who homesteaded Soldier Spring and now owns the Lake Arthur Hotel, has died.

1909-09-28 The Tom Wyman family arrives at Loving NM.from Kentucky. (Mahan was 14.)

1909-10-01 CA Re: During the past two years over 3,000 people have homesteaded east of here. Good water was discovered at 40 to 90 feet—which is being pumped for

irrigation.

1909-11-01 Company B of the First Division of the New Mexico National Guard (Infantry) is formed at Carlsbad. Capt Etienne deP Bujac, Commander.

1909-11-12 CA The new town of Kermit TX is advertised.

1909-11-12 CA The new (limited) Carlsbad sewer system is now completed.

1909-11-12 CA The J.F.Flowers family moves to Carlsbad from Tennessee.

1909-11-17 The Sisters of St Francis purchase the property of the Sisters of the Most PreciousBlood. (The Sisters of St Francis will later convert the school to a hospital.)

1909-12-03 CA Re: the beautiful new school at Queen NM

1909-12-10 CA The rock tower on Father Arbogast’s San Jose Catholic Church is almost completed. The rock was a gift from Capt Bujac—left over from the construction of Armandine.

1909-12-12 Capt Bujac is appointed to the Eddy County Commission by the Territorial Governor

1909-12-24 CA Bob Brookshire, “an exceptional marble cutter” (he actually worked in sandstone) has returned to this part of the Pecos Valley for the first time since 1888.

1909-12-31 CA The Roscoe Etter family has moved to Carlsbad (for his health. He was a tubercular.) He will first farm for a year near Malaga NM

1910 In the 1910 Census Carlsbad’s population count was 1736, La Huerta 100, San Jose 400.

1910 In the 1910 Census Artesia’s population count was 1883.

1910 The Santa Fe RR Standpipe at the south end of Stand Pipe Road became the source of Carlsbad’s municipal water.

1910 The Barron family began 60+ years of drilling water wells in Southeastern NM.

1910 The Federal Government began looking for potash in the Carlsbad area.

1910 J.R.Boyd moved to Carlsbad as a butcher and cattle inspector.

1910 President Taft signed the law that would later make New Mexico a State in 1912.

1910 Hobbs NM (originally inside Eddy County) got its Post Office.

1910 Oriental NM (on the railroad a brief distance north of Lake Avalon) got its Post

Office. (There was only a plaster mill and a few houses there.)

1910 Scott Etter became the Secretary and Director of the Carlsbad Irrigation Project. (He also opened a law practice here).

1910 The Frank Snows moved to Carlsbad. He first worked at Joyce-Pruit, later for many years at Carlsbad National Bank.

1910-01-07 CC George Musgrove has been captured in Nebraska.

1910-01-07 CC A Methodist College has opened in Artesia.

1910-01-14 CC Rhodie Tulk has married Reagan Middleton

1910-01-14 CC A new hexagonal bandstand is being built on Courthouse Square.

1910-01-21 CC Capt Bujac is the new Chairman of the Eddy County Commission.

1910-01-27 Billy Kerr dies. Arrived here in the fall of 1901. Born 17 Jan 1879 (?). 1910-01-28 CC Commissioners Graham & Beeman have driven the first car, ever, to Queen NM.

1910-01-28 CC The Fant Building, 202 S.Canyon, is under construction.

1910-01-28 CC A.J.Crawford’s People’s Mercantile, 126 S.Canyon, is under construction.

1910-02-04 CC Bill Washington has bought the Lucas and Reynolds ranch on Upper Black River.

1910-02-23 The name of Carlsbad’s Missionary Baptist Church is officially changed to that ofthe First Baptist Church of Carlsbad NM.

1910-03-11 CC The Women’s Tempeance Union organizes in Carlsbad

1910-03-11 CC Dr Doepp has purchased the old Mann 40 acres on the river in La Huerta.

1910-03-25 CC The town’s Board of Trustees comes up with new names for all of the main streets in Carlsbad (apparently to replace the Spanish words). The town refuses to go along with this, and the attempted change soon fails.

1910-03-25 CC Carlsbad now has a National Anti-Saloon League chapter.

1910-04-01 CC Howard Kerr, brother of Billy, has received the Government contract to carry the mails to Pearl, Monument, Knowles and Lovington. (This is the first mention of Howard.)

1910-04-08 CC A deep early freeze has caused the first use of 3,000 smudge pots in the valley.

1910-04-08 CC A.J.Crawford has let the contract for construction of a 75 foot be 150 foot concrete warehouse for wool storage at 302 South Main.

1910-04-08 CC Aubry Gist has put his 1,000 Angora goats in the hands of the McCollum Brothers.

1910-05-06 CC Capt Bujac has also bought the old Lowe Place on the river just east of the bridge.

1910-05-06 John Hepler arrives from Lawrence KA and buys the Ralph Grandi farm one mileeast of Loving NM.

1910-05-20 CC Harry Braden has bought the Star Pharmacy from J.B.Roberts.

1910-05-27 Carlsbad High School graduates nine Seniors.

1910-06-03 CC The St Francis Xavier Academy has closed its doors for lack of patronage.

1910-06-24 CC Carlsbad’s saloon owners agree to close on Sundays, without the proposed prohibition law ever being passed.

1910-07-01 CC The Circulo Catholico Mexicano has been formed among the men of San Jose. (The name is soon changed to that of Sociedad Mutualista Mexicano)

1910-07-22 CC The San Jose bell tower is complete. A cross has been placed at its top.

1910-08-12 CC Carrie Ohnemus will marry Ben Wheeler.

1910-08-12 CC A school is being built (at Cuba NM) west of the main canal near Bolles Farm, for Mexican students.

1910-08-18 A two-room addition is comleted on the east side of Carlsbad High School toreplace the outhouses with restrooms.

1910-08-26 Little Clabe Merchant is killed at Washington’s Ranch. One of Washington’sAfrican-American servants, Bat Harris, will confess to the crime and soon besent to the penitentiary.

1910-09-23 CC S.T.Bitting has died in Kansas City.

1910-09-23 Tom Cowden, husband of Effie Leck Cowden, dies.

1910-10-07 CC Victor Minter has arrived to work for the Bureau of Reclamation.

1910-10-07 CC Rom Holt has baught the Barber property at 201 North Alameda.

1910-10-19 Bob Nymeyer is born on the family claim near Monument. (His twin brother

William dies 9 hours after birth.)

1910-11-04 Phil Kircher (36) dies of tuberculosis.

1910-11-11 CC The steel railroad bridge to La Huerta is going up.

1910-11-18 CC A petition is circulating to change the name of Carlsbad to Carlsbad Springs.

1910-11-25 CC The old Ed Motter house in La Huerta has been destroyed by fire.

1910-11-25 CC A new law prevents New Mexico County Officials from succeeding themselves.

1910-11-27 The Mermod home in La Huerta (later the McLendon & Allison homes) isdestroyed by fire.

1910-12-23 Bat Harris is sentenced to 6-to-10 years in the penitentiary for second degreemurder.

1910-12-24 Carlsbad sees its first high school football game.

1911 The San Simon Ranch gets its first automobile

1911 A.J.Crawford (the brother-in-law of Jake Lynn) acquires the Tansill Building

1911 The W.A.Moores and their daughter Francis move to Carlsbad.

1911 Both Lakewood and Lake Arthur are briefly larger than Carlsbad and Artesia.

1911 The Hiram Bright family moves to Loving—where he opens a blacksmith shop.

1911 This will be the last year that the Tracys had large quantities of peaches to sell to New York City and Chicago.

1911-01-06 CA Capt Bujac will build (the C.J.Nichols home) on the old Love Place.

1911-01-06 CC Howard Kerr Ad: Prices per person (riding on his Mail Car) to Pearl, $5.50: to Lovington, $7.50: to Monument, $7.00: to Knowles, $7.50.

1911-01-06 CC Lewis Means is attending Western College at Artesia.

1911-01-06 CC Two Mexicans have been sentenced to five days in jail for stealing a pie from Wing Wong. 1911-01-13 CA Carrie Merchant has shifted from Anderson Sanatorium to her Oklahoma home. (She will shortly return.)

1911-01-13 CA The Carlsbad Broom Factory is now in operation, using local broom corn. It is owned by J.Boyd Allen.

1911-01-13 CC Ad: Valle Vista Ranche, E.F.Schneider & Son, proprietors, four miles Southeast of Carlsbad.

1911-01-13 CC E.T.Carter has been escorting a second group of Mennonites who are looking over our valley.

1911-01-20 CC “We have had fake land companies getting thousands of dollars praying on ignorant suckers and fools, selling rock piles for lots.”

1911-01-20 CC Miss Lula Beach (25) died at her home on Black River 16 Jan. She was buried at Lookout Cemetery.

1911-01-27 CA Eddy County votes 966 for statehood, none against.

1911-01-27 CA The vote to change Carlsbad’s name to Carlsbad Springs fails 141 to 91.

1911-02-03 CC According to a U.S.Army Board Report, McMillan Rerservoir has been silting up at 4% per year. The measured loses in the Irrigation System’s canals (between Avalon and the field) in 1909 averaged 64% of all the water diverted at Avalon. It is estimated that 3,000 acres of irrigateable land had been ruined by sub-surface seepage by 1904.

1911-02-03 CC For the past week the Insurgents in Mexico have been threatening Juarez.

1911-02-10 CA The Nichols home (due east of Armandine) will soon be completed.

1911-02-10 CC “Blondie” Holland, a young colored woman and cocain addict has committed suicide.

1911-02-17 CC The Magby boys of Queen are exhibiting some panther kittens in town.

1911-02-17 CC F.E.Bryant has moved to Chicago. He arrived here from England in 1892.

1911-02-24 CC Will Merchant last week purchased F.E.Bryant’s Model 10 Buick.

1911-02-24 CC The Texas Oil Company spent the past week building foundations and a building on the property it recently purchased north of the Ice Factory. (At 808 North Main.)

1911-02-24 CC E.G.McNabb of Vaughn has been sentenced to hang there for murder.

1911-03-03 CA Jake Linn has leased the Tansill Building Armory. He will convert it into

An Opera/Play House—to be completed in late May.

1911-03-03 CC Herman Harjis, “for years the head of the house of J.P.Morgan & Co.in Paris,” has recently married Mrs Charles Gilpin. “She is said to be the most beautiful woman in Philadelphia.”

1911-03-10 CA Finlay-Pratt Hardware has become Pratt-Smith Hardware.

1911-03-10 CC Dave Blocker has died at 48 of lung trouble. He arrived in 1898.

1911-03-10 CA The Lakewood Tomato Cannery is under construction.

1911-03-10 CC Recess has been instituted at the Grade School. It is considered a great success.

1911-03-10 CC The County Commissioners plan work on the big hill on the mountain road to Queen. They will spend $250 to get a new road 652 feet long.

1911-03-10 CC Jose Vela, one of Carlsbad’s earliest settlers, has died. “His father was an Arab Peddler and his mother was a Mexican.”

1911-03-17 CC (By this point W.G.Woerner has shifted his saloon to Knowles.)

1911-03-17 CC J.J.Rascoe arrived in this valley in 1878. He was the Roswell City Marshall From 1904 to 1908. He is now moving from Balmorhea to California.

1911-03-17 CC The Bell System has bought out all of the telephone systems in this region except that of A.J.Mussey at Carlsbad..

1911-03-24 CA In the 1910 Census Carlsbad has 1736, Artesia has 1883.

1911-03-31 CC Hiram Dow is now a Roswell lawyer. He graduated from NMMI in 1905.

1911-03-31 CC Audrey Gist is now living in Fruitville, Missouri.

1911-03-31 CC W.A.Finlay of Carlsbad is on the NMMI Board of Regents.

1911-03-31 CC The current Bank Saloon is being remodeled to house the People’s Mercantile after June 15th.

1911-03-31 CC Ad: City Livery & Feed Stabgle, east of the Masonic Hall. Capt W.S.B. Mitchiner and Son, Proprietors.

1911-04-02 The Ed Stephenson family arrives. They will build the large home and barn just west of the Cemetery.

1911-04-07 CC W.M.Buchanan of Riverton has purchased the Beverly place in La Huerta.

1911-04-09 Eva Harkey marries Sid H.Brown

1911-04-14 CC Constable Len Scott, from 1895 to 1906 a resident of Eddy/Carlsbad, has been shot to death at Morenci, Arizona. While here he married Clara Bass, who died in 1901.

1911-04-21 CA The Federal Government insists that the valley should now be limited to 80-acre farms.

1911-04-21 CC The Knowles area farmers are all drilling irrigation wells—after the Surprising success of Mr Robinson.

1911-04-21 CC Re: County Clerk A.R.O’Quinn had his leg amputated above the knee years ago.

1911-04-21 CC Ed Kangas, seven year employee of Mrs Percy Pine Lewis, is returning to Finland. He could not speak English when he first arrived.

1911-04-28 CA Lee Middleton plans to erect a second store at Queen NM.

1911-04-28 CC Valley farmer J.C.Keith (63) dies. He was known for his very long beard, which trailed 6 inches on the ground, until he got it cut off In 1890.

1911-05-09 Dee Harkey visits Madera, who is laying siege to Juarez.

1911-05-12 CC Mr C.Beeman of Malaga has a 40 acre farm.

1911-05-12 CC Rev Beaucamp recently converted 22 at Queen’s first Old Time Camp Meeting.

1911-05-12 CC Tansill Farm, most recently the Benson Farm, has been sold to the Mennonites, who will move here from Oklahoma.

1911-05-19 CA The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood have returned to take-overthe Sanatorium.

1911-05-19 CA Mr Lynn’s new People’s Theatre, 101 South Canal, is almost completed.

1911-05-19 CC Carlsbad has its first auto death—Mark Anderson’s dog, hit on Canyon Street by J.F.Christian in his “devil wagon”.

1911-05-19 CC Juarez was captured by the Insurgents last week.

1911-05-26 CC The contract has been let for the new Roswell Federal Building, which is to be finished by 01 Aug 1912.

1911-05-26 CC Re: R.P.Segrest and Tom Runyan have the S Cross Ranch.

1911-05-26 CC Ellsworth James is to marry Teresa Lowenbruch on 5 Jun at 7:00 AM. (a misprint?)

1911-06-02 CA Irv Osborne has held a large Legal Tender dinner honoring Big Clabe Merchant.

1911-06-02 CC F.G.Snow is having Mr Toffelmire build a 1,650 square foot bungalow on the one-acre tract adjoining C.T.Adams home (at 819 North Canal.)

1911-06-02 CC Malaga has its first saloon: Owned by Shadinger & Wilson.

1911-06-02 CC Roswell’s Mayor, Roy Woofter, has been shot dead.

1911-06-09 CA On the 6th of June Dee Harkey had a violent confrontation with elderly J.W.Cutler on the street in Elida, who he hit over the head with an ax. (Cutler was not badly damaged.) The judge will eventually rull that the attack was provoked.

1911-06-09 CA Lycurgus Ward has died at 73.

1911-06-09 CA The southern New Mexico/Texas State Line has been resurveyed.

1911-06-09 CC Malaga is finally getting telephones.

1911-06-09 CC McLenathen Insurance has become McLenathen & Christian (Harry) as Mr McLenathen approaches retirement.

1911-06-09 CC The Dick Bass family is currently living at McKittrick Spring west of town.

1911-06-09 CC Re: The J.L.Williams are merchants of Malaga. O.C.Epperson is the town’s blacksmith.

1911-06-09 CC The Afro-Americah Achsa Washington Townsend, beauty specialist with parlors at Hotel Schlitz, has died.

1911-06-09 CC In 1892 the great stretches of country east of the Pecos in Eddy County contained only five voters. Today there are more than a thousand.

1911-06-09 CC Eight miles of cement walks have been laid in Carlsbad in the last two years

1911-06-09 CC The Jail Annex cost $40,000...1911-06-15 Carlsbad has its last day for legal local alcohol sales.

1911-06-16 CC Lycurgus Ward (73) died 13 Jun 1911. Born in 1838, he came to the Guadalupes in 1885.

1911-06-16 CC Government Geologist Dr H.B.Richardson finds the proposed Third Reservoir location sound, with formations similar to those at Avalon. The proposed dam would be 65 feet high, 1900 fee long, and 350 feet Wide at the base. It would cost $300,000.

1911-06-23 CC Uncle Irv Osborne, “our Land King” now controls twelve to thirteen thousand acres of irrigated land here. (The James John Hagerman holdings—his brother-in-law.)

1911-06-23 CC Rome Ohnemus was brought to the valley by Mr Greene in 1891. In 1894 he married Miss Meines. She died in 1897. In 1898 he married Lula Johnson. She died in 1902. In 1907 he married Mrs Mary Wheeler Scott, his current wife.

1911-06-23 CC George Adams has graduated from Buchtel College in Ohio. He will stay home for a year and then enter Law School at Ann Arbour, Michigan.

1911-06-23 CC Mrs Percy Pine Lewis has a new 48-Horsepower Buick—the finest in the Territory.

1911-06-30 CA Joe Walker and John Hart shoot-it-out at 40 paces. Both survive.

1911-06-30 CC Re: Tom Gray has an eight section ranch near the D Ranch (at the mouth of Big Canyon.)

1911-06-30 CC A good (dirt) road is being built at this time from Blue Spring to Geyser Spring.

1911-07-07 CA W.S.Jolly, 10-year Wells Fargo employee, is leaving town.

1911-07-07 CA The Menonites, who have purchased 1320 acres around Loving, are moving in.

1911-07-07 CC The Caesar Grandi family is back from Italy.

1911-07-07 CC George Adams will work at the Post Office while Mr Hill is on vacation.

1911-07-07 CC Victor Minter is now the Noble Grand of the local Odd Fellows Lodge.

1911-07-07 CC Two hundred people gathered at the Farrell and Rustell Ranches at Geyser Spring for the 4th of July.

1911-07-14 CC Peach packers get 3 cents per box.

1911-07-14 CC Rome Ohnemus is buying the peaches that are too soft and ripe to ship at 8 cents a box. He has a sulphur house and drying racks.

1911-07-14 CC George H.Webster, former owner of the Vineyard Stock Farm, is now the owner of the famous Uracca Ranch (80,000 acres) near Cimarron—where he is building a $100,000 pueblo-style home.

1911-07-21 CA Flooding. The Spring House at Carlsbad Spring floats down the Pecos. Rampaging Dark Canyon melts many of the San Jose adobe buildings and severely damages the San Jose Church.

1911-07-21 CC People’s Mercnatile is now moving from the Tansill Building to the old Bank Saloon location (at 128 South Canyon.)

1911-07-28 CC The flood cut around the east end of Lower Six Mile Dam, cutting away the embankment for 400 feet. The railroad bridges were also washed away., as well as the Hagerman Dam twelve miles to the south.

1911-07-28 CC By the 22nd of July the Tracy/McLenathen peach orchard had shipped 20 refrigerator carloads. Their box makers are making 1,000 boxes a day.

1911-07-28 CC The Mennonites paid $53,000 for the Benson Section.

1911-08-04 CC A temporary bath house has been erected above Tansill Dam. Eight families have formed a Swimming Club.

1911-08-04 CC William R.Ramus will marry Evelyn Ballard on the 2nd of August.

1911-08-04 CC The Medal of Honor is being sought for 2nd Lt Bujac, the first man out of the trenches at the Battle of Tagnadin Mountain in Northern Luzan.

1911-08-04 CC Mrs Percy Pine Lewis has added three more new cars to her set. She now has five. 1911-08-11 CA The Merchant Livestock Company has been incorporated. (Will Merchant is now included.)

1911-08-11 CC Mr McLenathen has decided to quit the Abstract business.

1911-08-11 CC Roy Dickson is listed among those attending a moonlight picnic at Avalon.

1911-08-11 CC Rev E.McQueen Gray, President of the University of New Mexico, is to deliver a speech at Carlsbad’s Methodist Church and another at the Hotel Schlitz.

1911-08-18 CC John Nymeyer of Loving is busy with his new #10 Birdsell Alfalfa Thresher.

1911-08-25 CA The National Congress has passed the New Mexico Statehood Law.

1911-09-01 CC Re: Daddy Heard’s High Lonesome Ranch is nine miles north of Knowles.

1911-09-01 CC Father Florian is taking charge of St Edwards. Fr Arbogast has been assigned to San Jose Parish.

1911-09-15 CC Nellie Lucas has married Paul Gray.

1911-09-15 CC Rev Beauchamp gets another fifteen converts at a Queen Revival.

1911-09-15 CC Julia and Eula Thayer are now in college at Artesia.

1911-09-29 CC First class café service has been inaugurated at the Hotel Schlitz.

1911-10-06 CA Construction has begun on the new curved western floodway at Avalon Dam, and also tunneling for its new “morning glory” gates.

1911-10-06 CA The Bujac Chinese cook of one year has been found dead in his room.

1911-10-06 CC Ad: Dr C.T.Ray, Osteopath, has opened a practice at the Palace Hotel.

1911-10-08 John Barber weds Gail Noah.

1911-10-13 CA Bruce Jones has wed Mrs Genovive Blevins at the Chavez County Fair, before thousands.

1911-10-13 CC The enrollment of the local Mexican School is 150, but ony about 35-50 attend each day.

1911-10-13 CC The Campbell Brothers Circus is to be here 19 Oct—with 8 elephants.

1911-10-13 CC Dave Kemp visits. He is now a rich landowner in Panhandle TX.

1911-10-13 CC Re: The Turkey Track Ranch has not made any money for the past six years.

1911-10-27 CC Ad: Parties wishing fine liquors phone or write W.F.Cochran, Mexico, plus any standard beer by the case.

1911-11-17 CA The Sisters of St Francis have bought-out the property of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood. (Mother Ann & Sisters Francis, Rufins and Boniface will come to Carlsbad to set up a sanatorium—the forerunner of the St Francis Hospital.)

1911-11-17 CA Fourteen miles of the Artesia-to-Hope railroad have been graded.

1911-11-17 CC “This valley needs the class of people who will pick cotton, the Negro and the Mexican.” Do not listen to those who argue otherwise.

1911-11-24 CA Miss Maria Heliering Touzel has died at her home in Albuquerque.

1911-11-24 CA Pioneer townsite worker Jesus Castro has died.

1911-11-24 CC A loan has been effected for $300,000 to complete the railroad from Artesia to Hope and provide rolling stock.

1911-11-24 CA The Santa Fe Railroad has set out to create a concrete facing on the badly eroded west bank of the river at Greene Street Bridge. In the 1904 flood the railroad there was only saved by putting out hundreds of sand bags.

1911-11-24 CA Ed Kirkpatrick has wed Miss Maggie Ray.

1911-12-01 CA Means & Plowman have completed their Panama Tank. They had to move 10,000 cubic feet of earth to create the hugh tank.

1911-12-01 CA Carlsbad has its “first serious auto accident.” A switching train hits the car Of Mrs C.M.Richards west of the Depot. It only shook-up the occupants.

1911-12-01 CA Jesus Castro who recently died “was a shrewd, bright and fairly intelligent Mexican.” (A rare slight complement in this newspaper.) He eventually acquired 160 acres west of the canal to the south of town.

1911-12-08 CC The H.W.and J.W.Zimmerman families have moved here from Loving TX.

1911-12-08 CA In the last flood the new flood gates failed to work at Avalon and had to be battered out to permit the flood waters to escape—which is why tunnel gates are now being dynamited in at the Dam.

1911-12-15 CA Re: Joe Livingston has a dry farm in Pierce Canyon east of Malaga.

1911-12-15 CA The Francis Tracys have had a son born at Peekskill New York.

1911-12-22 CA The Coad family has filed articles of incorporation for a Delaware River dam and irrigation system.

1911-12-22 CA School Superintendent W.A.Poole “has, in one year, brought order out of of chaos.” He is reappointed.

1911-12-22 CA In the 1910 census Roswell had 6,172 population, and is larger than Santa Fe.

1911-12-22 CA The Territorial Auditor says W.H.Merchant has the best kept and neatest County Treasurer’s Office in the Territory.

1911-12-22 CA Loving is to get a fine 2-story concrete hotel with nine guest rooms upstairs and a large store space downstairs. The owner is H.D.Hill.

1911-12-29 CA The heaviest snows ever known have blanketed the Guadalupes and Dog Canyon. (The snow would still be there in February.)

1911-12-29 CA A real estate ad says La Huerta peach orchards are making $250 profit per acre per year. “Ten acres of peaches easily supports a family of four—and the pursuit is open both to women and to those not robust.”

1911-12-29 CA Marvin Livingston has wed Louise Balz of Malaga.

1911-12-29 CA Re: The ordinance is now being enforced that requires that all houses in town must connect with the sewer.

1912 The Caesar Grandis return to Italy, expecting to stay, but within a year have decided to return to acquire a new farm here near Otis.

1912 After graduating from Washington & Lee, Bob Dow enters law practice in Carlsbad.

1912 Cultivated acres here had returned to 16,000, after hitting a low of only 7,637 in 1908.

1912 The Hondo Reservoir, built in 1904, is abandoned. “It leaked like a sieve”

1912 Fred Nymeyer buys a small ranch 15 miles south of Monument where he moves his family.

1912 The Walter Thayers buy the 17-room home at 601 North Canal from Elliot Hendricks.

1912 Lewis Foster is appointed Manager of the U.S.Reclamation System irrigation system here.

1912 Rice Memorial (Coloured) Methodist Church is founded here by Rev. John Rice. It is first located near Main and Tansill. 1912 The F.E.Hubert family moves to New Mexico. He first manages the Globe Plaster & Mineral Company north of Lake Avalon.

1912 The U.S.Government moves the remaining Mescalero Apaches in the Guadalupes to their Reservation—only permitting some to come back occasionally to gather herbs.

1912-01-05 CC J.F.Flowers has moved his variety store to the south room of the Fant Building at 204 South Canyon.

1912-01-05 CC E.T.Carter has acquired the old Bitting place at 212 West Stevens. He will move the old home and construct a new one there next summer. He is first building a smaller house at 208 West Stevens. 1912-01-06 The Territory of New Mexico becomes a State.

1912-01-12 CC Reconstruction has started on the Lower Six Mile Dam washout. The extended dam will have a shallow “V” shape.

1912-01-19 CC Ed Stevenson is erecting a 2-story home west of the Cemetery.

1912-01-26 CC Will Merchant is erecting his new home at the southeast corner of Canal and Orchard Lane.

1912-01-26 CC Turman Marquess recently purchased the ten acres at the northeast corner of Canal and Orchard Lane.

1912-01-26 CC C.C.Lewis is expanding his ice plant near Main at Church to the north and west. The new plant will be sixty feet square.

1912-02-02 CC Judkins and Son have bought the Blue Spring Ranch.

1912-02-02 CC The Boy Scouts of America have organized here.

1912-02-09 CC Capt Bert Mossman has purchased the Turkey Track Ranch east of Hagerman.

1912-02-16 CC The Seminole Bank has been robbed of $3,500 by two masked men. (There has always been a lingering suspicion that Clay McGonagill was one of the robbers.)

1912-02-16 CC The Emmett Polks have shifted to the Guadalupes to ranch.

1912-02-23 CC McMillan Dam (which was washed-out in the flood of 1911) is being raised three feet.

1912-03-01 CC The Clark Land Company has let the contract for the Coad’s Delaware dam.

1912-03-08 CC Prominent area rancher Roy Burnett, owner of the D Ranch, kills himself at his Carlsbad home in a game of Russian Roulette.

1912-03-15 CC The Ed Stevensons have moved into their new home.

1912-03-15 CC Capt Bujac has purchased the Freeman & Cameron law office at 112 North Canyon.

1912-03-22 CC The Carlsbad Project becomes the first in the United States to pay off its reconstruction debt to the U.S.Government.

1912-03-22 CC Re: the new highway to Malaga is following the railroad right-of-way rather than continuing to zigzag down section lines.

1912-04-05 CC Scott Etter has been elected Mayor without opposition.

1912-04-12 CC The Federal Government says now it wants only 40-acre farms on the Project here.

1912-04-14 The Titanic sinks. (It will later be said that the chief investor for theArtesia-to-Hope railroad died in this tragedy, bringing those railroadplans to an untimely end.)

1912-04-26 CC C.W.Lewis Jr, 13, has saved Marshall Gifford from downing at Stokes Hole. (He receives the Cornegie Medal and Scholarship for this act of valor in Jan 1915.)

1912-05-10 CC Reconstruction of Lower Six Mile Dam is completed..

1912-05-10 CC Capt Bujac is placing significant renovations around the little Freeman-Cameron law office.

1912-05-17 CC J.W.Tulk has sold his Queen interests to Lee Middleton.

1912-05-24 CC Paul Kroeger (65) has died of blood poisoning at his ranch west of Lakewood.

1912-06-14 CC The reconstruction work at Avalon Dam is finished (including the drum gates, the tunnels, and the semicircular west spillway.)

1912-07-05 CC Dr E.McQueen Gray, past President of the University of New Mexico, has been advanced to full Episcopalean Priesthood.

1912-07-05 CC The Coad Brothers have completed their Delaware dam, a 6-mile canal, houses and barns, and have also broken almost 800 acres for planting.

1912-07-19 CC “The Tracy-McLenathen peach orchard is acknowledged as the finest in the world.”

1912-07-19 CC The Coad dam on the Delaware is 12 feet high and 200 feet long with one thousand feet of wing wall.

1912-08-02 CC Y.R.Allen has opened the “Blue Goose” Saloon in a tent on the east side of San Jose.

1912-08-09 CC The Carlsbad Argus has finally caught-up. (It gets a linotype.)

1912-08-09 CC A.J.Muzzy of the Public Utilities Company has given a strip of land to the city just behind the east end of Tansill Dam for a public beach.

1912-08-09 CC Construction will soon start on the Eddy County Hospital brick addition to the west (at 512 West Greene.)

1912-08-16 CC Robert Causey is setting up a blacksmith shop on Main Street.

1912-09 Jane Groves starts a kindergarten here since the school system has none.25 students. $2.50 per student from the district, $2.50 from the parents.(By 1913 she had moved to Santa Fe.)

1912-10-18 CC The Seminole trial of Clay McGonagill for bank robbery has begun. (He will be found not guilty.)

1912-11-08 CC The Presbyterians have voted to enlarge their church, adding a Sunday School on the north.

1912-12-06 CC The M.L.Davis family (including sons Ray and Kenny) has moved to Carlsbad. They have bought the Foster farm south of the Stevensons and just southwest of the Cemetery.

1912-12-06 CC Caesar Grandi has begun the foundation for a 2-story home a half mile north of Otis.

1912-12-13 CC L.A.Swigart and Jake Gross have acquired the large Buck Eye Sheep Ranch (near later Lovington) from Capt.Jack Rowley.

1912-12-13 CC Photographer F.G.Hodsoll has returned from London.

1912-12-13 CC T.C.Horne has acquired the Morrison Brothers Dry Goods Store.

1912-12-13 CC The Bates Brothers have acquired the Schlitz Hotel (for $17,500)

1912-12-20 CC The St Francis Hospital has been enlarged to 22 rooms.

1912-12-25 Etta Middleton weds Dave McCollaum of Upper Dark Canyon.

1912-12-25 Belle King weds E.P.McCord.

1913 Eddy County gets its first oil well, “The Brown Well” two miles northeast of Dayton. It delivers 52 gallons per day.

1913 Only Dr Doepp, M.S.Groves, Bart Swertsfeel and the Merchant families have cars.

1913 Rome Ohnemus changes his blacksmith & machine shop to a garage and machine shop—the valley’s first.

1913 Sam Hughes walks 18 miles from the Orange Stage Stop to Dog Canyon where he starts a homestead. 1913 Ira Stockwell makes his first visit to Carlsbad.

1913 Dr.Culpepper, who will soon move to Carlsbad, is elected Mayor ofDayton.

1913-01-10 CC Bill Washington is arrested for blocking access to the new owner of the ranch, John Lucas.

1913-01-24 CC Mr Moberly is building a store at Otis.

1913.01-24 CC Paul Ares has bought the old Toby Place (at 1307 North Canal)

1913-02-03 A large Tom Thumb Wedding takes place on the High School stage.

1913-02-28 CC John Murrah has married Mrs Rosa Kroeger.

1913-04-01 The Bates Brothers have their Grand Opening Banquet for the opening of the Bates Hotel.

1913-04-04 CC Daniel Beach (69) dies at his home on Black River.

1913-04-04 CC Carrie Merchant (17) dies of T.B.at the Anderson Sanatorium. (She

had lived here with Mrs John Merchant since she was four.)

1913-04-04 CC Ray Soladay has moved to Carlsbad.

1913-04-25 CC Dr Munger has brought in the town’s first spineless prickly pear.

1913-05 The first issue of the CHS annual, “The Echo”, is published. (Thereare 13 Seniors, 13 Juniors, 9 Sophomores and 15 Freshmen.)

1913-05-05 Open House for the new Hospital Addition.

1913-06-27 CC Mrs Chaytor acquires the Palace Hotel

1913-06-28 W.H.Harroun and sons make their first visit to this valley afterfirst looking over Ft Stockton.

1913-08-29 CC Carlsbad has voted to return to legal liquor sales inside the town for the next four years.

1913-08-29 CC The Harthorn Brothers have sold the large Hagerman Farm east of Malaga to W.H.Harroun.

1913-08-29 CC Sam Jones is building a new home at his place on Rocky Arroyo.

1913-11-26 Mart Fanning dies at Lakewood.

1913-11-27 Leslie Grantham dies of a ruptured appendix. (His younger brotherGrady will die in 1915.)

1913-12-05 CC Frank Jones is planning to build a home at 101 North Mesquite.

1913-12-12 CC The Red Brick School is being torn down. (A new one-story Elementary School will be built with the used brick at the southeast corner of the block between 400 North Halagueno & Alameda.)

1913-12-12 CC The Federal Government has begun building drain ditches in the southern part of the Project to fight that area’s major sub-irrigation problems.

1914 The James Dillard family arrives with daughter Leila. He opens a law office..

1914 The J.B.Morris and L.H.Pate families (the two wives are sisters), move to Carlsbad from Lake Arthur.

1914 Hollis Watson, who had been working near Hope, shifts to sheep ranching near Loving.

1914 About 1914 Salt Cedars were introduced to the West by the Railroad Companies, who began to use them to stabilize railroad bridges.

1914 The first test for oil in the Carlsbad area occurs six miles east of town. There is not a positive result.

1914 By 1914 the Durango variety of Mexican cotton had come to dominate in the valley’s fields. Earlier there had been Egyptian and Sea Island cotton. By 1918 there will be another shift to Acala.

1914 Carlsbad High School has its first football team—with Coach Wilkins.

1914-01-02 CC The Masons have furnished their Reception Room.

1914-01-09 CC Long-time local photographer Fred Butler (56), who never married, has died.

1914-01-16 CC English photographer F.G.Hodsoll has bought the building and outfit of Fred Butler (at 208 West Fox).

1914-01-30 CC Guano has also been discovered in Ogle Cave, and is being developed.

1914-02-06 CC A new city ordinance limits cars to 15 miles-per-hour in town, only 10 miles-per-hour downtown.

1914-02-20 CC The Secretary of Interior insists that farms here, since the Government rebuilt the irrigation system, should be limited to 40 acres so that they only serve small farmers.

1914-03-06 CC The Billy Heglers are moving to the Pine Springs area.

1914-03-20 CC Ace Acrey has killed Richard Murrah.

1914-03-28 Baronald, the old E.McQueen Gray home at 113 North Canal, burns down.

1914-04-03 CC Mr Poore has started a brick residence at 112 West Hagerman.

1914-04-10 CC Dr L.H.Pate has shifted to Carlsbad from Lake Arthur. (He practiced in Lake Arthur from 1906 to 1914, and was the first Master of the Lake Arthur Masonic Lodge.)

1914-04-10 CC The Scotish Rite has organized here.

1914-04-24 CC Re: Mr Fred Hubert is manager of the Oriental Cement Works (living in Dayton)

1914-05-08 CC Potash deposits have been discovered east of town by those test drilling for oil.

1914-05-29 CC Gene Roberts has joined the Public Utilities Company office staff.

1914-06-05 CC Howard Kerr has received the contract to carry the mail to the Eastern Plains (again.)

1914-06-05 CC The new East Wing on the Courthouse is nearing completion.

1914-06-19 CC The Pecos Valley Lumber Company’s two structures (being built by J.B.Morris) at 301 and 303 South Canyon are almost completed. 1914-07-17 CC The Girl Scouts and Blue Birds are being organized here.

1914-07-17 CC 1065 acres of seepage land is now being drained by drain ditches. There are still 365 more acres to go.

1914-07-24 CA The first known reference in a local newspaper to a “tourist”.

1914-07-24 CC Doc Reed has been killed in the Guadalupes by Mrs E.L.Brown.

1914-07-31 CC R.W.Tansill Jr is currently staying at the San Simon Ranch.

1914-08-07 CC Re: Europe has gone to war.

1914-09-04 CC Walter Glover, foreman of the D Ranch, has married Bertha Miller.

1914-09-11 CC Walter Thayer has become the owner of the Reagan and Tom Middleton ranches in the Guadalupes.

1914-10-09 CC Fox Street (which had stopped at Guadalupe) is being extended westward to Greene Heights.

1914-10-16 CC Drugist Amos Smith has died. (The obituary does not mention his second wife.) (His son Milton will shortly change the name of their Pecos Valley Pharmacy to that of the Corner Drug Store.)

1914-11-13 CC The area’s first concrete silo has been built near Otis.

1914-11-27 CC Perry Altman has died (presumedly near the Point of the Guadalupes)

1914-11-30 The Arthur Mayes family resettles close to the head of Black River.

1914-12-24 Luigi Ginanni shifts from the Roswell area to the Malaga area.

1914-12-25 The Henry Jordan family, with their daughter Myrdell, arrive here fromTexas.

1915 Mrs Cesarine Lewis buys Hagerman Heights from the Tansills.

1915 Dolph Shattuck buys Soldier Springs from the Killgore families. (He will later sell it to Sam Hughes.)

1915 The numerous artesian wells began to fail from Lakewood to Roswell. A shift to electric pumps begins.

1915 The Herman Brockmans move here from their homestead northeast of Artesia. They rent the old Vineyard Farm from Howard Kerr.

1915 The National Homestead Law is changed from grants of 160 acres to 640 acres. A wave of “nesters” moves into the Federal range lands to the east, where shallow water has been discovered.

1915-01-01 CC Collin Gerrells has shifted from Joyce-Pruit to T.C.Horne’s.

1915-01-29 CC C.W.Lewis Jr will receive the Carnegie Medal and Scholarship for his Apr 26, 1912, act of valor.

1915-02-12 CC Felix Miller has killed C.M.Akrey near the Standpipe.

1915-02-15 Mrs Dick Merchant has died.

1915-02-26 CC Rev Redmon is organizing the Camp Fire Girls here.

1915-03-12 CC Elizabeth Garrett’s “Oh, Fair New Mexico” has been adopted by the State Legislature as the official New Mexico State Song.

1915-03-26 CC The Weaver Garage is ready to open at 206 South Canyon.

1915-03-28 Ray V.Davis marries Myrtle Pixler and the couple returns to Carlsbad.

1915-04-02 CC Dr Boatman’s daughter, Mrs Rosa Forbes, died in Iowa on March 19th. She leaves two small sons.

1915-04-03 The Sweet Shop opens at 124 South Canyon. It will be the chief hangout for the young people of Carlsbad for a generation. Its burro-drawn ice cream wagon moves across the town, announcedby small ringing bells.

1915-04-05 Howard Kerr weds Cesarine Lewis

1915-04-09 CC Maj Bujac’s NMMI Commencement Address on American Military Preparedness is given in full. (In this address he calls for a major buildup of the military. Not long afterward President Wilson began just such a buildup. and Carlsbad had no doubt that it was the Bujac address that had caused this. Bujac was henceforth always introduced as “The Man Who Allerted the Nation.”)

1915-04-11 William Sorrels dies in a caving incident in the Guadalupes.

1915-04-16 CC Frona Leck has become our telephone operator.

1915-04-16 CC The Eddy County Hospital Association has incorporated.

1915-04-18 The townspeople head for high ground over fears that high water is aboutto break through McMillan Dam. Nothing happens.

1915-04-21 Walter Thayer is killed in his corral at the X-Bar. Debate continues overwhether he might have been murdered.

1915-04-30 CC Grady Grantham has died at sixteen.

1915-05-15 A major flood occurs here.

1915-06-04 CC Dr.F.F.Doepp and Dr.L.H.Pate have formed a partnership.

1915-06-15 Paul and Trannie Ares divorce. On 22 Apr 1916 he marries Mabel Bearup,forty years his junior.

1915-07-02 CC Gene Roberts has been named Superintendent of the Public Utilities Co.

1915-08-13 CC The Artesia Alfalfa Festival has changed its name to the Eddy County Fair.

1915-08-20 CC Willard Bates has recently purchased the Panama Ranch from Plowman and Means (for $11,000.)

1915-08-27 CC Mr Poteet has bought 390 acres of the Lower Osborne place.

1915-08-27 CC Roy and Cora Dickson have moved to Loving from Colorado.

1915-09-03 CC The National Plaster plant near Avalon will now be using the daily output of the Brown Oil Well to heat its boilers.

1915-09-03 CC Plans are announced for a new Armoury to be built at 113 South Canal. (The earlier Armoury had been in the Tansill Building, until it sold to A.J.Crawford—when it became the Peoples Theater location.)

1915-10-15 CC The Shetland pony which Buna Ward recently won in a local raffle has been killed by the train that passes near her parents’ home in La Huerta. (The Santa Fe Railroad, with fanfair, provided her with another.)

1915-11-12 CC Carlsbad Steam Laundry has opened for business.

1915-12-10 CC A one-story addition is being built to the east for the Masonic Building.

1915-12-24 CC After eight years, Post Master John Bolton is being replaced.

1915-12-24 CC Morgan Livingston has acquired the Draper property (at the northwest corner of Canal and Church.) He will move the Draper home 300 feet to the southwest (and give it a major Greek Revival makeover.) (It becomes the new showplace for the community.)

1916 At this point the “Carlsbad Argus” briefly began publishing three timesa week.

1916 The commercial apple orchards were virtually gone from this areaby 1916. There had been “thousands of acres” in 1900.

1916 Oriental NM loses its Post Office.

1916 The Dayton Railroad Depot burns

1916 The long-time dirt race track at Greene and Guadalupe is returnedto alfalfa..

1916 St Francis Hospital opens as a Tuburcular Sanatorium. It will becomea General Hospital in 1917.

1916 The St.Edwards 2-room school opens at 606 West Shaw. (Also run by theSisters of the Most Precious Blood)

1916 The L.E.Fosters acquire the house at the center of the 100 South block between Elm and Walnut.

1916 The Swigarts build the home at the north end of Canyon Street.

1916 Widow Mary Ohnemus Kircher weds Pete Calvani.

1916-01-02 CA Ralph Thayer weds Mabel Austin, daughter of Mrs.H.E.James.

1916-01-07 CA Construction has begun on the new Armoury.

1916-01-14 CA Pancho Villa has killed 16 Americans taken from a train in Chihuahua.

1916-02-19 CA Juan Oliva, “Mayor” of the Mexican community 8 miles south of Carlsbad” (which was “Cuba”, located on the west side of the Main Canal south of Otis) is building a dance hall there.

1916-02-25 Artesia’s first two-story building, the Gage Hotel, burns down

1916-02-25 John Harvey takes over as the new Carlsbad Post Master. 1916-03-03 CA Re: Mrs Chaytor of the Carlsbad Springs Hotel (which she had just bought)

1916-03-04 Jay and Pearl Ogden arrive at Loving NM, having just married.

1916-03-09 Poncho Villa raids Columbus NM.

1916-03-10 General Pershing is ordered on a Punitive Expedition to pursue Poncho Villainto Mexico.

1916-03-10 CA The old Amos Smith home at 101 North Halagueno burns down.

1916-03-11 The Carlsbad National Guard (Company B-Cavalry) is called together and ordered to Columbus to pursue Poncho Villa. They will not return to

Carlsbad until 05 Apr 1917. (The Carlsbad Guard Unit is said to be the only such Unit that saw active duty in Mexico.)

1916-03-14 The Carlsbad Regulars head for the border—without the man who organized andcommanded them, Maj Bujac—who the Army refused to call to Active Duty.(There were rumours that he is drinking too much.)

1916-03-15 Charlie White of Loving weds Ruth Howard.

1916-03-24 CA A new, better, road opens going up the Big Hill to Queen. (Before this the road to Queen was considered to be almost totally unusuable.)

1916-03-31 CA An African-American Band which is brought to Carlsbad to play for the Commerce Club is pelted with rotten eggs and leaves without playing.

1916-03-31 CA There are plans to rebuild the Carlsbad Round House (without the turntable.)

1916-04-01 D.G.Grantham is now the Mayor of Carlsbad.

1916-04-01 The Livingston Place at Canal and Church is almost finished.

1916-04-14 CA John R.Joyce the 1st (the uncle of John R.Joyce the 2nd) has been killed Apr 11

In a freak automobile accident. (This is the man who came to Eddy in 1889 andbuilt a major financial empire for his family. He never married.)

1916-04-14 Joseph Wertheim of Artesia NM has bought Carlsbad’s Boston Store. (He willbecome a cotton dealer here in 1918.)

1916-04-21 CA Paul Ares weds Mabel Bearup.

1916-05 There are only 8 Carlsbad High School Graduates, all girls, because the boys are in the National Guard and are now pursuing Villa. (The one boy not inthe Guard disappears.)

1916-05-12 CA Re: Miss Kernoddle’s end-of-the-year ceremonies at her Private School.

1916-05-12 CA Lt Gene Roberts weds Jane Groves.

1916-05-19 CA Capt Mancini, who originally came to Eddy and then shifted to Roswell’s NMMI as an instructor, has been lost at sea in the big war.

1916-05-31 George Adams weds Blossom Brown at Ft Stockton TX.

1916-06-02 CA Dr.Culpepper of Dayton NM has formed a Carlsbad partnership with DrL.H.Pate.

1916-06-09 CA Mary Tansill receives City Council permission to start a second electrical power system in Carlsbad. (Mrs Tansill owned the Power Dam. The Public Utilities Company owned the town’s only power system. The two had been in constant conflict since Mr Tansill’s death. For the next 10 years Carlsbad is going to have two sets of power poles running up and down every alley.)

1916-06-09 CA Maj Bujac has gone to the Bull Moose Convention in Chicago as a delegate. (This group gave President Theodore Roosevelt his second lease on life.)

1916-06-12 The Lucius Andersons celebrate their Golden Anniversary

1916-06-16 CA The St Francis Sanatorium has closed down.

1916-06-16 CA Joyce-Pruit in Carlsbad has replaced its horse-drawn delivery wagons with gasoline-powered trucks.

1916-06-16 CA Two of Villa’s men have been hanged at Columbus. Carlsbad’s Co B was on guard duty.

1916-06-30 CA Company B has been mustered into Federal Service.

1916-07-02 CA Collin Gerrells has wed Eula Thayer.

1916-07-07 CA Lawyers Robert Dow and Carl Livingston have formed a partnership here.

1916-07-14 CA Some of Company B got briefly into Mexico at Palomas.

1916-07-21 Maj Bujac has been visiting our troops at Columbus.

1916-07-21 Loving is to get a flour mill: It will grind wheat, barley and corn.

!916-08-11 CA Frederick Hodsoll is moving to British Columbia (to join the Camerons and Judge Freeman.). Ray V.Davis is taking over the photography shop at 208 West Fox.

1916-08-18 CA Rancher Green McCombs visits Carlsbad from the Guadalupes (near the Point of the Mountains.)

1916-08-25 CA Since the washout of Tansill Dam, the Public Utilities Company has decided to build an Auxiliary Power Plant at 312 South Main.

1916-09-03 Ray Soliday and wife Ethel have moved here from South Dakota. (Herparents, the Stevensons, had arrived earlier and set up the farm west ofthe Cemetery.)

1916-09-03 Lawrence Merchant has gone east to test for entry to Harvard.

1916-09-03 The Carlsbad Argus, at this point, shifts its publishing date forewardone day.

1916-09-08 CA A.J.Crawford plans to renovate the Tansill Building into a hotel.

1916-09-15 CA J.Stokley Ligon has been put in charge of the Biological Survey of New Mexico and Arizona.

1916-09-15 CA Dr Lyon of Rising Star TX, (the brother of Mrs Walter Thayer and Aunt Pop) has recently been practicing medicine at Queen NM

1916-09-22 CA Dean Smith is now an Army pilot. He is to fly a New Mexico airplane at Columbus NM.

1916-09-22 CA Joyce-Pruit has let the contract for a 50 foot by 100 ft concrete warehouse to be built at 105 West Mermod.

1916-09-29 CA F.G.Hodsoll has left for British Columbia.

1916-09-29 CA Frijole NM (near the Point of the Guadalupes) now has a Post Office— at the ranch of J.T.Smith.

1916-10-06 CA San Jose’s Mexican Masonic Hall has burned.

1916-10-06 CA The new Armoury is completed. It will also be used for movies and for skating.

1916-10-06 CA The new Roundhouse is under construction.

1916-10-27 CA Ed Burleson has been shot by A.S.Knott near Sitting Bull Falls in a dispute over fences.

1916-11-03 CA C.E.Thomas is now the El Paso Gap Post Master.

1916-11-04 Carl Livingston has wed Jane Simpson

1916-11-10 CA Construction has started on the Santa Fe Railroad Coal Shoot here.

1916-11-17 CA Donald Swigart (16), long-ill, has died.

1916-11-17 CA Bread here sells at three loaves for 25 cents.

1916-11-26 Reuben P.Segrest dies (76). Born in Switzerland, he came to theU.S.and Seven Rivers in 1880. He wound up owning, for a time,most of the Northern Guadalupes.

1916-12-25 Etienne Bujac Jr and Dibrell Pate, both 12, are in a very bad caraccident at Greene & Alameda. Etienne almost loses an arm and leg. The driver was their buddy Benson Merchant (15).

1917 Accountant James N.Bujac moves to Carlsbad. He later shifts toLaw. (He is the nephew of Maj Etienne de P.Bujac)

1917 Big Clabe Merchant (81) waylays Bill Mullane of the “Carlsbad Current”and attacks him with his cane. Merchant is upset because of a Mullanearticle accusing the Merchant family of running out squatters on theSan Simon public lands by filing underhanded grazing claims.

1917 Robert Tansill II rebuilds Tansill Dam, washed out in the 1915 flood, tomeet the family’s contractual obligations to provide water to Mrs.Lewison the Heights, as well as their power contract with the city. The dam,which had started at 200 feet length, is now at 750 feet.

His engineer Prichard put in, at the same time, an electric generator &turbin, a 20 ton Ice Plant and Cold Storage Plant (at 512 North Main)and a Steam Laundry on South Canal—all owned by Carlsbad Light& Power Company.

1917 A one-room school is started in Last Chance Canyon that will last through1926.

1917 Howard Moore comes to Carlsbad—and opens his Abstract Company. 1917-01-01 Will Merchant ends his 10 year stent as Eddy County Treasurer

1917-01-11 CC W.F.McIlvain becomes Director of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce

1917-01-30 Morgan Livingston dies.

1917-02-04 CC E.B.Bronson has died in New York City.

1917-02-05 The Pershing Expedition returns to the U.S.at Columbus NM.

1917-02-16 CC There is to be an Cottonseed Oil Mill soon at Loving. (This did not happen until 1923.)

1917-02-25 CC J.H.and Ellsworth James have bought the Fant Building (which will become the First National Bank Building.) They plan to extend it to the alley.

1917-03-02 CC George Frederick has bought the Jordan (earlier Lucas) home at 201 South Alameda. He and his wife plan to create a private hospital there. (This became a birthing hospital for many of the prominent families.)

1917-03-17 Carlsbad’s State National Bank opens.

1917-03-29 The creation of Lea County is authorized out of the eastern one-third of Eddy and Chavez Counties.

1917-03-30 CC The new Carlsbad Round House burns down. Three Santa Fe Railroad engines are damaged.

1917-04-02 The United States enters World War II

1917-04-05 The local National Guard unit returns to Carlsbad from Columbus.

1917-04-06 CC Carlsbad High School has received North Central Accreditation.

1917-04-06 CC With the troops back in town, the new Armoury is dedicated. Maj Bujac is the main speaker.

1917-04-13 CC Local women are asked to organize for Red Cross work.

1917-04-17 CC The local National Guard Unit (Cavalry) is again brought back into active service--and assigned to the 40th Infantry Brigade.

1917-05-18 CC The Catholic School graduates its first three 8th Grade students.

1917-05-25 CC Maj Bujac, now touring Southeastern New Mexico as a recruiter, enlists almost 80 at Clovis and another 25 at Ft Sumner.

1917-06-22 CC The Carlsbad Building and Loan Association has incorporated.

1917-06-22 CC Ray V.Davis has acquired a fine circuit camera (the source of all of those long rolled photographs in our collection.)

1917-06-28 Sam Roberts dies of a ruptured appendix in his first days at West Point.

1917-07-02 CC Camille Smith has married Dean Smith in Los Angeles.

1917-07-07 Maj Bujac is finally returned to active duty. (He had spent a great dealof time in Washington D.C.campaigning to bring this about.)

1917-07-27 San Jose’s empty Blue Goose Saloon burns. (Re: It had also been abrothel.)

1917-08-10 CC The Public Utility Company’s new Auxiliary Power House beside the railroad at 310 South Main is practically completed.

1917-08-30 CC Rev Uriah Tracy, Grace Episcopal rector 1894-1898, dies here at 88.

1917-09-24 CC This school year the (Red Brick) Grammar School has added three rooms to the northeast.

1917-10 Maj Bujac organizes and takes command of the 144th Machine Gun Battalion here.

1917-10-15 CC Newspaper ads begin to appear for Ray V.Davis, Photographer.

1917-10-26 CC The bankrupt Oriental Plaster Company reorganizes as the Globe Cement and Plaster Company. This change brings Fred Hubert from Dayton to Carlsbad.

1917-11-07 The State of New Mexico votes to go dry by 10,000 votes.

1917-11-16 CC S.L.Perry buys “The Carlsbad Current” from W.H.Mullane, who had owned it for 25 years.

1917-11-23 CC Dr Glasier has returned to Carlsbad to live permanently.

1917-11-28 The Crawford Hotel opens its doors to customers. It has 20 rooms.

1917-12-01 CC McKim and Kindel, joining the military, sell the Sweet Shop to the Hanson Brothers.

1917-12-21 CA Globe Plaster & Mining Company is now incorporated.

1917-12-27 The Carlsbad Light & Power Company’s new Ice Plant opens at512 North Main. (This was Mrs Tansill’s Power Company.)

1917-12-31 Formal opening banquet for the Crawford Hotel.

1918 The first automobile-type fire engine replaces Carlsbad’s horse-drawn,models.

1918 Charles Montgomery moves here at 18 to work for Joyce-Pruit.

1918 Ray Powers, just out of Pharmacy School, begins to work at the StarPharmacy for Mr Braden. (Ray’s father was managing the constructionof the roundhouse here.)

1918 The Willard Bates family acquires their home at 709 North Canyon.

1918 The George Bonds move to the area, establishing a ranch on Lone TreeDraw.

1918-01-07 Maj Bujac returns home on sick leave. (He is relieved of active duty inFebruary, “injured in the line of duty”—but among continuing rumours that alcohol was the actual problem.)

1918-01-12 ECC In a double-wedding at Pecos TX the 2 Arraguy sisters wed Jim Etcheverry And Bautista Barbaria.

1918-01-12 The big freeze (minus 4 degrees) that spelt the end to the peach orchards.

1918-01-30 ECC Loving is to get a hotel—Ross & White’s

1918-02-01 CA Mrs George O’Connor has died at 32. She leaves a husband and young son Perry.

1918-02-15 CA Aubrey Gist has sold his goats and ranch to Dave & John McCollum for $8,000.

1918-02-20 ECC B.S.Kuykendall is selling out after over 25 years on Rocky Arroyo.

1918-03-22 CA The orchardists of La Huerta are pulling their trees, all of which are dead. (These dead trees were piled near town, and provided firewood for a decade.)

1918-03-25 Carlsbad, having reached a population of 2,000, is proclaimed a city.(Up to this point it could only be a town.)

1918-04-01 The first Federal Income Tax is due.

1918-04-08 The Carlsbad National Guard Unit sails for France.

1918-04-12 CA German-born Henry Lange of Otis is arrested for “disloyal offences vs Liberty Bonds” which he spoke out against. He is required to salute the American flag.

1918-04-19 CA The German language will no longer be taught in New Mexico schools.

1918-04-26 CA Henry Lange is tarred and feathered as a pro-German.

1918-06-21 The Bates Hotel burns down. (The fire starts at 1:10 p.m. in the dormitory for the help at the rear of the hotel.) Most of the town gathers to watch.

1918-07 Mr Toffelmire is building a new jail for Loving.

1918-07-12 CC The Boston Store is now Wertheim & Vorenberg (Joseph’s father-in-law)

1918-07-12 CC Lillian Bearup and Albert Ares (the oldest son of Paul) have married.

1918-07-19 CC The L.S.Crawfords have occupied their new home at 201 North Canyon

1918-07-26 CC Huling Ussery and Jim Farrell have gone to El Paso to join the Navy.

1918-08-02 CC Maj Dean Smith surprises Carlsbad by landing his military plane in Irv Osborne’s alfalfa field just south of Lea Street. (The plane is swarmed, and the alfalfa is ruined. When Mr Osborne objects he is denounced as un-American.) The Commerce Club gives a dinner in Smith’s honor.

1918-08-02 CC Re: The new roundhouse is still under construction.

1918-08-10 Fr Arbogast, the Priest for eleven years at San Jose, is shifted to Roswell.

1918-08-16 CC To prepare for Dean Smith’s return, a large group of citizens clears off a rough landing area in the desert just north of the Heights.

1918-08-28 CA Malaga has closed its High School. In the future Malaga students will be taken to Carlsbad.

1918-09-20 Lt Bryan Mudgett (25) is killed in France. (While considered to be Carlsbad’s WWI military hero, he had actually married and begun teaching at Silver City when he was called into active duty.)

1918-09-21 Paul Ares buys 491 San Simon cattle for $31,575. (Big Clabe Merchant, from long experience across several wars, told his sons to sell-off theircattle during wartime—to avoid the inevitable collapse of the cattlemarket when the war ended.)

1918-10-13 Oran Means dies of enfluenza on a cattle drive in the Guadalupes.

1918-10-13 Sister Osmunda dies of enfluenza. (This epidemic swept around the world, killing multiple thousands. In Carlsbad it was particularly hard on the many T.B.patients who had come to the area.)

1918-11-11 World War I ends.

1918-12-07 Maj Dean Smith and Capt J.A.MacReady land 2 military planes on the new air field east of town. (They later fly on to Roswell.)

1919-01-09 Dentist Thomas J.Pearson of Roswell marries Eulalia B.Merchant.

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