Abstract

Why New Mexico Does Not Flourish

The article presents information on the New Mexico after the construction of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad through the state. It was discovered that it possessed great wealth and enjoyed singular advantages, and for a short time people began to flock to it; capital was enticed thither for investment, and a great number of enterprises sprang up in almost every direction. But then there was a decline. This was largely owing to a lack of resources in the Southwestern region. These grants, sometimes of enormous extent, were originally vested in a few; but in process of time the descendants of one grantee have come to number twenty or thirty heads of families, living scattered, and, as not infrequently happens, with one or more of them lost to sight, without record.