. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , have been the sub-jects of many articles in magazines andpress during the past year, and home-seekers by the trainload are leaving thecity, which had attracted them withits tinsel and commercialism, to returnonce more to the simple farm life, withits health and prosperity. The reason for all this is has been demonstrated that from sixto forty acres is all that one man canproperly take care of, in the new orderof things, and in the minds eye we cansee the entire country settled
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , have been the sub-jects of many articles in magazines andpress during the past year, and home-seekers by the trainload are leaving thecity, which had attracted them withits tinsel and commercialism, to returnonce more to the simple farm life, withits health and prosperity. The reason for all this is has been demonstrated that from sixto forty acres is all that one man canproperly take care of, in the new orderof things, and in the minds eye we cansee the entire country settled like asuburb, a succession of comfortable andhappy homes, with nearby neighbors,churches and schools, telephone andtrolley, where the farmer elevates him- December, iooN. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 521 self above a drudge and takes advant-age of all the refining influence of thehighest civilization, together with itshealth and freedom. The sixteenth Irrigation Congress justclosed at. this place has demonstratedto the thousands in attendance, withouta doubt, that there is a great future in. Forts Logan and Wingate, togetheiwith flu Roswell Military AcadCadets, were hen- with fancy drill i ti Albuquerque has taken a long bri athand is Hying to get back into the oldroutine of business, bul it will be manydays before the incidents of the recentweeks will cease to be the pi iitopic. Allen E. Nye. A. T. & S. F. Ry. Co. Ubuquerque, N. .1/. SANTA FE PAVILION AT THE IRRIGA-TION CONGRESS. store for this Western country, arid itis sometimes called, and this greatgathering might justly be termed theopening wedge of the reclamationprocess which is being prime factor in this great move-ment is the Santa Fe Ry. Co., and theexhibits which they caused to be gath-ered here would do credit to any agri-cultural or mineral display in the lines and feeders tap all this South-western country, and every sectionfrom Kansas to California was repre-sented. Besides the
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