Show NEW EVI MEXICO Judge Neill B. B Field of Albuquerque N. N M. M 1 w was in New York the other day I Be Bc- ing interviewed he he said that he lie was not a judge atall it t ail ll but a lawyer but it was was wasa a l local al title got ot in inN I N New v e Mexico I cr Continuing he said The fact is iF the only I thi g J ever eyer judged in my life was a horse r race ceY He HG is is by birth a Kentuckian and a close friend o of Cal Col Henry 1 Watterson wh who vhO has nominated him to be the first United States senator from New Mexico but he is not seeking any office i In In conversation he said is the commercial and aud financial center o 0 or the tile territory r. r It lt is the great distributing point for southern New lI Mexico exico and aud part of Arizona The population is is about OOOO There axe are about people there You Yn know the population populatIOn- of a place and the numb num- num b her r people f actually there sometimes differ New y Mexico has progressed in a perfectly wonderful dul way yay in evary direction During the last two years years' the population on has increased Most of oJ our increase comes I T should say from the overflow from Texas and Oklahoma Agri Agri- is getting ahead of mining o out oit t the there e The three great industries of oZ New Mexico l now no ar are arc sheep raising coal and lumber about in that ol of or der fer The territory never produced enough gold t to justify fY it being called a gold country although i Jt it has has las turned out a a lot of of silver and lead and amI its zinc inc industry is looking up Sheep values have in- in fivefold out there in the last fifteen years Further on he said Albuquerque is feet above bove sea level and is a great health resort Albuquerque Al- Al contains one of the largest sawmills in inbe inthe inthe the be world and the company that that owns owns it has 00 acres of the finest pine pille timber to be found anywhere about miles west of of- the city The logs have to be brought to the mill by train and the he reason why the mill was not built nearer learer the lumber umber umber-I I am told was vas because because the skillful workmen workmen workmen work work- men would not riot go into the woods they want they want their children children hildren to have the benefit of every every educational advantage lie He closed by making the astonishing assertion that hat New Mexico has the greatest body of virgin pine ine timber that remains anywhere in p. p America New Mexico ought to be be because because be- be cause ause of all the interior territory of the United States tates we believe New Mexico is least understood and nd it ought to have a place in the union and its manifold sources of wealth brought to light |