Eddy County NM Archives History - Businesses .....Hope 1912 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nm/nmfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 24, 2007, 2:05 pm HOPE. Pop 500. Eddy county. A village 22 miles w of Artesia on the A T & S F Ry the shipping point. Has Methodist, Baptist and Christian churches and a bank. A weekly newspaper the Penasco Valley Press is published. Daily mail stage to Artesia fare $1.50. W L Whitaker P M. Bass V M, drugs. Beckett Bros, feed. Beckett Mrs T, notions. Bishop D L, tailor. Burnett R H H & A M, printers. Creculens H A, phys. Elms D L, tailor. First National Bank (capital $25,000), W L Whitaker, pres; H M Gage, cashr. Hope Drug Co. Hope Mercantile Co, gen store. JOYCE-PRUIT CO, W L WHITAKER Mngr, General Store. (See back cover). Medcalf W S, blksmith. Osborn Wm, gen store. Parks S, jeweler. Penasco Valley Mercantile Co, gen store. Penasco Valley Press, R H H Burnett pub. Shelton G A, saloon. Stein D S Y, phys. Westen H C, blksmith. Western Drug Co. WHITAKER W L, GENERAL Store. Wood J H, blksmith. Additional Comments: Extracted from: POLK'S NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA PICTORIAL STATE GAZETTEER AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY FIRST STATEHOOD EDITION 1912-1913 VOLUME NO. 1 R L. POLK & CO., PUBLISHERS MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN DIRECTORY PUBLISHERS ST. PAUL, MINN. PUBLISH ALSO GAZETTEERS OF TEXAS, KANSAS, NEBRASKA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, UTAH, IDAHO, OREGON, WASHINGTON, MONTANA, WEST VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA, IOWA, KANSAS, MISSOURI, ALABAMA, OKLAHOMA, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, KENTUCKY, PENNSYLVANIA, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, ARKANSAS, FLORIDA, NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nm/eddy/directories/business/1912/hope264gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nmfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb