to them.Alamogordo prides herself on being a live, wide awake, progressive town of over four thous-nd people and still growing,and only six years old. With extensive railrlt;*ad shops; a saw mill turning out 100,000 feet of lumber daily; a park a mile long, and the most leautiful in the Territory, with the leautiful pond with numerous tame and wild ducks and four beautiful swan which the citizens have just purchased at an expense of two hundred dollars; the best brass land in the Territory who pay their leader one hundred andtwenty five dollars a month raised by popular subscription, to say nothing of fitting them out recently with band suits at an expense of six hundred dollars; our valley dotted with farms that yield in abundance; the moun-ains hack of us produces the finest fruit and vegetables of all kinds in profusion; the purest of mountain water, beautiful homes, beautiful women, progressive cit izens, every body prospering, no grafters, the county affairs administered economically and honestly; no drones, allhaving steady employment at good salaries, and now for the Optic in its jealous rivalry to slander this section of flue Territory hurts us and DOES U8 AGREAT INJUSTICE.