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Santa Fe Railway engineers
in 1906 were ordered
to locate a town site
in the newly developing
ranch and farm area
of Eastern New Mexico
- to select the first
level section of land
west of Texico for their
terminal and shops on
the Belen cut-off.
They looked upon an
unending sea of waving
prairie grass reaching
to the horizon in every
direction and chose
the site original Clovis,
just northwest of an
existing rail switch,
known as Riley Switch.
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