The area cowboys and farmers relied on the town for supplies and a taste of civilization. Numerous homesteaders moved in and established farms and ranches. The town prospered in its early years with the largest stockyards west of Fort Worth, Texas and a number of land speculators working in the area. Old homestead in Folsom, New Mexico by Kathy Weiser-Alexander. Locals then used the building for parties, vagrants moved in, and bits and pieces were taken for the structure for other building purposes. The flood of 1908 finally washed away what was left. Afterward, the investors never returned and the magnificent hotel was abandoned. When Hotel Capulin was almost complete, the investors got into a dispute and dropped the project completely. Their plans included a hotel on the edge of a canyon and the building of a dam to create a small lake for fishing and boating. Late in the 1880s, two Dallas investors put together nearly $50,000 to build a mineral springs resort just east of town. Though Thompson was captured and tried in Clayton, New Mexico he was acquitted and went to Oklahoma, where he was said to have killed another man. On another occasion, enraged at a boy for taunting him, Thompson chased the boy with a six-shooter and when he failed to catch him, turned his guns on a fellow officer and a customer emerging from a store, killing one of them. Arriving from Missouri, where he had been charged with murder, he quickly racked up a lurid record in Folsom. He was said to have shot and killed a friend because he visited another saloon. Thompson who was the proprietor of the Gem Saloon and deputy sheriff. One of the first citizens in Folsom was W. Folsom gained its post office in 1888 after Madison’s closed. When the bride-elect of President Grover Cleveland, Francis Folsom, stepped off the train to explore the little town during a whistle-stop, the townspeople were smitten by her charms and the town was named for her. The community was first called Ragtown because the shelters and business establishments were all tents. The railroad was the only one in the northeast part of the state until 1901. The Colorado and Southern Railroad cut across the northeast corner of New Mexico in the late 1880s and many of Madison’s former citizens moved to the new town that sprang up about eight miles to the northeast. Today there is little physical evidence that it ever existed except foundations of an old grist mill. In 1877 a post office was established at Madison. The coming of the Colorado and Southern Railroad in 1887 killed the settlement because the line bypassed the town. After Coe was captured and killed, the rest of the gang must have scattered because they were never heard from again. He was taken to Pueblo, Colorado to await trial, but was lynched by a group of vigilantes before he had a chance. Coe was eventually caught in Madison by the US Cavalry with the help of Emery Madison’s wife and step-son. As more families arrived, homes, stores, and other businesses sprang up and Emery also erected a rough hotel. In its early days, Madison was the nearest settlement to the “Robbers’ Roost” just north of Kenton, Oklahoma, which was home to a band of outlaws led by Captain William Coe in the late 1860s. When the outlaws sensed a raid on their “Roost”, they would often hide out in Madison. The first white settlement in the area was Madison, settled in 1862 and named for its founder, Madison Emery who built a cabin at the site. Lying in the wide Cimarron River Valley and surrounded by buttes, mesas, and old volcanic cones, this area was long utilized as hunting grounds for the Comanche, Ute, and Jicarilla Apache Indian tribes. When we traveled this route last time the “Dry Cimarron” River, actually was flowing with water.
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