In deep hole, a chance for economic improvement

Nara Visa (Sixgun Siding)

(Santa Fe New Mexican) NARA VISA, N.M. — They say the price of gas was the last straw. It was too costly to bring fuel to this tiny speck of a town 50 miles northeast of Tucumcari along the Texas border. And too few buyers were interested once it got here. When the last truck stop, the Red-X, closed down, the café and one of two motels followed. People started leaving. Kids grew up and moved away with too few jobs available for miles along these vast, desert plains that turn purple like a bruise in winter. They didn’t bring their families back. That was 11 years ago.
Now the town has a ghost-like quality. There’s just a fast highway down the main stretch and homes tucked away along dirt roads, many abandoned with the doors left open and windows broken. Continued