Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - George E. Barstow, wanda ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin manyan masana a duniya kan ban ruwa, ya shirya Barstow a 1892. A wannan shekarar ne aka zabi Barstow a matsayin kujerar gundumar First Ward. An gina kotun a shekara ta gaba, kuma a shekara ta 1900 yawan mutanen garin ya wuce 1,000 saboda ƙoƙarin da Mista Barstow ya yi na ɗaukan mutane. Ban ruwa ya yi nasara sosai a 1904 World's Fair
, Barstow ya sami nasarar lashe lambar azurfa don inabi. A wannan shekarar kuma noman 'ya'yan itace da kayan lambu ya sha wahala sosai lokacin da Dam ɗin Kogin Pecos ya fashe. Bayan haka, fari ya biyo baya kuma a shekara ta 1918 aikin gona ya zama ba zai yiwu ba. Yawan jama'a a 1930 ya kasance 468 <unk> kasa da rabin 1910s 1,219.