Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-09-28
FRUITS or THE SOIL.
An Immense Amount Of Good Sure to
Come of those Travelling
Exhibits.
Two Cars on the ROad-Something OF
their Contents and Where
they Go.

Inc second OF the cars continuing
display Of fruits, vegetables and minerals
sent out under the auspices OF the New
Mexico bureau of immigration, LETT Albu-
querque at O'Clock this afternoon for the
east. AT Lamy junction it will halt long
enough to take on superb assortment
OF apples, peaches, plums, pears and
grapes from Santa Fe, which will serve
to fill the car with most varied and at
tractive display Of New Mexico prod
ucts. Besides mammoth specimens
of vegetables, cereals, grasses,
fruits, etc., this car also makes
q fine showing OF gold, silver, copper, coal,
both anthracite and bituminuus, from
Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties, fire clay,
turquoise, rubies, garnets, topaz and other
precious stones. Anote from Coy. Slower,
who has been untiring in his cooperation
with the secretary Of the immigration
board, states that this car will be under
the charge of Capt. D. L. Sammis, the
well known commission merchant at, AL
buquerque, who is i'll every respect quail
fled to represent New Mexico's new era
This car will follow along behind the Me-
silla valley car, already at the st. Joseph
exposition, and will take in the Pueblo
and Denver lars, also making a stop at
Topeka and other Kansas points, Chi
cago's great exposition being the destina-
ton of both. In about thirty days the
return trip will be made through Mich
igan and Iowa. A ton or more of print
ed matter descriptive OF New Mexico and
her unequaled climate, soil and natural
advantages will be distributed as stops
are made in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri,
Michigan. and Iowa, and ocular
proof of the truth of New
Mexicos claims will thus be
afforded the thousands of home seekers,
whose faces are already we'll turned to-
ward the coming greatest state in the
southwest, as an indication of what these
exhibits will do toward attracting attention
from the press and people, the following
is here reproduced from the Denver News:
A great many merchants, produce deal
ers, millers, ETC., examined the exhibit and
pronounced it a most beautiful and meri-
torious display. The following are some
OF the best features; There were eight
varieties of apples, viz: Ben Davis, Bell
flower, Pride OF Messilla, Rhode Island
Greening, Roman Beauty, Missouri Pip
pin, Newtown, Pippin and Red Astra.
chan. Three melons weighed las pounds
collectively, and were picked from vine
which bore thirty-two others. A Hubbard
squash weighing thirty pounds, also Bell
neck and Spanish varieties. Corn, four
teen feet high, eight feet to ears, thrifty
and fully matured. Grapes, Flame Tokay,
Muscat, Mission, Black Hamburg, Las
Cruces (black) and Burger (white). One
stem of the latter weighed five pounds.
Gus Leibhart, who is the largest i'm
these Tokays as vastly Superior w W.. osi
itornia variety and says they have better
shipping qualities. The Muscat was an
excellent grape and would make fine
raisin. New Mexico expects to assist in
what California has made much Roadway
in doing, i. e., shut out the importation OF
raisins.
There were as fine Bartlett and Signal
pears as could be found anywhere, and
the very finest specimens of the ounce.
There were thirteen Missouri pippins &C.
companied by an affidavit that they were
picked from tree that was planted in the
spring of 1858. A characteristic of this
fruit is its absolute freedom from insect
blemishes. Fruit growers in the valley
offer premium for every wormy apple
found, and the curculio in plums is ali I'M
known quantity.
There were four bales of alfalfa, &C.
by certification to the effect
that they represented cuttings from al
falfa sown in ebruary last. There will
be one more cutting. Sweet potatoes,
red and yellow, some of which weighed
tive pounds. The samples of Sonora
wheat, original to the state of Sonora,
Mexico, so favorably impressed the Denver
milling men that they have decided to
send for seed and introduce this grain in
Colorado. There were magnificent spec-
mems of cacti, pear, barrel and water
melon, and several branches of what the
Mexicans call "the crown of thorns,"
which is the same that grows in the |
Holy Land and is conceded to be the
same that the Savior was crowned with |
1t his crucihxion.