Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-23

more chalky nature, all being, however
extremely rich in gypsum and other salt
that are valuable in the production O
fruits, cereals and vegetables. The whole
valley is underlaid by limestone, and tht
soil resembles, in many respects, thai
found in portions of Kentucky, Tennes
see and the Western Reserve of Ohio
An analysis of two samples of soil taken
from different points in the valley, by the
chemist of the agricultural department at
Washington, attests these facts, and the
chemist states that the soil is well adapt
ed to the production of all kinds of fruits,
cereals and vegetables.
The atmosphere being light, dry, high
ly rarefed and pure, distant objects ap-
pear near, and for 320 to $40 days in the
year the rays OF the sun are unobstructed.
Although the days in midsummer are hot,
the nights are all delightfully."- cool. There
is no swamp, no malaria, and all the nee
essary conditions that constitute a per-
fectly healthful climate are found here.
Asto the market, let it be understood
that for the productions Of this favored
spot there is a never-failing demand
there is no danger of over production in
anything, bread stuffs, alfalfa and vege-
tables are wanted by the empire adjacent,
the mining camps, cities and stock ranges,
at prices that are now and will be for
years, in the very nature Of things, treble
those received by the agriculturalsts of
the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mis-
Illinois and fTovoo rbila f~n,,, 81
standpoint of fruit grower, the Pecos
valley products, far better favored and
more varied than even those of the Cali
fornia cred lands" are at least 500
miles nearer the eastern markets, are
quite as early in maturing and sell for the
same price as do the far off Pacific coast
fruits, thus giving the Pecos valley pro-
ducer the advantage OF the shorter haul
to market while in no wise interfering
with the cost of the product.
PRODUCTIONS OF THE VALLEY.
Let us see what farming-by-irrigation in
New Mexico produce in this locality.
The Stone estate has 800 acres under cul-
tivation; John w. Poe, about the same;
Captain J. G. Lea has hundreds of acres
in successful cultivation; Fisher Bros,
100 acres, OF which fifteen acres is in
beans alone, ten acres in vegetables and
the remainder in corn, alfalfa, oats and
small fruits. Chas. W. Greene's agents
have just set out mammoth orchard, and
Col. Henry Milne has magnificent orch
ards and extensive fields of grain and al
falfa; the Millers, Cunninghams and
host of others are largely engaged in
horticulture and agriculture, any kind of
grain grass, fbrous plant, bulbous or edible
root, garden vegetable berry vine, fruit or
forest tree that will grow anywhere will
grow here. Corn, wheat, barley, oats,
rye and millet; alfalfa, clover and
agave, cotton, hemp, tobacco,
ramie, okra and sorghum cane; the
native and sweet potato, peanut, onion,
beet, carrot, turnip and radish beans,
peas, pepper, domestic sage, caulifower,
cabbage (weighing from twenty to forty
pounds, lettuce, spinach, ETC., water
melon, muskmelon, cantaleup, pump
kins, weighing from forty to 100 pounds;
squashes from seventy to 240 pounds;
cucumbers from one to five, and tomatoes
from one-half to three pounds each;
strawberries, grapes, and all kinds OF
fruits the peach, prune, the giant peach
from Persia; the apricot, apple, ounce,
English black walnut, soft-shell almond,
olive, cherry and the famous Capri fig,
all fourishing in the Pecos valley. Olive
growing and the manufacture of olive oil
will, in time, become an important in
dustry. The valley is destined to become
the finest vineyard and orchard of the
continent, the symmetry, size and flavor of
the fruits being unsurpassed, and the yield
as satisfactory as the quality.
The following figures indicate the yield
per acre of the various crops named
Corn, 60 to 80 bushels; wheat, 40 to
80 bushels; oats, so to 70 bushels barley,
40 to 60 bushels; rye, 80 to 40 bushels;
peas, 25 to 40 bushels; sweet potatoes,
250 to 400 bushels; beets, It's to 400
bushels; carrots, IT'S to 800 bushels
onions, $4,000 to $4,000 pounds; turnips,
0,000 TO $4,000 pounds. The sugar-beet
grows here to great perfection, one farmer
having produced them at the rate of 400
bushels per acre, and Of asuperior quality.
A sugar factory is in contemplation of
erection, also salt refining plant, body
of forty feet of rock salt having just been
developed while boring for artesian water
at depth of 500 feet.
THE CITY OF EDDY
is in the midst of this great irrigation sys-
tenn, in the center of rapidly advancing
country and is growing at rate that fully
justifes the grandest expectations of more
ardent admirers. In less than eighteen
months the town has sprung from wild
plain to busy mart of 200 people. The
streets are eighty feet wide, lined on
either side with double rows of shade
trees; flowing water courses along the
sides Of all principal streets, and there is
a spirit of thrift and modern enterprise
about the place and its people that Is re-
freshing to note.
The blocks are 800 feet east and
west by $50 feet north and south, each
penetrated by north and south alley
twenty feet wide, and these hall blocks
are divided into lots 25 feet front and $50
deep in the business portion Of the town
and 50x150 in the residence portion. One
entire block has been set aside for court
house, another for public school buildings
where seventy.fv children now attend
school, and several beautiful parks have
already been established. This is the
county seat and fine court house is soon
to be built. The Hagerman hotel, cost
ing $65 900, is one of the best equipped
hostileries in the west. The mercantile
houses are of brick and substantial struct-
ures and the First National bank block is
handsome building of two stories occu-
pied by the First National bank of Eddy,
and the offices occupied by the Pecos
Valley railway and the Irrigation & I'M
provement company.
Adjacent to the town are several thous-