Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-07
THE UPPER RIO GRANDE,
Where the Fruitful Soil is Yielding {
Golden Harvest and Pros
perity Prevails.
The Tres Piedras Lumber Interests =
Farms and Ranches-Glimpsss
by a Correspondent.

Correspondence New Mexican.
TRES PIEDRAs, Aug. 5.-The Rio
Grande valley looks splendid. The corn
is high and the wheat is ready to be har-
vested there is more of it this year than
many years before. Everybody at Es-
pamela seems to be satisfied the Bonds
are doing a good business, others also,
and those who cultivate the ground
are thankful that they are getting
not only what they need but a
large surplus. Mr.. johnson has built
quite a block of nice cottages which
he rents out; Bona Hensel is the same
jovial fellow, handy with good yarn !;
has his hotel enlarged and started new
branch of industry down here, i. 9. he be-
came, and induced others to become in
terested in bee culture; from two hives
which he introduced in June, he has
already 100 pounds of honey; the large
alfalfa fields and numberless wild flowers
giving the little industrious workers a
wide field of gathering. The S5 degrees
in the shade here at 10 a. M, may be
we'll for bees, but were considered rather
"high" by your correspondent.
1t may interest many TO learn that ar
rangements can be made through Mr..
Hensel to visit the cliff dwellers of the
vicinity these are about twelve miles dis
tant, in Santa Clara canon, 80 that the
trip can be made in one day. The wagon
I,{ b khN fN@k ~f tl,n al, yr,ho
the valley is covered with nice grass, fine
pine timber and plenty of water in the
creek. Four dollars are charged for a
double seated blackboard per day, the
driver acting at the same time as guide.
While waiting at Espanola "self-
binder" attracted our attention, and upon
inquiry we were informed that friend
Bouquet, of Pojoaque, had sent for it to
help him in harvesting his crops; our
informant added, that Mr.. Bouquets g
wheat fields, however, were so large this
year that he was ''too busy harvesting his
wheat to haul the self-binder over to
Pojoaque.'
Going on up the river you pass Governor
Princes orchard, which looks very
well, and then, after crossing the Chama,
past Chamita, whence the outlook over
Sam Eldodt's orchard is very inviting
field after field OF frijoles appears, which,
after the wheat and corn have been passed
seems to be the main crop.
At Embudo, Mr.. Lopez, whose farm is
right across the river, on the other side of
the bridge, had the first apples Of the sea
son which were really enjoyable; peaches
are not ripe enough yet.
The trip up Comanche canon, ,l2S
feet in about six miles, was as interesting
as ever, for it is marvel of engineering
skill the scenery is wild, but the little
stretches of cultivated land in the
bottom of the Rio Grande valley, with
their houses, orchards, etc., look like
oasises upon which the eye rests with de-
light.
Tres Piedras is lively as milling place
the entire town is built Of lumber betwixt
and between the outcropping granite
masses, looking quite pretty against q
background of hills covered with pine
which here were not cut. W. Stewart &
Co.'s mill is running at full force, en-
ploying about 100 hands at the mill and
in the log camps which now are about six
miles north, over the track CT the D. & R.
G R. R., and thence about two and q
half and three miles west; their timber
looks splendid; the logs are hauled by
steam from the camps to the mill, where
they at present cut about 80, 900 feet Of
lumber per day. Water is not scarce just
now, the we'll furnishing the supply, car