Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-20
A SUPERB RANCH.
The San Augustin Hacienda of the
Messrs. Schuster Near Ell Paso-A
Magnificent Property.
Fertile Valley Lands and What they Yield
-Breadstuffs for Yucatan-Farm.
Ing on the Rio Grande.

Editorial CORRESPONDENCE New Mexican.
ON-THE-RIo GRANDE, TWENTY MILES BE
Low Ell PAso, April Is, '91.-Droppin
on at FL Paso the other day New MEX
CAN representative was met by Messrs
Ben and Bernard Schuster, forme
well known residents of New Mex
ico, and who accorded him a heart
invitation to pay visit of inspec
ton to their San Augustine ranch Will,
on pleasure bent in this part OF the Rit
Grande valley. The invitation was ac
cepted, and l find myself at this writing
in the center of
| TYPICAL HACIENDA,
one OF the most beautiful, valuable and
fertile properties among the many that
border the Rio Bravo.
AS most of your readers throughout New
Mexico are aware, the Messrs Scbuster
are among the best known and most in.
fuentlal business men in this locality.
They have been identified with the pros.
perity of the central Rio Grande valley for
years; have had their ups and downs, but
by pluck, far-sighted investments and
splendid energy they will soon again reach
the top OF the heap, as it were, and was
only too glad to accept their hospitality
as broad and open-handed as their vast
stretches Of valley lands, and do myself
the pleasure of enjoying real outing
amid rural scenes and pastoral views.
Such trip breaks in upon the life of the
closely confined office man like an
oasls IN the monotonous Sahara of hum
1rum professional life.
THE SAN AGUsTIN RANCH.
Some description of this magnificent
property will no doubt serve to entertain i
he New MExIcAN's readers. Accus.
omed as many of them are to !
mall farms nesting in the valleys 9
the Rockies, where agriculture is as c
ct in rather primitive state by g
eason OF the lack of water development. a
nd carrying with them the idea that a Il
ranch" signifies only broad stretch of t.
lalns country dotted with wild cattle. s.
by cowboys; and where aeri-
llture is the exception rather than the n
lle, Tor such OF your readers as well
Tor the struggling rain-belt farmers of Ii
ansas, Colorado and Nebraska, a de- k
rlption OF the Schuster- -Angenstein prop- tt
ty ought to have peculiar interest az =,
ndlng to show what wealth and COM d
rt there really is to be. gotten out of a we'll ia
anaged farm in the southwest, q; s'
twenty miles southeast of the cities of tu H
Paso and Juarez, on the right side of lIo'
9 Rio Grande, district of Braves, state n, l~
chihuahua, lay the, San As.stln os =
ossing the N1sf' FL Paso bridge three G1 fa
urs drive over a good wagon road will ell eli
I'd you here, or if you prefer, the trip al, oil
n be made in an hour and twenty ", ",
nutes by taking the Texas Pacific W, w
Sunset railway alghting at Elizario and ""
wing eight miles across the country.
THERE ARE 114,500 ACRES
this tract. This is divided up as fol- so
VS.: Acres. I'LL
1def cultiVatlon. ............... $500 on
1der ditch but not yet farmed -. ], 300 Or
!" but not yet cleared or ur
cultivated. .......".........1 1900 in
lltivable land not yet under ditch .12, 500 na
'azing lands. "a, 600 ha
mber lands. 1000 he
Of the $500 acres of land at se
esent cultivated seyen-eights of it orr
inclosed with a substantial barb 70,
re fence. There are over 100 he
les of irrigating bitches on the or,
zee, the main ditch heading on the m,
hit bank of the Rio Grande and having th1
average width of thirteen feet carrying ate
olume of water three to three and a
# feet deep. The estate is divided into he
zee sections, as in fact it is too large tor an
3 overseer to manage. Its frontage on
river is about seventeen miles, whence
.radually slopes back and toward the 4
'th six miles to the foot hills. The pie
ley land is a rich sandy loan, very ert
tile and productive, and here stretch ~.
for miles nle
THE GREAT GREEN FIELDS
wheat, rye, barley, corn, alfalfa, sugar va. va.
10, etc., all of which are now growing tn
forming an attractive picture
the eye and redolent with the per- PEI
les Of spring. Last year the estate cul- Ro p'
tied: Acres Be
wheat. ..................... 100 Ga
corn. ....: ................... $50 Co
alfalfa. Observation-Disclosures. 300 Pc.
sugar sane. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100 Oh
OdIloy ........ .................,. Z0U bis
low the profits on these products roll Or,
to fill the Golfers OF the lucky owners We
shall see farther along. {
HOME COMFORTS AND IMPROVEMENTS. far
here are $45, 900 worth of buildings on yot
place. Mr.. Bernard Schuster's ranch par par
dence is substantial and commo- !
is structure, fitted up with all modern
,rovements, located near the center of of
estate, and little way off is struct- 90 !
200 feet long and 80 feet deep, the =.
ne of the overseer and his principal INC
,ndants-for it takes small army of pas