Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-20

uen 10 run plantatl0n like thS-an
here and there at convenient location
about the estate are little groups of dwell
lngs occupied by the farm hands an,
le their families. There are 165 laborers OF
the place, and these with their famlie
make the resident population on the es
tate about 900 souls. During the farmin!
season each man is given tract of lane
=, TO cultivate on shares; and usually this
u amounts to enough to keep him bus,
three days in each week, the other three
days he works as a farm hand for the
owners of the estate and receives therefor
seventy-fve cents per day in the coin Of
Mexico.
!. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE
2 carry on business much after the old
: southern plantation style, only here set
Elements are made twice year, in Au-
gust and December, at which time the
wheat and corn crops respectively have
been harvested.
On the premises is a general store
where everything required on the place is
sold, and this does business of about
$4,000 annually. There is also perfect.
~ equipped modern steam roller -four
ing and grist mill with the very latest
Improvements attached), that is in itself
a perfect bonanza. This plant has ca
pacRy of $50 barrels of flour in every
twenty-four hours. 1t occupies a three
story building, and is fitted out with the
latest improved patent rollers (the only
mill of the kind within 25O miles in any
dlrectlon), and its owners enjoy almost
monopoly as far as concerns the manu-.
facture of the better grade bread stuffs.
This the writer saw demonstrated to his
entire satisfaction when he witnessed the
loading of seven car loads of
FLOUR FOR YUCATAN.
This product being from Mexico soil it
has to pay no duty as do the American
bread stufs, and the flour is shipped in
bond from Ell Paso station over the Texas i
& Pacific road to New Orleans, thence bv !
water to the southern ports of Mexico
and South America. No small profit ia q
realized also from custom grinding, and a
Mr.. Schuster informed me that up to the I
present time he has not been able to SUD- q
Ply the demand for bread stuffs; be u
simply has to turn business away.
One feature that impresses me is the IL
happy and contented condition of the y
people residing within the limits of this a
private empire. Their homes are clean u
md tidy. The Mexicans employed on the le
anch are the very best of laboring peo- ct
'le in the country. They have pleasant Sc
ZONES on the ranch and good fam ca
lies. Mr.. Schuster has arranged for the -
ducation of their children by erecting tl'
omfortable school house and securing pC
ood teacher. There are so pupils now
ttending the school. All children on ~,
10 ranch between the ages of six and LII
Velve years are compelled to 90 to fal
,hool. pr
FARM MACHINERY est
all modern makes may be seen in use m.
ere. There is building set aside and do
1own as machinery hall where every pre-
ing is kept under shelter and in good ~ lik
der when not in use. There are fully ers one
$1,000 worth of small implements and tin,
rming tools to be seen here. There are Ioo
sty plows, four mowers, four binders. Wit w;t
% seeders, two hay rakes, two huge "''
nd breakers, threshing machines and
e e tTeye ts hSrse pSxer traction engine.
the estate the owners have eanea neaxbbtElfGed xbbtElfGed fri
lily $4,000, and the transportation fa- Gre
tiles comprise 100 horses and mares, ioc,
,hty mules, seventy-fve oxen, sixteen 'OrT "
lgons and the necessary harness to ~.
,rk them. Glc'
Der
GRAZING AND TIMBER LANDS. hro
On the $4,000 acres of grazing lands pre-
me 1900 head of stock is now kept, The
,uph there ia grass and ranoe ond woto~ pris
orob for fron, IN ooo - * ooo ho.I yea
le point noted about this grazing past -
8 is the reservoir system for catch L
: water, scooped out Of the earth in pre-
tural depresslons are tanks or catch rail u,
sins, costing very little to make, and l
re the waters that come in the rainy cer'
ssoD are caught and stored with the ~ IL II
latest success, completely putting to lroI
1t the Colorado and New Mexico bug yer
ar idea that, because of too rapid evap- ana an
Ition, storage reservoirs can never be NC
de a success In these tanks the water ing
Is caught has never given out, and the tlie
ok have free access to II of oil t;moa cess
As for timber lands, which are valuable zun ,l
,e chiefly as fuel, there are 1000 acres, cuit
l these contain $4,000 cords of wood. nov nov
PRODUCTIONS AND MARKETS. cliff cliff
After spending couple of days very leo.
asantly looking over this superb prop
y, asked Mr.. Schuster to prepare for G
a conservative estimate of the profits Vill
farming in this part of the Rio Grande rlel M
ley, thinking such figures would be of ern, e,,v
cial interest to some of your readers. tt
is is what he has given me: pro,
Estimated profits on the following crops won H,
aoto' d. q, m o Mez
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