Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-15
NEW MEXICO'S PROSPERITY.
Facts and Figures Presented by Gov
ernor Prince in His Address at
the Territorial Fair.
The Riches of an Empire and Their De-
yelopment-Products OF the Soil
and Fruits OF the Field.

ALBUQUERQUE, Sept. 15.-Governor L.
Bradford Prince delivered the opening
address at the territorial fair to-day.
There were 5000 people on the fair
grounds who listened atteDtively and
frequently cheered the speaker.
AS a rule we are ignorant of our own
greatness and of the wonderful variety of
wealth which lies within our borders,
said the governor, after few Introductory
remarks. lie then proceeded to review
briefly the elements of natural wealth
abounding in New Mexico beginning in
Coltax county and following down along
the line of the A., T. & s. F. thence re-
ferring to the San Juan region, the Pecos
and the southwest, touching upon the
chief resources of each county. The gov
ernor then referred to the p:ophesies on
New Mexico's future which he had made
in his address at the opening of the fair
in 1883, and again to his address of last
year, when he spoke particularly on the
horticultural and agriculture al industries
their development, needs and prospects,
and he then said:
year has passed, and am glad to be
able to report to you to-day that in every
branch of production We are having a
wonderful increase and development. 1t
is evident that the situation is being un-
derstood and acted upon. Not only are
those from abroad coming to aid in this
work, but our own citizens seem to be
thoroughly aroused, and filled with de-
termination to supply this home market
demand by their own exertons. There
is no point of view from which we can
regard New Mexican affairs without see
ing marked advance. And surely
nothing could be better cause OF con-
graduation than this.
To begin with agriculture, the acreage
in crops has been largely increased all
over the territory. This is not confined
to any one locality or any particular set
of persons. 1t is general and nearly
uniform from San Juan to Eddy and from
Colfax to Grant.
A correspondent in the extreme north
west says, "Our acreage has increased
fully 20 per cent, and new bitches now
being constructed will cause still larger
gain next year. A new Touring mill is
just erected; self-binders are seen,
where heretofore the hand cradle was
used; steam threshers have taken the
place of sheep and goats, and as well as
of horsepower machines. The people
have dropped old styles of farming and
are using all modern facilities"
1t was refreshing on entering a com.
mission house in Las Vegas few weeks
ago to see great piles of sacks of New
Mexican winter wheat of splendid quality,
and produced at the rate of thirty seven
bushels to the acre, in the place occupied
a year ago by Kansas flour.
One man at Espanola is now gathering
the product OF over 100 acres of beans.
In the Taos valley, in the north, the
wheat crop is PTS 900 bushels, and if We
cross the territory to the extreme south,
almost to the Texas line, the people OF
the little town of La Mesa and its neigh
borhood are harvesting 10000 bushels OF
wheat, 10000 of barley, 1000 of corn, 15,-
900 pounds of beans and 100000 pounds
of onions, besides 2 1000 tons of alfalfa. In
San Juan county are 1000 acres of alfalfa
averaging tons to the acre; in San Mi