Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-24

Used in Millions of Home
for Is cents per pound, giving an income
of $2,137.50.
Without counting tho fact that he has
two and half acres in alfalfa, which
furnish fodder for two milch COWS and
four horses, and that HIS vegetable gar
den supplies his table bountifully, here is
an income from thirteen acres Of $5, ,O37 so
or over $387 per acre. If We count only
the land actually accounted for in the
above it will be over $500 peE.acre. Yet
intelligent men, supposedly informed of
the resources of this country, slave away
their lives on broad acres where much
labor returns only enough to pay the in
terest on their mortgages.
THE ALAMEDA RANCH
Take another instance. The Alameda
ranch of seventeen acres, one mile from
Las Cruces, devoted TO alfalfa, fruits and
honey, yields similar income. 1t is
kept by Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Livingston,
and their beautiful homestead, large and
roomy, is a resort most frequented by
those who seek the balmy air and genial
sunshine of New Mexico:for health or rec
reation. The house is of the useful
adobe, but modern taste and architectural
skill have modelled the quaint structure
into home of surprising comfort. It is
lowered in a grove of fine old cotton
woods and naples. A long ee-shaded
drive brings the visitor to its hospitable
gates; and the visitor carries away pleas
ant memories oflhis sojourn.
Mrs. Livingston supplements the in
come of the ranch by entertaining tran
sient guests, and the writer will never
forget the gusto of her menu. She is
whipped cream and rose honey, clear as
water and fragrant as the thous
ands of these flowers that surround The
lodge or residence. The writer came
there after severe attack of grippe,
weighing 129 pounds, and in Ave days
had picked up to l42 pounds. This fact
speaks more than pages of gush. The
charges also are extremely reasonable.
As health resort Alameda ranch is un
rivalled.
HOW GRAPES YIELD.
Judge Ct. W. Wood, whose ranch has
been previously mentioned, in May 1889,
planted cuttings of the Gros Colman
grape, brought by himself from the Isle
of Jersey. In 1891, these cutting averaged
sixty pounds of grapes per vine, the
punches weighing one and q half pounds
each, and the single grapes measuring
3A inches in circumference. Judge Wood
trains these vines on low wire trellis.
He says, 81 was offered 8 cents per pound
for the grapes when the Mission grape
was sellia.. fox ~ cents pound"
Wine making isa regular industry. 1t
is usually made from the pure fruit juice,
racked off and bottled. Fifteen pounds
Of grapes make one gallon of pure wine,
and the residue yields pint of fms
brandy. The reputation of the Dona Ana
county native wines is the best criterion
of their value.
HOW TO SECURE LAND.
The Rio Grande Land company prob
ably has tho cheapest and best land
now for sale in the county or in the
Mesilla valley. Much of it is already i'm
proved, being laid down to alfalfa. This
land, according to location, can be OBJ
tanned at a small cost when the figures of
production are considered. Generally
speaking, the cost of unimproyed land
will run from $l6 to $35 per acre, while
improved land will run from that
to 800. Payments arc easy and
on time to suit the pur--
chaser. Ten acres is enough
to make man comfortable for life. Con-
slider also the fact that land planted to
good bearing trees or vines is worth at
the lowest estimate $3.50 per acre, and
the immigrant or settler who determines
to locate in the Mesilla valley may feel
assured that he will have for himself and
his family not only good income, but
sure and constant resources for COM
Portable competency.
The local agent of the Rio Grande Land
company is Mr.. W. T. Oliver, who resides
upon the lands of the company and has
Ill matters connected with the sale or
lease of the company's lands under his
charge. He is a painstaking, careful and
experienced man, and at all times ready
and willing 70 give any and all informa-
tion in his power. His postofice address
rs Las Cruces, where inquiries should be
sddressed.
~ MINES AND MINING.
The best developed mining section in
Dona Ana county, SO far, is in the Organ
mountains, about twenty miles east OF
Las Cruces The range is about forty
miles long and from Ave to eight miles
vide. It contains great ore bodies. The
Bennett and stephenson properties are
among those that have been longest
worked, and have produced much valu-
able ore. y
The Modoc also has good reputation.
There are dozen other properties now
beng actively worked in the Organ noun
tains and near Organ City. Gold ore has