The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
PROMINENT VISITORS.
MEssRs. OTIS, HAGERMAN, NEW.
BERRY AND BUCHANAN IN TOWN.
An Interesting Chat With the Sec
rotary of the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce.

Salt Lake city is being visited by a
party of gentlemen having large in
terests in various parts of Colorado,
New Mexico and Utah. The party con-
sists of Mr. Charles A. Otis, of New
York, founder of the Otis Steel COM
pany, OF Cleveland, o.; Messrs. Percy
and Herbert Hagernaan, sons of j. J..
of Colorado Springs; W. A. Otis, W. E..
Newberry and George R. Buchanan, of
Colorado Springs. The gentlemen are
travelling in Mr.. Hagernans private
car, the t'Hesperia."
A representative of The Herald yes
terday met Mr.. Buchanan, who is Sec
rotary of the chamber of commerce of
Colorado Springs, and had a pleasant
chat with him. 1--WE are here on a
pleasure trip" said Mr.. Buchanan. in
response to the reporters question,
"and are enjoying ourselves greatly.
We are surprised and pleased at the
marvellous progress you are making in
empire-buildfng here in what, only a
few years ago, was a sagebrush desert.
Your handsome, well-byilt cities, your
thrifty towns and villages, your mag
nificent areas of highly cultivated land
and your growing manufacturing en-
terprise speak volumes, not only for
the plentitude of your natural re-
sources, but also for the energy and
thrift of your people. The inhabitants
of Salt Lake basin should be happy in
deed.
1--WE have been interested in every
thing we have seen, but most of all in
the sugar factory at Lehi. We spent
the greater part of a day at the fac
t0r lIr
treated by Messrs. Cutler, Granger and
Austin, who left nothing undone to ac-
quaint us thoroughly with the various
processes in the manufacture of beet
sugar. 1t is certainly an enterprise of
which every inhabitant' of the valley
has reason to feel proud, and we hope
they will stand by it in its present
fight with the Sugar trust. With this
support it is bound to grow rapidly
and become an industry second in i'm
portance to none in the entire region.
Surely, an industry that viii permit
farmers to make from $50 to 500 per
acre on their land should be fought
for to the last ditch.
1--WE are naturally interested in all
the evidences of progress and devel-
opment we see, and none the less be-
cause we ourselves are connected with
a great irrigation enterprise. This is in
the Pecos Valley, in southeastern New
Mexico, and is one of the largest, as 1t
will ultimately become one of the
most important in the United States.
1t contemplates nothing less than the
reclamation and development of a val
ley 165 miles long and with an average
width of ten miles. In this valley has
been constructed a system of irrigat-
ing works of vast extent and (which in
some of their features has no counter
part in this country. There are mas
sive dams and reservoirs capable of
storing over 5000 900, 900 cubic feet Of
water, distributed by a network of
main canals and main laterals already
aggrega ting 1900 miles in length Fully
400, 900 acres will ultimately be brought
under a high state of cultivation; for
the land is narvelously rich and the
water supply is ample and unfailing.
The enterprise has been in progress
for about five years, and very salts
factory beginning has been made in
the settlement of the valley. There
must be between 5000 and 1000 people
in the valley at the present time, set
tied on some 10000 acres while Eddy,
the principal town, has some 1000 in
habitants and Roswell about half as
many.
What do we raise?" Everything that
grows under irrigation on the Rocky
Mountain plateau, and in utmost luxuri-
ance. In some kinds of fruits, and
especially in apples, we will beat the
world. A great speciality will be the
raising of canaigre, for which our soil
and climate are especially adapted. A
factory for making the extract will be
erected at Eddy next spring, and the
farmers are planting a large acreage
of the roots. 1t is destined to be a
most important industry, fully as valu-