The San Juan times. (Farmington, N.M.) 1891-1900, 1895-12-13
OUR PROSPERITY.
WHAT TIE PAST SEASON EAS
BROUGHT.
Thr Prospects Are More Brilliant
Than Ever for Our Favored
San Juan Co, N, Nj.

The annual occasion given up
tn the consumption of the Injuries of
,he table and to the festivities OF a ,
holiday, Looked forward 20 for months
has past and gone 1t is again among !
the "reminiscences of life, and can be
reverted to as a IL hours spent as a
ule in determined endeavor to eX
tract as much ae possible in the way OF
pit asure from the feeting hours.
The primary idea, however, of the
day is retrospective one, an opDor'
unity for glancng over the past SEA
son. and thanking Providence that
Il rough the trials, struggles, tolls,
lusses, successes, joys and sorrows that
make up the sum total of our exist
ence, we have triumphantly emerged,
the successes cheering us to fresh en-
.leavor, and the very sorrows, purify
irg the heart from its grosser and
more selfish attributes.
We can congratulate ourselves, first,
On the increasing prosperity of our
county, Turning from the depression
Of the past, we see again the signs Of a
redundant increment Of the sources of
wealth.
Farms have been improved. The
setting out of new orchards has been
most marked, the rows of flourishing
Young trees greet the traveller on all
sides. Homesteads have been proved
up on, and those that have been 80
acquired have been remarkable for
The improvements they con ain.
But the yield of fruit this season has
been 80 immense as to cause the as.
tonishment of men who have been
used to those prolific orchards for
years. Vast, indeed, has been this
lovely and valuable present of kind
season to the requirements of man;
great the wealth Represented by the
car loads of apples that have been,
and are being, shipped to the markets.
Not alone from the standpoint of
financial prosperity must we consider
shis gigantic crop, but as affording
another proof of the unparalleled pro
ductive capacity of our soil. This at
testation to the argument contained
on this open page of nature, is incon.
trovertible and we stand today as the
acknowledged owners of district un-
equalled in its productive attainments.
We have indeed challenged the world
in the contest for supremacy, and at
Albuquerque, small quantity of fruit
from this county was pronounced by
all judges and the public as being be.
yoni comparison the finest exhibit on
that noted occasion.
So too the supply of small vegetables
has been abundant this year, fal
more have been planted than before
potatoes have exceeded anything ever
brought in here and the home market
will be supplied in future by our owl
growers.
Agriculture the chief power of ma
tion, the backbone and stay ofhel
strength, is and always will be tn,
first object to promote, the first objec
to criticise and praise.
However we are not within narrow
boundaries here, we are not confined
to one exploit. Now we know tina
our placer claims are about to b,
worked. The gold that lies arounC
us everywhere will we'll reward tn
efforts of skilled work and improved
machinery, and Mr. E. G. Foster will
in week or 30, be back here and en-
gage in the development of thes
mines he has been IL months in care
fully testing.
To refer to the rivers that afford u
asupply of water that never can be ez
oeeded may be thought supereroga
tory, they are 30 we'll known and forr
apart from their practical utility,
grand feature in the beautiful scener
Of this San Juan county, New Mexico
but where we can truly boast of hay
ing a finer water supply than an
other part of the arid region, when W
can assert that the San Juan, Anima
and Laplata rivers, together form
splendid source of inexhaustibl
wealth, spreading over our lands; the