Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-18
FARM AND ORCHARD.
Santa Feans Gsing Extensively Into
Fruit Culture-SOme Facts that
will Surprise the Nom
producing CrOaker.

A. Bischoff has set ont three acres te
orchard this spring.
Farmer Wilcox in the Tesuque valley
has finished his 100000 gallon storage
reservoir.
F. M. Jones is making valuable add
tions to his orchard of LOO bearing
trees west of the city.
Judge Wielandy's four acre orchard
/ and garden is receiving the attention OF
three workmen just now and a splendid
lot of trees and shrubs are being put in
Mr.. Rivenburg has the contract for set
ting ont 700 choice fruit trees on Dr.
| Harrouns farm in the western suburbs OF
the town. The holes are three feet deep
and three feet square.
Mr.. G. l.. Bishop has gone to Espanola
valley to build a new home and improve
his lately purchased farm near Santa Cruz
thrifty colony Of Santa Feans is now
located in that vicinity.
The peach and apricot crop, barring
no frost later on, promises to be much
above the popular estimate. All other
fruits are in good shape for large yield,
P"A'A"iiJ Pcoio, aPPioo "ho ehollioo'
ExCouncilman ). W. Conway is max
ing extensive Improvements at his hill
side garden out beyond the brewery. He
has just put in twenty varieties of roses
and currants, raspberries, gooseberries
and blackberries galore.
Ernest Mecke has purchased of the
Browne-Manzanares company about an
acre of land adjoining his Manhattan
street place on the west and will at once
begin setting the same out in choice fruit.
His trees arrived in good order from
Canon City, Colo, this morning.
At the U. s. Indian school Col Jones
is putting ten acres into grain, garden
and orchard. He is now engaged in
putting out 400 splendid fruit trees which
we're ordered of Stark Bros. through
Judge Wielandy, local agent for this
reputable nursery firm.
Col. j. W. Brady has had force of
men at work lately extending the irriga-
ton ditch over land out in the valley
south of the government Indian school.
This ditch will afford irrigation facilities
for about $50 acres of land, about two
thirds of which the Water & Improvement
company is now blowing for alfalfa.
Gardner Joseph Elster and his good
wife are making the spacious grounds
and orchard about the Catron mansion
''shine." In another thirty days this will
be bower of beauty. An important ad-
dition to the extensive lawn has Just
been made covering that region lately
occupied by the Garland adobe.
G. Leon Allison, of Denver, who owns
220 acres of the choicest land in the
Santa Fe valley, has just contracted with
M. j. Maggie to pillow and seed fifteen acres
of it. He has sent the seed to plant FIVE
acres each of alfalfa, flint white corn and
the other five acres will be seeded to
Kaffir and Jerusalem corn. Experiments
on small scale will also be made with
the new forage plant, sacaline.
Mr.. Gilbert LaBar, who has besn a
health seeker here during the past winter,
yesterday purchased from L. B. Putney,
of Albuquerque, the Darcy ranch of 100
acres, situated in the upper Jemez valley,
not far from the Sulphur springs. The
Jemez river runs through it and there are
forty acres under cultivation. Mr.. LaBar
is outftting here to-day, buying team,
plows, provisions, etc, and leaves at once
to take possession.