Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-20
Of New Mexico.
FRUIT.

IIOlls
In the metropolitan markets of the west.
ern states New Mexlco's horticultural
products command from 8 to Is per cent,
greater price than the California products,
owing to their size, richness in color and
peculiarly delicate flavor. In grapes, for
which the Rio Grande Valley Is famous,
the Flame, Tukay, the Mascats, the Black
Hamburgs and similar choice varieties are
grown. to perfection. In every quarter of
the Territory are profitable orchards of APP
Piles, pears, peaches. cherries, plums, nee
~tarines and all the small fruits Indigenous
to the temperate and semi-tropic zone.
SUGAR BETS.
Experiments covering a period OF three
years demonstrate that New Mexico excels
any other country or section In the world
In the quantity and quality of sugar beets.
In 1896, in the Pecos Valley, some 1,400
acres OF boets were harvested. The average
| yield per acre wasa little ever 16 tons,
and the average percentages OF eaccharine
matter was over l6, the highest record ever
made. The gross returns to the farmer
averaged SG7. 90 per acre, and the cost OF
raising the crop was a little less than 222. 90
per acre. The almost perpetual sunshine
during the growing season is the caus sc OF
the extra percentage of sugar in the beets,
and the richness and adaptability Of tho
soil accounts for The heavy Yield.
CEREALS AND VEGETABLES
OF innumerable variety are rroAtably
produced in New Mexico. Tia latter are no.
table for size and Aavor, as we'll as their
keeping qualities. Rio Granda Valley oats
took the second prize at the Worlds Fair.
Every field crop AID all classes of veget-
tables can be and are grown with success
and profit.
MINERALS.
1t !s no exaggerstion to afirmthat, in point
Of natural resources, none Of the peerless
Rocky Mountain states exceed New Mex
leo. Gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead coal
(anthracite ard bituminou,), fire clay,
alum, sulphur, salt. gypsum, etc, are found
in paying quantities in almost every county
In the Territory. In many localities are
valuable deposits of n and marble,
while the turqnOis, supply OF the world is
furnished by New Mexico mines.
TIMBER AND COAL.
plentiful and cheap In New Mexico. Tracts
Of virgin forest, large or SIN Ill, may be
purchased now at astonishingly low
figures, since the U. s. court has rendered
such timely service in settling titles to the
land grants.
MINERAL SPRINGS.
The attention of the tourist and health
seeker is especially invited to the number
and varied character of the mineral waters
In New Mex CO. These ara Q ,sil9 accessible
by rail and offer every reasonable accom-.
sorts are the Las Vegas Hot Springs; the
Jemez Hot Springs; the Ojo CaIiente;
Hudson's Hot Springs; the Sulphur Hot
Springs, end the Macbeth and Taylor
mineral water wells, anG Coyote Springs.
DESIRABLE LANDS.
Thousands of acres of wild lands are t,
be had by compliance with the u. s. land
laws. much of which Is contiguous to water |
and desirable for coloniz ,tion purposes
when bitches and water storage reservoirs
are provided. The land grant question is no
longer a ~bug-a-boo In New Mexico AMI
through the action Of the lard court, titles
to vast tracts have been cleared up and
settled. Son e millions of acres have been
confirmed by the courts to private owner |
ship, while on the other a n an equal
acreage has been rejected so far as the
grant claimants are concerned and the
land added to the public domain and is
subject to entry under the government
land laws.
NOTES.
New Mexico boasts the finest all-ihe-
year round climate on the continent.
CHURCHES and graded public AMI private
schools are maintained in every COM !,
munity. Sheep and cattle raislnD are
mong the leading industries ef iua Ter
tory. Under legislative enactment, all
beet sugar factories, wooden mills, shelters,
refining and reduction works, including |
100 acres OF land for each factory OF mill,
enjoys immunity from taxaiion for a
period of FIVE years II erected prior to
january l, 1899.