Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-03
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Resources Of New Mexico.
FRUIT.

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In the metropolitan markets or tine west
ern states New -Mexrcofs horticultural
products command from 8 20 10 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. Tokay, the Muscats, the Black
Hamburgs and similar choice varieties are
grown to perfection. In every quarter of
the Territory are profitable orchards of ap-
Piles, pears, peaches. cherries, plums, nee
tarines and all the small fruits indigenous
to the temperate and semi.tropic zone.G
SUGAR BETS. 10 b9soo
Experiments covering b period of three
years demonstrate that. New Mexico excels
any other country OF, section In the world
in the quantity and quality. of uga beets.
In 1896, In the Pecos Valley, some 1,400
acres of bests were harvested! The average
yield per acre was a little override tons,
and the average percentage Of saccharine
matter was over 16,the highest record ever
made. The gross returns to the farmer
averaged $67.O0 per acre, and the, cost OF
raising the crop was a little less han $3.50
per acre. The almost perpetual sunshine
during the growing season Is the cause Of
the extra percentage Of sugar in the beets,
dMu TIT ItCnnOoo anu 00dPbdOltItI Va bu6
soil accounts for the heavy yield.
CEREALS AND VEGETABLES
OF innumerable variety are proftably
produced in New Mexico. The latter are no.
table for size and flavor, as we'll as their
keeping qualities. Rio Grande Valley oats
took the second prize at the Worlds Fair.
Every field crop and all classes of veget-
tables can be and are grown with success
and profit.
MINERALS.
1t is no exaggeration to affirm that, In point
OF natural resources, none of the peerless
Rocky Mountain states exceed New Mex
leo. Gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead, coal
(anthracite and bituminous). fire clay,
alum, sulphur, salt, gypsum, ETC., are found
in paying quantities in almos every county
in the Territory. In many localities are
| valuable deposits OF onyx and marble,
while the turquoise supply Of the world is
furnished by New Mexico mines.
TIMBER AND COAL.
These essentials to the home-seeker are
| plentiful and cheap In New Mexico. Tracts
| Of virgin forest, large or small, may be
purchased now at astonishingly low
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 are easily accessible
| by rail and offer every reasonable accom-
| mediation to the visitor. Among such re-
sorts are the Las Vegas Hot Springs the
Jemez Hot Springs; the Ojo Caliente;
Hudson's Hot Springs; the Sulphur Hot
| Springs, and the Macbeth and Taylor
mineral water wells, anc Coyote, Spring.
DESIRABLE LANDS.
Thousands Of acres of wild lands are to
| be had by compliapceSw with the u. s. land
laws. much of which Is contiguous to water
| and desirable for colonization purposes
when bitches and water storage reservoirs
are provided. The land grant question is no
longer a bug-a-boo In New Mexico and
to vast tracts bava been cleared up and
settled. Some millions Of acres have been
| confirmed by the courts to private owner
| ship, while on the other hand 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-the-
| year round climate on the continent.
| Churches and graded public and private
schools are maintained in every COM
| munity. Sheep and cattle raising are
mong the leading industries Of the Ter
tory. Under legislative enactment, all
beet sugar factories, wooden mills, smelters,
refining and reduction works, including
100 acres OF land Tor each factory or mil,
enjoys immunity from taxation for a
neriod Of five years II erected prior to
January !, 1899.