Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-09-29

the report says: ave may cay that this
season has been excellent for all agrieul-
tural, horticultural, and stock growing
industry"
| Perhaps never before in the history of
the territory have conditions been so
favorable for its varied industries. In
the winter unusual snowfalls and rains
filled the ground with moisture, and
through the spring and summer frequent
rains came to aid the farmer and stock
man. The streams have carried sntfi-
cient water to furnish irrigation for all
who needed it, and resulting from this
abundance of moisture is a crop yield
that is almost astonishing.
The stockmen have Jared equally as
we'll as the agriculturists. Feed has been
plenty on all the ranges and cattle have
done better than for years past. The in
crease ia the focks of sheep will average
almost 80 per cent the territory over,
and the wool clip has been very large.
So far as prices are concerned no one
could ask more. A prominent cattleman
said on Monday that 'the man who had
cattle to sell this year, and was not salts
fed ought to have his back broken"
That, perhaps, would be severe punish
ment for the offense, but it expresses the
situation among cattlemen better than
milder term could possibly do. Wool is
bringing twice the money it was year
ago, while the price for lambs never was
better.
Among the fruit growers a similar con-
dition has obtained. The yield has been
simply enormous and prices good; the
cultivators of grain are 1eaplng large
harvests and are selling the product for
prices which preclude all possible chance
for complaining. These facts are sufG-
cient to make the residents of New Mex
leo shake hands with themselves and pity
those who have spent the year in less fa-
vored sections of the country. So far as
the Santa Fe valley is concerned there is
still one thing lacking to make the year
perfect, AID that is beet sugar factory.
The Importance of this matter is suf-
ficient excuse for the New MEXICAN re-
ferring to the subject again. The ex-
periments of the summer in the cultiva-
tion of the sugar beet have proved salts
factory ia every particular; land in
abundance is ready for the pillow and seed;
water for irrigation can be had by little
exertion and the expenditure of small
sum of money; of sunshine there is no
lack, the only thing needed to complete
the combination to make of the city one
of the largest and most prosperous in the
whole sou thwest, is the factory. Capital
stands ready to take hold of the enter
prise when it is shown that there exist
Just the conditions that have been men
toned, aud it seems as if the time for &C
tion had come. If the men who are deeply
Interested in the city would only take
hoid VI oAO PlOJCSV Al al CuoA 3 oOAo LhuA-
ner, the much desired object can be at
tanned in a very short time. Prosperity
breeds prosperity, and now is the time to
strike. An opportunity once lost is sell
dom presented again.
Daring the summer, while almost every
other locality in the United States has
suffered from extreme heat or deadly
epidemic, New Mexico has been blessed
with mild weather and state of health
which is as near perfection as can be
reached on this globe of ours. With
health, wealth, and prosperity on every
hand the people of this new. old land have
no reason to complain of the summer
which is now drawing to close.