Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-30
Resources Of New Mexico.
FRUIT

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In the metropolitan markets Of the west.
ern states New MexIco's horticultural
products command from 5 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, Tokay, the Muscats, the Black
Hamburgs and similar choice varieties are
grown to perfection. In every quarter of
theTerritory are profitable orchards of ap-
pies, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, nee
~tarines and all the small fruits Indigenous
to the temperate and semi tropic zone.
SUGAR BETS.
Experiments covering u period of three
years demonstrate that New Mexico exceIs
any other country or section ia the world
In q i 1885, ii n ths e ena qn Tails 81 sugar sams pe cts
acres OF beets were harvested. The average
yield per acre was a little over s16 tons,
and the average percentageso of g1eaccharine
matter was over 16, the highest record ever
made. The gross returns TO the farmer
averaged $500 per acre, and the cost of
raising the crop was a little less than $22.O 90
per acre. The almost perpetuah sunshine
during the growing season Is the cause OF
the extra percentage Of sugar If, the beets,
aAu Cuuo5 Auu budpDa DlI1tY OF tQ6
soil accounts for the heavy Yield
CEREALS AND VEGETABLES
OF innumerable variety are sproitably
produced in New Mexico. The latter are no.
table for size and flavor, as welIas their
keeping qualities. Rio Grande Valley oats
took the second prize atfthe Worlds Fair.
Every field crop and all classes OF veget-
tables can be and are grown with success
and profit. OF trnFsf.Ja yG
MINERALS.
1t 10 no exaggeration to affirm that,Tn point
of natural resources, 3 of the peerless
Rocky Mountain states exceed New Mex
leo. Gold, silver, copper, zincY lead, coal
(anthracite and bitumipousl, fire clay,
in paying quantitis. IL painioiss s sVer STe county ouuay
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.
a5s TIMBER AND COAL.
These essentials to the home seeker arc
plentiful and cheap in New Mexico. Tracts
of virgin forest, large or small, may be
purchased o at astonishingly low
timely service in settling titles to the
land grants.
MINERAL SPRINGS.
WILL Va tA0 bQuIl6t anu u6HiLu-
seeker is especially invited to the number
and varied character of the mineral waters
In New Mexico. 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;
Hot Springs; the Sulphur Hot
Springs, n the Macbeth and Taylor
mineral water wells, anG Coyote Springs.
DESIRABLE LANDS.
Thousands Of acres of wild lands are to
be had by compliance 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
through the action Of the land court, titles
to vast tracts have been cleared up and
Some millions of acres have been
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
to entry under the governments
land laws. tHf ~
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
Sheep and cattle raising are
mong the leading industries of the Ter
tory. Under legislative enactment, all
beet sugar factories, wooden mills, smelters,
and reduction works, including
100 acres OF land for each factory or mill,
immunity from taxation for a
period Of five years IL erected prior to
January !, 1889.