Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-07
Resources Of New Mexico.
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Ia the metropolitan markets of the west
ern states New Mex,co's horticultural
products command from 8 TO 10 per cent,
greater price than the California products,
! owing to thsir size, richness in color and
| peculiarly delicate flavor. In grapes, for
which the Rio Grande Valley is famous,
tie Flame, T.kay, the Muscats, 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, plans, nee
tarines and all the small fruits indigenous
TO the temperate and semi tropic zone.
SUGAR BEEfS.
La ~e@A<frs1 - nerfud OF three
wears 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 400
acres OF beets were harvested. The average
weld per acre was q little over 16 tons,
and the average percentage of e~acchnrine
matter was over 16, the highest record ever
made. The gross returns to the farmer
averaged so7.O per acre, and the cost OF
raising the crop was a little les than s22.uO
per acre. The almost perpetual sunshine
during the growing season Is the cause 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 probably
produced in New Mexico. The latter are no.
table for size and flavor, as well as their
keeping qualities. Rio Grande Valley oats
took the second prize at the Worlds Fair.
Every field crop aud all classes OF veget-
tabl+ 5 can be and are grown with success
and profit.
MINERALS.
It is no exaggeration to affirm that, in point
of natural %resourcts, none Ct the peerless
Rocky Mountain states EXCEED New Mex.
leo. Gold, silver, copper, Einc, lead, coal
(anthracite and bituplnous), hre cray,
alum, sulphur, salt, ~ psum. ETC., rrsfound
in the Territory. In nan localities are
valuable deposits OF onyx and marble,
white the turquois, 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 Low at astcni.hingiy low
HX ufST. FLINT L 49, wa A~
such timely service in settling titles 10 the
land grauts.
MINERAL SPRINGS.
The attention .of the tourist ard health
seeker is especially invited to the number
and val led character of the mineral waters
In New Mex co. These ara easily accessible
by rail and offer every reasonable accom-
mediation to tho visitor. Among such re-
sorts are the Las Vegas Hot Springs the
Jemez Hot Springs; the Ojo CAiiente;
Hudspn's Hot Springs; the sulphur Hot
mineral water wells, and Coyote Springs.
DESIRABLE LANDS.
Thousands OF acres OF wild lands are t.
| be had by compliauce With the u. D. lard
laws. much of which IL contiguous 30 water
and desirable for coloniz stion purposes
| when bitches and water storage reservoirs
are provided. Theiand grant question Is no
longer a hug-a-boo In New Mexico and
| through the action OF the land court, titles
to vast ira cts have been cleared up aud
sett'ed. 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 50 far as tne
grant claimants are concerned and the
land added to the public domain and is
srhject TO entry under tie government
land laws.
NOTES. :
New Mesicos boasts the finest .all-the-
year refund climate on the continent.
Churches and graded public and private
schools are asintained IN every com
munity. Sheep and cattle raisirg are
among the leading industries Of the Ter
ritory. Z Uuder legislative enactment, ali
beet sugar fsotorits, woolen mills, eneltera.
re6nicg and reduction works, including
| 100 acres OF land FOR each factory or mill,
enjoys Immunity from taxation for q
period OF age years IT erected prior to
January 1, 1899.