Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-23
A TIMELY PUBLICATION.

The Bureau of immigration has now at
press with the New Mexican Printing
company, a pamphlet edition of $4,000
copies of a neat work treating of the beet
sugar industry, horticulture and mining
in the territory of New Mexico. The
three subject are taken up under separate
heads, and treated briefly with the ex.
ception of the beet sugar industry which
is exhaustively considered, covering full
results as obtained in recent experiments
with the sugar beet in New Mexico.
Under this head the pamphlet holds
that: "New Mexico is peculiarly fitted
for this product. The sugar beet re-
quires strong sunlight and a dry atmos-
phere. Moisture, therefore, must be
supplied by irrigation-the less rain the
better-the roots, and not the top, re
curing the water-the top needing most
the light and heat of the sun.
"rhe strong, bright sunlight necessary
to the highest perfection of the plant can
be had only on the high attitudes of the
Rocky mountain region. That bright
sunlight can be had anywhere in New
Mexico. The entire territory, sloping
to the south as it does, presents south
ern exposure which more effectively
warns the soil and dries the atmosphere,
and thus, with the needed moisture con-
fined to the roots of the plant, and un-
Swallowed, nnobstructed sunlight through
out the IL hours of the day, and every
day, constantly bathing the top in light
and heat, and the roots kept moist by
irrigation, the constituent elements Of
sugar are being constantly developed I'M
der the most favorable conditions"
A description of the mill now in opera
ton at Eddy is given, and the methods of
raising the beet as followed successfully
in the Pecos valley.
In concluding it's reference to the sue
cess of beet culture thus far attained in
the territory, the pamphlet says:
"In 1894 we sent abroad 104,000,000
good American dollars for 100000 tons
of foreign sugar, while thousands of acres
of the beat beet sugar lands under the
best climate and other conditions on
earth for the production of beet sugar,
lie idle and barren right here in New
Mexico. How long shall that continue?"
Under the head of mineral resources of
New Mexico, a general outline of the ter.
ritorY's mineral wealth is given.
'Since the publication by the bureau of
in May last of its pamphlet
on the mines OF New Mexico" says the
new work, ian active and extensive
movement of miners to the mineral sec.
tions of this territory has begun, and very
important and valuable developments OF
mineral, largely gold.bearing, have taken
place-and that movement is still in
effect, and with somewhat surprising re-
suits, in the discovery and exploitation Of
mineral deposits.
beginning at the Colorado line ia the
northerly counties, it has been demon.
strated that, as the publication referred
to then claimed, the great mineral leads
coming down from Colorado follow the
main ranges of the Rocky mountains,
with rarely broken connections, south
wardly through Santa Fe and eastern
Bernalillo into Lincoln county in the
southeast-and again southwark from the
Colorado line in the north down through
western Bernalillo and Socorro in Sierra
and Grant in the southwest.
"While this increased activity and CON.
sequent development has been marked
throughout che mining regions of the
during the past several months,
the most remarkable of the more recent
discoveries have been in the Oochiti dis.
trict In Bernalillo county, and the Red |
River region 10 the north, and Water
canon region OF Socorro county"
The late marked development IN the
Red River district is treated at length,
and the prediction is made that this
splendid mineral region will continue to
grow in Juror. Every section Of territory |
that shows any mineral promise Is handled |
IN lpcid and able manner.