Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-17
Resources Of New Mexico.
FRUIT

10 the metropolitan markets of the west
ern states New Mexlco's horticultural
products command from 8 to Is per cent,
greater price han the California products,
owing to their size, richness in color and
peculiarly delicate favor. Ia 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 ep-
pies, pears. peaches. cherries, plums, nee
tarines n all the small fruits indigenous
to the temperate and semi tropic zone.
SUGAR BETS.
NExperfments covering ii period OF three
years demonstrate that New Mexico exceis
any other country or section in the world
in the quantity and quality of & beets.
In 1885, in the Pecos Valley, some 1.400
acres OF beets were harvested. The average
yield per acre was a little ever 10 tons,
and the average percentage of eaccharine
matter was over 10, the highest record ever
made. The gross returns to the farmer
averaged 1910 per acre. and the cost of
raising the crop was a little less than s29. 90
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 AMI adaptability Of tho
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, es well as their
keeping qualities. Rio Grende Valley oats
AL ia oAnAAd MA - H. - . IN =
Every field crop and all classes of veget-
tables can be and are grown with success
and profit.
MINERALS.
1t lie no exaggeration to affirm that, in point
OF natural rt SOURCES, none Of the peerless
Rocky Mountain states exceed New Mex
leo. Gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead, coal
(anthracite eId bituiDinous(, fire clay,
alum, sulphur, salt, gypsum, ETC., are found
in paying quantities in almost 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
figures, since the U. S. court has rendered
such timely service in settling titles to the
and grants.
MINERAL SPRINGS,
The attention of thu tourist and health
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 0i5 Caliente;
Hudson's Hot Springs, the Sulphur Hot
Springs, and the Macbeth and Taylor
mineral water wells. anc Coyote Springs.
DESIRABLE LANDS.
Thousands Of acres of wild lards are to
be had by compliance with t.he u. s. laud
laws. much Of which IL 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,hno in New Mexico and
through the action of the land court, titles
to vast tracts bave been cleared up and
settled. 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 rs
SUBJECT to entry under the government
land laws,
NOTES.
New Mexico boasts the fnest ail-the-
year round climate ON the continent.
Churches and graded public and private
schools are maintained In every corr
munity. Sheep and cattle raising are
among the leading industries of tho Ger
ritory. Under legislative enactment, all
beet sugar factories, woolen mills, smelters,
r refining and reduction works, including
100 acres OF land tos ee Oh factory or mill,
im;AuAsty FROM taxation for q
neiiod at Eve years IL erectad prior 10