Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-12

On the other side a second inscription
pays a similar tribute to the soldiers of
the federal army who fell in a fight
| with the ''rebels" at Canon del Apache
and La Glorieta Pass March 2S, 1862.
The only straight-out railroad swap
I ever heard of was when the Santa Fee
company traded its Mexican division,
| which runs from Benson, Ariz., to
Guaymas, the chief port Of the gulf of
California, for a line owned by the
| Southern Pacific, from the Needles to
Mohave, in the California desert. The
| Sonora branch of the Santa Fee was 1853
| miles long, while the Needles branch
of the Southern Pacific was only 240,
but the difference in the construction
| and equipment made them about the
same value, and the exchange was even
on both sides. Thus the Southern Pa
cific got a line to the gulf of California
and an important Mexican trade, and
the Santa Fe got to the Pacific ocean.
| via Los Angeles and San Diego. E. P.
Ripley, president of the Santa Fe, and
| Mr.. Huntington, Of the Southern Pa
cific, made the trade as easily as if they
had been swapping knives.
What is to be the biggest goat ranch
in the world has recently been started
at Lamy Junction, where the Santa Fee
| branch leaves the main line, by Robert
| F%oerderer, a morocco and kid manufac-
turer of Philadelphia, in connection
| with Lucius Beebe, a leather dealer of
| Boston, and several other capitalists.
They bought what is known as the old
Lamy grant from the Manzanares fam
lily, at Las Vegas, and have already
| stocked it with $4,000 or 10000 goats,
which are to be used for breeding. Mr..
Foerderer is said to use an average of
1000 skins a day in his own tannery,
which he has been getting mostly from
| Central and South America, but he
thinks he can raise them cheaper than
it costs to import, and it is commended
that the skins of goats and kids bred in
this climate are softer and tougher than
those from hot and moist countries. The
best skins are said to come from the
warm, dry regions of northern Africa.
There are many small herds Of goats
in New Mexico numbering 1000 or 5000,
mostly owned by native Mexicans, but
this is the first time, so far as / can
learn, that northern people have gone
into the business to any extent.
The great advantages of New Mexico
for sheep as well as goat feeding are
the dry air and the difference in tenn
peratures in different parts of the terri
tory, from the snow-clad mountains, in
which the animals can find cool ranges
in the summer, to the low plains, al
most on a level with tidewater, where
they can feed and breed in the coolest
winter. The increase of the flocks from
natural causes in New Mexico, for
these reasons, is said to be greater than
in any other part of the world. Last
year the yield of lambs was 95 per cent.
There are 1000, 900 sheep on the ranges
of New Mexico, which number would
be almost doubled by the natural in
crease if so many animals had not been
sold for slaughter. The wool clip was
5000, 900 pounds, and the most of it Is
still held by the ranchmen and traders,
waiting for better prices. They claim
hat the manufacturers have not yet
workeddp the big importations Of wool
that were bought in anticipation Of the
duty imposed by the Dingley tariff law
two a ago.
The famous turquoise mine at Cerril-
los, about thirty miles south of Santa
Fe, is now the property Of the Tiffanys,
the New York jewelers., who are work.
ing it on scientific methods, who last
year took out about twice as many jew
els as it ever yielded before. There are
about sixty turquoise mines in the ter
ritory, the product of which amounted
to $525, 900 last year, and is entirely con-
trolled in the United States. The
| largest piece of turquoise ever discov-
cred here was taken from the Tiffany
mine, and was valued at $4,000.
The high prices Of copper and zinc
| during the last year have led to a re-
| vival of interest in those minerals In
| New Mexico, and several important dis
| coveries have been made. Copper Is
now more sought after than gold, and a
| great deal of money is being invested
in the development Of old mines that
! were abandoned years ago.
e. j. Hollister, the agricultural expert
| who is working down here among the
irrigated settlements instructing the