The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-08-02
To EIunt Homes Here
Farmers from the DrouthrStrictcn
Section VIII Westward Weud
Their WAY.

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Section VIII Westward Wend
rheir Way.
II your pumpkins alt not making and your
corn is drying up,
While your Kansas iolds are turning brown
and sorrow dlls your cup,
~ your fortunes have been ruined by the won.
drous lack Of rain-
Come out into the Aninas and build them up
aeainl
X your cattle haye no food 70 eat and those
Missouri mules
Heye no more nnins chuck 10 chow than those
old family jewels.
And tho rivers have gone good and dry and the
south wind sweeps in hot,
And tho water 40 the wells ie low and nothiur's
in she pot
Then quit The western prailina where you see
bat hurning skies,
And. leave your eastern hiIsidea whore ths
heat it never dies,
From city, town and village. fou valley, hill
and coast
Come dwell Ia San Juan county with ~ irri-
satins hostl
Tho foregoing soreed from the pen Of
Pat Connell. Esq, is not supposed TO
deal altogether with conditions as they
aro Dor to paint everything as it exists,
but there ia doubtless basis Of fact in
the sentiments it expresses,
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Neb-
raska have suffered intensely this sum
mer. The greatest beat wave IN its
recorded history has hung steadily for
the past six weeks over the vast fields Of
corn and grain Of that region and the
never ending hot winds have cooked
crops Of all kinds to a turn. Herds Of
cattle having no feed IN sight, have con-
sequeutly been thrown on the market in
unprecedented quantities and the re-
ceipts at the Kansas City stock yards
have exceeded all previous hgurte. Prices
are in consequence unusually low, and
agricultural distress, following four sue
csesful crop seasons, viii it is beliVed
cause heavy emigration Of farmArs
from the sun acorched stretches Of the
central west into tho irrigated areas Of
the Rocky mountain region.
Most Of those who seek new homes in
the west look for locationa where the
ohaucss are favorable for advancement
and where prices Of property as yet rule
low Where the railroad is yet to be
builded and new bitches ere to go in, is
the place most will choose as suitable for
locating in and growing up with.
Parties intending to leave the Mis-
souri, river valley states to seek loca-
tion in the irrigated section. cannot af-
ford to miss looking into the opportuni-
ties lying open here in San Juan county,
New Mexico Land is cheap, the climate
is fine and admirably adapted 70 fruit
culture ssoclz r-owirr skd a0iaulfnfa
ia general The markets are steadiiy
Increasing. and tho county ia certain
esnss has no competition for its agrieul-
tural and horticultural products. Many
thousands Of rich, fertile lands remain
yet to be watered, and companies arc
surveying bitches to cover the lands.
Here the growing crop is not matter
Of chance or speculation. 1t may rain
or it may not rain during the growing
Season--the crops grow anyway. The
SHOWS in the mountains furnish abund-
ant waters in the river for all purposes
throughout the summer. San Juan
county is peculiarly blessed in this re-
gard. Her rivers always have water in
them. In fact, nowhere in the west ia
there a section with as mach unused
water available for irrigation purposes
as in this county. eSan Juan county
rivers never run dry" has come to be a
pTovsrb.
"He who hesitates is lost" and he who
hesitates, not about moving west, but
only as to which section to choose
for the new home, can terminate all
doubts satisfactorily to himself by de-
Gliding to cast his lot in the new empire
of the fruit-growing, agricultural south
Wsst-san Juan county, New Mexico