The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-12-06
Alluring Attractions.

IN pamphlet lately issued by that great advertiser Of western
resources the Denver Rio Grande railroad the following
excellent description Of San Juan county M containedi
county south Durango Colorado across the line in
New Mexico is certain to attract large immigration during the
neN few years
This district great fruit belt Of the Southwest
Aztec and Famington the principal The county
seventyfve miles square and waered by four river,
The San juan the Pine the Anmas and La These rivers
year universally admitted that San Iuau IS
the best waered country all Of the Southwest The valleys
ing the finest richest aud fertile land Irrigation canals and
bitches have been constructed oirrgate in the i'm
valleys yet without bitches and there only oneith
Of the table land under irrigation; the remaining our6fhs
desert land These produce almost any kind of
crops common to semi-topcal climate This region
the fruit belt of the great Southwest and
fruit countries east OF California.
is also of the finest agricultural districts in the West
and all of the lands easily irrigated supply
everlasting There IS no inner climate than this district and its
natural resources are unsurpassed This county and district
lying in the northwest New Mexico has not
yet been entered by railroad and has been comparatively
known until the last lew years i tributary to the Denver
ping point and market place.
San Juan American county composed of enteprsiug
American people with good schools and churches good
society It has about 5000 people and 800 voters and its
ssed valuation very valuation is about 500 600 with
taxation less than three per cent The region has two
principal towns as above stated Aztec and Famn gton
about people and both uptodate enterprsng towns
Pennington the older having an old trading post
for the past twenty years and this district has been called the
Pennington district Aztec the population of the
county the county and only years old but
is rapidly growing and has than doubled wealth and
population during the past two years
Both Aztec and Pennington situated ON the Anmas river
Pennington at its junction with the San Juan sixty miles south
Of Durango There other small villages in the
county, to-wt Frutland Olo ewett Cedar Hill Largo
Flora Vista, La Plata and Bloomfield.
This section finest agricultural district in the
Southwest 1t produces almost every of crop such as corn
wheat oats barley cane met timothy clover and alfalfa
with vegetables of every kind The range about as follows
Corn thirty sixty bushels oats forty to ninety bushels
wheat twenty-five to forty bushels rye fifteen forty bushels
barley, thirty to sixty bushels alfalfa under fair irrigation
yields three year with total average from four to
sig tons per acre 81
a iHue live stock connt1b The winters are mild
open with but little snow live stock requires but verv
g good condition the open range There are forty to fifty
THOUSAND head sheep fed n these valleys winter
eight thousand head of cattle This fine country
poultry and dairy oduc and for bees honey It gen
orally conceded by fruit growers and by those are engaged in
the wholesale fruit business that San finest fruit
belt in all the West and her winter apples sought by
fruit shippers for the export trade The of Porter Bros
reeutaves this ounty buying the the trees furnish
ing their boxing and shipping this fruit their expense
paying less than pound During the
fall there shipped from this county more than 100
winter apples alone most of which Chicago to be
sorted and eshpped for the export trade buyers that
San Juan counui has less stands shipping keeps
longer than any other fruit that they buy The most market
which the Grimes Golden the Missouri Pppin the
Jonathan Rome Beauty White Winter Pearman Baldwin
and Ben Davis San Juan county produces only apples but
the finest quality of peaches pears pums punes apcots nee
tanes and all ofthe smaller fruits and berries to this
climate in abundance,