Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-10
Town Of Carlsbad

The article in regard to Carlsbad and
which has been published in several
territorial exchanges without proper
credit, was clipped from the Rocky
Mountain News. 1t is a communication
written by George X. Caldwell. and
reads as follows:
The immediate and crying need of
Carlsbad and vicinity is a creamery
with an investment of from $40, 900 to
$15, 5000.
Carlsbad itself affords a market, per
month for 1000 pounds of butter. with
a tributary creamery radius reaching.
On the one hand, to Pecos and on the
other hand to Roswell, with a dozen or
more intermediate townsville aggre-
gate sale of butter from a Carlsbad
creamery counting at least 5000
pounds per month, with a year around
average of 20 cents per pound.
The dairy stock of the Carlsbad re-
gion includes Jerseys, Durham. Red
Polled and Holstein, with alfalfa,
Kafir corn, millet, blue grass, timothy,
etc, as feed and milk producing fac
tors.
Almost the entire market radius of a
Carlsbad creamery is traversed by
Pecos Valley railroad lines-thus as
surfing a daily produce distribution.
The attached ice plant would com
mand a large local patronage aside
from it's creamery use, while the re-
fuse milk would return high values in
hog fattening.
The Pecos Valley irrigation ompany
has about completed its plans for the
construction of a $40, 900 masonry
a%queduct across the Pecos river. two
miles above the city of Carlsbad. This
aqueduct-replacing the present r.
year-old plank flume-will be 535 feet
feet long, sixteen feet wide, eight feet
deep. and thirty-two feet above the
river bed.
The present flume has an irrigating
capacity of 10000 acres, of which TO-
600 are now under cultivation. The
new a%queduct will add Is 900 acres to
the irrigation area of the company, or.
in other words. on the completion of
the auueduct, the Pecos Valley lrriga-
ton company will have all told, on the
market rs 900 acres of new land with
perpetual water rights attached-the
%aqueduct itself being probably COM
pleted this year.
The Pecos Valley Irrigation company
has also in active contemplation the
early creation-at IN expenditure of
81, 900 .000-of an immense system OF
tributary storage reservoirs whose re-
serve waters will swell the irrigated
area of the company to 100 900 acres.
The Carlsbad peach shipment this
season will run from twelve to fifteen
car loads, or from 25 to 80 per cent in
excess of any crop heretofore market.
ed from the region. The Superb, the
Elberta and the Alexander, all famous
table peaches. will. respectively, be
heavily represented in this seasons
Carlsbad orchard yield.
The Carlsbad experiment of last year
in the cultivation of irrigated cotton
was a pronounced success. the yield
averaging fully n bale per acre. Ar
rangements with Texan capitalists are
now in progress for the pledging next
year of 500 acres for cotton croppage-
the Texas moneyed men engaging, on
their part, to put in a local cotton gin
with exhaustive by-product attach
ments. The illustrated article appear
ing last year in the Rocky uiountain
News on Carlsbad and Pecos valley IT.
rigated cotton culture attracted VIDE
outside attention, as well as mostsfav-
.orable local comment.
II is estimated that the cattle ship
ments this year from Carlsbad and i'm
mediately tributary Pecos Valley rail-
road points. will reach 10000 head, the
cattle themselves comprising /, 2. 3
and 4-year-old feeding steers, with an
actual net money value OF Sioo,ooo.
Late developments indicate the ear
,v DECENTRALIZATION of the $3.50, 900 SAM
tarium to be erected on Hagerman
heights, overlooking Carlsbad, by a
local and Chicago syndicate.
La Huerta. the haut-ton residence
suburb of Carlsbad, is being rapidly
covered with elegant homes by eastern
moneyed people seeking the health
restoring Carlsbad and Pecos valley
climate.
Ehe first of the annual o alfalfa
cuttings of the Pecos valley is now in
progress-this initial alfalfa growth
measuring from thirty to thirty-hve
inches. g,
A notable popularity Of the Carlsbad
region is the native mesquite GROWING
area and it's agricultural area anu
a~daptability. The mesquite has a heaVy
bushy growth and its wide spread n
lightly buried roots furnish fine fuel
for both kitchen and heating purposes.
These roots command from 81 TO Slo
per Wagon load delivered in town
this fuel sale always paying for the
expense of clearing the land n ire
uuently amounting, in actual cash, TO
the agricultural market value OF the
land itself.
The ornamental trees of the region
include the catalpa, the North Carolina
poplar. the silver leaf. the locust. and
the yucca palm, or gigantic Spanish
dagger.
The chrysanthemum is as ordinary
as ornate; bush and climbing roses are
everywhere; while other floral
growths are as bewildering in enumer
alton as they are beautiful in blossom.
GEORGE r. CALDWELL.
Like a Drowning Man.