Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-01
UNION COUNTY.
Comes to the Front as One OF The
Best Wool Markets.
LARGE SHIPMENTS MADE,

A special dispatch TO the Denver
News, from Clayton, Union county,
this territory, says:
The last shipments of the big WOO!
clip of Union county for tlis year are
now in process of marketing.
This county wool clip of 1902 aggre-
gates 5000, 900 pounds, of which l,OOO,-
600 pounds have been shipped from
Clayton, in excess of SOC, 600 pounds
from Folsom and the balance from
various other shipping points on the
Colorado & Southern, Rock Island and
Santa Fe roads.
The Union county fleece this year av-
craged seven and one-half pounds. has
sold at 1871 cents all around, and has
been classed at only a shade less In
quality than fine medium q better
showing than other New Mexican wool
OF this seasons marketing. Owing to
the adding to herd grading, next sea-
son will place Union county wool fully
within the fair medium" class, with
an increased fleece weight and heavier
listed market price.
The county sheep grading comprises
a careful crossing of the best Merino
and Shropshire strains. thus securing
a union of fleece and flesh.
This fall will see the shipment from
Union county of 100, 900 mutton feed
ers to Kansas fattening pens, and 1907
600 lambs to northern Colorado for the
putting on of western flesh and fat for
eastern market blocks. These lambs
will average here forty-seven pounds.
will approximate their Union county
owners $3.50 per head and will weigh
out at least eighty pounds per head in
Colorado-Chicago shipment.
NJ. Herzstein. the wool king of north
ern New Mexico. with local headquar-
tiers at Clayton, has handled this year
nearly one-half of the entire Union
county clip.
A notable Clayton Industrial i'm
provement is the establishment by
Robert w. Isaacs of a tin manufactur-
ing and pipe cutting and fitting plant.
In addition, sufficiently significant Z
the general progress and prosperity CT
the region, Mr.. Isaacs has also erected
his business into a northern New Mex.
leo windmill headquarters. The stock
range demand for windmills is o ST
genera and strong as to attract drill
ing outfits from all we the country.
Well water depths range from ten feet
upwards, with seventy-f1ve as a fall
average.
Clayton business interests display
recent increase of from 20 to 35 pei
cent, in illustration of which the doub
ling of the capital of the First National
bank of Clayton, its erection into a ter
r~itorial and county depository, and ar
approximation CT s-00,OvJ in individual
deposits.
Clayton's water works and electric
light system, both under the private
ownership and management of Robert
irwin, are exhaustive in public utility
and satisfaction.
The Clayton Telephone company, F
H. Clark. manager. well fills the loca
field.
Carl Ecklund is now furnishing il
the n~eighborhood of 100 tons of ice fol
local Clayton consumption. The fct
company here is capable of extended
expansion and promises early maxi
mum development.
Clayton cattle shipments include on
and two year old steers for northern
ranges and fall furnishing of feeders.
; The Clayton public schools, with 35'
=, pupils and five departments. are nov
, in grading process with a high schoo
) course in early prospective.