The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1902-02-14
STATISTICS ON TIE SITUATION

Prom publication issued time ago in the interest of
San Juan the following facts and figures have mainly
been compiled;
Cereals Of all kinds are grown here wheat yielding 90 to 40
bushels per to bushels barley 80 60 bushels
rye IS 80 bushels to 90 bushels ready sale is
found good prices Current prices for 1909 as oows
Wheat per cwt SI.6o oats, Saooi corn, $I6s,
Vegetables of every variety flourish. hardest varieties
Irish potatoes,
melons, tomatoes, egg-plants etc.
the greatest opportunity agricuturs undoubted
Alfalfa lucerne (Medcago saiva) a perennial species
Of clover of most tenacious character capable of wthsandng
drought and cold by reason OF the deep peneaton of its
and making rapid growth under irrigation cut
hngsa year usually made averaging four to six tons of hay
faened yearly besides the dairy and work
Farmers who it almost entirely without additional grain
The total yield SO large that sales OF 500 to 500 tons single
buyer and the demand growing rapidly
encourage the planting of much larger acreage The
average price this winter has been about SIS per
Poultryrasng and daryng give satisfactory
many farmers The demand always poultry eggs
butter and chees eggs bring to cents DOZEN chickens
s. to 50 dozen butter from cents per pound and
cheese, IS to 2o cents per pound.
The canagre, (2umex hymenosepaus) grow.
ing in profuson table-ands in wild state been
discovered to contain rare properties as tanning agent and
attracting the attention OF tanners the world substitute
for the failing supply Of oak bark Inquiries have been
from the English and Austrian markets the price supply
and no doubt the cultivation OF the plant will be extensively
gagged IN.
apaes 100 hives and upward are good Of income
and every houseyard has few colonies for home The
orchards alfalfa fields and especially the ceome wild beeweed
furnish inexhausbe pasture the bees Honey
cents per pound in the comb and
cent years the colonies averaged from pounds
There about monve acres Of pas
tue lands San Juan exclusive of the Navajo reservation
This is free and occupied by stocgowers Craze
their cattle and sheep on the Government lands and aen their
beef cattle and mutton sheep the alfalfa
neghbOring valleys Hence they moved in the
spring of mining Colorado to the
north and Albuquerque and Gallup to the south.
The raising of good class of draft also
proven profitable occupation.
The deposits of coal extend from Durango Colorado in
southwesey direction the San Juan Benao
county in strip about fifteen miles wide showing especially
Pa cst IF the Plata river ard the Frutland district
Much Of this coal has been tested ccesuly for cooking
purposes and being and approach mined at
minimum The coal feet
Lime found in large quantities throughout the country
Especially fine deposits located Fuand worked
extensively for home
good red and white sandstone for building purposes
fou in the La Plata valley unlimited quantities Tecay is
every where and ca beds have heen discovered are not
yet wo-ked
Fne abounds in the cedar and pinon ridges between
the rivers while coal is had at the mines only for
local purposes) for 81 to $3.50 per ton.