Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
THE GREAT
AMONG IT'S RESOURCES ARE
Mining, Stock Raising, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce.
Greatest Climate N Earth.

The United States has been most for
tunate in territorial purchases and ac-
QUESTIONS. The cession of Florida, the
Louisiana and Alaska purchases and
the vast area ceded by Mexico, under
the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty, of
184S, are now priceless possessions;
and the sanguine anticipate no less
greatness for our new accessions. But
of them all, no equal area offers more
encouragement to enterprise and de-
velopment. or promises more richly to
justify the cost of conquest or pur-
chase than that territory embraced
within the borders of New Mexico.
Both Old and New.
This vast u~ndeveloped empire, at
once the Oldest and newest region on
the American continent, is the richest
section of the great southwest. and
numbers among its resources a meas
ureless mineral wealth, millions of
acres of Incompatible grazing range,
almost an equal area of fertile soil
awaiting the agriculturist, billions of
feet of timber, a growing field for
manufacture and commerce and I'M
numbered sources of wealth hat but
wait on the Midas-touch of capital.
Hundreds of years ago the Spaniards
deemed this region worth their blood,
and shed it freely in wrestling from the
aborigine his natal soil. They delved
in the mountains for their mineral
riches, and the early Adventures bal
lasted their galleons with precious
ores. The priests sought the fructu-
Gus valleys and planted orchards and
vineyards in the more favored places.
Catholicism and the Spanish tongue
were planted at the same time. But
the restless, martial spirit of the
Spaniard was little tuned to civiliza-
ton, and little progress was made un-
der Spanish rule. In 1921, Mexico
threw off the Spanish yoke and a quar-
ter of a century later the United
States assumed the burden of civiliz-
ing New Mexico.
Growth in Population.
When this territory came under the
control of the federal government, it's
white, or American, population might
have been counted by the hundred.
The old towns of Santa Fe and Albu-
querque were the only settlements of
Importance, and their inhabitants were
almost entirely Mexican. Some few
whites were operating mineral loca-
tons, some were in mercantile pur-
suits, some were engaged in freight
ing, and a very few were c%ultivating
the soil. Today the population of New
Mexico is more than 100000. Millions
of acres of ground are devoted to ag-
r%iculture, countless herds of cattle and
sheep ruminate the ranges, mines of
fabulous wealth are yielding annual
fortunes to their owners, manufac-
tories are springing up in population
centers, and commerce is thriving
throughout the territory. So much
for half a century of development In
der the stars and stripes.
Origin and Location.
New Mexico is in part territory In
nexed by the United States, in 1S45,
as the northern portion of Texas, and
part territory coded by Mexico at the
close of the Mexican war. 1t embraces
1872. AGO square miles, and lies almost
wholly between the S2d and 37th par
aIlels and the 103d and TOO meridians.
so that it is almost square in form. Its
latitude is ideal. combined with the
high altitude, and its dry aseptic at
mosphere gives the territory one Of