Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-05-05
The BEAUTIFUL TOWN
OF CARLSBAD
II Stands in Need Of Creamery. Plans Of
the pecos Valley irrigation Company TO
Place More Land Under
Irrigation.
A Big PEACH CROP PROMISED THIS YEAR
HEAVY CATTLE SHIPMENTS BEING MADE

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 OF
more intermediate townsville aggre-
gate sale of butter from Carlsbad
| creamery counting at least 5000 pounds
per month, with year around average
of rs cents per pound.
The dairy stock of the Carlsbad re-
gion includes Jerseys, Durham, ed
Polled and Holstein, with alfalfa. Kaf-
fir corn, milet, blue grass, timothy,
etc, assfeed and milk producing fac
tors.
Almost the entire market radius of a
Carlsbad creamery Is traversed by the
Pecos Valley and Northeastern rail-
road-thus assuring a daily product
distribution. The attached ice plant
would command large local patron
age aside from it's creamery use, while
the refuse milk would return high val
ues in hog fattening.
The Pecos Valley Irrigation Com
pany has about completed it's plans
for the construction of a $4,000 ma
sonry aqueduct across the Pecos river,
two miles above the city of Carlsbad
This aqueduct-replacing the present
12-year-old plank fume-will be 535
feet long, 16 feet wide, feet deep. and
80 feet above the river bed.
The present flume has an irrigating
capacity of 10000 acres, of which 10000
are now under cultivation. The new
aqueduct will add $4,000 acres to the
irrigation area of the company, or, in
other words, on the completion of the
aqueduct, the Pecos Valley Irrigation
market $4,000 acres Of new land with
perpetual water rights attached-the
aqueduct to be completed this year.
The Pecos Valley Irrigation Company
has also in active contemplation the
early creation-at an expenditure of
$1,000, ,O00-of an immense system of
tributary storage reservoirs whose re-
serve waters will swell the irrigated
area of the company to 100000 acres.
The Carlsbad peach shipment this
season will run from ~ to Is carloads,
or from 25 to 30 per cent in excess Of
any crop heretofore marketed from the
region. The Superb the Elberta and
the Alexander. all famous table peach
es will, respectively, be heavily rep
resented in this seasons Carlsbad or
chard yield.
The Carlsbad experiment of last year
in the cultivation Of irrigated cotton
was pronounced success, the yield
averaging fully one bale per acre. Ar
rangements with Texan capitalists are
now in progress for the pledging next
year Of 800 acres for cotton croppage-
the Texas moneyed men engaging, on
their part, to put in local cotton gin
with exhaustive by-product attach
ments.
1t 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 1, 2, and
4-year- feeding steers, with an act
ual net money value of $750,000.
Late developments indicate the early
naturalization of the $250.000 sanitar-
ium to be erected on Hagerman heights
overlooking Carlsbad, by a local and
Chicago syndicate.
La Huerta, the residence suburb of
Carlsbad, is being rapidly covered with
elegant homes by eastern moneyed peo-
pie seeking the health-restoring Carls-
bad and Pecos valley climate.
The first of the annual four alfalfa
cuttings of the Pecos valley is now IN
progress-this initial Alfalfa growth
measuring from 80 to 35 inches.
A notable popularity of the Carlsbad
region is the native mesquite growing
area and Its agricultural area and
adaptability. The mesquite has a
heavy bushy growth and its wide
spread and lightly buried roots furnish
| fine fuel for both kitchen and heating
purposes. These roots command from
| 50 to $40 per wagon load delivered In
| town-this fuel sale always paying fol-
| the expense of clearing the land and
frequently amounting. in actual cash
to the agricultural market value of the
land itself.
| The ornamental trees of the region
include the catalpa, the North Carroll
| ma poplar, sthe silver leaf, the locust
| and the yucca palm, or gigantic Span
| ish dagger.
The chrysanthemum is as ordinary as
ornate; bush and climbing roses are
| everywhere; while other floral growths
are as bewildering in enumeration as
| they are beautiful In blossom.
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