Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-24
TEDDy'S TREE.
The Tree From Which liberia Peaches
{ Were Sent to Roosevelt.
A CARLSBAD PRODUCT.

George r. Caldwell. writing to the
Rocky Mountain News. from Carlsbad.
N. NJ, under date of September %.
says:
Illustrating this article is a photo
graph of an liberia peach tree in the
full bearing of its harvest of this sea-
son-the tree itself being one of the
big peach orchard or Joe Love, in the
Carlsbad suburban vicinity.
This Carlsbad and Pecos valley
peash bearer is now proudly known as
"Teddy's Tree" a large quantity of its
"one peach to the pound" fruit being
sent to Teddy Roosevelt, with the adj
dressed inscription, "Carlsbad's Com
pliments to President Roosevelt. the
Great Friend of Arid America and Ma
tioual Irrigation"
The v orchard, in which "Teddy's
Tree grows, bears and flourishes,
puts forth for this season the follow
ing peach harvest record: Number of
trees in bearing, 60; boxes of peaches
SOU, 450; money received. $500; aver
age amount realized per tree, $3.50;
average number of boxes sold per tree,
~; average number of pounds per
tree. loo; maximum income from any
one tree, $50; maximum number of
pounds sold from any one tree. 500;
net return per twenty-pound box, SO
cents.
The peaches of this orchard were
sold on the Colorado Springs market
~ fra,, Q 4 IN 80 e. Al 40, To- an 49,
erage being about $3.50 per box.
The Carlsbad peach orchards count
10S trees to the acre, and the above
give return of 400 from the sixty-six
trees-or slightly in excess of half an
acre of ground-displays an annual
value of between 500 and $500 per
acre of Pecos peach orchards.
The tributary Carlsbad mineral de-
posit and development is now receiv-
ing active and valuable exploitation.
through the operations of the Pecos
Valley Standard Oil company. This
company, composed of Iowa capital
lists, owns 1.600 acres of oil land, with
in even miles of Carlsbad, and has re-
Gently extended its tributary Carlsbad
investments by the purchase of the
Guadalupe group of mines. in Ell Paso
county. Texas, distant but seventy
miles from Carlsbad.
This mineral group includes Twenty
three compact claims, the ore showing
copper, lead, silver and zinc, with q
%glittering supplementary display of
turquoise and opal jewels.
The present development work on
these mines includes three tunnels
one of 200 feet, one of 100 feet and one
of fifty feet. The 20v-foot tunnel
shows a vertical ~eighteen-inch ore
vein; the 100-foot tunnel opens up a
series of pocket blanket ore formations
averaging twenty feet square and
seven feet thick, while the fifty-foot
tunnel has a big lead of copper and
g%alena.
Three hundred tons of ore have just
been sold to the FL Paso Smelling
company, the ore running q per cent
copper, 10 per cent lead, 8 per cent
silica, IL per cent iron and the balance
in silver and zinc.
A fifty-four-ounce specimen of the
turquoise permeated ore of these
mines has been sent to New York
city, and the return estimate received
that it contained 81 1000 worth of tur
quoise when reduced to marketable
jewel form.
The opals found are very fine, and
the soon-to-be developed product Of
these opal deposits Wal rival-if not
eXceed-any output of these translu
cent gems now found north of Chihua
hua.
Within the next eighteen month:
concentrating works Will be erected al
these mines, and the concentrates
hauled by wagon to the FL Paso smell
tiers, 125 miles distant, thus adding an
other and valuable feeding supply tC
FL Paso's converging and capaciou:
smelling furnaces.
The Pecos Valley Standard Oil com
pany is incorporated for sou 600, anC
promises to be II of the fayorite anC
most stable organizations of the south
west.