Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-05-10

territorial exchanges withoHf proper
credit. was clipped from the Rocky
Mountain News. II Is "A communication
written 10y George Il Caldwell aud
reads as follows.
Tho immediate and crying need of
Carlsbad and vicinity is a creamery
with an investment of from $4,000 t.
Sl5urO
Carlsbad itself affords a market per
month for 20Ol pounds of butter. with
tributary creamery radius reaching
on the one hand. To pccus and on The
other hand To Roswell. with a dozen OF
more intermediate towns the aggrc
gate sale of butter from Carlsbad
creamery counting ~ least 5000
pounds per month with a year around
average of 20 cents per pound.
The dairy stock of the Carlsbad re
gion includes Jerseys. Durham. Red
Polled and Uolstciu with alfalfa
kGHir corn. millct, blue grass. timothy
etc as feed and milk producing fac.
tors
Almost the entire market radius of a
Carlsbad creamery Is travcrsed 10y
Pecos Valley railroad lines thus as
surfing a daily produce distribution
The attached icc plant would com
mand a large local patronage aside
from its creamery use. while the re-
tuse milk would return high values in
hog fattcuing
The pccos Valley irrigation company
has about completed its plans for the
construction of "A Sin.0Ou masonry
auucduct across the Pecos river. two
miles above the city of Carlsbad. This
aqueduct replacing the present -
yearuld plank tlumc will he $50 feet
feet long. sixteen feet wide. eight feet
deep, and thirty-twu feet above the
river ted.
The present nume has an ir,igating
ca"acity OF 10000 acres. OF which TO-.
600 are now under cultivation. The
new aqueduct viii add 5000 acres TO
the irrigation area OF the company or,
In other words, on the completion of
tie auueduct. the PcCos Valley lrriga-
tiCn company will have all told, on the
market $4,000 acres Of new laad with
perpetual water rights attached-thc
a Deduct itself being probably com.
rintcd this year,
The pecos Valley Irrigation company
has also in active contemplation the
early creation-at an expenditure OF
81 0OO .OOO-ot 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 shipmeh, this
season will run from twelve 10 hlteen
car loads. or from % To 80 per cent iii
excess of any crop heretofore market
ed from the region. The superb, the
Elberta and the Alexander. all famous
table peaches. will respectively. he
heavily represented in this season $
Carlsbad orchard yield.
The Carlsbad experiment ol last year
In the cultivation OF irrigated cotton
was A pronounced success, the yleid
averaging fully one bale per acre. Ar
rangements with Texan capitalists are
now in progress for The pledging next
year of 500 acres Tor cotton croppage-
the Texas moneyed men engaging. on
their part, 10 put in local cotton gin
with exhaustive hy-product attach
ments. The illustrated article appear
ing last year in the Rocky fountain
News on Carlsbad and Pecos valley II
rigated cotton culture attracted wide
outside attention, as well as most raw
orable local comment
II is estimated that the cattle ship
ments this year from Carlsbad and I'M
mediately tributary Pecos Valley RAN
road points. win reach 10000 head, the
cattle themselves comprising !, Z. i
and i-year-old feeding steers with an
actual net money value OF s750,0oo.
Late developments Indicate the ear
iy naturalization of the 5000 SAM
tarium TO Toe erected ON Hagermah
heights. overlooking Carlsbad, by "A
local and Chicago syndicate.
La Huerta. the haut-ton residence
suburb of Carlsbad is being rapidly
covered with elegant homes 10y eastern
moneyed people seeking the health
restoring Carlsbad and Pecos valley
climate.
The imst of the annual four alfalfa
cuttings of the Pecos valley is now IN
progress--this initial alfalfa growth
measuring from thirty 10 thlrty'hNe
inches
A notable peculiarly OF the Carlsbad
region il the native mesquite growing
area and It's agricultural area anu
adaptahility. The mesquite has heavy
husky growth aud its wide spread aud
lightly buried roots furnish line fue'
for both kitchen and heating purposes.
These roots command from 81 To $40
Ger wagon load delivered In town
this fuel sale always paying Tor the
expense OF clearing the land ana ire
queutly amounting, In actual cash, To
the agricultural market value OF the
land itself
The ornamental trees Of the region
include tho catalpa the North Carolina
poplar the silver leaf, the locust and
the Yucca palm, or gigantic Spanish
dagger,
The chrysanthemum is as ordinary
as ornate. hush and climbing roses are
everywhere. while other rural
growths are as bcwildcring IA cnumer
alton as they are beautiful In blossom
GEORGE X. Caldwell.
JOHN PLAYER QUITS.