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Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

prosper in the canyons and narrow
valleys.
Bernalillo county will not throw
down the gauntlet of competition to
grain producing states of the west,
though no better wheat is grown in the
world than in New Mexico. The local
husbandman operates on a smaller
scale than the farmer of the middle
west, but his bank balances are fire.
quently very much larger. An idea of
the profits of the small farm in Bernal-
lilo county may be had by citing the
returns on a single product, viz: sweet
potatoes The yield in the more fav-
ored sections will average a thousand
bushels TO the acre, and the price per
bushel is from 81 to 50, according to
the season. Thus a ten acre tract. un-
der irrigation, will net the farmer as
much as several hundred acres in
grain in the rain belt.
The Spanish onion attains perfec-
ton in this climate and yields about
200 bushels TO the acre. The price in
winter and spring is three dollars a
bushel, thus making the gross amount
realized to the acre about 5000 a year.
Celery and asparagus are especially
adapted TO the soil and climate of Ber-
nalillo county. The celery is superior
to the California product and is equal
In excellence to the famous Kalama-
zoo celery. The asparagus surpasses
in flavor and tenderness any that is
grown elsewhere on the American con
tinent. The alkaline soil renders salt
ing" unnecessary, and, during the cut
ting season, the shoots will grow as
much as six inches in a day. The
entire stalk is edible. After three
years the asparagus beds will produce
200 pounds a day TO the acre for sixty
! days, and the product will sell at an
! average price of ten cents a pound.
Assuming that a farmer owns ten
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

Hon. Epimenio A. Miera, the pres
ent chairman of the board of county
commissioners of Bernalillo county,
was born at A~lgodones, this county,
on the oath day of March, 1862, and
was reared and educated in New Mex
Michael college, in Santa Fe, and after
leaving school entered the employ of a
merchant in the capacity of clerk. He
remained an employe. only a short
time, and in 1879, when he was but II
years of age, engaged in business on
his private account, opening a small
general merchandise store at Cuba,
on the Rio Puerco, where he has lived
for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr..
Miera's mercantile interests expanded
with the growth of the country. and to-
day he has the largest mercantile es-
Establishments outside Of Albuquerque
in the county. He conducts stores az
several points in the Rio Puerco dis
trict, and has other important inter
ests besides, among which may be
mentioned his Touring mills. saw mills
and sheep interests. He is the largest
individual sheep and wool grower in
the territory, his herds ranging in
thousands over the grass-clad hills and
on the fertile lowlands of the Naci-
miento valley. His annual wool clip
exceeds 100000 pounds, and his reve'
nues from all sources are equal to the
income of any man in the county.
Mr.. Miera first came into political
prominence in 1898, when he was
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
HON. EP|MEN|0 A. MIERA
Chairman of the Board of County Commissioner

elected county commissioner of Ber-
nalillo county. Notwithstanding the
fact that his administration was
praiseworthy, when he was a candi-
date for reelection, the opposition
made a personal fight against him. and
employed every means to defeat him.
But it was all to no avail. In 1900 he
was elected by an overwhelming ma
jority to succeed himself in office for
the long term, and he will have been
term expires. The prophets lived be-
fore the development of political ma
chienry, and it is doubtful if the seers
of the past would have been very sue
cessful at ~forecasting the actions of
conventions two years hence; but one
may safely predict that, if the party
leaders are awake to the party's inter-
ests in 1904, and name Mr., Miera as a
candidate for reelection again. he will
carry the county by storm.
Mr.. Miera's record as chairman of
the board of county commissioners
has won him the admiration of every.
one, of whatever political faith: and
he has the respect of those who, for
party or personal reasons, bitterly
oppose him. His voice has always
been raised in the interest of progress
and development, within reasonable
bounds, where the county is to be ben
Gifted without making taxation a bur
den to the people. and has exercised
a wise discrimination in determining
what of the many proposed actions
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

James A. Summers was born in the
county of Glengary, province of Onta-
rio, Canada, in the year 1882. and was
reared and educated there and in
Franklin county, New York. His moth
er's people are all New Workers, and
the old homestead was only seven
miles north of the st. Lawrence river
so that his boyhood days were spent
on either side of the international
boundary.
Mr.. Summers came west SCOT after
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terests. He arrived in A.uuueruue in
1882, and Immediately engyed in BUSH
ness. The following year o accepted
a position in the Offices OF to Atlantic
& Pacific railroad, and was ,ur wears
with the company. resignig tn be-.
come deputy probate clerk oiRernal-
lilo county.
OF the twenty years he has ben in
Albuquerque, Mr.. Summers has been
fifteen years in the county clerk, Of
fee. He received his first appint
ment the veal after the county build
ing was erected, and since that tine
he has not beer sixty days away frou
his desk. He was four times appoinA
ed deputy, and has twice been elect
ed probate clerk, receiving at each
election an overwhelming majority.
There could hardly be a more elo-
quent testimonial to the popularity of
Mr.. Summers, and the estimation in
which his services are held by the vot-
ers of Bernalillo county than is evil
dent in his prolonged retention in Of
fee, and there is certainly no public
man who merits the confidence Of his
constituents in a greater measure. He
has discharged the duties of his Office
with the most scrupulous regard for
accuracy and n~eatness, and his admin
istration has been above criticism.
Mr.. Summers is a man of family,
having a wife and five children, all
grown. His wife and two daughters
have recently returned from the east
where they visited their relatives
and former home scenes. One of his
sons is a railroad engineer, one an ex-
press messenger and one a rancher.
Mr.. Summers has always been a bust
ness man rather than a politician, and
his preferment Is distinctly an in
stance Of the office hunting the man.
Candidates have not been nominated
for the fall election, but The Citizen
ventures little in predicting that Mr..
Summers will be renominated and that
he will again succeed himself in office.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

brought up at each meeting of the
board would prove of the greatest
good to the gretest number.
Mr.. Miera is a member of the Terri
torial Irrigation committee, of New
Mexico, and has made a close and in
telligent study of irrigation in it's bear
ing on the southwest. 1t Is needless
to say that he is its firm advocate, and
the influence of his testimony on the
subject has been of great value. Mr..
Miera believes that the day is coming
when millions of acres of now arid
land within the borders of New Mexico
will be traversed by artificial water ar
%teries, and that the barren face of the
desert stretches will spring into yerd-
ure and productive life. He is doing
his part and IL enlisting the aid Of
others to accomplish the work.
In his private character Mr.. Miera
is no less progressive and enterprising
than as a public official. He has con-
tributed literally to the betterment of
the county on more than one notable
occasion, and is not n of those who.
having done one creditable thing re.
tires with the sense of having finished
his work. He realizes hat progress
| does not NEAR a single advance, but a
continuous improvement, and that to
keep up development requires a per-
ennial public spirit.
! Mr.. Miera represents the young
blood of the republican party in Der.
halillo county, and there is nothing
that promises more hopefully for the
party's continued virility than the
fact that there are men of his stamp
! and character to maintain and build
it up. In conclusion we may say that
the verdict of the voters at the last
election was a higher tribute to the
excellence of Mr.. Miera's qualities OF
heart and head than any encomium
The Citizen could pay him.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE
Metropolis of New Mexico---The Railroad.
Manufacturing and Commercial Gen.
ter Of the Southwest.

The history of Albuquerque could
be spread over volumes and lose no
mite of its interest, if told in good lit
erary style, but 1t would be of little
value to the city or territory from an
advertising standpoint. 1t the present
edition Of The Citizen, it is the pur-
pose of the publishers to present con-
else data Of a readable nature that will
be calculated to interest the investor,
the home builder and the health seek
er. To accomplish this end, it is deem
ed wise to burden the paper as little
with statistical and historical matter
as possible, the n being non-essen-
tial and the other, for the most part,
incomprehensible and un~interesting.
In touching upon the early history of
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

Fe. He was an indian trader for a
number of years, and retired from this
pursuit to accept the appointment to
the unexpired term of Charles Hunt,
in 1895, who was at that time the in
cumbent of the sheriff's Office in Ber-
nalillo county. After serving eighteen
months under this appointment he was
elected, in November, 1896, to succeed
himself, and was subsequently re-
elected in 1898 and 1900. He is again
a candidate the present year, and 1t is
a ~foregone conclusion that he will re-
ceive the verdict of the voters at the
polls in November.
With regard to Mr.. Hubbell's admin
istration of the responsibilities of his
office, it is fitting that attention should
be called to the fact that Bernalillo
county has been freer from crime dur
ing the past six years than during any
previous period covering the same
number of years in the history of the
county. There have been ONE infrac-
lions of law, as everywhere else, but
there have been remarkably few helm
Gus crimes, and in every instance the
perpetrators have been run to earth
and brought to summary justice.
Mr.. Hubbell does not come into such
close contact with the law-breakers of
the county today as he formerly did.
He now devotes his time more to di-
recting the Office, and leaves the exc
cution of under-Sheriff Newcomer, in
whom he has an able lieutenant. By in
PRODUCING system into the Office he has
greatly increased it's efficiency, and
has sensibly improved the condition
of the county.
Sheriff Hubbell is a man of family.
He was married in 1894 to Miss Rose
Gutierrez, and now has a son 5 years
of age. He owns a handsome resi-
dence in Albuquerque, and has, be-
sides, other valuable city and country
property. In conclusion 1t may be said
that Bernalillo county has never had
a more efficient sheriff than Mr.. Hub
bell has proved, and there is no man
in the county who has a wider &C
' quaintance or is more universally re
spected.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
COUNTY
Center of New Mexico's Wealth and Popu-
l4tion---Its Mining, Stock Raising,
Agriculture, Manufacturing

Bernalille is New Mexico's wealth
lest and most popuIous county. IL Is
situated in the central part of the ter
ritorS and is irregular in form. The
greatest breadth. from north to south,
is seventy-fve miles. and the greatest
length is $50 miles. The county has
an area OF S.2Sf. 200 acres, IT more
than four times the area of Rhode ISL
and. OF this. 1.625.SSS acres have
been appropriated. 653,sOO acres re-
served, and more than 100000 acres
are still open to entry under the fed
eral land laws.
Bernalillo county is the twelfth
largest county in the territory, and
has a population of about 80 1000 inhab-
ftants, at least a third of whom reside
In Albuquerque, the county seat and
metropolis of the territory. This gives
the county an average of about six
persons to the square mile, a desnity
that is exceeded by only one other
county in the territory. Its chief re-
sources are mining, stock raising, ag-
riculture and manufacturing.
Mining.
Until within the past few years
there mas been comparatively little
mining development in Bernalillo
county. Prospectors have devoted
their energies to exploiting fields that
were considered more promising, and
rs a result some of the best mining
territory in the southwest was over.
looked and neglected. More recently,
however, mining men have awakened
to their error, and the development of
the past year has been unprecedented
In the history of the county.
The most important mining district
In the county is the Cochil, known as
the Cripple Creek of New Mexico. 1t
is situated in the northeastern section
OF the county, about fifty miles by road
from Albuquerque. The principal town
of the district is Bland, a prosperous
camp of about 1000 population. The
district is about six by seven miles in
extent, and all of this area is traversed
by immense parallel lodges Of gold.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

There was an abundance of room and
no distractions, so the plot Of the
town was conceived on a generous
scale, the streets and being
broad, and ample reservation being
made for parks and public buildings.
The thoroughfares were planted with
shade trees, and in due time modern
municipal improvements appeared.
The little city grew slowly at first.
then more rapidly, until, in 1890, the
census showed it to be the metropolis
of he territory, a distinction it has
maintained ever since. After two de-
cades of general prosperity. despite
the temporary periods Of depression
that have swept over the country. AL
buquerque and the immediate e~nvirons
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

bearing quartz. Several of these
Is a numbe of producing mines in the
district. The principal properties are
the Albemarle, Star, Iron King, Wash
ington, Grant, Crown Point, Black Girl,
Little Mollie and the Lone Star. There
Is a number of mills In operation in
the district, and a depth of 500 feet
has been attained in several of the
mines is about $4,000 a day in gold bull
lion. The district is eighteen miles
from the railroad, but the ore is free
milling, and with the exception of ex-
pense and inconvenience in transport
ing machinery, the distance from the
railway is of little consequence. One
company has a payroll of $4,000 a
month, and the district is one of the
best in the territory.
There are a number of other promis-
ing camps in the county, prominent
among which are He'll Canon, Coyote
Canyon, Las Placitas, San Isidro, Cop
per City (Naciemento) and Algodones,
at which latter point a smelter is now
being erected. The mines of these
districts are not extensively developed
as yet and the production of ore is
light, but they will figure in the out
put Of the territory before many
years have elapsed, and reward those
who have invested in the district.
Live Stock.
Bernalillo county owes much of it's
prosperity to the stock business. Be-
fore the county was settled to any ex-
tent by whites. many Mexicans had
accumulated fortunes in this pursuit,
and the conditions are now more
favorable than ever before in the his
tory OF the territory. There are not
the same opportunities, of course, for
selecting range, and n cannot rustic
a herd Of mavericks, as in the old days,
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
HON. JAMES A. SUMMERS
Clerk of the Probate Court

attaining his majority and engaged in
placer mining in Tuolomne county,
California, where he met with crafty
ing II was in this state that
be first exercised the right of Ameri-
can franchise, and he cast his ballot
for John G. Fremont. He has been a
lifetime republican and never since he
became a voter has he wavered in his
adherence to the party.
Mr.. Summers was in California from
1854 until 1851, in which year he re-
turned East and established a general
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
HON. TH0S: S. HUBBELL
Sheriff of Bernalillo County

Thomas S. Hubbell, for the past six
years sheriff of Bernalillo county, is
one of the most noted peace officers of
the southwest. He vas a deputy sheriff
in Arizona in 1884. at a time when the
territory was overrun by the lawless
element, and served warrants on many
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

grape culture Is Of greater Importance.
The Mission" grape, which was intro
duced into this country by the r
ciscan friars and priests who came
with the early Spaniards. or followed
closely on the heels of the conquest Is
the principal variety. The town OF
Bernalillo. a village of 500 inhabitants
is the center of the vineyard district,
and there are a number of wineries in
the vicinity.
Manufacturing.
In manufacturing, as in wealth n
population, Berialillo leads all OF the
counties of the territory, but these,
which are nearly all in or lear Albu-
querque, will be treated in a general
article on the metropolis and in spec
ial articles elsewhere. so that 1t Is not
necessary to go into details in the
present connection. The same may be
said with regard to the educational ia
c%ilities of the county, and of many 9th
or subjects that might De suggested.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

He was active in body, a dead shot
with rife and revolver and absolutely
fearless, qualifications very necessary
to the discharge of his duties in Ari-
IONA at that day.
Sheriff Hubbell is a native of New
Mexico, having been born at Pajarito,
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

but there is practically unlimited
range where water can be developed
at little cost, and the stock of the
country is better than ever before.
The long horn has survived only in a
ross breed that combines %foraging
ability with weight, and the cattlemen
of Bernalillo county now receive the
highest market price for graded stock.
Sheep have been correspondingly i'm
proved. and will clip from eight to ten
pounds of wool a year, per head, as
against four to six pounds formerly,
besides which there is a marked i'm
provement in the quality of the wool.
There is no field of enterprise hat of
'iers surer profits on a large scale
tnan stock growing in New Mexico,
and there is no part of the territory
where the industry thrives better than
in Bernalillo county.
Agriculture.
Ii is estimated that there are more
than a million acres of irrigable land
in .Bernalillo county. which is equiva-
lent to saying there is that area of
arabic land, for there is not an acre of
ground in the county that can be irri-
gated hat Is not arabic and desirable
for agricultural purposes. The soil is
fertile and productive of the best re-
suits when adequately watered.
There are $4,000 acres already under
ditch in the county, 1920 acres of
which are under cultivation and 1900
acres of which are swamp or meadow
lands. caused by waste from the
canals. The remaining 1000 acres are
u~nimproved. There is an abundance
of water for the entire tract, and there
seems to be no explanation for the
ground remaining idle, excepting that
the farm and orchard development
has been slow, immigrants devoting
their their energies more to the other
pursuits, which are equally prosperous.
Some fruit growing is done on the
mountain sides, where the trees are
sheltered from late frosts. Apples
especially thrive in these places, and
potatoes, beans, chill, wheat and oats
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
Advent of the Railroad.

The history of Albuquerque of today
properly dates from 1881. In that year
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road completed it's road to the point
of connection with the old Atlantic &
Pacific railroad, and passed within a
mile and a half of the old town at this
point, though it is questionable II any
dreamed that here would n day
stand the metropolis of the territory.
Accordingly, the townsite was laid out.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13

of the city, embracing "Old Town" and
B~arelas, have a population exceeding
distinct, are practically n in fact. All
receive mail through the Albuquerque
postoffice, and are so closely built that
no line of ~demarkation between the
towns exists elsewhere than on the
maps.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-13
The Metropolis.

AS stated above, it is not the Albu-
querque of the past, but the Albu-
querque of the present, that is Of inter-
est to people who are destined to con-
tribute to the growth Of the city, and
il may be well to consider the subject
from the view points of the various
elements of society this paper will
reach. as well as TO give the general
information that concerns everyone.
Commerce and Manufacturing.
Commercially, Albuquerque is the
trade center for al area exceeding
100, 600 square miles. 1t is a railway
and manufacturing center, and in ey-
cry essential respect is the most i'm
portant point between Pueblo and Ell
Paso and Topeka and Los Angeles.
Tributary to the city are scores OF
mining districts, cattle and sheep
ranges and the smaller towns of the
territory, practically all of which re-
ceive their supplies direct from Albu-
querque. The city has two OF the larg-
est wholesale grocery houses In the
southwest, has two large wholesale
hardware establishments, three whole
sale liquor houses, a wholesale dry
goods house. wholesale lumber and
commission merchants, and a number
of other jobbing concerns that sell all
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the city, therefore, only sufficient of
the past will be called in evidence to
throw into relief the development of
recent years.
The Old Town.
There has been a settlement on the
Rio Grande, above the present site of
Albuquerque. for two hundred and ff-
ty years. The valley was as attractive
to the Spaniard of that day as to the
American of the present, and the lit
tie colony planted by the conquestors
lived and thrived through more than
two centuries before there was any evil
dence of development in the modern
sense. The people, Spaniard and Mex
lean, with the exception of a few Amer
lean freighters and traders who enter
ed the country in the latter half of the
nineteenth century, led an easy life,
tending their herds and vineyards. AL
buquerque was a military post in the
early days, and a small garrison was
maintained up to the time of the civil
war, when the small force and sup
plies were requisitioned to play their
part in the tragic drama of the COS.
There has been some talk of re-estab-
fishing the military post at this point,
and in event it is done, a full regiment
will be garrisoned here.
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