The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1903-05-29
San Juan county
New Ne XicO
AS OTHERS SEE IT.


this time than San Juan County, New
Mexico, which lies Just south Of ana is
tributary in business to Durango, Colo
rado.
For the past four or five years this
particularly fruitful, productive coun-
try has beeG attracting attention in
many parts of the country and many
industrious farmers ranchmeD and
fruit growers from different states in
the union have been locating in San
Juan county and as a result, the travel
er sees marked improvements in every
portion Of the county. Not only are
the towns Of Cedar Hill, Aztec, Flora
Vista, Pennington and Fruitland, along
the Animas and San Juan rivers. grow
ing and prospering, but throughout the
entire county, including the upper San
Juan at Largo aud Bloomfield, and the
great LaPata valley on the west in fact
every portion of this resourceful county
is being developed very rapidly by a
prosperous, active and energetic people
whC are all doing we'll, making good
liyiEgs and laying up money,
Property of various kinds, both ranch
and farm, as well as town property is
advancing in pr CO very rapidly because
there is probably no other country in
the west where they realize better prices
for their products of various kinds than
in San Juan county, New Mexico.
Their close proximity to Durango, Colo
RADIO, which is the great distributing
point sor the rich mining districts and
numbering regions Of the southwestern
part of Colorado and the north western
part of New Mexico, northeast Arizona
and southeastern Utah, gives them the
finest home market for everything they
raise. to be found in the Rocky Noun
tain region,
Their hay grains, corn, wheat, oats,
rye and barley; their beef pork, mutton;
their vegetables, onions, potatoes, beans,
cabbage, melons, and, in fact, all their
vegetables, together with their dairy
products, bees and honey, poultry and
eggs. all sell readily in the market at
higher prices and better cash rates than
sprObably paid for these products in
any other market in the United States,
They have as rich soils AS can be found
in the west, and their water supply for
irrigation is the most complete and, IN
fact is as complete as can be so that
crop failures or even light crops are un-
known, for when these farmers plow,
r'ant; iyitJ;e anl gs Pet. ro'.'qe 60
they can rely on bountiful crop, and as
their prices are the highest Of any
market aud always cash. they are in bet
ter condition than the farmers or ranch
men Of auy other region in this country
The fruit crop of San Juan county has
been very successful for the past three
years and this year 1903. the danger
line has been passed, as never in the
history Of the country, and there are
orchards that have been bearing for the
past twenty years, has there been frost
to kill fruit later than the Doth of May
aud rarely later than the lst, so the dan.
ger line is now passed and every indica-
tion points to "A most successful fruit
crop Of every kind in the history Of San
Juan county.
In every portion of the county iR no
ticed important Improvements, new
land is being put into cultivation, old
farms are being renovated and cleaned
up, new improvements are being made
houses aud barns are being erected and
the whole country presents scene oI
enterprise and activity, Especially il
the towns Of Aztec and Pennington
great improvements are being made
new buildings are being constructed il
hotn towns Of the best quality of brcl
and lumber, the most Of the building
being two-story bricks we'll constructed
indicating thrift and energy backed b.
capital and enterprise that is bringini
these towns rapidly to the front,
The new telephone line which the
have had for more than year, is bein
extended through different parts Of tn
valley and in the towns of Farmlngto
and Aztec, services are being eXtende
to the residence and buildings with
central office in each town and in tn
country surrounding each town, 3ervic
is extended to the leading farmers an
ranchmen so they have the modern cor
yeniences OF older settled towns an
countries.
In both Aztec and Pennington, me-
churches are being built and many ne
and pretty residences are being con
structed and with the completion {
railroads which will doubtless reach u
in the near future, San Juan count
promises to become the garden spot {
the great southwest
Among the active, energetic mover
and husters of Sar Juan county, Ne
Mexico, none is more active tina
Granville Pohdleton, vice president
the New Mexico Bureau of Immgratio
who has steadily been pushing h
county to the front for the past fl,
years, More is probably due to Jude
Pendleton than any other one persc
in making the Animas valley famou
Much credit is due to the Territori
Bureau of Immigration, and to Pendl
ton as vice president and Honorab
Max Frost, secretary OF the bureau, an
editor of the New Mexican. in advcrtil
ing and building up this great agr
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