Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-13
ESTANCIA PLAIN
A GARDEN SPOT
Water is Found Near the Surface and Vegetation
is Luxurent--AppllCatio Made to the Gov.
ernment for Survey.
SANTA FE CENTRAL RAILWAY
PROVIDES AN OUTLET

face and old Michael Moriarty on hi
fine ranch has demonstrated that al
orchard, vegetable garden and poultr.
yard can prosper as well as sheep OF
the plains. From Moriarty, in fact al
the way from Santa Fe, good wago1
road made by the Santa Fe Centra
Railway Company skirts the grade
M. Hopewell has driven the entire dis
tance from Torrance to Santa Fe, III
miles, with two relays, in one day
With a single relay, the distance can be
covered in a day and half. OF course
the trains will cut this down to three
hours or less as over the plains or
which there are two long tangents will
very gentle grade, go miles an hour will
be made. The station below Moriarty
is Mcintosh. the Mcintosh home ranch
| lying to the west. Mr.. Mcintosh has
other ranches and windmills scattered
over the plain.
| At Moriarty, Charles Gutterman OF
Santa F'e, is the operator. Roy Stamm
of Albuquerque, is the postmaster and
storekeeper, the mail arriving and
leaving twice week at present by way
of Chilli, Is miles away. AS the party
came in, Ralph Kinsell of Santa Fe,
started for his fathers ranch near Mo-
riarty.
PICTURESQUE RANCH HOUSE.
Below Mcintosh station a quarter OF
a mile west of the railway, lies Antel-
ope Springs with it's picturesque ranch
house built by Joel P. Whitney of Bos-
tan, and from which were directed his
gigantic cattle operations on the An
tonic Sandoval grant which he had
bought and fenced in only to discover
that the grant was not valid one. The
house is now commodious club house
for General Francis j. Torrance, who
will arrive here probably next week
with party of friends. The house has
been remodeled, repainted repapered,
elegantly furnished and this letter is
being written in one of it's pleasantest
rooms by a blazing log fire in the old
fashioned fire place. A veranda ex-
tends on three sides of the building and
some distance off are commodious sta
bles, barns and corrals. bath room
with hot and cold water, new wind
mill and tank, water tower and COM
pletely equipped kitchen are some Of
the innovations at the place of which
George Parsons Of Santa Fe, has
charge at present. Frank Dibert, who
has been setting out hundred fruit
trees around the house, as well as or
namentla hedges, small fruit, shade
trees flower bulbs and has been laying
out an extensive lawn, left here today
for Santa Fe, but will return later fur
ther to beautify the surroundings OF
this ideal and CHEEKY club house, to lay
out golf links, vegetable garden, alfalfa
field, to swing hammocks and to lay
out gravel paths. A telegraph line runs
into the building.
But the finest attractions at Antelope
Springs are the two strong flowing
springs of soft, pure water, bubbling
from the ground. Houses have been
constructed over them and pipes lead
from them into the club house and into
the stables and corrals. The flow is
strong enough to irrigate several acres
Of land and can probably be Increased.
But more remarkable even than these
springs is the fact that anywhere In
this section, good water is found at
depth of only four or five feet. This
will explain why the grass stood knee
high before the sheep came in and why
this is destined to be an agricultural
country better than that around Por-
tales in Roosevelt county and why the
Santa Fe Central will bring a drill in
here to drill for artesian water which is
almost certain to be found, for the
plains seem to be an immense sink re-
ceiving the drainage from the immense
mountain systems that Lacquer around
It,
A NATURAL GARDEN SPOT.
Mr.. Hopewell has made application to
the Interior Department for the survey
Of this magnificent body OF land, the
finest stretch of unsurveyed public do
main in the southwest. United States
Examiner Of Surveys F. M. Johnson IS
at Hagan this week and may take a
look at the Estancia plain. AS soon as
the survey is made and that will be this
year, homesteaders will pour in here, In
fact they are coming in now, and be-
tween here and Estancia several ranch
homes went up this winter, lumber has
been hauled in for another homesteader
and tent marks the spot selected pv
third. General Torrance is said to en-
tertain the idea Of bringing in a colony
of German and Austrian farmers VINO
will do sugar beet, cantaloupe, vegeta-
BILE and alfalfa growing. Mark the pre-
diction, the Estancia plains will In
few years rival the Roswell and Por.
tales country.
A sunset on the plains as viewed from
the veranda Of the Club house Is a pic.
ture that impresses itself indelibly up.
on the memory. Tonight as the sur
sank behind bank OF clouds above the
Manzanos, the plains were suffused II
purple, the lengthening shadows being
Of deeper hue. Far to the north gilt
tered the snow caps Of the Santa Fl
and Pecos ranges; to the east the Grow