Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-08-19
TOBACCO
CULTURE
Sixty.Thousand Pounds Will Be
Raised in the Rio Crande
Valley This Year.
ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE
Wesley Merritt Says Sunmount Is a
Most Attractive Resort With a
Great Future.

Wesley Merritt, industrial commits
sioner of the Santa Fe Railway spent
yesterday in this city. His visit to the
territory was one of business and
pleasure.
In speaking of his visit to Santa Fe
Mr.. Merritt said that he found the An
ecient City as quaint and as attractive
as ever and as replete with matters of
historic interest "You know that al
ways enjoy coming to Santa Fe and
find it still the same delightful place"
said Mr.. Merritt. "This time I am ac-
companied by my brother, who is a
cadet at West Point and is now on
his furlough, which is given cadets at
the expiration of their second year.
The second year completes half the
course and you can readily understand
how greatly interested he would be in
the historic places and particularly. in
those having a military significance
that are to be found about here. This
morning we drove all about the city
and visited the old church, the college,
Fort Marcy, and the many other
points of interest with which the city
ATTRACTIVE SUNMOUNT.
abounds. We drove to Sunmount and
the Tent City and that is most at
tractive resort. 1 was greatly pleased
with Sunnount and think that those
IN charge have gotten hold of the right
right way. There is a bright future
and success ahead of the Tent City; I
understand that extensive improve
1nents are contemplated and that the
place will be made even more attrac-
tive The beautiful location, the fine
water and that most delightful and
health-giving balsamc air why the
place presents so many attractions
that one must see them. The location
as excellent and must prove successful
from health and sanitary view.
1.-THE management, I understand,
is making arrangements to advertise
the resort very extensively and the
Santa Fe Railway system will aid in
Suamount and the Tent City known.
II am much pleased with what 1
have been able to learn of the present
business conditions existing in Santa
Ee and, while 1 have not had the
time nor the opportunity to investi-
gate them in detail, yet I know that
IN a general way there has been no
falling off in the amount of business
done. The conditions existing through
out the territory, SO far as my de-
nsrtment is concerned, are of the most
promising nature and I am optimistic
as to the future"
THE AMITY COLONY.
Mr.. Merritt is an enthusiast upon
the subject of the agricultural devel-
Opnent of the arid states His heart
and soul were never as fully engrossed
in work as that of founding the
Salvation Army colonies in Colorado,
in which he took an active part. He
says that it must do ones heart good |
TO see the results that have been ac-
ronlpiished at Amity. Hopeless wrecks
of humanity were taken from the
slu1ns Of Chicago and have been made
men by their contact with the soil.
They have reclaimed a considerable
acreage and every man is now the
owner of a nice farm plot, the cost
Of which together with 4 per cent in
serest, has been repaid Or is being re-
Yaid. l. has been great thing for the
children who would have grown up as
criminals in their old surroundings
ut who are now growing to be useful
men and women. What has been done
1T Amity can be done elsewhere and
this is the land of opportunity for the
man who wants to work. There is no
investment so good, 80 tangible as
good farm
NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES.
Speaking Of neglected possibilities
ground Santa Fe, Mr.. Merritt said
~<Unbck1r,wn to most people in this
vicinity ] had a number of Boer gen.
erals here a few months ago. They
went a.efully over the land between
~dnId re anu natoi' Aau tdhSH
them through Kansas, Texas, Okla
homa, Arizona and California. and af-
ter they had seen it all. They said
that the country between Ration and
Santa Ee was the finest they had seen,
: hat is, for their purpose, the raising
OF high-grade stock, the Boer country
having not only the finest diamond
mines and the biggest gold mines in
the word but it also raises the finest
brands of cattle, sheep and Angora.
goats, which bring higher prices in the +.
markets of the world than the stock
from any other section. their Angora 1
wool commanding II cents pound