Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-19
LIKED THE FAIR.
6R0CERS.
BUTCHERS and BAKERS.

WHAT THE HEARST PEOPLE SAW
IN Observation-Disclosures
WITH RLuEHAR's GARDEN.
Wealth Of Acknowledgment IN "a
vor Of Admission Of all the Terrific
rIes.
The following readable matter re
lating 10 the territories Ii taken from
Hearst's Chicago Examiner OF octo
Der IG II was sent out from Albu
querque BY Wallace Rice, who Is al
tending to the newspaper correspond
N FOR the Hearst congressional
part.
After q busy day Of receptions The
congressional party left on ITS special
train at 5 o'clock for Williams. Arlz
During the day the party were the
guests ut the territorial fair. where
Its members had great opportunity for
observing the people. the products 81
tho soil, the mineral resources and
conditions in general.
The fair bears the name of Monte
yuma, and its colors~-grcen. crimson
and gold-are used 70 decorate the
streets on every side. +. r. McCanna,
a native Of Oswcgo, N. X, Is the see
retary Of the fair association and II
Is largely "a his energetic manage
ment that Its marked success ls due.
Ten Thousand People at Baseball
Game.
Mr.. McCanna acted al guide, phil
osUpher and friend to the congress
men and their ladies. and the editor
OF the aggressive Albuquerque Jour
nal. w. s. Burke. assisted him in
imparting stores OF information 10 aid
the legislators In making up their
minds about the statehood OF tho
great and growing territory. After
the carriages and automobiles had
whirled the party into the fair grounds
the first attraction was a red-hot game
Of baseball between the local team
md the nine from Santa Fc, Captain
Adrian Arson umpired, and the 10000
people who saw the match did not
cheer as loudly MS they might. when
the men from the territorial capital
beat the local players by a score OF
s to 4.
There was an Illustration Of bronco
busting by the Navajo Indians, who
are 80 much In evidence throughout
the city, followed by stcerafoping BY
nine cowboys. II Is an e%xhilaratins
thing TO watch and was new 10 nearly
every one Of the spectators from the
east. The festive steers are given d
hundred yards start, and time Is ta1en
from the instant that distance Is
reached. The cowboy is to catch tho
lurching and ungainly beast with his
lariat throw him and tie his feet Sc
curely. This was done in forty.feur
seconds yesterday afternoon. The
worlds record being twenty.iy sec.
onds.
The senator's and congressman
were interested in nothing more than
the exhibition made Of the resources
Of New Mexico. They had Ind a no.
ton Of what the SOIL would do during
the morning, many Of them, when
they visited the ~fortysacrc farm of
Herman Butcher and saw what comes
TO the land when It's owner Is fortu.
nate enough, as Mr.. Blueher was, 10
strike a good head OF water al fifty
feet. cabbages that could not wilt,
radishes that made Congressman En-
erich send the caterer Of the party
out for more, after the sample ho had
tasted asparagus. that is OF the kind
supposed TO grow In Germany alone,
and delicious celery, attested The won
derful results TO be gained from irrI
cation.
Three Potatoes Make a Quart.
But the fair showed a vastly greater
variety with Its apparently unlimited
resources. There was a single stock
OF the MalyoIsie vine not more than
two feet high on which twenty-five
pounds OF grapes were fiouriShlng IN
delicious sweetness. Irish potatoes
three TO the quart. sugar beets that
are sweeter than any hects IN tho
world except those in California, ap.
pies rs good 70 eat as they were 10
look al, and everything that The best
OF fairs could show was IN evidence,
Quite rs remarkable IN the other d.
rectIon were the minerals.
Products Of Wooden Mills Inspected.
Finally, little looked for al this
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