The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-10-21
PARADISE AND APPLES.
The Garden of Eden Was Per-
haps Located Where ROs-
we'll Stands.

out by the Roswell board OF trad @, in
conjunction with the Santa Fe rail
load, under the care of Col. A. E.
Page, assisted by Mr.. ]. G. Reese, ar
rived in Fort Worth yesterday and
will be on free exhibition at the Santa
Fe depot the entire day today. The
car ID on it's way home from the state
fair and from the Illinois state fair at
Springfield, where it took the premi-
am for a general collection and exhi-
bition.
The varieties and kinds of fruits
and vegetables shown from this arid
district is really remarkable. In the
car was noted So varieties or apples
ranging from the Mammoth Wolfe
River to the little Genatin. The
largest apples measured W. a foot
in diameter, and they were of a very
fine flavor.
The line of fruits includes apples,
pears of thirteen varieties, grapes of
the famous Malaga variety and the
seedless wonder; the Sultana;
peaches, plums, prunes-forty acres
of prunes forms the principal growth
of Parker Earle, formerly president
of the American Horticultural society.
The line of vegetables on exhibition
comprised peppers as big as pears;
POTATOES twenty inches in diameter;
carrots, sugar beets, pumpkins of
huge proportions; squash. melons,
onions measuring sixteen inches in
diameter; celery of the very best
grade; asparagus and caullflowe
The grain exhibit includes Kafhr
corn with heads over thirteen inches
long; milo maise, Indian coru, broom
corn, the brush of which was over
thirty inches in length, and alfalfa
that showed a growth of thirty inches
in five weeks.
The most promising grain crop is
the alfalfa, which seeded once, will
go on producing for twenty years.
One crop is mentioned from which
Ave cuttings have been made for the
last ten years with one seeding, these
cuttings averaging over a ton to the
acre-yielding an income of $50 per
acre for ten years.
A remarkable showing of minerals
is made. The White mountains,
about eighty miles west of Roswell,
contain minerals in abundance, iudg-
ing by the number and variety of
samples shown. Coal crops out of
the ground in veins of from three to
five feet in thickness and gets thick
or as the shaft enters the mountains.
Iron, gold, silver copper and gyp
rock can be found there in abund-
ance. One sample OF ore was shown
which essayed 5000 to the ton.
Roswell is about 500 miles west of
Fort Worth on the Santa Fe road, and
is a city of 5000 inhabitants. 1t is
about 1878 feet above the sea level
and is located in the heart of the Pc
cos valleycountry. Thatpart Of the val
ley which is susceptible of the highest
cultivation by the use of irrigation is
about 16O miles long by 80 miles wide,
and 1t is in this part of the country
that these wonderful products were
With regard to the irrigation of the
land, it may be said that it is made
quite easy from the fact that water
can be gotten anywhere in the valley
at from 200 to 400 feet, and when the
vein is tapped it yields a flow OF from
500 to 1900 gallons per minute of the
artesian water.
When the land is purchased it car
ries with it water rights, and as long
as the water lasts the problem of
crops is solved; and when the
runs out it is an easy matter to
tap old Mother Earth for another
In the town of Roswell alone
there are about 200 wells. So, al
though deprived of rain, and having,
you might say, 1865 days of sunshine
in the year, still the people of Ros-
we'll manage to grow a great variety
of the very best of fruits and vege-
One very good thing about that
climate and location is the fact that
the fruit is entirely free from the at
track of insect life and the apples,
peaches, pears, pluns and other
fruits and vegetables come to the
market or table without the mark of
. worm or insect on them.