Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-03
Light Showers of Past WeekHo
SS
Little More Than Start the
Grass on the Range
FIRST CUTTING
OF ALFALFA
ersssrfg4sssEe
Range Stock Continues to Shrink
But Early improvements
Anticipated

SaAsAh -, IN. NJ, June 3s--LlSn
showers during the past week hay,
relieved the dronth conditions Il
some extent, but as a rule the rains
have not been safficients either 10 id
crease materially the scant water sup
ply nor to do more than slowly start
the grass on the ranges. Conditions
thus far have not been sufficiently fay.
oqrahle to warrant piapting amy crops
whatever on lldsSdenending on rain;
fall alone for moisture, and of the
fields under ditch probably not more
than half have been seeded Except
ing in 4 few localities. principally ii
! the extreme north where the rains
have been the heaviest, range stock
continues to shrink, and on some of
the southern ranges losses continue,
but although the grass grows very
slowly it has a start, and earlysim-
pfosementis looked for. Corn planting
has not yet finished in scattered local.
tiles, but as a rule the crop is up and
growing well; likewise wheat and OATS
First alfalfa is being cut as far north
as Albuquerque; the yield is much be.
low the average. Apricots are coming
into a number Of local southwestern.
markets.
The following remarks are extract
ed from the reports OF Corresponds
ents:
Albert-H. M. Hansen-Good rains.
have relieved the conditions somewhat
but the rains were irregular and local.
Grass was SO closely .grazed and so
traupled that it RECEIVERS slowly, and
al yet there is but little rain. Rains
came to late To be ,of. much benefit to!
lambing, and a very small per cent of
lambs saved and these are in so pre-
Cartons a condition that aIrliier iossesj
are likely. Rain 0.s2.
arabeiia@AA NJ. Rfehards6n1sfighf
rains but tAerelssaulisseaetaaion At
appears that about s;wo zhhds saes
scrub oaks aeaa III Rasas
Bloomie!d-W. a. Baliinger--Warm
and showery. Potatoes. onions, etc, !
that have been cultivated aresgsowng
rsTfGly, Tie San Jnan and Al nos
iiyfrs are almost past tha fN irs
q pitan-efaent Hs.ht twtr-G adj
rs'r and so'aa hailEoyef tim ease.ta
slope 81 the aieriag BIaneof hH itn | |
cEtmgh elsewhere on the Zinc III re-
est reserve e 40 any good. Losses
continue in cattle and sheep. there
not being sufficient browse fofhe
weaker animals, No planting as vel.
Carlsbad III I. Christian Local
showers have been of some benefit. but
no general rai1s-as get. IA scarcity
Of water in the reservoirs as yet. and
fruits and crops In general are doing
we'll Cotton Is now growing rapidly J
Chico-Colfax connty-H y. Mas.
ten-Dronght fairly broken.~arGrass
looking green and is sufficient, cattle
alrsldys Show improvement. Lamb !;
lyspbout tiftys per cent. Early
were killedSa,y mi frosts.
Folsom--Jackson Tabor-Abnndant
rains; storm of the 25th accompanied 4
BY the worst hail known here in the !
past 2s years. Trees were stripped /
the bare limbssAnd .alfaifAicaitd 6wps
o the ground. but the benefit to the |
.anse willfar sxreed the damage doney:
q ssops. ran 155 sanahes. ~ IN
Mrtsstaatopr dxorss Rantik Thea
continues, but slightly reliey.
ID by Ola of an inch OF rain on the !
ind. (
Fert Winsnse.-Jofrn 'Woedeate--Phry
continues and all range stock !
n poor condition with but gloomy pros !
What little vegetation can get i
| start Is wilted every afternoon by 4
he stronE, dry Winds. \