The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-02-26
THE BALL A ROLLlN'

OrCndrulStS " q lIult BIO"iuS
community cannot help but find it to
their advantage to join and help sup
port fruit growers association Of their
own, BY having an association they ere
combining their efforts tu show the out
side world the kind and quality of fruit
their county produces, and it gives the
man whr takes an interest in fruit
raising an idea Of what he may expect
from that country, having tendency to
lead him where this fine fruit grows and
should he be desirous of home the
chances are two to one that he would
locate where the people are enterprising
enough to band together in an effort to
reach the outside world with their fruit
and produce
The idea of having an association is
this: 1t places you in a position
to ask better accommodations from
transportation companies, gets you
better freight rates and you also have
the advantage Of combining to ill car
load lots. This has tendency to make
buyers in cities in the east look TO such
country for large part o. their fruit
and produce, providing it is Of
- pet. .a..a!it..
San Juan county fruit cannot be ex-
celled and in very few instances
equalIed. 1t has the flavor, size, color
and 10 noted for its keeping qualities
With proper packing San Juan county
fruit could be sent to any part of the
world and if our fruit growers would
take especial care in packing our fruit
would always reach eastern markets il
good shape and it would only be ques.
tion of a short time until you would
notice in all the fruit store windows
in the large cities the following piacard:
THE FAMOUS SAN JUAN
CO., NEW MEXICO, FRUIT"
.........,.. ...... .'''.''''''.'''''
Rocky Ford is famous the world over
for the raising of watermelons ana
cantaloupes as is also Greeley for rails
ing potatoes and Grand Junction for
her peaches. There is no reason why
San Juan county should not have alike
reputation. We can raise cantaloupes
watermelons, Strawberries, tomatos,
patatoes, etc, that are of superior
quality and there is no reason Why the
fruit AID prodace grower Of this county
should not take advantage of this dsso
citation in order to establish market
for his crop,
This great American country of ours
is rapidly progressing and if we wish tC
be in the race we must wake up. The
way we have been trodding along in the
same old furrow for the past number oI
years reminds one of the old song
"Then | Must Have Been Dreamin'. :
So long as we depend upon Durang,
for a market, just that long will VT
have our "noses to the grind-st0ne.
OF course it is natural for our people t
blame Durango merchants for the smaE
prices received for their fruit and pro
duce, and perhaps at times they hav,
been cliqush In regards to prices, bu
we must take into consideration tina
their little city and contiguous countr,
is not large euough to absorb the out.
put of San Juan county fruit and pro
duce. We are a free and independent
people and thera is no reason why W
should depend upon another people t.
dipose Of the products of our commun
ity. OF course some will agrue tina
freight rates are so high that there ar
no profits derived from products tina
are shipped. Possibly that is true, bu
the opportunity has presented tseI
whereby the fruit and produce grove
can, through the offices of the San Jua
County Fruit and Produce Growers
Association, place his output on a
eastern market at profit.
That every citizen in San Juan count
would welcome railroad there is n
doubt, and we contend that The bes
way to get railroad is to develop tn
country by way of getting more Ian
under water, thereby inducing capiti
to put in canning factories, sugar bet
factories, ETC., and along with thee
create greater demand for ou
fruit on eastern markets. If we ca
work along these lines for few year
with an untiring hand this county wi
soon become so well developed that ther
will be no trouble in getting easter