Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-21
HIGHLAND FROSTS
DOING MISCHIEF
Range Conditions Fairly Good
on the WhOle-Fine Apple
Crop in San Juan Co.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sept. 20, 1904


warm days and cool nights, and a
few scattered showers; conditions
generally favorable to crops and stock
Gardens have about matured and very
fair results have been secured; chill
is beginning to turn and late cabbage
is heading fast; corn is considered
safe; winter apples are coloring fine
ly; oats and barley are ripening and
cutting of hay lis still progressing,
and the third crop of alfalfa Is being
secured in good condition. In San
Juan county an excellent display OF
fruits, vegetables and cereals at the
Pennington fair shows the farmers
of that valley have had a prosperous
season.
Taken as a whole the stock and
ranges are in good condition but not
quite so good ais in some previous
years. and where ranges are not over
stocked, should the coming winter be
at all favorable, the prospect for stock
men is very encouraging.
Later reports indicate the frost Of
last week in the higher mountain dis
tricts was destructive to tender vege-
tation and damaged corr and other
late crops. In the valleys and low
lands there has been no frost, and
should there be frost soon the loss
would not be extensive, for in most
localities nearly all crops are matur-
ed or beyond the danger from frosts,
hence this will be the last bulletin Of
the season.
The following extracts are taken
frfom the reports of correspondents:
Arabela:-A. NJ. Richardson - We
have had no general rain: grass has
dried up and the prospect for winter
feed is not very good. Highest tenn
perature SO; lowest so; rainfall a
trace.
Aurora. c. Lucero- No rain this
week; nights are very cool since the
first frosts of last week: oats and bar
ley look ripe and potatoes are good,
cattle and sheep are in good condi-
ton but grass on the range is not
as good as in other years.
Beenham- Frank Miera No rain
and very warm; cutting of hay is pro-
crossing and a good crop is being Sc
cured; stock in very fine condition;
grass IS good and is curing well for
winter feed.
Cerro- E. d. Leon - A warn and
favorable week annd nc rain.
Chimayo Jose P. Truijllo No
rain recently; it is very dry and grass
Is willing and streams are drying up
ana water is becoming scarcer.
Cliff IT. j. Clark, ST. No rain
during past week; rains have not
been general; hot days and cool
nights; o rain needed; water plen.
tiful on range. the grass is good In
spots and stock is gaining in flesh
calf crop very short: late crops are
good; third crop of alfalfa ready to
cut.
Ell PasO, Texas u. S. Weather
Bureau-The week gave an excess of
precipitation and a deficiency of owe
two degrees a day In temperature,
Highest temperature sc, lowest 81;
rainfall 0.33 inch.
Fl .Rito-P. Lopez Very hot days
and cold nights and no rain.
Folsom Jackson Tabor Dry and
cool week: grass on range is curing
in fine snaps and prospects for winter
feed are very good; stock of all kind
are fat and will go into winter in good
condition; last cutting of alfalfa will
be light.
Fort Stanton - Geo. Buntin-Range
fair and cattle in good condition
Farming for this section an entire
failure. Highest temperature 81;
lowest A; no rain.
Fort Wingate - John W~Dodgate-
First of week light showers, latter
part clear, with colder nights; grass
has matured nicely and should the
winter be at all favorable cattle will
do well where range Is not over
stocked. There was a light frost In
exposed places and in mountains neal
here. Highest temperature. so; low
est AZ; rain 047.
Frisco - ]. r. Milligan Light
frost last week but it did not hurt corr
"a il was about hard in ear: stock |!
looking fine and grass is headed out
Elappoa Anna Tpa-Eira rains fol