Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-07

- COMPOSED OF about 20 GUINNESS men.
It booms the town on aii occasions and
takes the lead IN everything. stimulating
effective team work In securing new indus
+ tries. railroads and promoting trade. The
building ID an unusually rood one. OF red
SANDSTONE. with q dancing han. readiuy
rooms. card rooms and number OF bach
ctors suites which are o0cupied by some
OF the members. 1t II q temperance club.
n0Wever. There u no bar or buffet Mem-
oers whose thirst 10 inAatiats have sadt-
vlduai locker4sNtth keys. In which they can
keep medicines. liquors, hair tonics. face
powder OF anything else they like and
may help themselves at VIII.
AlDuQuerque n one OF the few towns I
have found lately without Carnegie H.
orary. 1t has flne building however. and
good collection of books which were pre-
sented to his fellow-citizens by Joshua A.
REYNOLDS. formerly from Canton, Ohio. who
mas been out here since he was q boy and
IS one OF the richest men in the territory.
he has string OF banks along the Santa
re railway between Las VEGAS and 81
faSo, and Is an influential, public spirited
citi2en The library is maintained by a
special tax.
albuquerque has two daily papers, both
enterprising and newsy, and six weeklies.
language It has number OF banks with
large capital. the combined deposits at
present exceeding $4,000. 600.
Contributing Trade Territory.
The trade territory almost exclusively
contributary to this city is perhaps larger
than any other commercial center In the
world. having a radius of 200 miles and
covering an area of 100000 square miles
larger than New England and New York
combined. 1t comprises practically the en-
tire Rio Grande valley. the most fertile
and populous section of New Mexico, with
at least three-fifths of the population of
the territory. There is some manufacture
Ing. but no mining of any Importance The
larger portion of the people are native
Mexfcans. and they are engaged in raising
sheep and cattle and farming In a small
way At least 5000. coo pounds of wool are
handled here annually.
There are several very wealthy Mexican
ranchmen
Solomon Luna. president of the Bank of
Commerce Is the richest and most progress
sive native In the territory. He is the larg-.
est sheep and land owner. His fiocks
amount to sixty thousand sheep. He has
Ave thousand acres of irrigated land under
cultivation and next year expects to put in
1900 acres of sugar beets He has recently
arranged with syndicate to invest about
three-quarters of million dollars in
sugar factory, which will be of great ad-
vantage to the nefghboring farmers, as the
soil and climate are admirably adapted to
the growing of beets 1t Is difficult to say
how much land Mr.. Luna owns but his
cattle and sheep range over an empire. Most
Of 1t is government land. however for he
controls the water courses and that makes
the surrounding country subject to him.
Any one who buys UP q water course need
not purchase the adjoining pastures, be-
cause they are worthless to any one else.
Thus. by buying the streams and springs,
people control the ranges.
The MexicanS are not usually progressive.
They live under the oId4fashioned patri-
archal system and the masses are controu-
ed in business politics and other respects by
few leaders There is no caste, however,
and while there is q certain arfstocracy,
any man with brains and energy can rise
to leadership. Frank HubbelI of this city Is
an example. His father was pioneer and
his mother native. and he was born under
the humblest circumstances. But, by rea-
son of his ability and energy, he has acquir-
ed almost unlimited influence among the ma
tives and until recently controlled the poll
tics of the territory. At the last election.
however, he was thrown down by Bill" An
drews, q Pennsylvania politician, who Is
promoting railroads out here. But every
body says that Hubbell will come to the top
again in due time.
Doors and Sashes for England.
The most surprising thing about Albu-
querque is planning mill which sends a
large part of its product to Europe. There
does not seem to be any reason why the
house builders of London. Liverpool. Glas-
gov, Bristol and other European cities
should come all the way down into the in
terror of New Mexico to buy sashes and
doors. but they do 1t all the same, and the
factory here Is today filling a contract for
100000 doors, which are shipped to Liver
pool and Glasgow by way of the Santa Fe
road and Galveston. The timber comes
from the Zuhi mountains, where the COM
pany has 5000 acres Of forest on the old
Atlantic and Pacific land grant. The logs
are brought down on the Santa Fee road to
Albuquerque by special trains, on cars
made for the purpose, similar to those up
in the lumber regions Of Michigan. They
are turned into a sawmill. which can cut
100000 feet of lumber a day. The lumber
Is a peculiar variety of mountain pine,
filed with small red knots, and finishes
well. 1t is especially adapted for doors,
sashes and other interior trimmings, and
most OF it is worked up in big factory,
go by 300 feet In SIZE The waste Is used
in making packing boxes and smaller kinds
of molding. The box factory Is 1S0 by 100
feet in size. Altogether about l. 100 men are
employed, under the direction OF Mr.. Jack
son, formerly from Buffalo. They turn out
average of 1000 sash, 800 doors and
five carloads Of packing boxes day The
mills are owned by stock company of
Cleveland and Chicago people.
There Is some other manufacturing about
Albuquerque, and the Santa Fe shops en-