Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-09-26
SAN JUAN PRIZE
WINNERS At FAIR
Fruit Exhibits Were
Among the Best
Offered.
NOT QUANTITY BUT QUALITY
Counted With Judges.-Joseph
Prewitt an Enthusiastic
Home Booster.

Home Booster.
San Juan County was very much in
evidence at the fruit exhibit of the
Twenty-sixth Annual Territorial Fail
in Albuquerque. 1t had things pretty
much its own way and carried off the
bulk of the prizes. 1t was not so much
the quantity of the fruit as it was
the quality. Joseph Prewitt, Of Farm
ington, real estate and insurance
agent, who had charge of the display
from San Juan County was in the Cap
ital yesterday en- route home from AL.
buquerque..
Mr.. Prewitt collected the fruit ex-
hibit from the county for the fair. He
said that he did not have to single it
out. All he did was to go in and take
the fruit as he found it. San Juan
County had fine display of veget-
ables but the exhibits were not prize
winners. Included in the exhibit was
a pumpkin that weighed sixty-fiy @
pounds. A farmer who had raised
one nearly twice as large as this had
promised to bring his big pumpkin
TO Pennington in time to be sent tc
the fair with the display but he did
not deliver it at the depot in time.
Mr. Prewitt is very enthusiastic oy-
er the prospects of his county. He
considers it one Of the greatest fruit
raising sections in the country and
especially for apples and peaches. A
New Mexican reporter interviewed
him last night at the Palace Hotel
What he had to say about the fruit
exhibit at the fair in Albuquerque AMI
conditions in San Juan County fol-
lows
Apples, Peaches and Plums Were
Prize Winners.
San Juan County had the best col
lection OF apples, peaches and plums
at the fair, and also the finest plates
OF apples and peaches. We secured
five of the seven premiums offered on
the fruit exhibits. We would not have
had any trouble at all in making a
sweepstake IL we had known that in
the awarding of the prizes twenty-five
points would count for quantity and
twenty points for number of varieties
out of possible hundred. Had we
anticipated such scale for judging
we would have gone loaded Howev.
en- we are well satisfied. San Juan
County took all of the quality pre-.
miums and we are very glad we went
down. We received good treatment
at the hands of the fair officials and
the people generally.
Il am more thoroughly convinced
every time | see show of fruit from
San Juan County against other Sec
tions of the Territory that all that we
have to do to score ahead Is just to
try for 1t. Other counties had good
exhibits of fruit at the fair though.
There were some fine specimens from
Bernalillo, Dona Ana and Santa Fe
counties, all of which is convincing
that New Mexico is not behind any
other state or territory in fruit grow
ing except as to quantity. noticed
one thing at the fair in Albuquer-
que and that is the codling moth
seems to be infesting every district
of the Territory Orchardists will be
compelled to make vigorous war ON
the pest or all the apples will show
worm holes.
"San Juan people generally have
sprayed their orchards this year, u.s.
ing a preparation or arsenic and LEAD
which has been found quite effectual
in keeping the worms down. One man
at Cedarhill told me the other day that
ne had sprayed three times this sea-
son and felt certain he would have
ninety-eight per cent of apples free
from worms while last year his crop
was less than forty per cent.
Fruit Crop This Season a Record
Breaker.
"The San Juan fruit crop this sea-
son Is probably as good or better than
we have ever had. Having a railroad
there now the orchardists in that To-
cality are enabled to get their fruit
out and on the market in much bet
ter condition than heretofore A great
many people are coming into the coun-
ty and purchasing small tracts of land
which are being converted into or
chards.
Il think there were something over
five carloads of nursery stock planted
last spring and judging from sales l
understand have been made this sea-
son. the number of trees set next
spring will double that Of last.
think 1t safe to say that the country
up thee has grown more in the past
twelve months than in any five years
prior. Pennington, Fruitland and
Aztec are all growing right along,
keeping pace with the rest of the coun-
try"
san Juan County People Favor Joint.
ure.
Mr.. P-ewitt has been feeling the
public pulse in his locality lately in
regard to the statehood question and
believes the county will register a
majority for jointure. "Our people
generally are advocates Of joint state
hood" he said. Were 1t not that Ari.
zona seems determined to defeat It
think that It would be no trouble to
carry the county ly q big majority.
Feeling Arizona Is SO opposed to It and
has already so expressed herself, 1t