Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-16
PROSPERITY AND
PLENTY THE RULE
In the Lower Pecos
Valley and Ros-
we'll.
NO MORE PUBLIC LANDS
For Homestead or Desert
Land Entry in Artesian
Belt-.Abundant Crops.

After social visit as a house guest
of Governor Hagerman, w. G. Ham
ilton left this afternoon for his home
at Roswell, the thriving metropolis
of the Pecos Valley. He went from
here via the Santa Fe Central Railway
and the automobile route from Tor
rance, to his home.
Mr.. Hamilton is one of the pioneers
of the Pecos Valley and one of the
best posted men as to the resources
and advantages of the valley. He is
engaged. in the real estate and immi.
grafton business. Through his ef-
forts many settlers have been induced
to locate on farms in the artesian
belt.
The lands in the Pecos Valley in
Chaves and Eddy Counties from the
northern line of the former county
to the Texas line and that could be
brought under irrigation have nearly
all been entered under the homestead
and desert land laws of the United
States by actual settlers and there is
little left for homesteaders in that
section. However, there is plenty of
land for farming and fruit raising to
be purchased at reasonable rates.
Conditions generally are very good
in the Pecos Valley Mr.. Hamilton
said to reporter OF the New
Mexican. "The crops of tbs
present year are the most eXteL-
sive ever raised in that part of the
country. We have had bumper ap-
pie yield. Of course grain and corn
are good every year. The alfalfa yield
this year has been something tre-
menlous and thousands of tons will be
exported In addition to that We have
had very favorable season for the
sheep and cattle men. The ranges
have been in splendid condition and
there We're no losses of live stock OF
any moment. In speaking of the
sheep industry ] might say that the
Jay | left Roswell there We're deliv-
cred from the flocks of Captain
Charles J. de Bremond 5000 lambs
that sold for $3.65 per head f. O. b
Roswell. They were purchased by a
Mr.. Baker, feeder in Illinois.
All Things Considered Pecos Valley
Lands Are Not High.
Taking into consideration their in
triIsic value the lands Of the Pecos
Valley are at least fifty per cent low
er in price than are similar lands in
any OF the irrigated sections of the
United States. Apple orchards in full
bearing that are now producing the
best quality of fruit that goes on the
American market, are being offered at
$500 per acre, and lands with per
petual water rights very favorably 10
Gated as regards transportation al
SIS and $100 per acre. First class
land well located where artesian wat
er can be developed for irrigation
purposes sells at from $95 to $50 per
acre unimproved There is no more
government land left in the valley
where there is chance of obtaining
water for irrigation.
"One of the best known estates in
New Mexico, the South Springs
Ranch, the property of J. ]. Hager'
man, the father of Governor Hager
man, has just been placed in my hands
for segregation into small holdings
and for sale and we anticipate from
this marked increase in the value
of land in the vicinity of Roswell.
Some Facts About RoswelIs Rapid
Growth.
Roswell has grown in few years
from typical frontier village to a
town of nearly 5000 people. There
has been no boom of any kind and the
same steady growth is still apparent
see no reason why Roswell should
not be in few years as large as any
other city in the Territory. know
of no other town of its size that has
as many of the comforts and con
veniences of life to offer the chance
traveller and our own people are max
ing an earnest effort to build 1t up te
a higher standard all the time. The
business houses and residences are
thoroughly modern, and 1t has more
miles of cement sidewalks than any
other town in New Mexico. Amons
the agreeable features of the country
surrounding are the beautiful country
homes of which there are quite {
number.
"The entire Pecos Valley has jus
pride in the New Mexico Military In
stitute, located at Roswell. and W,
all feel under great obligations to tn,
New Mexican for the many earnes
efforts made in and out of season t,
aid the board of regents of this in
stitution in making 1t the pronounce,
success that it has become. The pres
ent year the institute has been recoe
nized by the war department and al
army officer, a graduate OF Yves
Point has been detailed to exercis
supervision over the purely militar
side of the school and as professor o
military science and tactics. The goo
effects of this are already apparen
to an outsider. There is no doubt tina
Captain BARLOW will prove most 81
ficient aid to Colonel Wilson In plat
ing the school notch higher in tn
esteem OF the public.