Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-11-28

States. | guess about the best way
to express what want to say is to
cite the cases of individuals as
know them.
&c. w. Mccoy has fourteen acres in
apple trees one half mile from Aztec.
This year he shipped fifteen carloads
of apples from that orchard or total
of 1900 boxes. worth at least 81 a box.
He raised enough small truck on his
ranch to about pay expenses besides,
George Allen. who owns a ranch
near Pennington, this year made over
$400 an acre from peaches alone and
one acre understand, brought him
500. These figures explain why some
Of our people ask as high as $500 and
S400 an acre for their land | could
cite many such cases but two will do
just as well as a dozen.
Wheat Also Makes Money for
Farmers.
I've got bigger yarn yet to spin
about grains which also do well in San
Juan County Wheat in particular
grows and yields abundantly. n A.
Conger, who had ten acres planted in
wheat on his ranch on the La Platte
River. threshed $50 bushels which he
sold at $l.1O per 100 pounds That crop
didn't lose him money. j. w. Glaister
who has a small ranch on the LA
Platte threshed fifty-one bushels of
wheat to the acre. don't believe he
has sold it yet.
I'VE raise corn oats barley pota-
toes, wagonloads of melons and gard.
en- truck. | almost forgot the pump.
kins too-they grow wild. A fellow
told me to come out the other day and
he'd give me one weighing 100 pounds.
| didn't go because didn't want to
carry that pumpkin
There is YET considerable puylic
land which can be taken up by set
tiers. The New Eden Ditch Company
is preparing to install an irrigation
project which will supply with water
$4,000 acres of the best fruit, grain
and alfalfa land in the county. Twen-
ty-hve hundred acres lie upon the
Crouch Mesa, that has the fine red soil
which needs only water to make it fer
tile w. S. Walker, one of the chief
supporters of this project, is so conf
dent of its final success that he has
eoEnn tha
Crouch Mesa and says he would not
sell his homestead right now for 500
an acre, without an irrigation ditch
on it.
Irrigation Project Now Under Way.
"The Citizens Ditch, which is now
in process Of construction, will re-
claim $500 acres of fine fruit land.
supplying it with moisture from the
San Juan River. These lands are be-
ing taken up rapidly.
Our market facilities, which are as
important as the crops, could be i'm
proved some, but they are very good.
San Juan County produce is given
preference in all of the mining camps
in the adjacent mountains on the
Colorado Side OF the line. Money is
plentiful in these camps and our ship
ments command good prices. What
we want, however, is an outlet to the
south so that our apples can reach
market in Texas. That state does not
raise apples and the time will come
when San Juan County will supply
the demand there instead Of Kansas
and Missouri as is now the case. We
expect the Colorado and Arizona rail
road which has surveyed such a line,
to furnish. us the necessary means of
transportation.
"The scenery and climate of San
Juan County, | am incapable of de-
scribing. That should be the work of
an artist We are in daily sight of
great snow capped mountains, clear
sparkling rivers and pretty homes.