Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-08-09
FOR JO|NTuRE IN
SAN JUAN COUNTY
Ninety Per Cent
Favor State
hood.
WONDERFUL FRUIT CROPS
Other Evidences of Prosper
ity on All Sides Says
Editor Butler.


Among those who attended the
meeting of the Territorial Democratic
Central Committee held today in San
ia Fe was William Butler editor and
publisher of the Pennington Times
Hustler, and one of the leading Dem
ocrats OF San Juan County. Mr.. But
Ter carried in his vest pocket the
proxies of J. C. Hubbard and Monroe
Fields, the two regular members of
the central committee from that
county.
We're all joint stockholders up my
way" he stated last evening to a re.
porter of the New Mexican. "The SEN
timent on statehood in San Juan Coun.
ty is well nigh unanimous. | am fully
convinced after having made a careful
inquiry over the county that fully
ninety and perhaps ninety-hve per cent
of the voters now favor the present
statehood proposition. OF course
there are many who would prefer
single statehood but they believe that
it is statehood itself and not the terri
torial lines thereof that Is desirable.
This percentage will increase rather
than diminish by the time the vote
is taken in November. There are no
party lines drawn in the matter, nor
will there be. 1t is foregone conclu-
sion that both the Democratic and Re-
publican county conventions will en-
dorse the present statehood law in the
heartiest possible manner"
orchardists Among the Most Pros.
porous.
Mr.. Butler Is very enthusiastic over
the prospects of San Juan County. He
said that the farmers generally and
the orchardists in particular are we'll
pleased with the crop outlook for the
season. and told of instances where
land Is selling at high figures Contia
uing lie said.
'San Juan County is making a re
markably rapid growth Many new
people are going there and they are
drawn principally by the knowledge
they have obtained of the superior
qualities of the county as fruit sec
ton. The fruit crop this year will ex.
ceed any that has ever been grown
there. This is not only due to the
fact that the present crop is one of
the heaviest the orchards have ever
borne but also to the further fact that
there are many new orchards coming
into bearing. The fruit shipping sea
son there has just begun but for
the past two weeks the average daily
shipments from Pennington alone has
been many thousand of. pounds
"The advent of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad did not bring any
boom to Pennington nor to San Juan
County for which the people of that
section are duly thankful, but it has
/ iCouilSu Ill a SlCduy BiOW ILL., utlt
are as many new buildings under con-
structlon in Pennington today as there
were three or six months after the
completion of the railroad. The First
National Bank is constructing two
story stone building on one of the
principal corners of Main Street that
will cost between $4,000 and $4,000
when completed This will be finished
by December l. Aztec also has sever.
al business houses now under way
which are being built of brick which
will add materially to the appearance
of the town
Big Figures in Land Sales All Over
County.
LANDS have been selling at good
figures all over the county, but the
highest prices have been those paid
for ranches around Harrington. Lands
In the immediate vicinity of the town
have sold for from 500 to $3.50 per
acre AS has been stated in the New
Mexican the prices seem pretty high,
but they are based on the productiv.
| ity Of the land when put In bearing
fruit or vegetables for which these
lands are especially adapted. These
prices have been paid In most cases
by experienced fruit men coming from
such sections as Grand Junction, Delta
and Canon City. have seen one peach
tree of the New Prolific variety which
last year yielded thirty boxes of mar
ketable fruit that sold at an average of
$1.25 per box. When you figure one
hundred and ten such trees to an acre
you will readily see why prices run
high. While such tree Is of course
above the average yet 1t is not hard
to find men whose orchards have Civ
en- them yearly return of from 5000
to $500 per acre. A man In the val
ley above Pennington last year
cleared $500 on one acre of canta.
loupes,
Monster Sugar Beet and Only Halt
Grown.
"On the day before | left home a
farmer brought to our office a sugar
beet that weighed ten and one-quartel
pounds. or course 1t could not have
been much more than half growr
, when pulled at this time of the year
, The same man brought me I'm a Hml
from plum tree that measured seven
teen inches and had one hundred wei
: developed pfums on 1t"