Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-11-24

765 TOMS valued a. tg7G.so0. Trainings
I treated ny cyanide were iO1ii tons
valued at fsi.ib1. Tho total silver
I production was 4i1f.ip3. the total COP.
per production t6fG.gS2. the total lead
! production. Ff3fesa. the total sfnf
7 production. fg9a5gq.
socoro county led ia iho value OF
metallic production De- 1903. q have
inE TO its credit for that year 4809, =
I 900, nll from zinc from the Mazda.
I Iona and Kelly districts. excepting
placer golu io the amount of 5tGG.
Grant county n second. with te91.t0D.
titniitu OF Follows. Copper. tAfts
luNi gold. sGa.4a8. silver. sss .26a.
lead, 4i.iu8. None Of the other coun.
Ties reached the 100000 mark in
production, although Coiiax county.
Win tli,ile came very near o. OF
thia, ssu,tit was credited 10 placer
mlnlag.
There are more ihan fourteen out
of TIE twenty-five counties in which
mining D nroaecuted In New Mexico.
ir fact. there - not one county which
docs not possess mineral indications
OF promise. with intelligent develop
met work and better treatment nra-
ccrses. New Mexico viii eventually
add enormously 90 the worlds mineral
wealth. For 1905. the average value
OF ore sent 10 the shelters was g3b.
50 ton, % that concentrated $3.50.
and of that miliod and cynnlded. s716.
Whcn d iH considered that On many
localities Ia other parts az the United
states ore that runs 81 60 thn ton is
treaicd With profit. then C is apparent
that the high values ol he ore mined
a2d treated in New Mckee are proof
ol the existence OF an immense
amount of lower grade orc that soon
CT or iaior viii hn mined and lroat
cd az a profit.
The above statistics DO not include
iho pfoduciioa of coal. turquoise and
precious gems Tho product oi marbic.
sands'o1r and lime Qnafrlce. 0f gyp
aum and cement beds and other min-
cral production of New Mexico Tor tho
SNar 1905 io exceed f5.000000.
Irrigation systems.
Too valley is irrigated from Che
Rio Grando. watch carries largo
surplus 90 water most of tho year.
aaeo ihe days of Cnriez. the hexi-
cans have carried on irrigation "a a
primitive way, and today there are
q number of private or community
bitches 100 and dowa tho valley.
particularly on the eastern slide of
iho river. uador this eysium thou.
sands oi acres ha been put IN d
high state OF cultivation. and the OK
rlcnitural and horticultural results
are iadecd surprising.
hat there are thousands of acres
ln The valley which cannot be- irrigat.
ed ~ this primitive system. and ihia (
has led 90 the organization og a I
strong lumtlon company for the
purpose of rumpasaiag every foot nf
Irlgablo land Boz lhe entire valley
This a. known ns the rio qrandp
Land Water and Power company.
With Headquarters in ST. Louis. AID
81 iich has only lnsi completed az
.anslmcnia Tor the cons rucilon Qf its
sreAt canal This canal viii tap
Zoe Rio Gmndo north or norna
l'o and VIII skirt me eastern line
l fNo valley noxl go Tho moasas and
ril carry sumcioni volumes OF water
.u irrlsuic CVcy. foot uf lrrlrablc land
ls DO proceeds s0uthWHrh In ad.
ifioa to ihn canal. there are 20 ho n
number of roaoNOin which win con
.alu ou iueNhaus' ihl0 reserve OF water
'0 az i0 provide against any and all
mofguncies fhla enterprise o. of 4
such i2calcullhie benefit goo The "a.
.ir valley chat % 81 regarded hy those
already resident in flo valley as a
1uHlir honofncfiOn
Irrigated Lard Values
NOnirrlgnhle land iu New MEXICO
Is practically fuluolpsa. ai least from
ln agricultural point uf view. 10 ls
true iho annual rainfall "a about nine
1r zen inches but This s. about one.
fourth o0onsh 10 insure crops nut
when land is put under irrigation iis
value iH increased thonsnndfoid. "A
% epnorai proposition properly irrl.