Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-12-12
PROF Tins.
LEYS VIEWS
WINTER WHEAT NOW An assua.
60 CROP IN THIS SECTION
or the TERRITORY.
SALE OF GRANT LANDS
Field Espert Organizing Farmers
Institutes and Cooperative Experi-
mental Work.

aas been delegated by theA:kasa A.
college To spend the year In shes ter
ritory. organizing farmers institutes
and carrying on cooperative expert.
mental wurq among the farmers, I'm
highly enthusiastic regarding the out.
look for agricultural prosperity N
this part of the territory
I wish you had 100000 acres NJ
winter wheat planted" he remarked
10 The Optic last night with the
amount of moisture that has already
been preetpitated. with the condition
that the soil Ia In now, II the proper
cultivation Is done. winter wheat win
come 10 perfection this year, II not
another drop of rain or snow falls
before the harvest. Aud Of course
you are certain TO get considerable
moisture.
Il believe firmly that winter wheat
viii become one of your most certain
dry land crops in this vicinity You
are certain Of winter moisture and
your summer rains never fail. With
summer crops, some Of your rainy
seasons may be short enough to
pinch them. but there 10 little danger
Of such lack with the winter crops.
There Is no doubt about the fertil
ity of your mesa lands. No land In
New Mexico Ia more entirely suited
10 dry farming than what you have
hereabout. People are crowding In.
to Quay and Torrance and Union
counties 10 take up the government
lands. | believe the fact that you are
going 10 sell your lands at a moder.
ate price will mean you win weed
out the fioaters and get a more de-
sirabse eiasssaof people who have
means enough 10 last them for q year
or two.
Il have been fairly astounded both
In travelling over the east and over
the territory 10 realize the size and
force Of the demand for cheap west.
ern lands. The caus4 | believe Is two
fold. First, there are many people
In the crowded farming sections OF
the east who have one or two hun.
dred acres Of good land which will
sell at $l00 an acre The temptation
to sell this land at good figure and
Invest small part OF the money I'm
western land that will probably pro-
duce almost as heavily. Is too great
TO be withstood.
Then there IL a decidedly pro-
desire on the part of hun.
freds of thousands of city toiIers who
have saved competence for a home.
Some Of these are ready TO snap up
eastern high priced lands, while 9th.
FRS want 10 come directly to the,
west,
Whatever the reason. the demand
Tor lands Is here. believe that So.
400 people will come into Quay coun-
" within the next two years. Every
available acre OF the Las Vegas
grant ought to be sold easily at gooi
prices during the next two or three
years. And | do not believe 1t will
De found necessary to employ high
priced eastern agents to sell IL. The
important thing, OF course, Is to get
good people on your lands as soon a.
possible. and while the demand for
ands keeps up.
The result OF one harvest ON fifty
thousand acres of land will mean, OF
'oarse. more than doubling the SELL
ng price Of lands a year later.
But II will be found advantageous
lot to let land men push the prices
II land up too much. The man who
'omes here and buys land for four to
'ix dollars an acre has to go to a
sreat deal of expense and while there
s probably no mere element of
,hance here than I'm many parts of
he east, still the profits per acre can
lot be as high as under irrigation
or instance.
I believe the grant, through local
Igents acting directly i'm its behalf.
AN easily dispose of its spare land
It four to six dollars an acre. The
money will remain In the community
Ind you do away with the danger OF
ands being forced on people through
highly rolored stories, when the
,riees paid win not enable farmers
o quickly place their holdings on a
'aying basis.
TT will be fatal mistake III your
armers cannot prosper on their
ands. OF course I don't know any
hing Of conditions. but am Just CIV
NC my views as YOU. ask for them.
rhe present selling urice NJ y0ur