The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1906-05-05
A Correspondent Writes Of the
Riches Of the County Of
Sooorro.
PLACE FOR A HOME OR MONEY
No Better Opportunities for Profita-
BILE Investment Are offered in
the West.

Vic Wuo buOiOuEHlO dpplC-
ciates the golden opportunities
offered in Socorro and Socorro
county contributes the following:
Socorro county, the great sugar
plum of New Mexico! The
county of wonderful resources!
1t has made fortunes for hun
dreds, and its true and great re-
sources are just being discovered.
There has been more money
made and taken out of Socorro
county than any other county in
the southwest. Yet she has
giver Ip but little of her great
wealth.
If you ask me to name some of
these resources, with pleasure !
state to you the conditions as
they come to me. The year
1906, the raising of cattle,
horses, sheep, and goats will pay
from so to 100 per cent profit on
the capital invested. a heal
thier country cannot be found
for the rearing of all kinds of
stock, as no diseases of any kind
exist among the stock here.
Buyers from California, the east,
and the north come here to buy
their stock. Thousands and tens
of thousands are raised in this
county yearly and shipped north,
east, and west.
Second, the mining industry
of Socorro county is arousing
capital in the north and in the
east. Precious metals have been
shipped out of this county for
forty years and the more work
done the greater the bodies of
good ore are being discoyered.
Now daily trains are carrying
these metals east.
Sir, do you know that Socorro
county contains some of the
largest iron and coal fields in the
southwest, and that new ones
are being found every year?
Do you know that some of the
best and largest zinc and lead
mines in the west are found here
and are being worked the year
round?
DO you know shat one of the
largest gold and silver camps in
the west is being opened up in
the western part of the county,
Do you know that one of the
largest iron fields (64 per cent
hemitite from, in the southwest
lies in the eastern part of So
corro county!
Do you know that Socorro
county has more saw logs than
any other county in New Mexico!
Do you know that the highest
favored fruit grows here and is
shipped in every direction bring
ing the highest market price of
any fruit grown
Do you know that from fifty
to eighty bushels OF wheat are
grown to an acre here, and
grains of all kinds do we'll if pro-
perly cared for?
Do you know that we have
marble fields, coal fields, salt
lakes and fire CLAWS of all kinds
and descriptions here in the
county that can be had by the
locating and developingI
What fortunes await the enter
prising capitalist!
Do you know that we have one
of the finest climates, and the
purest water i'll the world?
Did il ever occur To you that
some people get more than their
share of the good things of this
world than others, and that some
countries are groaning under their
burdens of the great and good
things of this earthI SocorrC
county is one of them.
Is il any wonder that a thou
sand hands from the outside are
reaching after this great sugar
plum? We have here in Socor'
TO county kingdom of resources
and nearly all OF them are unde'
veloped? With the great wealth
of our county seeking good, prof
liable investment where condi
tions are so favorable as they art
here; when this is properl,
known in money centers there
will be something ADDING in So.
corro county, New Mexico, sure
DO you know that Socorr'
county contains 100000 acres
of land and that every acre il