Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-12-15
Grand Success People Com
ING In BY Train Loads From
EAll over tho East.
HONESTEAOERS CROWDING
CLOSE UPON SHEEP MEN
Present Years Prosperity In Great
New Mexico Industry Very sat
lsicctory to Az Concerned.

try that iies along the $50 miles OF
track 81 fhe santa Fc Central rail-
road between Torrance on the Rock
Island system nnd Santa ne. was an
open sheop and cattle range. Six
a. miles % this distance D. through
the iastancin yaSev great hcauh-
fui valley 90 an average width on
about 0fleen miles. with very hltle|
suriaco wator and surrounded by q
hnly conntry that D. an Idea stock
range.
EOS hundreds ol years the Eltancia
valley hea been q sheep and cattle
RANGE. Gumc OF the largest docks
of tho unolly fellows In New Mexico
ara nunod and ranged there hut
ono day rthov built "a railroad across
inc valley ard from that day dates
the fan az the valley as a atock range,
fof the land hungry settlers IRON thc
otst have fockCt into 10 until from
ana car window a. you ride along
one cas- see on both sides ~ the
tr,ck fhn lllile frame houses Of the
settlors ON almost every quarter sec
lion az Tar ~ the eye Will reach.
A. fho bulk of this settling np has
been done IA the last two years very
little has been done 60 improve inc
claims 40 as 20 make much oi a show
ing bat the crops raised thls year
and iast have fully justified the set
Tiers claiuid TINT they can raise aa
good crops here az back In Their east
ern homes And this too Without one
dron " irrigation water The DRY
farming process has done Il Az. Inc
average yearly rainfall Is about NJ
teen luches.
ON tho train with me are come
thlrtv aaw settlers IA one party. The
raltrnad has brought them out under
the clarke o. an agent They come
from everywhere IN the east, | eaiu
az ono az them. a man possibly nfty
veara az are. why DO you Rt your
age aive up your farm In Illinois
aud COME away out here INTO a
airange laand and begin life anew
he smiled and answered; III must
&C. the ever American tran OF push.
Ing uut for new scenes our anu
h niinoia h worth $3.50 an acre Inc
wintors are severe and the climate
trying. cay brother came out 70 TINS
valley iast year and he writes me-
thai a. has raised this summ,r ~
good crups % corn, oats and hucn
things as be- ever raised IN NsNois
These eetllors are ril we'll % DO
aud have tive money 90 make thim
selves comiotsshic from The start
so that there viii be- none Of tho pri'
tatinns and sniicflngs thai the early
settlers saw who came into western
Kansas afteen years ago. We passed
SWINE aplendid fields Of corn, sorghum
ana Ramr ali grown without irriEa
ton The enii 81 rich and deep. ana
we'll Wafpr soft and pure can De hRd
a. dcplha varying from ten 20 forty
ice, anywhere you choose TO dig
AZ gastsncla our engine broke down
ana had several hours 20 look
arOund me one real estate man told
me that there wan not an acre OF
government land left Ia the entire
valley on which someone had not
nled. bat that plenty % rellnqnish'
menia ~ rirhts could be- hrd az an
average uf % an acre. Hundreds 81
rlaims have hcen taken up By peo'
IA. Who have NO resi- Intention 90
settling on the land. but merely want
10 hold u Tor speculation purposes
Near f1stancia on 90 one side 0i
the railroad are the famous salt
lakes that for hundreds az years have
aupsiioh sah 20 nl who cRred to como
anf o. Tho main lake is sort OF
cmferilkn depression among me inol
hius ana is possibly 5000 feei IN
diameter tNcepilng after a rain the
water NJ generally about eighteen
Inches dean over The fake. The salt
Is drpnsuai from the water aud
when settler wishes any salt he
drigea into iha lake with hla wagon,
psis intn the water aud HhoYols sali
nn of ihe aoiicm of the lake a. One
sould load gravel al 8 gravel pu.
The snit a. sInglarly free from dirt
ar foroigu matter and comes in
smail oryHtais or pltcos about the
slge of "a pea SO matter how much
n iakon ont the hole Immediately
mia ar ieYo aud apparently there
10 10 oud 40 the supply q d used
mninIy f0r stock purposes, hut year,
b,faro enc railroad came q served
10 salt buth man and beast ana many
oowpuncher and sheep herder hat
nrai ground bis coffee la the band
mia and then ground up q supply Of
lake salt Ia the samo mill afterwards
cleaning the mill Boy grinding throurh
Il c1nnip 30 crueis of stale bread
These san lakes have been joulousiy
guarded hy the New Mexican law.
ao that 90 person could ever take
thom up f0r private ana selfish pur-
poses buf have always been free %
An. moth natives aud indians. lu so
c0ro county Sew Mexico. there %
anmher saH lake and ! have seen a
hundred wagons load sait from o. m
ono day and that has been going un
COZ 400 years the last time : was
there vas ln 1889 and there wort
over 800 Naynlo indians campea
thera via hundreds and hundreds %.
burfns ami horses on which ihei
loaded sali 90 take DO their homes
neatly guO miles away The oddes'
iaalnfe 0f ihese lakes ls that while
tho waler in Thorn "a aO very SAT- yo1
oanf u back from them hnnQfcd
~ - ana dlF down almost anyWhnfl
~ nUd pure aufi fresh water.
y NN tar from the Town 81 atianeia
is fhe hoaoquarler ranch oi WiiAan
Meintnsh one Of me sheep Nnss q
NoW MuxiGo ~ Mcintosh D. stuf
\ ag seodcdmau who has had tnN