Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-10-29
THROUGH
A WOMANs
CLEAR EYES
Miami Ranch Com
pany's Project
Described
SPLENDID IRRIGATION PLAN
Fertile Lands Being Rapidly
Disposed Of Mrs. Lucia M.
Harvey's Investigation.

Mrs. Lucia M. Harvey, Of Chicago
Illinois, who is touring the territory
gathering information and educational
data for the Auxiliary Educational
League, of Boston, Massachusetts, has
spent the past week in this city. She
came here from the Mama ranch To-
Gated few miles west of Springer,
and owned by the Farmers Develop
ment company, which company owns
about 10000 acres OF fine land under
first class title and in what is known
as the Rayado valley and plains.
Mrs Harvey was so well pleased
with the plans of the company and
the manner in which its business is
being conducted by its general man
ager M. N. Mikesell, that she pur-
chased a forty-acre tract under the
reservoir and ditch system now under
construction by the company and took
an option on eighty acres more. The
price paid by her for the forty acres
is $40 per acre, which may seem high
for some people but she has carefully
investigated the project, the water
supply, the reservoir and ditch sys-
tenn now under construction, the class
of people who have heretofore pur-
chased farming tracts, the character
of the soil, it's fertility, the markets
for the fruits, cereals and vegetables
that can be raised there and is well
satisfied with the bargain.
Mrs. Harvey has travelled great
deal and especially in the West and
ia n close and keen observer She IS
= no stranger to investments in farm
lands, having made an investment in
farm lands in Kansas which proved
very profitable She is a magazine
article and newspaper writer OF aolll-
ty and has done much good WORK
along those lines.
To a reporter of the New Mexican
she said:
Gone can hardly come down to this
Sunshine Territory of yours without
getting brimful of enthusiasm over lts
nossibilities and resources. And VISIT
out at Mama ranch, few miles west
Of Springer, Colfax county, will inspire
in the most confirmed pesslmlst
enough hopefulness and confidence TO
dispel every vestige of doubt which
might lurk in his system Frederick
Remington. the famous sketch artist
walls over the departure of His west
and we'll he may. Exit the COWBOY!
Enter. The Man with the Hoe! This is
the spirit of the hour in New Mexico.
Interesting indeed, is drive out
to the great reservoir now building
at this model ranch, where the big
dam is doing in and where they are
throwing dirt at the rate of a ton
minute-more or less. Think OF 1t!
A 16O-acre reservoir and u miles OF
canal from which the life-giving wat
ers will make the land below to bios
som as the rose next year Yes, next
year! for there is big forfeiture II
the work under construction is not
completed by February list, 1908. do
not remember just what the sum IS,
but it is enough to make 1t more eX-
pensive for them to fail than to sue
ceed. Six new steam plows were set
up fortnight ago and the young man
in charge has heart interest in the
way those machines do their work. He
invented them, believe, and the man
inspecting the work up there has
personal interest in the thoroughness
and excellence of that job for he owns
a farm below which is going to be
profited in direct ratio to the superb
ority or otherwise Of those self-same
dam operations, (no profanity intend
ed,) in fact the cooperative spirit is
noticeably to the fore at every turn
out there Everybody works but father
--and-he works too. 1t looks like deal
ing in futures to drive over the al
ready surveyed townsite and the flu
ture metropolis Mama, to drive
around the Plaza and imagine we see
the fountain playing in the center.
To Found New Town.
"The foundation Of the first general
store is being laid there, however, and
dozen buildings are under contract
to be erected before spring. A bank is
foregone conclusion and the wire.
pulling for the postmastership is al
ready begun. They haven't organized
Woman's club yet, but it's in sight
Of course Seriously, there is a-plenty
to inspire unbounded confidence in the
future Of Miami ranch. The Santa Fe
Railway people are ready to build
fCnntinlad on Dana Einh$N