Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-14

2 ~ ENNAsaA~ HILLS as
operated There are Published ii
Las Vegas. The Optic. . daily news
paper; several weekly publications.
Including the Weekly Opsie. la vos
del Pueblo. "a Independiente and L
ReEtSta catOliea There are fine
church buildings representing the Va,
Fi"as denominations IL has n
~eieciTic railway. electric light plant
and eafbonated waters, carriage and
wagon manufactures. saddle and bar.
mess factories. planning mills. con.
crete block plant. ~ well ~
shop, ice plant. and cold storage
plant The town has tgo telephone
exchanges. connecting With Denver
aud central southern New Mexico
points, The system Is completed via
Santa Fe To albuquerque and Socor.
10. 4 large and welleauipped SAM
tariam. known as the ST. Anthony's.
Is conducted by the Sisters OF Char.
tty. There are also Quarries Of
building stone near tn city. The
Territorial Insane asylum. having &C
commoda,Ions for 200 patients. is 10.
Gated here The headquarters Of the
fourth judicial district Is located
here. also the offices Of the territor-
tal district attorney for San Miguel
and Mora counties.
The Las Vegas Land Grant.
Practically all Of the land In the
immediate vicinity OF Las Vegas IL
included In the land grant. q magni-
fieent body Of $4,000 acres given to
the community by the Mexican gov.
eminent I'm 1885. Las Vegas In TO-
day facing the greatest growth In all
les history. a. a result Of the various
movements now on foot 10 settle the
lands OF the grant with American
farmers, The future OF the town In
In It's American immigration. The
farmer with q little money will find
IL one Of the most prolific sections
OF the entire West for quick and
steady profits on his investment
Paradise for the Farmer.
In this land grant. a heritage TO
Las Vegas the like OF which is pos
sessed by nc other city In America.
there lies some OF the richest and
most fertile land In all the West.
Heavy clay loan. Of good ulth. en-
riched by centuries OF decaying veg.
citation. Il contains crop possibili-
ties astounding to the average farm.
Or Of the rain belt regions Of the
East. One almost hesitates to cite
actual results accomplished by the
few men who have actually tried
farming In the region. When one
tries to give the average easterrer q
true idea Of western possibilities and
products he usually looks at his in
former as a lineal descendant OF An
anias. and II n proves his state
ments to him. he goes away believ-
ing that he has been made 10 be-
lieve something that he hadn't ought
to believe. Indeed. he isn't much to
be blamed. when one talks about
barley seven feet high, oat heads
thirty inches long and running ITO
bushels to the acre, apples weighing
% ounces each; pears. 10 ounces;
peaches, IL ounces; water melons, 40
pounds: cabbage heads. AZ pounds.
and other crops in like proportion.
1t is not claimed that such yields
as these are the average. but it is
true beyond peradventure that from
65 to 20 bushels Of oats, 30 to so
bushels of corn, so to rs bushels of
barley, 80 to IS bushels of wheat,
$50 to 300 bushels OF potatoes and 16
to % tons of sugar beets can, and are
being grown with very ordinary
methods OF farming.
Such is Las Vegas, and. in general,
New Mexico-The Land of Sometime,
the Land Of the Conquistadores, the
Land of Silence and Adobe, of the
Turquoise Sky, and of the Pueblo
Pyramids. Some of these names
have lived their day: others will al
ways apply, but there Is a new one,
not yet acknowledged by the terri
tory, though most richly merited.
which will in time eclipse all others.
And that is: THE LAND OF PROM
TsE FOR THE AMERICAN FARM.
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