Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-13

operate6 There are published nj
Las Vegas. The Optic. q daily news-
paper; several weekly publications.
Including the Weekly Optic, Ia Veg
del Pueblo. El Undergraduate and II
keEtsta Caioliea There are fine
church buildings representing the Va.
Taons denominations u has an
electric railway. electric light plant,
and earbonaied waters. carriage and
wagon manufactures. saddle and bar
ness factories. planning mills. con-
crete block plant. - well a.
shop. ice plant. and enid storage
plant. The town has two Telephone
exchanges, connecting with Denver
and central southern New Mexico
points The system Is completed via
Santa Fe tO Albuquerque and Soeor.
~, \ large and weileQuipped sani-
tsrium. known as the ST. Anthony's
Is conducted by the Sisters Of Char.
lily. There are also quarrles OF
building stone lear tb~ city. The
Territorial Insane asylum. having ac-
commodations for 200 patients. Ia 10
Gated here. The headquarters % the
fourth judicial district 10 located
here. also the offices Of the territor.
ial district attorney for San Miguel
and Mora counties.
The Lac Vegas Land Grant.
Practically all Of the land In the
immediate vicinity Of Las Vegas il
included In the lana grant. q magni-
ficent body Of +3i 900 acres given to
the community by the Mexican gov.
eminent In 1885. Las Vegas Ia to-
day facing the greatest growth In all
Its history. as a result Of the various
movements now on foot 10 settle the
lands Of the grant with American
farmers. Tho future OF the town 10
In its American immigration. The
farmer with . little money will find
1t 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 70
Las Vegas the like OF which Is pos
sessed by no other city In America,
there lies some OF the richest and
most fertile land In all the West.
Heavy clay loan. Of good filth. en-
riehed BY centuries OF decaying veg
citation. It contains crop possibilL
ties astounding to tho 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 n
tries to give the average fastener a
true idea Of western possibilities and
products he usually looks at his in.
former as a lineal descendant OF An
anias. and II M proves his state
ments to him, he goes away believ.
Ing that he has been made TO be-
lieve something that he hadn't ought
a. hnffnrn InAAnI hn knR4 Nktn IN
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. ~ ounces: water melons, 40
pounds: cabbage heads. ~ pounds.
and other crops In like proportion.
1t is not claimed that such yields
as these are the average, but 1t is
true beyond p~eradventure that from
65 to 20 bushels Of oats, 80 to SO
bushels Of corn. so to rs bushels of
barley, 80 to As bushels of wheat,
$50 to 300 bushels of potatoes and Is
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
IsE FOR THE AMERICAN FARM.
Err.