Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-14
HOW LAND HUNGER
CON
NEW MEXICO
WILL c, BARNES TELLS OF
~HOMESTEADER'S COMING
Passing Of the "0pen Range
Here and In Arizona as Wen
as ii the Rest Of the Great
West,

West,
,wil a. Barnes. secretary q thF
New Mexico Cattle sanitary poaFu
oa,,ie rrower and business man, yet
auas dime TO write frequent magazine
INA newspaper articles which are ao
,uy for New Mexico what tons Or ~
liberation literature could moi 90 go
rarne4 writes things when h's9t
thp people al home az Wen ~ Htia
broad d sure test OF merit. -
latest story appears % me a.htte
anpahar III the 81. Louis paiis ~
N't rA.,a stock REPORTER under ~
nae fThe Mar With the tee'
,nlta ~ the invasion OF the open iAnh
w Nev Mexico by the lana nuns
tarfnar from the states. wiz" ,t0s
~ utonanalnt III the cattle MAI. VIZ
srtiele III sim fully just 70 llle datlng
ana ria work. The article y siNe" :
full below1. am No Hoe
The ~Sun Of q Gun VIII nas of
a.ng aro raided the stock iiness ~,
NE snrf veat and has praetieahs
s,,,tnstea Inc open range proposltlph
1, INV states along The Caiiaatah w
der. sav wears. has
,.,sfse aeen 4 great change lahe
-. within her borders, me huss
rastures cut up into farm lhe $50
hitlowY pralries where once Iaassat
millions Of buffalo and later 49, nnnn
n~,nanv sheen and cattle nave uesi
W, 4 faasiv turned into cotton aad eaHN
aaa,Ss ana hnally they tackled tns
mgast uflano Eataeado, or stAheu
@ntstns III our boyhood days, those phsl
aa~hes ~ grass lands, the ~atsftess
asa 'reeiess part Of the great Anerir
IAN desert. and II has beeh con
a,,ered and now today where onss
new starved for water are Clues I"
farms. Railroads cross anu ieNI 4
n avery direction and the land I'M.
as thaurht only ut for stock grazing
,ss,rnases Il found 10 be as good ~ ihe
amons prairies Of Illinois
rapd that ten year ago was eoh
.45arna denr at Il dollar an acre Nah
tN tourhed today FOR SIC or s2o' anu
~ ana Il seemingly not yet
p,oA,ursyt In Arizona and New N'N""
ptit we who live IN New Mckee ~"
Arizona made but light OF me ~
uroach OF the army 81 lAhn nAan
$3.50 n,tyht he AN right, but wheh
.t,av struek New Mexico, why thes =
gra II was quite a different s.pt
axaan,t we lived here always bl1h .
NJ pnnw what we could and eohln'l !
an when Il came 20 farming Oh NVW
ex.xfents nrafriea and drnrftR ~
thin haunted the land hungry wv
~ immigration reaeNed me NsW ~
lrn fine. and 10 them the ill., Jus
nsFas tba line was no whit uliettn
,hst NJ he east Of ii. The It'd
sySenf over and worked its way hefos'
,be border counties. 'Foeis, We saiu
sth.y VIII starve out In a year, Aha
40 wears ago and they haven
a,aryed OUT vet. Quite TO the con
Ersry they have prnspered and gol'
mend most tremendously fast
Al Portales. New Mexico. gust = INV
miles over the northwestern leNAs w
Hye years ago = parry "i
there looking for cattle y
tban haa two frame buildings, two g
sh.ae tents and a railroad station, !
waa 400 10 400 feet down 20 waite
ma ~ far as the eye could re"eh !
averv dlrertlon Was one vast open w
,,rnken prairie-the primeNal Ntpe
,anpe. Today the town mas w
weekly papers, two nattonpl palln
nlanty az substantial ~bnllulnke' pp'
nr3yate and business, while every W
tana about II for miles IS und'
sufttvattDn and crops equal 10 any y
fatsad there year after year.
Al that lime tn PortAles we mex
IAN baulinp water In a wagon /
- the tVre az the vanguard OF y
s~nttlers and vas drontns along y
road with four winter barrels ~ Z
wagon. We asked him now thF
had to haul his water houe :"
,mtles 4 reckon" WAS his reply
why don't you dig a well on W
rlaimgA we inquired
wal podner. he said, the mea
time sucking vigorously az : uli
,orn cob pipe. IT'S Just q maliei
sistance. for / caikerlate It's about
f.r 10 do as lis 60 haul Just "po
~ far one way ae totheF
Valuable Land la Petos Naiies'
Ton years ago "a thin wave o. =
tiars swept over the Pecos valley
ne southeastern corner Of the Ter
forv 1hey found n great bro
omen cattle and sheep range y
found also that you could punch
nine down almost anywhere ana
flowing well that would Spout
or IL feet high from "a lO-tnch ~
They found that these sheep anu 8
lie ranges would raise almost anyth'
x.u put iu the ground. The thiu vi
,rreW to a mighty flood. ana Today Il.
III he pecoa valley is held from =
an acre up Al they took up the %
ID these border counties tiie new co
ers swept on into the interior. !
orcnlng OF the Rock Island across
territory NFuuRli i~nonthlnH ht wv
seekers into ls territory. Eve
where fhet vent the old-uri
aughea and prophesied failure
eryNhefe they went they stayed
succeeded.
And this hAs been going iu %
today there b. no use discussing
question OF whether b VIA De o'
,aoae or o government lease law
Inc eubile ranges, because IN
wears more such as The past hve "a
h.cn. h open range will have qfa
- exfxf-wln have become a. rNl
- me buffalo. Already The stocki
sianr The eastern portion % Sew n
10 have read the handwriting on
vsn hss SEQ their finish and Z
hon steadily reducinF their holdi
Win the first great whNt "i
rrrs La western ErNaa came tn la
mo NsU A~eNicu's rahEes Qi u
rauiomen driven out hy ihe tern
u.re mos surely Thought thtf N
hr safe from fhc grausct hhl
fhat are nU fhr move asHth HhN
fI.Ir ID d. en- abe Trains ih rIn.N
haund far ihe packing huns
Nr.iafn sos MfNlIn Nhlfh q
flif ran nI fnIa slral tfffiioIi