Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-26

get passage soon enough. However,
he informed Mr.. Mosquera that he
would surely reach Albuquerque by
September 2S.
Mr.. Mosquera is dapper little !
gentleman, educated at South Beh hle- |
ham, Pa. Though only % years of
age he is sole supervisor Of the larg-
est reclamation project under con-
sideration on the island Of Porto
Rico. The people of the United
States have little conception Of the
governments insular possessions. he
says. Porto Rico is in reality rich
port as its Spanish name implies. The
exhibit the island Will make at the
International exposition VIII be COM
posed of sugar. coffee and tobacco.
the three richest products Of irriga-
ton and cultivation and mother
earth. Each product VIII be shown
in crude and finished styie and all
exhibits will be made Fl m products
grown on irrigation lands.
Mr.. Mosquera said this afternoon
that the people of the island yet de-
pended on the crude systems OF ir-
rigation established there centuries
ago by the Spanish government but
few years will soon bring modern
methods, as American rule is already
making itself felt along industrial
lines as we'll as otherwise.
A five million dollar project, which
will reclaim the larger part of the
south side of the isla nd, Is now un-
der way. There Is range of noun
tains running east and west across the
island. The rainfall on the north side
averages fifty inches and on the
south side fourteen inches, making
that part of the island almost arid.
The project under consideration is to
build a number of large reservoirs on
the north side of the mountains. save
the storm waters and transfer them
to the south side by means of tun-
| nels through the mountains.
Mr.. Mosquera said that the chang
| ing of money systems in Porto Rico
first from Spanish money to the
Porto Rico money, under a plan Of
the Spanish government to keep all
the money on the island, and then
the changing to the coin of the Uni
ted States has caused great loss to
land owners. Ten per cent was lost
on the first change and when the
golden eagle came, the Porto Rico
money was taken at only sixty cents
on the dollar, causing another loss
of forty per cent. During the bad
times American capital bought very
heavily of Porto Rico land so that
now the island practically belongs
to large land lords.
Mr.. Mosquera will remain during
the congress and exposition.
Kansas 10 Help Pueblo.
Evilcn Is a'rea'1y = oppinG o'A
that Puenio is going to MAKE teeth
and toenall + ght for the Seventeenth
National .igation congi ess. Accord
ing to q Kansas newspaper the Kan
sas delegaIion Is already secured ana
a majority of the middle states have
practically agreed to vote for Pueblo
as the next meeting place of the con-
gress.
The Garden City Evening Telegram
says:
!, Pueblo will try to get the lrriga-
on convention next year. and Garden
City is not only willing but viii help
Perhaps not quite twenty-five, bu'
nearly that many of Garden CITY
boosters" the brand being Wei
known in the west, viii go to Albu'
querque in a special car sunday night
They will root and boost and talk and
sing the praises, first of Garden CITY
second of Finney county, third D
: southwest Kansas, and fourth, OF th'
I entire Arkansas valley-including Pu
! eblo.
r For that is the nub of 1t all: thu
e congress must come to the Arkansa
, | valley next year; to the valley tina
E s the Nile of America; the valley tina
j s the greatest garden spot, under ir
0 rigation, in the world, the valley tina
. is getting into bloom already, ant
S that will flourish and open up as tn
e years go by.
a "The Kansas-Colorado project an
n the Arkansas river bind together Gar
- den City and Pueblo, and we shai
further add to the good spirit and fel
lowship by helping boost this priz
package into Pueblo's lap next wee
: at Albuquerque"
Socorro Minerals Arrive.
ID c. #. Brown, a prominent minin
man of Socorro, is in the city install
ing the Socorro county mining eXhibl
at the International exposition. Tn
y Socorro county exhibit weighs abou
g 10000 pounds and is composed
gold, lead, silver, zinc. copper an
i iron ores, some of which are extra
Z ordinary specimens. MIR. Brown sal
c today that the exhibit shipped fro'
! the Mogollon mountains a week ag
has not reached here yet and he feaI
" that Il has been lost. However SocoI
% ro county Will have one of the mos
II attractive exhibits in the Palace ,
Mines
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