The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-03-12
FORMER OHIO
COUNTY Citizen
Sees Wonderful Future for
The West.
Fruit and Alfalfa Seems to Be A
"Fad" With the Poole Though
Any Crop Will Crow.

| ANconNii, AZ Ah.g Atu. 90, lOVts
Editor Republican, have been a
soJourner in this Ii tie city for a
month, and have found everything so
different from the ways of living and
and methods of farming in old Ken
lucky that l undertake TO give your
readers, among whom l have many
friends, a brief account of my obser-
vations and impressions of this pecu-
liar western country, in the nope tha,
1t may interest them to learn about
other ways than their own for extract
Ing wealth from the soil, and condi-
lions different from theirs, in other
parts of our country.
Roswell is very pretty little ci ny
with perhaps 1000 inhabitants, most
ly level with first-class cement side
walks and a profusion of shade trees
and grassy lawns. The residences
are MOSTLY one story frame, in tasty
styles of architecture, and not crowd
ed together too closely for beauty
or comfort. Tue business part is clos
ly built up of mostly two sorry build
ings some brick, some frame and
some of cement blocks in imitation
of some. Some of the dwellings are of
cement blocks also, and some, for bot
business and residence, are built of
adobe whicn is merely dried clay, in
the shape and size of large overgrown
bricks. And strange as it may seem
to Kentuckians, or the people of any
rainy, freezing country, many of the
adobe homes are really neat, beauii-
full in appearance and durable. The
tight, thick walls keep In tine cool
of summer a nd keep out the
cold of winter. Houses of this ma
terial are used by some well-;o-do
Americans, and not alone by the Mex
leans VINO transmitted that style to
us. We have greatly improved upon
the Mexican pattern so as to make a
neat adobe house respectable. There
are Mexicans living in the city, but
they are to themselves in locality
called Chihuahua, in the same spir-
it tnaA the negro settlement in the
eastern part of Hartford is, or used
10 be, called "Hayti."
The city as a whole surpasses any
nave ever seen in neatness and home
like beauty. No grandeur nor magni-
fence mas been attempted in build
ings for either residence or business.
beauty and comfort are considered
of first impor ance. THE city is in
the head of the artesian belt uhat is
several miles wide, and extends down
the Pecos valley AN indefini e dis
lance, perhaps hundreds of miles.
Noruh Spring River is a good sized
stream (creek l would call it, tnat
rises out of the ground near une city,
and flows sou .h-eas; through it giving
the waber for irrigating thousands and
thousands of acres of tine very rich
est soil which in Une main Is de-
voted TO apple orchards and alfalfa
meadows. Alfalfa yields abmdantly,
five crops a season and is grown
among the apple trees, besides tne
fields where /. alone is planted.
Your correspondent took severed drives
six or seven miles out, eHrough
small portion of tnese fluit and al
falfa farms. Tue roads are level and
solid as tine paved streets of a city,
and abundantly shaded by mountain
coJtonwoods tnat have been planted
on each side and in many places, the
branches meet overhead and make the
prettiest shady driveways imagina-
BILE. These trees do not sap tine life
out OF the apple trees or alfalfa grow
ing close TO them as would seem
Tie soil is so ricn as 10
give sustenance to the trees and what
ever grows near or under 1nem. These |
farms and orchards range, in size,
from hundreds of aces down 10 five |
aces and may be smaller. Tue many |
and thousands of apple |
trees make me wonder who will eat
all the apples or drink all tine good
cider that could be made from tnem.
They are shipped from here, during
the picking season. train loads after
train loads, and then some more.
Large figures about the apple crop
were given me, sufficient 10 take my
breath away, but / only remember a
few of them. ] am told of a man mere,
VINO sold mis- last years crop of apples
to a Chicago firm VINO took them
from tine trees, at their own expense
Of picking and paid a hundred and
one thousand dollars for chem.
mad to swallow the assertion big as
It was, while the Chicago people are
the apples; and If Chicago !
does not keep her affairs in apple
pie ORDER this western CITY will be
Dlameless for any lack of apples. And,
apples and alfalfa. although they are