El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-31

! VIEW states have come into the union
with greater promise of future
development than New Mexico. So
vast is its domain that 100 Rhode
/ Islands could be tucked away within
/ its rOomy boundaries with still enough
! space left for a Massachusetts. In pop
ulation 1t claims nearly 100000. and OF
wealth almost a half billion dollars
Webster's False PrOphesy.
Could Daniel Webster come back to
earth long enough to learn the facts
about New Mexico and California, he
would conclude that he was neither
/ prophet nor the son of a prophet Aft
er the Mexican war he inveighed with
all the force of his powerful oratory
| against accepting California and New
Mexico as indemnity. He said it was
| as sure as death and taxes that neither
of them would ever be worth a dollar,
and he beseeched and implored, en-
treated and demanded that all this sage
/ brush" be not made a part Of the
1 United States. He said that our chill
dren's children would not live to see
New Mexico the home of more than
/ sc, 600 souls Yet Arizona was made
/ in the main from the territory Of New
Mexico, and together they have over
100000 people.
Land Of Turauois Sky.
New Mexico is known as the land
] of the turquois sky. The records OF
| the United States weather bureau show
! that no other region in America has as
many hours Of sunshine. The federal
government has shown what it thinks
/ of the climate by establishing its prin-
| cipal army and navy sanatOriums there.
Thousands of afflicted Americans jour-
ney there for pulmonary troubles, and
/ someone has alliteratively styled it ''the
] land Of the 1unger."
Former senator Teller, Of Colorado,
/ tells the prize story about the climatic
benefits Of New Mexico Once he had
serious throat ailment that threat
ened to take from him the record OF be-
| ing the most persistent talker In the
senate. so he journeyed TO New Mexico.
He afterward declared TO friends that
his throat trouble began to get better
soon after he reached the New Mexico
boundary, and that by the time he
reached his destination he felt as well
as ever. The result was that he came
back to the senate TO use his famous
"Ah Mr.. President" a few thousand
times more before his term Of office
expired.
Prehistoric Ruins
Like Arizona. the territory Of New
Mexico is famous for its geology and
for it's prehistoric ruins Its geology
tells Of millions of years OF world max
the solid rock may grow. The face OF
the Sandal mountains, which lie toward
the Rio Grande. shows a record of 5000
feet of perpendicular geology, each foot
OF which may have been thousands OF
years in the making
West Of Mount Taylor, toward the
Zuni reservation erosion has had 6 gil
gantic playground, and il as said tia
nowhere else on the earth has it played
rFo 70 hn ~
wind and water have been busy for
more million years than the geologist
can estimate.
Oldest Town In New World.
It is said that New Mexico possesses
the Oldest living town in the new world,
If, indeed. its founding does not ante
date Babylon, .Ninevah or any of the
other cities OF ancient story. It is the
little Pueblo town of Picuris, once a
flOurishing place Of thousands Of in
habitants. but now having only about
80 denizens OF the passing race-the
last links that bind the prehistoric past
with the living present. The ethnolo-
gfsts conclude that ere long the last
leaves of the whitening tree OF the
Pueblos will have fallen. and that a
noble race viii then live only in tradt-
ton.
Race suicide has become an epidemic
among the younger Pueblos-race sui
eide in the shape Of intermarriage with
the Mexicans. These marriages produce
a progeny which forgets about the
Pueblo blood
Never did a high caste Spaniard or a
proud English nobleman protest more
vehemently against the intermarrfage
of his children with mean born people
than does the old Pueblo against these
matches that obliterate his racial iden-
tify, but his opposition meets with little
success.
Enormous Crop Yields
That comparatively little of the area
OF New Mexico has felt the influence
of civilization is shown by the fact that
OF its $4,000, 600 acres Of land less than
100000 acres are under actual cultfva-
ton. But its river valleys. once their
famished sands are satisfied with
draughts OF water from the big frrigs-
ton lakes, reward the frrigati0nist a
thousandfOld. Water is the only magic
necessary to transform them from
parched deserts of hot sand to veritable
bowers Of wealth producing vegetation.
In return for the water TO satisfy
their thirst they give barley that stands
seven feet high, oats whose heads meas
ure 80 inches, pears weighing 19 ounces
each, peaches that viii balance a pound
of gold, watermelons that weigh 40
pounds each. and cabbage heads that
tip the beam at AZ pounds AT the
Louisiana Purchase exposition the
peaches of New Mexico were awarded
first premium IN the face OF the compe-
tition of California and all the south
The Bee Industry
These blooming valleys stir the busy
honey bee TO unusual activity. a single
colony OF them making the beekeeper
more than 100 pounds OF honey year.
IN one case an average sized colony
stored 196 pounds OF prime honey IN q
single season. The mountains and
woodlands which skirt the valleys offer
a rich field for the old fashioned bee
hunter, since thousands OF colonies that
nave escaped from their hives have
taken up their abode there.
Angora Goats
New Mexico leads all the American
states in raising Angora goats. Two
'r its prize winners exhibited at the -
st. Louis exposition were remarkable
Tor their fleeces. One yielded II pounds.
which sold for s4S. The other sheared
Is pounds, 10 pounds OF which sold for