The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-23
COME GO ALONG. ARE UP AND DOING
r Sac Wonderful Valleys Kansas Centennial Live
New Mexico. wires get IOgether.
Nan ,ro eating Rich Resolve to Make Kansas Semi
Tb.ro Every Year. Centennial Memorable
FAILED RACK HERE. PLAN A GRAND BALL.
Want 70 See This Antonio VIII Inaugurated at
Land Grant. the Auditorium
WHARF Land Is Rich Pageant Big the
Are Fresh. ebrat1on.
Men Are Getting Rich Down
There Every Year.
FAILED BACK HERE.
Want to See This Antonio Ortiz
Land Grant.
Where Land Is Rich and Fish
Are Fresh.

Ruv a return ticket, take - hour
ride on the Golden state Limited, get
off at santa Rosa, n. NJ ENJOY 81
mile xvbisl5 in a Cadillac automobile UP
along the Pecos river into san Aals l;sl
county and over New MeXlcos 9Ile DlS
Interesting opportunity, the Antonio
Ortfz land which soon Will be Opeheu
and irrigated by big sugar COM peIlS'
Pardon the use of first person sing
MAR If the boss will let me am
- 70 spend my vacation in that
country instead of going TO Europe
On going to go down there ana see
for myself again. the wonderful crops
raised in those valleys by dry FARMING
process and by irrigation our Iai NY,
HE little. old and young are IN New
Mexico, located in the Montoya Val
lev Nontoya is their postott1ce on the
Poclr island. They send letters CT The
fertility Of their own valley ana u the
Antonio ortiz tract to their west, Gull
prising the Gallinas river valley the
Rio Conchos and tributary Naneys u
the Gallinas river
F,verv letter from the relatives tell
something Of the surveys for the three
biy reservoirs which will proeaDiy De
constructed this year or early mex. on
~ 0+tiz land, one on the Gallinas
river at the north edge OF the DIG
tract and two at the heads Of great fer
file valleys. all on the land owned by
the American Sugar Manufacturing anu
Refining company now being sofa OUT 70
farmers in tracts of five acres ana up.
rTha two rivers running through TINS
land rise in the mountains ana are leo
nv snow and rains. HundreQS OF
springs gurgle into these stree ms tile
wear round. Engineers estluslte thde
from the rainfall, from Ine waters -es.s.,s -
these streams, an abundant quantity
Of water will be damned up IN ne
three big reservoirs to irrigate $1,000
acres. ~,
,,ortb and west by mountains. The
Eloriatfa range has never failed to
SUNNY plenty of water for all purposes
A. fhe country through which flow the
rivers that have their sources IN inns
range. -
These valleys lying nestled up near
the mountain ranges are the garden
snots of the world when water IS put
on them and the American Sugar Man
11facfuring and Refining company Is
going about the project OF lrrlgatinS
this particular tract in business IKE
manner The company represented by
Don A MounDay as manager or the
land department of Topeka, Kansas,
are interesting the farmers or investors
TO purchase this land, the company to
put I'm an adequate irrigation plant As
soon as the land IS sold and enough
farmers indicate their willingness 10
raise sugar beets the company viii put
in sugar plants to handle their produc-
lion and agree to pay beet raisers five
dollars a ton for their entire crop Tor
a period of five years.
The far famed Pecos Valley is nearly
all taken up in the lower portion and
land values have increased enormously
because Of its productiveness and fer
tility but the Antonio Ortiz tract n tic
upper valley offers the last big oppOr
tunity for the man with small capital
to own land which under irrigation
will produce fOrty-five tons OF sugar
beets to the acre, worth five dollars a,
ton. contracted before the crop is
planted. This same valley land will
produce from six to eight tons of al
falfa, worth ten dollars a ton, or an
apple orchard may be set out which
within four years will yield over three
hundred dollars an acre in the finest
fruit ever grown These five aero
tracts or any sized tracts for that mat
ter when watered sufficiently in these
valleys in Northeastern New Mexico
will raise fruits or vegetables wort.
from two hundred to eight hundred
dollars an acre If properly handled.
If a person owns land in New Mexico
under an irrigation project, a better
and easier living can be made and
more money accumulated than can be
made pushing a pen or pecking a type
WRITER farming around IN dirt too poor
to raise a disturbance or hammering
out just an existence in mills or fac
tories.
I'VE are going to have an opening
day some of these days" explained Mr.
MounDay. when that day comes. those
who have purchased land will find tie
big dams constructed and the water
ready TO turn on. The tracts will all be
sold. None will be on the market at
that time.
spent the year 1908 in New Mexico.
saw the wonderful results the miracles
performed by soil, sunshine and water
and / have been wanting ard watching
for an opportunity to make another
visit. That's why I am repairing Try
line and reel. packing my grip a month
ahead OF time to spend a couple Of
weeks and some money in the lard of
sunshine and silver and see what Il
bound to become one of the greatest
sugar producing sections of the coun.
try.