Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-04-01
MELROSE AND ITS
OPPORTUNITIES
Eastern New Mexico Town
Has Largest Body Of Good
Tributary Land in State.
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Mclroso. n. ~, March 2s.--Mclroao
Is on the Belen cut on. about forty
miles west of the Texas line. ana IL
surrounded by the largest body of
good land tributary 10 any town IN
New Mexico, and Is pronounced by
one OF the great commercial agencies
ohave the best trading area in that
part OF the state.
The possibilities OF this point. as
foresoon by the santa ne. are clearly
evident from the fnc large station
which the company placed here at
the founding OF the town, March.
19OG.
Since then, Developments on tho
Isthmus OF Panama and discoveries
IN the line OF agricultural possibilities
have been laying firm and deep the
foundations of this town. Tho app
prOachlng opening OF the canal has
forced great railways TO seek bee
line connections between California
ana the Texas quiz coast. Meirose is
In the heart of the most promising
large body OF shallow water land
touched by the cut offs OF the Santa
Re and the Frisco systems.
ressful daily operation draw many
long trains a day through this town
and the through Pullman service OF
the Frisco - az the DALI command
OF It's citizens.
In a few years that span the history
OF the town there has developed an
asset that was little considered at the
start when Its dealers were busy
marketing the i0-bushel corn crops
obtained from its sod land, this asset
being the thousands and thousands of
acres of shallow water lands triD-
utary to the place.
The Melrose trade area is twenty
miles in width and over forty in
length, north and southland all
good, with remarkable oyonness on
the north. at a distance OF forty miles.
lie the "cap-rOcks." which virtually
bar other towns from trespassing up
on tho Melrose preserves" Ali
that vast territory belongs TO Mel
rose, without cayil, while 20 the south
and southwest lie still other large
areas.
And ali the land Is good.
Except that some OF Il has an
abundance OF water so close TO the
surface that 1t is very good. And
herein lies that Unforeseen asset.
The pump has never been made.
that cannot be made still more effee-
tive. Already the pumpmen nave
solved tho problem OF profitable ir-
rigntion for the depths that concern
thousands and thousands Of those
aercs--and there is no finer land
under any sun.
In the wake OF this discovery and
this Development has come the indus
try that has made districts On Colo
RADIO both rich and famous. This Is
the beet sugar industry.
Tests OF the soil and OF the beets
shown here, both with and without
irrigation. have convinced the power
ful interests back of the great sugar
companies that pumping facilities are
all this section needs 20 develop here
greater triumphs Ia sugar making
than es'en Colorado has known, For
the superlatve sunshine enjoyed
here. in spite OF the tompering effect
Of the altitude. produces beet OF
higher sugar content than grown In
any other cline where the industry
has yet been developed.
During the past harvest season
beets were carried In car lots past
Melrose 10 the distant factories Of
Kansas and Colorado.
AZ result, contracts are now being
signed by which a strong sugar COM
pany undertakes 10 sink wells. In
stall pumps. buy the beets and 10
manufacture sugar here In this val
ley. giving the farmers long time and
easy payments upon the wells and
the pumping equipments
As a corollary, the sub-lrrigatlOn
system has received a EF4at impetus
aud plant has been frbit IA here
for the manufacture and sale, alsO on
easy time, payments. OF aubterranean
systems or cement and tile. b. which
the more limited supply OF some
wells worked BY windmills can be
made 20 furnish wealth TO the careful
smali-tract farmers.
Meanwhile other areas are DEM
onstrating that. where the irrigation
facilities are not yet installed, the
crops Of broom corn are such that
Melrose confidently looks forward TO
cOntesting successfully with the best
Of Oklahoma and other broom corn
sections. the supremacy for both
quantity and quality Of this product.
Those who have always predicted
that cotton would become profitable
began To see the fulnllment OF their
prophecy in the persistence and sue.
cess with which a few are developing
a lnoal strain Of cotton seed,
Those who have seen what the COW
has done for other sections ana have
continued 10 agitato that matter, are
now enjoying the rapidly with which
the local farmers are grasplng the re-
markable opportunities offered here
IN the dairy lines
This Is unQuestionably the ideal
cow-cilmate and the enormous yields
OF forage crops here, when given the
proper care ana properly fed, make
this. az one visiting Wisconsin dairy
man declared, a dairymau's para
disc Under the leadership of the
local paper this section 10 already de-
veloping rapidly along these lines.
Already creameriea are reaehing
gladly into the Melrose area for its
cream and u has become merely "a
matter Of speculation as 90 when both
crcamerlos and condensovies Viii be-
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