Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
Prominent Men from Middle
West Interested in Miinbres
Valley Lands; New Town Of
Miesse Booming.

Especial CorFenponaeaes a. ere tseralal
DeminR. y. NJ. July s.-~The party
81 buyers that Mr. &. II. Nienae
brought down from Illinois and Indls
am returned home Yesterday and to-
dhy The total amount Of sales made
was t2u acrea Of land with water de.
yeiupcd. one-third seeded 10 alfalfn al
ti00 an acre, the amount paid for the
same being $4,000.
Mr.. J b. lamp. ~ Livingston
county. Illinois. bought 100 acres and
WIN move here within the next few
months 10 occupy ana improve the
same Mr.. G. r. Goldsmith % tho
same county. prominent farmer and
afterwards editor 81 one OF the local
papers, bought so acres and win soon
move here 60 live. y NJ. Sterling from
DIXON. H.. bought 100 acres and viii
likely move here to engage In the
business OF putting renters on hiH land
Mr. Sterling saws that he has a
brother M California who has bought
~ $500 an acre land which he would
not exchange for land purchased In
the MimhFeH valley for aio0 an acre.
AR. D. ~. shirk 81 MillodRville. m. "A
prominent merchant. purchased 80
acres and h preparing 10 move here
Ia the near future. j. +. Wilson. a
Grant county, Indiana farmer, pur-
chased 80 acres Of land and will soon
have Q renter on the same. Mr.. 5. j..
Butler OF Grant county Indiana. pur-
chased 10 acres. and has returned to
get his wife and family In Indiana. Mr..
Butler has travelled all over the Unit
ed states and Canada looking nj az
ricnltural land and does not hesitate
10 pronounce the Mlmhres valley the
best proposition he has ever seen. Mr
T. W Winters. who was here with his
wife. purchased 40 acres In addition 60
lands which he purchased some
months ago. lie also bought 80 acres
for his nephew who will be here IN a
short time.
Each Of the above mentioned also
purchased from one 10 ten town lots
IN the town Of Miesse.
In addition 30 the above sales kIr
g, r.. Bailey manager for the MINI
bres Valley Alfalfa Farms company,
in Chicago. bought 80 acres.
Lumber "a on the ground for the
new hotel az Mlesse. and another 40
SO Rumiey tractor was taken out TO
the land yesterday. a store house for
storing oil and machinery Is heinz
erected "a the main camp. and olso a
Commissary. one hundred and sixty
acre 81 beans are being planted. AZ
the present time thirty teams and az
many men are engaged IN this work.
tue ANhNAhfH hlf NNAU NWhh hAfNhfNN
land for alfalfa, goo acres OF which
will he planted during the months OF
August and September.
r. n. McFeatters president Of the
Mimbres Valley Alfalfa Farms com
pany. also president Of the Union
Railway company OF Pennsylvania, ar
rived this morning 10 inpect the work
which the company has had In prog
ress now for several months Win
this. and also n stakeholder and d.
rector 90 the company IL y. G. Brown,
chief civil engineer Carnegie steel
company, Pittsburg. pa. These gem
tlemeu will spend several days In the
valley investigating conditions With n
special reference TO the work being
done by their company.
Farmers Buy fIel OH.
The Mimbres Va. ~ Farmers nsso-
citation unloaded Us FIRST car Of fuel
oil into n new $4,000 gallon brick IN
dergrOund tank by gravity system
this morning This fuel oil is being
rotailed az GM cents To meet the dc
mands 81 various farmers who nave
fuel oil engines. The most popular
fuel. however. In the valley n the So
called 3S-i0 or No. ? which rotnils NJ
z y cents last Saturday l903 gallons
~ No. were sold 20 consumers. The
largest amount 81 oil sold In one day
was above 5000 gallons on June ifth.
The sale Of stock continues, and
there has been now something Ike
$4,000 worth 81 stock paid In The
company's business each day averages
considerably over Si00 and with the
small advance ~ cent per gallon