El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-09
GREAT RESOURCES Of NEW MEXICO
ARE BEING DEVELOPED RAPIDLY
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elected president Of the New Mexico
| School of Mines, is going TO arrange
for a mineral display at the state fair
| which We hope may become the nucleus
of a permanent exhibit to be properly
/ housed on our new grounds. When 1
was in Gallup was astonlshed to learn
that they shipped an average of more
than 100 carloads of coal out of that
camp every day That is three trains
every day. Put into one train it would
almost be a mile long and a years out
FL Paso way beyond Albuquerque.
The casual visitor to New Mexico has
no conception of our industries.
New MexicO's Big Market.
Every little while some fellow says
to me. what are you going to do with
all that alfalfa when il comes into full
production? Where are you going to
sell your potatoes and your beans and
your cabbages and your butter and
your eggs when as much of It is pro-
duced as you are talking about| But
If they stop to realize that every bit
of coal that has to be dug by labor
and hauled by teams and transported
on trains operated by nonprOducing
trainmen and that Gallup. Dawson and
the other coal camps are pouring out
an almost endless stream of black
diamonds and that Magdalena and
Hurley and Santa Rita and the MogO-
of mining camps where the base and
precious metals are produced are
furnishing employment to thousands
of operatives, who are today fed on
the products of Kansas, Colorado and
California Ihe realizes that Kansas
City, Chicago, New York and Boston
are not the only markets, but that we
can never fully supply the market
which we have right at home
Marketing Properly.
"Portales probably furnishes the best
example in the state of a community
actively engaged in the production of
cantaloupe. The commission houses
are represented there and they are
each shipping carloads every day of
the most luscious melons. Batches of
from an acre to so acres are encount-
the country and the farmers are nett
ing approximately a hundred dollars
an acre from this industry. The
marketing problem is serious through
out the state and the state fair com
mission hopes that the mingling of
the producers from the various sec
lions at the state fair may lead TO a
better acquaintance and the general
for better scheme of marketing which
may be of general advantage
Americas Best Meat Range.
The space which will be occupied
by the farmers in New Mevico is rel
atively so small and the areas devoted
other livestock so tremendous that
there will be no cessation in these
magnificent industries. In almost
every community producing foraging
crops 1 ran on to some man who either
has been or is going to begin feeding
hoping to furnish the local market
with finished beef at the present pre-
vailing high prices. Our ranges are
the best breeding grounds in America
am told, there being q higher per
centage of increase here than any
where else. The increasing interest
in the feeding of baby beef through
limited ri -
expense at which forage crops can be
produced for the silo. together with
the almost unequalled yield of alfalfa
from our irrigated lands makes this
business very inviting. We hope to
have some stock calves at the fair
ready to go into the feeding lot. to-