Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1915-04-08
AN IMPORTANT
DISCOVERY

discovery has been made, every
body wonders that nobod
thought of it before.
A discovery has been made re
Gently which comes within thi
category.
The albuquerque Herald ha
discovered the Estancia valley
This comes within the cate
CORY mentioned, because the
Herald itself expresses amaze
ment that it had not before beer
thought of.
This discovery is probably
traceable primarily to the &C
tivities of Ralph C. Ely, receiver
of the New Mexico Central rail.
road.
The Herald prints quite g
lengthy and very able editorial
on the subject, in which it thinks,
among other things, that a CO.
operative. creamery here is not
likely to prove a financial sue
cess. That question may be de-
bated, and we will say in passing
that it depends wholly upon the
management. But as to the
other grounds taken in the Her.
aid editorial there is no room for
debate.
The Herald closes its remarks
on the creamery question as fol-
lows:
There is no reason on earth
why the Estancia valley. farmers
should have to think of a cream
cry of their own. The Albu-
querque creamery is big enough
to take care of al the milk that
the farmers of central New
Mexico can supply. 1t has es-
tablished its market and it can
pay the farmers of the Estancia
valley a better price for their
cream than they can ever hope
to get from a little local con-
Germ"
Further, the editorial proceeds
on the general question:
The trouble is that the Es-
tancia valley farmers do not
know much about Albuquerque,
or it's creamery or anything else
concerning the business oppor-
tunities and the favorable trade
connections which might be
formed with this city. If the
farmers over the mountains
know that we have a creamery
here, it is as of something dim
and a long way off; save perhaps
with regard to the few with
whom the creamery people have
effected a personal connection. "
After saying that the trade of
the valley now goes to Santa Fe,
the editorial recites the facts
that might be urged why this is
natural, adverts to the further
fact that Santa Fe has made
some effort to get the trade, and
closes as follows:
Albuquerque, on the other
hand, has shown not the slight
est interest in the existence of
an Estancia valley. The road
from this city to Estancia, while
interesting as an exhibit of
mountain scaling, has no value
whatever as highway for the
hauling of freight, and the daily
automobile which should be haul
ing in cream from the valley
farms to the Albuquerque cream
cry is not doing so because, if it
were possible for such an auto
mobile to get through at all, the
butter manufactured by the
churning process enroute would
be rancid before it ever reached
this city.
Santa Fe is going after this
business and Albuquerque is not.
And in the meantime an energet
ic little empire builder is STIRRING
things up in the Estancia valley
and fixing things so that what
ever the difficulties encountered,
there will be quick and impor
tant growth and development
there in the very near future.
The business of the Estancia
valley is not to be sneezed at and
it is just one of several districts
the trade of which has been tax
en- away from this city because
we have made no effort whatever