Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1915-03-25
ELY THINKS WELL
OF THE VALLEY

Ndlpu ". Ely, receiver LOT TIT
New Mexico Central railroad
last week made a tour of thu
Estancia valley, accompanying /;
party of experts from the agri
cultural departments of the state
agricultural college on a prelimi
nary tour aimed at the eventua
establishment of a farm demon.
strator in Torrance county, tc
serve the farming districts trib.
utary to Willard, Estancia, Mo.
riarty, and other towns along
the line of the Central.
Mr., Ely has come back from
this trip greatly encouraged over
the prospects for the develop
ment of the Estancia valley,
which he declares will be placed
on stable basis by an intelligent
exploitation of the known re-
sources of the land. Work, he
says, which is intelligently direc-
ted. will produce results in the
Estancia valley region, and the
assurances given him by the col
lege experts have confirmed him
in his steadfast belief that the
vast territory on the east slope of
the Manzano mountains is going
to make good.
The farmers, he said, showed
great enthusiasm over the visit
of the college experts and their
assurances of future co-opera-
ton and the tour he considers
the most profitable he ever made.
How does the Estancia valley
look to me? 1t looks mighty
good" said Mr.. Ely today. Like
every large tract of country each
locality is different from the 9TH
er one, and the land and the op-
portunities likewise vary in the
localities. The country tributary
to Progreso is different from
Willard. Willard is not a bit
like Estancia, while Estan-
cia differs from Moriarty and
Moriarty in turn differs from
Stanley, and out toward the
mountains on the west and the
plains on the east of these COM
munities, different conditions are
found than exist right close to
the towns.
However, this is generally
true: The land is excellent and
on the west side of the road par
ticularly there is very little aka
H. In large portions of the val
ley the water is abundant and
exceptionally good and within
easy pumping distance of the
surface, and l judge, from all
accounts, that there is a great
abundance of it.
The grass in that valley
makes an actual sod which is un-
usual on our plains. They tell
me that an acre will add seven
pounds to the weight of an ami
NAL in a year and while that
would not look very good in Ken
lucky it is high for New Mexico.
If man has a nice pasture aud
will put in pumping plant and
irrigate from 40 to 80 acres. nav
ing fourth to a third in alfalfa
and dividing the balance in for,
age crops of various sorts; will
make himself a pit silo and so
supplement mis- pasture during
the colder months of the year, he
can feed nice bunch of mich
cows, raise hogs and chickens
and prosper.
"At Estancia five automobile
loads of farmers drove out toward
the mountains about eight miles,
where a Mr.. Milbourn had con-
structed pit siio on his farm.
Mr.. Milbourn is thrifty man and
a worker; his farm and buildings
all look good and his stock was in
splendid condition. | heard him
tell the people that it only cost
him $40 for the cement that went
into the silo, that he and the
boys did the work Of digging,
and that it had paid for itself
many times over the first year.
During the season when the
grass is good the New Mexico
Central hauls out a good deal OF
cream, but shipments have fallen
off very materially during the
winter months, especially this
year, because of the heavy SHOWS
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