Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1916-12-07
LOCAL MATTERS
OF INTEREST

Work horses for sale. j. ]
Smith.
Mr.. Kesinger will move
Alamogordo shortly.
Cleofes Romero returned Mon
day from a trip to Santa Fe.
Jenson & Pace's bean ship
ments this week will be six cars
L. P Walter, the Negra mer
chant, was over Monday as ;
witness in court.
Receiver Ely and Superintend
ent Friday were here last Friday
looking after railroad business.
Rev. Grant has bought an au
tomobile, and the jokers are say
ing he should have bought a sub
marine.
j. R. Burton, manager of the
Estancia Lumber Co., made q
trip to Albuquerque and Santa
Fe the first of the week.
Mrs. Acasio Gallegos and
children of Torreon returned Fri
day from Lincoln county, where
they had been for some time.
When selecting Christmas
present, get something useful
See the display of genuine
aluminium and china ware at Es-
tancia Lumber Co. store.
B. w. Means writes that he
has been re appointed as mission
ary in his present location, and
that some of his relatives have
presented him with an automo-
bile to travel in,
J. J. White of Mountainair
came over Monday and shipped
out three cars of beans which he
had bought of growers in this
vicinity. He has two more cars
on hand to ship from here.
John Block says he did pretty
well in bean raising this season.
His old ground-that is, ground
that had been continuously
farmed for several years. yielded
LOO pounds to the acre. The
ground that had been growing
to weeds several years yielded
only 500 to 700 pounds. In other
words, Mr.. Block got off of his
clean ground above SIS per acre,
and from the foul ground $35 to
$50.
The Milbourns were delivering
their beans the first of the week,
having sold at $3.50. They were
hauling with the tractor, bring
ing 5000 pounds per trip. They
were in dry streak this year
got very light rainfall-and so
their crop was not good one for
this year. Their 85 acres made
a yield of $50 pounds to the acre
81, ,750 pounds in all. But
even at this, their bean crop
brought them SEATS an acre,
which isn't so bad.
C. P. May brought in jag of
white beans yesterday-fifteen
sacks-that brought him $135. 90.
He got sc a pound for them. His
bean crop was poor this year,
The cut worms, the flea beetles
and the ladybird beetles each
took a whack at it, and he had
but $4,000 pounds. The high
prices will compensate some
what, though, as he will get just
about 81, 900 for his beans. He
had fine corn crop.
W. 7. Cosand of Haviland,
Kansas, who owns land in the
Estancia Valley, in a letter to the
ws-Herald, among other
things has the following to say:
Il do not know of a section of
the country now, where land is
producing the returns that some
of it is there, that can be bought
at the prices prevailing there. |
am aware that the past season
has been very favorable for crops
generally and that prices are the
best ever, but will say | believe
a good per cent of your land
there would, if scientifically
farmed, bring better revenue
per acre than can possibly be OBJ
tained from land here which is
rated at $40 to $50 per acre. l
am figuring and scheming to the
best of my ability to get loose
here so | can locate out there,
and am fully expecting to make
it within another year, altho
NAV have to make some sacrifice
that do not like to Wheat was
a fair crop here this year. but
corn almost a failure. am
planning and hoping to be val
ley farmer SOON
]. P. Dunlavy was here last
week on business. He is now
located at Trinidad, Colorado.
He took an active mart in politics