Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-01-21

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Santa F6.-In 1915, for the first
time In history, New Mexico produced
more than $2O.00O,0O0 worth OF ore;
for the first time, the value of pro
duction by It's farms and ranches eX-
ceeds SlO.OOO,O 900. Add to this the
production of It's ten million acres OF
forest area, of its shops, mills and
factories, It's home industries and the
total exceeds 100000 900, and that,
too, for the first time, says the Al
buqueruue Journal.
In other words, the year OF 1915.
despite adverse conditions elsewhere
IN the world, has been II oi great
development, OF growth and prosper
ity. Fifteen years ago, the taxable as
sessment of New Mexico was si2,-
zoe, 900: this year II ls S305, $1,000;
fifteen years ago the population was
1875. 900; today II is $4,000; fifteen
years ago. New Mexico had 1871
farms; today II has $4,000; fifteen
years ago, the ensus gave the value
of all farm property at $53, 7G7 ,S2i;
ten years later. at 1853, ~, 800; today
il exceeds Il quarter OF u billion dol.
lars. Fifteen years ago New Mexico
produced Sl5i 900 worth Of eggs;
five years ago, $500 this year,
s750.0O0. The value of manufactured
products fifteen years ago vas
$2,fGt 900. five years ago. S7.7l3.000;
this year II exceeds $4,000 900. Five
years ago, the production of all the
mines aud quarries was S5,jS7 300;
last year the production Of gold, sill.
yer, copper, zinc and lead alone, was
$ti,Oi9.932; OF coal. $G,230,S7l, and
this year, tho total mineral production
exceeds s20,000,00 sim, the sur.
face Is merely scratched aud instead
Of 100000 tons OF coal. the state
might produce 10000. 900 tons q wear
and still have enough TO last two cen.
turtles more
An Agricultural State.
When II Is considered that of an
area exceeding 5000, 900 acres only
half a million acres are dnder lrriga
ton, then II may well be doubted that
New Mexico Is an agricultural state.
Nevertheless, the product OF It's farms
exceeds that of It's mines, manufacture.
ing and numbering industries taken
together. Fifteen years - along
COO miles of the Santa FG railroad In
eastern New Mexico and adjoining
country, not II single shipment of
wheat was received. This year. TO-.
900 cars OF wheat were shipped from
points along the sam line. Ten years
ago, eastern Mora and ColfaX coun.
ties were a drouth-stricken wilder.
ness. From the little town OF Roy
alone this year, ten cars of beans
we're shipped In one week. last fall.
and five wheat elevators have been
built In It's immediate vicinity this
year to handle the wheat Stoam plows
and tractors have displaced the prlm.
tive sheep and goathcrlcrs and an.
tOmohlles the numbering s%chooners.
Twenty years ago. but few moro than
1000 tax receipts were issued In the
entire state; this year that many have
been Issued h> the treasurer OF Quay
county alone
This winter Ia beinG completed the
Rio Graude irrigation project, which
win furnish water for 25O,O1o acres
on an area equal TO one halt the tota.
under irrigation now IN tho entire
state. This Is but an intimntiou of Tia,
Transformation that e. being wrought
ln the southwest.
Scientific Farming.
Another actor Is the scientific dr.,
farmer Twenty thousand persons
filed on government land In New Mex
leo the past year ana most OF then
engaged In dry farming. Despite pes
simistic predictions, most OF them hat
good crops, many OF them are supple
menting their crops with products
hom small dairies and poultry farms