| Show r r Z YI t 7 i j NEW MXICO 1 3 1 iI iI I I i rrh i a VIf fIi Th457 er Ross i 0J7 t l 1 11 SHE hAS UNUSUAL DBOUTH t ti i What Hio Gov rnprJSaya r Abouriand jIltte aed Land PraIsOnv Kvm I the rii f Other Notes I The Condition of New Mexico WASHINGTON Octokerm18Eon WASIILholfcOctoQer18HOn Edmund GIlQs Governor Mexipo in his nriualr port tOtfieSecretarysof of the Interior says Daring the first half of the calendar year New Mexico in commonrwi h tl west gene allyy wea afflicted with an I unusual drbutfi inconsequence in-consequence of which the cattle w dustry Buffered seriouslys l1Agfoa1t7r e and mining also suffered though ma much less degree from thicarciry T water Since early in Jnly however how-ever the usual beginning of what ia kpownr as the rainy season rains have beeuuausuolly abundani Feed on the ranges is rood with tuck wate in good supply andcjnvement and the stock Is rapidly getting into sqeilenj condition fo ht r7xAg ultur too bas been rlectualliv benefi tld ann crops ofall kinas will be tully up to the average in the quality anI yield per acre while tht mcresse has been argely increased over that y oC the former years The fain hav in some parts ot Territory resulted in disastrous floods doing great damage dam-age to roadsand bridges and otHef property especially railroads The govfgnor refers to the plan suggested in his last r port of stft inl 5z 4i r and adds the < < teu orfmr at the hTads of sev rtilfre m pecially the tro Grande for which hamefous carryonT and aroyas are ex aeUently adapted would save a vast amounp of water sufficient to irrigate1 not vaonly the river valley proper but also the mesas or up lands l practically to the foot of the mountains on eithei sioe rutf ning parallel therewith This ne says woulo reduce to cultivation many million mil-lion of acre of productive laid nojy barren and desolate He asIor a sufficient appropriation to at least satis factorilv test this theory The cultiva lion of alfafa has become somewhat general and is invariably successful Tins grass is harvested from two to live tiuies a year the average yield at each cutting is from IJ to 2 tons per acre sand it sells in this market at an average or 15 per ton On the subject of land titles and land frauds the Governor says It Is undeniable un-deniable as shown by jhe jnyestjgfft tions of ttfe Survey rGeliexml lpBat very large areas of public lanQs amounting to many hundred thousand of acres have been illegally and fraudulently fraud-ulently absorbed in preended Spanish and Mexican grants anI that many thousand of acres of public lands are still inclosed by private fences and otherwise held in the great cattle ranges to the exclusion of small farmers in defiance not only of law but of the private right to the common occupancy and use of the public domain Governor refers to the presence of great landed estates that have been developed in the larger Spanish grants as serious and threatening evil to the welfare ot the Territory and concludes byTuTf gestins to Congress to prohibit alien ownership of lands He xpressed his satisfaction at the result I of General Miles campaign against the renegade Apaches and adds that all fear of Indian disturbances in ew Mexico is forever settled The increase in-crease of taxable property duringftite year is some seven and a halt millions the amount of the assessment for 1BST being 350000000 A growing interest being manifested bv al the people oiihe Territory in educational malters |
