| Show k I I A KAVOUIil < SECTION I 11 Eultiutlcstlc Itcport of Upiiorluulllcs iu ban Juan Counij is Jl I to jACktON Ban Juan Co I I New Mexico I To tho Killton i Since returning home last August I I ban many times thought of writing I nn article for the benefit ol the many I anxious rcaderiof the DESLRET News I describing the many natural resourctu I I ol this part of our fair land Now Mexico you know IB I Ibo Bun blue Btatr and lor Ibo past three I and R hall years until Ian August there baa been almost perpetual sunshine sun-shine But the day alter my arrival i homo we had a heavy rain itorm 4 and for two months afterwards It I i rained hard nearly every week I The latter part ot the all and until January IStn theta was no maw at all and tbe climate was ro pleasant and warm that men worked out ol W doors with their cents oil most all day I tango nearly every day But on the i II tit of January It began to rain and on the morning of the 12th wo had I about throe Inches of now here on tbe Laplalia Toe frost la about all out off 1 of-f the ground and we cu commence plowing ai eoou ai It I gets dry emu IL The I around la iu excellent condition arid good crop ae certain this year For the three years crops have bn almola failure here on the lower I Iiaplattaon account of thadroUth mad umuquently this little breach ol the 1 liurnbam ward has been almost I vacated but now a good class of people are moving back here to redeem this pace I Elder William Halls of Mancos and Bishop L C llurntaam from Fruit land were here last week aud held meetings with Ibo people and they assured us Met henceforth our labors would not be lu vain Trio Jackson canal which Was built five years ago and which bus been rf but little uie to the people who built It with a very Illlle repairing will bo In excellent condition tulurolah Muter for the reservoir and for nil tile cultiVated culti-vated laud lu Ibo community The reservoir Is I now over twelve feet high and will bo raised II vu Ret higher title montbaod wills I Lhostifermhuadmacoo water that II jWr by until the la ot July almftevtry yearsthe rvulr Will hi tilled und held lu reno until the I hk I ttr part tot Ihetuninur wbuilt 1 wlif lurnlih uiilclent wator for ouo or two grod wateilngi Welch will limire a I Volta cop 01 loou aud Iho corn croI Without the riurvblr unloosen It 10 L ulIo culay mall gralus cn bo uiBlutedbeloiu the water tails In the weeks San Ibo i r < duettjii li a metbln Wonderful Uo Tbiru Is tcarooly au acre ot Und on trio lower Liplstta that Jill not produce forty buihoJs ol small Crulo 1 Solid trip most 01 it 1 will nrtfduci 1 Train sixty tu HKbty bestial nraLiu I Up t be IrtUt hXulaAveuLiY Lcitn ibluk JUI acre u u I J culli vated I till pact out there ute from 1010 l > utlO naive ul just rood r-ood laud ni thut now cultivated ye I V to bo cleared oil and cultivated which will certainly be done lu the near future for such land as this will So t be left to lay Idle as IODU II We can convince people t nt wauf li a sure Ihlug Six months ag > cultivated land c ulJ have been naught on time for about one half what II would take now to boy Ho and a water tight In tin canal culd have been bought for 76 below oint but at present Hick lu the ditch and reservoir Is i worth anyway 50 cent on tbe dollar an 1 by next mil I fool certain that land and water will double 10 values far no on as the rot ervulr prove tu be a succeiwblcb we know u will Ou ninny will want to buy but t few will sell at all At present there me three or cur quarter sections open for only whlon I do wish could in eecurJ ny > me poor nluIOOIrIU like myself who have come boon broke suit defiring to get a tiscou of laud for oolnllII auce Now If I the alliance Ir quail fellow I know of several who rebate i with me on tbo IsUuda woo wouli 1 believe eel that they bad small fir tunes it they were hero wllh me today I closed the bargain tell morning with it Brother Joseph B Bralth for his culm to tills purler section am ou which ban a ttuall house of turee rooms on Its a liable corral hen house end has thirtylive acres of rich bulioM land Cleared II udwhich lm CI water right lu I the canal willi II all ui lybloli I not for 100 with three Years to pay II lu There are other placoi not so fallen Improved that 1 cUllld hn got much cheaper and Hill other places not Improved I could I have taken ui but us 1 believe I can live on Ihe place and pay for It without oraraplug myself lu the least I t I ireferieJ this Piece already Improved I Uood Pinion and cedar wiod can begot be-got In great abundance within I brand br-and a half allied aud coal can bv ROL within eight miles for 1 per ton at Ibo mine tiuch au opening at Presents Itself for por honest lujustrious WD 1 never saw befortl Our nutllemeut hate Is four miles from tIe mouth ol llbo creek aud thirteen miles from Finland and lIe mile train FArmIng Iou and a better location for a nice otllmol I have never eon though I have waudurud around much over tho arid regions ot tho Wild WCAV Out climate our soil and our natural advantages are becomf It one In all this mountain country llli 1 Just one tblcg wo arc In need oil anti that Is low good faithful Industrious Indus-trious famlllep men like myself wlhlbg to get a home and fatuity Our county Kriv rum lit eo our district JUJuo told ui Is I the best In oil Now lIioalD arid our schools are touch better this Year titan avor Lateral arid wenreRoUg to labor hard lo make Hum tuual TOADY 10 the laud The health tbo people li I quad and I prosperity Seems tu stare ut la the face Holt Ho-lt ulll smile upon usa 1 us-a wit IIlOu bond mud my Cum to OJ all Yet weary Berm Is oce tooseyo m ttJ J in b all I 1 It1111 To And ii ftku one hoities I a balsam I I Tile Local tin alt the lntiO Hold Jatkiou there la I alto another an-other opening for ODor wu good settlements set-tlements hero ouarnultr tho river About en miles above hure tube Is u IMerall about lour miles 1014 by alto mile wide wit 11418 I lo level I that water would ruu eauth lor there titan a mile it a Stretch wUteut leyellug the loud at all from one side ol the bench to the otuer and fur close than tlQJ worth ol r work o largo man which covers a lower beucn of laud J IW could be brought up auJ across me Upper cud 01 overbaif of title butull ml piece of country and itlll there is another ditch nurvejed above this one which could be built tot not more than tiUUO which will over tile whole of until Mean liven this Isnt oiltho lower ditch aboo mDllond ba boot surveyed clear ever Into IbIS head of the large dry valley north ot Irult land when sooner or latter another reservoir nlil bo built which will bs filled Irom this large ditch durluj the winter and spring mouth anti this furnish Itu for ihouiauui of acres 01 beautiful level rich land Ob why dont runs Uk Kdvaulage ol these gulden opiortunltlet As Uuer ilrlgbam Vonn told me lust hummer Wrills JVli 1 country and nil It wants to develop It la I men will teams aud tblr bread they donlhoJ money Why do men lay around walling for others who have rustled to give them u lOb crying hard Unite ll we cnot be silver iDd the Ifold h locked uli j If we would wo could earn our bread by the sweat of our brows raise Cattle hone sheep bogs poui trj etc find besides raising what we want to cat wo could If we would establlib factories tanneries and mills anti thus ha liilte uujent of this outside world Your brother In the UpI I > LVU II 11U1INHAU |
