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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ion:Capt. J. P. Casey from a ranch of 112^ acres, 100 acres of whichare in alfalfa, one-half mile north of Las Cruces, while he w^asits owner, had an average income per year since 1896 of §6,000.J. L. Wilson of Rosweh sold $800 worth of tomatoes from a twoacre lot on which the net profit was §550. Samuel Johnson ona three acre lot at Roswell raised $2,500 worth of truck, one-half of which was profit. George Davis from thirteen acres offruit in Chaves county in one year sold §1,807 worth. J. C. Leaof Roswell in an off year for apples, sold §90 worth of this fruitfrom eight trees. A. J. Gilmour of Flora Vista, San Juan coun-ty, sold §600 worth of onions from one acre. W. H. Williams ofSan Juan county harvested 350 tons of alfalfa from sixty acres.W. H. Knight of Farmington sold 500,000 pounds of fruit froman eighty acre orchard, receiving on the tree, one cent a poundfor apples, two cents a pound for grapes and three cents forprunes. He had one peach tree that yielded 700 pounds at
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 87 one bearing. Andrew Stevenson of the San Juan Valley, re-ceived $3,200 from the alfalfa crop of 100 acres. W. M.Farmer of Roswell made §6,000 from twenty acres of celery.At the United States Industrial Indian School in Santa Fe onthree-fourths of an acre 11,800 pounds of the best onions wereraised in 1902, giving the school its entire winter supply of thisimportant food vegetable and which if bought in the marketwould have cost four cents per pound or $472. The Territo-rial penitentiary at Santa Fe on a plat of five acres raised suf-ficient vegetables of all varieties to supply the officials and in-mates, about 300 in number, all the year around, with theexception of potatoes and tomatoes. The following wereamong some of the exhibits at recent agricultural fairs in theTerritory: Barley seven feet high: oat heads thirty incheslong; apples weighing each twenty-eight ounces and sixteeninches in circumference; pears nineteen ounces; peachestwelve ounces; Muscat g

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