flour and grain from the east," and in Las Vegas, the "City of the 

 Meadows," it is estimated that 200 car loads of flour, 100 of corn 

 and 75 of vegetables are consumed each year. 

 The fact is that 



EVEKY DAY IN THE YEAR, 



trains of cars roll into the territory, through the Raton tunnel and 

 across the Colorado of the west, laden with the products of other 

 states, which we are to consume and for which we are to pay, 

 while every one of them could be produced in great abundance 

 and of better quality by our own people. The sum which we 

 annually pay for simply the articles which I have enumerated 

 during these remarks amounts to over $1,200,000. 



These would be sad articles, if caused by any lack of capacity 

 for production in JSTew Mexico; as it is they are simply suggestive 

 and instructive ones. And the lesson which they teach is a double one. 



Firstly, they should bean inspiration and incentive to our own 

 people to utilize to a far greater extent the resources and advant- 

 ages which they possess. 



And secondly, they show by absolute figures that can not lie, 

 that New Mexico presents attractions to the industrious and 

 energetic immigrant which are unknown elsewhere. 



The man who goes to Dakota may raise an abundance of 

 wheat, but there is no local demand for the crop when matured, 

 and in order to find a market he must send it to Chicago or some 

 other center of trade. He is at the mercy of the railroad?, for his 

 product has to bear long transportation, before it reaches any con- 

 sumer. The value of that product oa ths ground is the price in 

 Chicago, less the freight and various charges. 



The raiser of corn in Kansas, is in a similar plight. 



There is no home demand for his product. Every one has the 

 same, and all have a surplus. To be turned into money, it also must 

 go to a more eastern market and be governed by prices there. 

 He, as well as his Dakota brother, is at the mercy of those 

 who control transportation, and the value of his corn is the price 

 in the eastern market, less the cost of transportation, the com- 

 missions and charges. Many a time, as is well known, corn is so 

 cheap and coal so high, that its most profitable use is to be 

 burned as fuel. 



In New Mexico all this is reversed. 



