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product of California not only been brought, but actually once 

 carried past your doors to be brought back again, to sell to the 

 traveler on the cars. What can we expect the stranger to think of 

 the character of our products, when he finds fruit from the Pacific, 

 which has journeyed 4,000 miles, presented for his purchase, as he 

 passes through New Mexico! 



You live here in a city of great enterprise, surrounded by a 

 valley the fertility and productiveness of which are proverbial, 

 and yet here, midway between Bernalillo and Pajarito, both of 

 which are 



NOTED FOR THEIR APPLES, 



one single firm imported this year no less than 1,400 barrels of 

 apples from the east, and your Commercial Club reports that the 

 total amount brought into your city from beyond the territorial 

 line, was 2,500 barrels. One of the favorite products of 

 the valley, is beans, and yet of them you have imported 160,000 

 pounds. In a land of cattle, you have sent money abroad for 280,- 

 000 pounds of butter and 40,000 pounds of cheese. In the midst 

 of all that should make the raising of fowls easy and profitable, 

 you have imported 54,000 pouuds of poultry and 2,880,000 eggs. 

 You bought this last year 1,500,000 pounds of potatoes, which 

 could easily have been raised in the canons and on the foot hills. 

 At every annual fair, the wonderful exhibition of onions, so large, 

 so fair, so mild in flavor, has excited admiration, and they grow 

 so prolifically here, that it has often been said that a single acre 

 well cultivated would support the owner; yet even of onions you 

 imported 60,000 pounds from abroad. And so of all kinds of 

 vegetables, which you should be supplying to Colorado and the 

 north. A can of tomatoes or peaches seems a small thing, but 

 when you are told that in Albuquerque you imported 132,000 

 cans last year, you can imagine how many canned products were 

 consumed in the whole territory, and wonder why they were not 

 raised and prepared on our own soil. For Albuquerque is no ex- 

 ception among New Mexico towns. At Springer, close to the 

 wheat lands of the Maxwell grant, they used 379,000 pouuds of 

 foreign flour and 900,000 pounds of corn; at Wagon Mound, near 

 the Mora valley, whose wheat fields are wonders of productiveness, 

 the leading dealer imported 286,000 pounds of Hour, and writes 

 that "almost every merchant from Las Yegas northerly gets his 



