consumption everywhere, but if we carry on the investigation, and 

 look at those which may be considered of minor importance, we 

 will see that the same results are found of importations when 

 we should not only supply ourselves but export in large quantities. 



Everywhere in New Mexico where industry chooses to employ 

 itself in the raising of vegetables, they are produced in great 

 perfection. 



A glance at the Exhibition hall will show you this. The sole 

 exception is the potato; and while that does not succeed in some 

 localities, it is more than ordinarily productive and excellent in 

 others. 



Everyone employed in the cultivation of vegetables h'nds the 

 business most profitable, and yet the Santa Fe line alone brought 

 1,491 tons of vegetables from abroad into the territory last year, 

 for consumption here. 



Perhaps the most startling exhibit is that regarding fruit. 

 New Mexico is beyond contradiction, the 



BEST SECTION IN THE UNITED STATES, 



we might almost say in the world, for both orchards and vineyards. 

 Whenever we send our fruit to markets in which it meets that of 

 California or other states, it is greatly preferred, and the New Mex- 

 ico product, of identical varieties, brings a price from 20 to 40 per 

 cent higher than that received by its rivals. We ought to export 

 enough fruit to pay for all our inports of every kind, and yet dur- 

 ing the last year, the Santa Fe route brought into the territory 

 408,000 pounds of green fruit and 675,000 pounds of canned 

 goods. This came from the eastward, and the A. & P. railroad 

 more than doubled the importation by bringing no less than 1,- 

 354,000 pounds of fruit in various forms from the west. Thus 

 over 2,000,000 pounds of fruit were actually brought into this land 

 of the peach, the apple and the grape, in a single year. Within ten 

 days I asked the news-boy who was carrying a basket of juice- 

 less peaches through a west bound train not far from this very 

 city, where they were raised, and he said "California." "Where 

 did you get them?" said I. "In Kansas City," he answered, A 

 similar inquiry as to the apples which soon followed, showed that 

 they came from Missouri. Think of it! Right here in the Rio 

 Grande valley, with its fruit of highest flavor, had the insipid 



