Viewing page 5 of 32

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[underline]] Grapes [[/underline]], concords, raisin grapes, Malagas.

[[underline]] Peaches[[/underline]], albertas,

[[end page]]
[[start page]]

[[underline]] To Farmington [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Oct. 19 [[/underline]], Left Birdseye at the ranch near Fruitland to work for a week or two and packed up and started for Farmington, 12 miles east of Fruitland. Found good farms and orchards all along on the valley, but had to go up over dry mesa for several miles. Farmington is in a thickly settled part of the valley, is a good little town with a nice class of people, real white folks, and not so many Mormons and Indians.

The fruit crop is a little better than at Fruitland, as it is a little higher & the fruit was not quite so far along when the frost came. Still the fruit crop falls below half the usual yield. The people who have been here 8 years say this is the first failure in that time.

It is cold and windy and a little snow laid on the ground in the morning. The Chusca & Carriso Mts. are white with snow & they say there is 6 inches of snow at Durango.

Transcription Notes:
"Chusca & Carriso Mts." = Chuska and Carrizo Mts.