With  the  construction  of  the  proposed  railway  will  immediately
follow  the  installation  of  immense  beet-sugar  refineries,  canning
establishments,  flour  and  oatmeal  mills,  planing  and  saw  mills,  and
various  other  important  industries,  raw  material  for  which  will  come
from  the  surrounding  country.  One  item  alone,  i.  e.,  pease,  will  fur-
nish to  a  cannery  over  1,000,000  pounds  per  annum,  equal  to  as  many
cans  as  pounds,  and  of  as  fine  a  quality  and  delicious  a  flavor  as  any
imported  French  x)ease.  The  Mora  pea  can  be  bought  for  1  cent  per
X)Ound,  and  it  requires  but  little  arithmetical  effort  to  figure  between
the  cost  and  profit  on  an  article  at  1  cent  per  pound  for  raw  material
and  25  to  30  cents  per  can  for  the  merchantable  product.  Beans  in
^reat  quantities  are  also  grown  in  all  the  valleys  of  western  Mora
County,  and  they  will  assuredly  prove  an  additional  industry  to  that
of  canning  pease,  especially  as  the  New  Mexico  market  is  now  clamor-
ing for  both  of  them.  A  very  heavy  export  business  can  be  trans-
acted, and  both  canned  "pease  and  beans  will  readily  sell  in  all  Eastern
cities.
