Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — An American Boer Colony. [ARTICLE]

An American Boer Colony.

General Pieraon, a representative of the Boers of the Transvaal South Africa, has been touring the Southwestern lines of the Santa Fe with aZyiew of locating a larg#> number of Boer families in this country. It is understood that General Pierson's report will be especially favorable to the Pecos Valley, New Mexico, a locality which is coming into prominence es a fruit and agricultural section of great promise Portions are already well irrigated and greater developments are under way. The climate resembles that of South Africa, and the conditions of soil, etc., are also such as the Boers are already acquainted with.