The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-05-15
PECOS VAIL
What StupendOus Work They Now Have
on Hand There.

| What StupendOus Work They Now Have
Oh Hand There.
PEcos CRY, Tex, May 12.-The battle
is fought and the victory is won. Hurrah
for Austin. Now, she will boom sure
enough, and keep on booming until she
has population of 100000. Glorious
news. Magnificent majority-13O4 to so.
What grand city you will now have on
both sides of the Colorado. Your paper
has done noble work for the citizens, and
you will reach your reward. I started
this letter to correct a mistake you had
made in your paper some days since and
tell you something of the great dam on
the Pecos just above Eddy. The red sand
stone you said came from near Ell Paso,
1t came from near Pecos City, eight miles
to the quarry. They have just finished
drilling well and they went through l4S
of that benutiful red sand stone. The
stone works very easy and can be carved
end polished very cheaply. We refer
your people to the sample shipped by your
correspondent. the Texas spring palace.
1 will send you a sample of this stone as
soon as it can be cut, and feel sure you
will admire it. The owners have thirty
hands at work at present, but as soon as
they get their machinery set up they in
tend to increase the force to 100. 1t is
now only sixty days since they started
this enterprise and they have sold over
200 hundred carloads of stone, with a good
chance to furnish the stone for the Dallas
court house, so says Madam Rumor.
The dam starts on the east bank of the
river against rock mountain and is exs
tended across to solid rock on the west
bank, being 1900 feet long, 155 feet at base
and 65 feet high. 1t forms a lake fifteen
miles long, and at the widest point eighl
miles, greatest depth of water forty feet.
The canal to convey the water to the irri-
eating bitches is cut through solid rock 30
feet wide and 30 feet deep for distance
of over 200 feet Our canal at this place |
is, main line, about eighteen miles long
with some fifteen or twenty miles of lat |
terals all completed and in good working |
order, and the county is now ready to |
turn the water on $4,000 acres of land, all |
within five miles of the town. They are
now getting things in shape to run a
fume across the river and tap large val
ley containing 70,0C0 acres of splendid
red land. and when that work is accom-
plished we will boom some ourselves. A
party of Californians who were IN town
last week, were perfectly charmed with
our bright prospects. They said, with
an assured supply of water. highest just
1t the season when you need 1t most, with
4 superb climate and an inexhaustable
soil. the future prospects OF the PecOs
valley are exceedingly promising. We
showed them oats making eighty bushels
% the acre, wheat making twenty-five
bushels to the acre, alfalfa making five
ons to the acre and the biggest beets
yrown in the United States Besides that
We could have shown them fourteen arte-
,ian wells, each well discharging water
enough to irrigate fifty one acres of land.
These wells are obtained at from 100 feet
O $50, none having been bored deeper
han 276 feet. l should have said the
wells are none over three-inch bore, which
will explain the great pressure. The
country is settling very fast, and it will
lot be great while before all the lands
ying under these irrigating bitches will
le occupied. Everyone thinks our great
st crop for the future will be the raisen
grapes.