Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-02-15

Tho Beautiful PeOos Valley. New
Mexico, and why You Should
Not Go There.
Nearly everybody in Elko county
knows Charley Holland to bs u re-
liable man in every particular. Char
ley went to the Pecos Valley, New
Mexico, last Summer with the inten-
ton OF making it his future home,
but short stay at Eddy convinced
him that the promoters OF the Pecos
Valley scheme were deceiving poor
people all over the country by their
flaming advertisements. In order to
prevent other dupes from falling into
the hands OF this company he has
furnished the INDEPENDENT with the
following:
When you go to Eddy the officers
OF the land company will take you
around in carriage and show you
the dams, fumes, canal, Green's ad-
dition, Hagermsn's heights and other
improvements, and escort you to the
emigration agents Office, where they
have on exhibition the largest potato,
pumpkin, squash, turnip, ear of corn
and all kinds of fruit in jars; the
finest they could pick out of every
thing raised IN the valley. They will
tell you about the beautiful climate,
rich soil and pure water, the amount
Of money the company has expended,
etc., and what they are going to do.
They sell unimproved land that
cost them slips per acre for from $40
to $50 per acre with water right and
charge S1.25 per acre water rent, and
il settler buys ~ acres and cult.
Yates ten he will have to pay rent on
the whole forty.
The county is undertake with gyp-
sum, and when 1t comes near the sur.
face tho land is good for nothing. If
you take pinch Of the soil in Eddy
in your mouth it will burn like potash.
The river water is full OF allxali
potash and salts, and a glass Of it
will physic a person in fifteen minutes.
The water from the Black river 10
used in the engines on the railroad,
and it eats the hues out of the boilsrs
in ninety daya. They have three
locomotives and it is all they eau do
to keep one in repair to run the road
of ninety miles. The water used in
the town of Eddy is hauled in wagons
and is so bad that all who use it are
troubled with bowel complaints.
Mr.. Emigration Agent Shields will
tell you what beautiful climate they
have, that the sun shines $40 days in
the year, etc., but he forgets to say
anything about the sand storms they
have from the LIST Of March to the lat
OF May every year, and come years for
even longer period. I was told that
during great deal Of that time the
sand and dust would DO so thick that
lamps would have to be lighted in
the houses in the day time for people
to SEQ. r-H.
When ] was there in September and
October, the schools were closed On
account Of diphtheria and fevers. AS
near as could learn there were 1900
people in Eddy and they furnished
business for four doctors, while IL the
town was anywhere near az healthy
US they represent it to be, il would
not support more than one ply stefan
l The first few days person is there
he will be favorably impressed with
the outlook, ,but the longer he stayl
and investigates the coil, water and
climate, the less he will think Of it
| Generally along the rivers Of tht
United States where the bottom
lands overflow they are the richest
but IL you cover land with water from
the Pecos river, the, sediment of al
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