Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-02-19
The Beautiful Pesns Valley. New
Mexico, and Why You Should
Not Go There.

Nearly everybody in Elko county
knows Charley Holland to be a re.
liable man in every particular. CHAR
ley went TO tho Pecos Valley, New
Mexico, last Summer with the inteu-
ton OF making it his future home,
but n short stay ut Eddy convinced
him that the promoters OF the Pecos
Valley scheme were deceiving poor
people all over the country by their
flaming advertisements. 10 order To
prevent other dupes from falling into
the hands OF this company he has
furnished the IsDEPxsDESr with the
following:
When you 60 TO Eddy the officers
OF tho land company will take you
around in a carriage and show You
the dams, fumes, canal, Green's ad.
dition, Hagsrman's hoights and other
improvements, and escort you 10 tha
emigration agents Office, where they
have on exhibition the largest potato.
pumpkin, squash. turnip, ear OF curn
and all kinds OF fruit 10 jars; the
finest they could pick olt Of every
thing raiss1 IN the valley. They will
tell you nbout 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 unlmproved land that
cost them el.25 per acre for from 80
TO $50 per acre with u water right and
charge Sl.25 per acre water reut, aud
il Il settler buys ~ ncrcs and culti
Yates ten he will have To pay rent on
the whole forty.
Tho county /, underlaid with gyp-
SUN, aud when II comes near the sur
face the land ia good Tor nothing. II
you take IL pinch OF the soil in Eddy
IN your mouth it will burn like potash.
The river water is full VI nlkali
potash and salts, md n glass of il
will physic n person in fifteen minutes.
The wator from the Black river Is
used in the engines ON the railroad,
aud IL cits the ilues u Of the boilers
in ninety days. They have three
locomotives and H. ia all they eau d.
10 keep n ia repair 10 run tho road
OF ninety miles. The water used in
the town OF Eddy is hauled in wagons
and is 80 bad that all Rho use il arc
troubled with bowel c%onplnints.
MIR. Emigration Agent Shields will
tell you what a beautiful climate they
have, that the sun shines $40 days IN
tho year, ETC., but he forgcts TO lay
anything nbout tho sand storms they
have from ito let OF March to the Let
OF May every year, and somo years for
wen II longe- period. I WIS told that
during n great deal OF that time the
sand and dust would he 30 thick that
lnmps would have 10 DO lighted ia
tho houses IN tho day time for people
to sec.
Whom ] WIS bore in Septcmbrr ond
October. the schools were closed un
account OF diphtheria and ieyers. AZ
near IN | could loarn thero wore l,2JJ
people in Eddy and they furnished
business for four doctors, while il the
town was anywhere noar rs hculthy
ue they represent IL to he. IL would
not support more thnn Uno ply %sician.
The first few days n person is there.
ho will 10 tavorub!y impressed with
tho outlook, Tut tho longer no stays
aud investigates the soil, water and
climate, tho less no will think OF IL.
Generally along the rivers OF tho
United States wheru tho bottom
land, overflow they arc tho richest,
but Il you cover land with water from
tho Pecos river, tho sediment OF al.
kali, potash ind salts ruin IL eniiro.
ly aud this il why they caution people
to uso but little water In irri.
eating.
My advice 10 persons going thcre Ia
10 investigate thoroughly buforo they
mnkn uny purchHHa.