Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-06-27

OF GROUND-AN IMMENSE SHAFT
OR WELL TWENTY FEET IN d.
AMETER AND SIXTY FEET DEEP
AN ABUNDANCE OF PURE WATER
TWO HUNDRED HORSE POWER
MACHINERY FOR RAISING WATER
"A BEAUTIFUL MODEL Farm AND
PUBLIC GARDEN ALL IN ONE
CHEAP FUEL, MESQUITE WOOD.
Two thousand acres of rich and
fertile land surrounding and run
ming up to the city limits Of Dem
ing, Eve hundred acres of which
is set apart and surveyed off for
residence lots, and fifteen hundred
ere TO be cut up into lots of five
to ten acres each for orchards,
vineyards and vegetable gardens.
Our reporter, having one or two
days leisure, concluded to run
down to u sister city, the enter
prising and progressive town Of
Deming, and pick up such infor-
nation as would be interesting
reading to the numerous subscrib-
ers of the SENTINEL. He found
Col. p. r. Smith, the general
manager and chief promoter of
the enterprise, absent from the
city, but by the courtesy of Mr..
Wallis, the company's engineer,
Mr.. Olcott, the machinist and
superintendent, Mr.. Merk, the
horticulturist and scientific gar
dener, in charge of the company's
model farm, and Mr.. McKeyes,
the polite and successful real es-
tate and insurance agent, our re-
porter was able to collect the fol-
lowing facts:
Taking our carriage and driving
west, parallel with the Southern
Pacific railroad track, a distance
of one and a half miles from the
depot, we came to the company's
big reservoir covering 10 acres of
ground with embankments u feet
high, all complete and ready to
receive the water from the pumps.
We also found a smaller reservoir
into which the water was flowing
from the pumps, and which is
being used, at present, for irriga-
ting the company's fruit farm
and garden and for other purpos-
es. We also found a large amount
of lumber on the grounds to be
used in the completion of the com
pany's buildings and for the break
water of the company's big reser-
voir. We found the contractor
hauling in stone for the founda-
ton of the heavy boilers which
have just been received by the
company are about ready to set
up. Adobe, brick and other ma
terial sufficient to complete the
entire improvements were found
iii place, and the carpenters and
machinists busy at work construct
ing the same.
Adjoining the big reservoir is
the company's model farm and
garden, and here we found Nj.
Merk with a gang of men setting
out fruit trees, and arranging the
vineyard, garden, &c, and improv-
ing and identifying the grounds
in other ways, and he claims that
when it is completed there will be
nothing in the Territory to COM
pare with it.
We learned from Mr.. Olcott,
who in one of the most practical
and experienced machinists in the
country, hat he expects to push
the work to completion in a com
paratively short time, and that,
having ample power now, they can
go ahead and complete the big
shaft and put it in condition for
permanent use.
Mr.. Wallis, chief engineer and
surveyor, kindly showed US the
plot of the company's lands sur
rounding Deming and explained
to us the portions which we're set
apart for residence lots, and that
part which was to be cut up into
blocks of from 5 to 10 acres and
utilized for orchards, vineyards,
vegetable gardens &c. These
are most beautifully situat-
cd and well adapted for irrigation,
and when irrigated, produce in
great abundance all the semi-trop-
zeal fruits, such as apples, pears,
peaches, apricots, nectarines, cher
ries, plums, grapes, strawberries,
blackberries, raspberries and every
variety Of vegetables, for which
produce there is now and will
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