Deming headlight., 1893-06-24

60 are building up with sturdy,
strong, thrifty, population more
rapidly than the central or south.
ern potion. In Colhx and I'm.
ion counties, the waters OF the
Clmarron, Red and Vermejo rivers
have been utilized, bitches open.
ed, dams erected, reservoirs built,
and thousands Of acres Of land
brought under the clyllIzing Ia.
iluoncc ofskilled agriculture.
In Mora, San Miguel and Gnad.
alupe counties, tho waters Of the
Mora, salado, Gallinas, Hot
Springs and other sources Of water
supply By similar means are made
10 minister unto the necessities OF
man and bird and beast. In com.
ties OF Lincoln, Chavez and Eddy,
the H0ndo, pecos, Tularosa, Riu.
doso, Sacramento, Seven rivers
and other streams and springs
have been ceused to make the
'deaert blossom as the rose.D
Private energy and industry,
corporate skill, tact aud capital,
have united and supplied water
TO the 'dry and thirsty land.D
Lands scarcely worth ut time
Of entry the minimum government
price, s1.25 per acre, will now sell
readily at from s25 to $3.50 per
acre and ct the latter figure will
TO the purchaser each year pro.
duce large interest upon the In.
vestIneni; for where the sage
brush stood now waves the fra.
grant alfalfa, and whore the cactus
iiourished now stands the luscious
grape, the blushing peach and the
red checked apple. II may or II
may not be, that q dam can be sue.
cessfully built and maintained
across the Rio Grando at Fort
Selden or any other point to be
chosen by Bro. Barker of the r..
@. Republican. We relegate our
entire interest In this and all
other kinds Of dams to Bro. B.
We are Of opinion that when the
Iproposed convention meets II will
be composed of men of broader
minds than this doughty editor
and whose range Of vision will ex.
tend over broader regions than
he regards.
The HEADLIGHT desires to see
the waters Of every river, stream,
brook, spring and rainfall hus.
banded and utilized, every under.
ground flow or current 80 con.
trolled that 1t may be brought 10
the surface and spread out over
the plains. This cannot be done
by limiting and combining the con.
sideratiOn Of the proposed con.
ventiOn to the matter specially
important TO Mesilla valley or the
klo Grande river.
There are vast tracts of land IN
the tornado which the water of
the Rio Grande flowing through
Its present channels and arroyas,
though aided by Bro. Barker's
dam, can never reach.
The mesas, plains and valleys
crossed and brought into commu.
nlcation with the world by the
lines of the A. s. p, A. Il. q 8. II.
81 s. p. II. n. Sufficient In area,
to furnish homes, food and
raiment for millions's, now practi.
eally worthless, must look for
life giving waters to sodo other
means than Brother Barkera
dam across the Rio 0rande.
In every canon, ON every mesa,
upon every plain, In every valley
In New Mexico are acres of land
by the multiplied thousands,
soaYce Of grass, short Of herbagc,
destitute Of foliage, pregant with
latent fertility, waiting to smile IN
perennial JOS aud beauty when the
rays Of cur ever.Bhinlng sun shall
have bathed themselves IN the
ripping streams of water, the hand
Of man shall cause 10 dow over
them.
The best directed effort In south
ern or western New Mexico Is
that now developing itself on the
Mimbres river. The money there.
IN Invested by spaldIng aud his
associates will return TO them IN.
creased many fold. The typo.
graphical engineer along foot
hills, within the iron.ribbed banks
Of rnyines and arroyas, all over
the southern and western slopes
of our many mountain ranges, will
ilnd ntnoss for storage tanks, ad-
mIrably prepared Ia the economy
Of nature, awaiting shaping and
adaptation at the hands Of earn.
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