Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-14
NO PHANTOM SHIP.
A Country Where Crops
Never Fail.
Where the Farmer Makes From 500
to $1,000 Per Acre Profit
Every Year. I
Finest Climate in the World. Early Springs.
Late Auiumns. Mild winters and Delightful
Summers, High Markets for All Farm Pro.
ducts. Great Railroad Centre, Excellent So
cieiy. Schools. Churches, Etc.
BY Robert G. Shereham. in Atlanta Con.
stitution.1

es-my trip has been a revelation of won
ders from the time | hied southwark from
Pueblo. COL, until now. People in til,
east have no idea what world of wealth
this new and undeveloped country is. 1t il
an empire of plenty of wealth and luxury
in itself. In New Mexico everything car
be raised to the greatest perfection thai
man, woman or child needs or wants be
tween the cradle and the grave.
The gold, silver and copper mines ara
fast forging to the front as the most numer
Gus and richest of American mines. The
forests of New Mexico are equal to the
great redwood forests Of Washington ant
California before the woodlands axe wa.
heard.
l poorly express it when say this is the
greatest ranch country of the world. Here
are millions of cattle, horses and sheep in
the finest condition grazing upon the plain,
without ever being fed a blade or grain
from one years end to another. The stock
cattle and horses need few weeks fatten.
ing on alfalva grass or corn preceding theil
shipment to the western markets, but fol
stock purposes they are never fed.
What picnic the New England or north
ern farmers would have il his stock could
keep in good condition the year round with
out being fed. This is the condition of all
stock here
The valleys of New Mexico, as far as
they are under irrigation, are the richest
agricultural and horticultural lands upon
the earth, especially is this true of the
irrigated valleys of Southern New
Mexico. These irrigated lands are
worth anywhere from 5000 to $4,000
per acre-big price do you say, not when
tell you they yield the owner every year
from slOO to $500 profit. A man who has
good farm in this country has a gold
mine. The farmers of these valleys are
the Vanderbilts of the soil.
i The fruit of this country is the finest and
most delicious in flavor l have ever seen.
You will not see worm, blight or imper-
lection in one instance in a thousand bar
rels Of any kind of fruit. The fruit is
simply perfect and yields four times great
er than in any northern and southern state.
One of the most attractive fea'
lures in this country is the high
market for everything the farmer
raises. The products Of the garden
and farm sell for four or five times as
much as they do in our eastern, northern
and southern states. First, man can
raise anything here he wants; second, he
can raise four times as much as he can in
Illinois, New York or Georgia on the same
amount of land, and third, he gets three to
four times as much for everything he sells.
A man can positively make more money
upon one acre irrigated in this country
with the aid of couple of cows, a few
chickens, than he can on any $50 acres
ever saw in the East.
The finest spot in all Southern New
Mexico, the finest town, destined to become
great city, the richest soil between the
Hudson Bay aud Central Mexico,is Demipg
N. M. This town of Deming is centrally
situated in the Members Valley. These
lands have recently been put under irriga-
ton by the Deming Land and Water Com
pany. These valley lands surrounding the
town will be opened for settlement from the
| st to the 18th of August. If the people
of the North and East knew of this country
as it is there would not be an acre of land
for sale in 10 days. One hundred acres in
alfalfa grass is worth to the farmer from
$40 900 to SIS 600 every year, and expense
in raising it is practically nothing. Fruits
and vegetables are worth from $500 to
$500 per acre every year. A woman ltv-
ing near here with one acre of ground, irri-
gated by spring in the mOuntsin side,
with two cows, dozens of chickens,
cleared above all expenses last year S2640.
In putting these Deming lands under ir-
rigation the Deming Land and Water Com
pany have brought into market for farming
gardening and fruit purchases several thou
sand acres of the finest richest land in the
world. These lands can be bought today
from $50 to $500 per acre, which includes
the choicest lands adjoining the city limits
with water rights. 1t is not likely these
same lands can be bought in two years from
now for $1,000 per acre.
Four railroads in this town-two of then
trunk lines-the other roads building into
the place makes Deming the principal rail
road centre of the southwest. The climate
is perfect, like Switzerland's fairest valleys
subtroplcal. with cool summer nights ant
warm winter days.
am sitting on the porch of the large
railroad hotel, comfortab', and cool, wear
ing my spring clothes. OFF to the nortf
some 90 niles are the mountains, rearing
their lofty crests into the cloudiess sky Of
blue, over whose monstrous shoulders and
extended craigs, come the cool breezes all
summer long from the north, lulling you tc
the sweetest slumbers. To the south or
the opening foot hills, great avenues Of
verdent green, through which come all win
ter the warm breezes from the tropics
fields. The society is equal to that of any
of our eastern towns; all kinds of churches
while schools are in every way first class
This is certainly an enchanted country and
offers more to farmers, investors and bust
ness men generally than any section of oul
great country.
Those wishing to know more about Dem
ing and of the opportunities here should
write to either the Dening Land and Watel
| Company, Deming. N. M or TO Dr.. r. c
Flower, $50 Columbus Avenue, Boston
Mass. F. s. Holt. B4rnstead. N. H., o.
DR.. March,. F. Brooks, 439 Congress ST.
Portland, Me.
DR.. Flower, IN connection with sewers
medical and geological experts, investigated
most thoroughly this section Of New NJ K.
CO SIS to climate, soil. markets, ETC., sever
al years ago, and their report then made
stated il the lands surrounding Deminl
1890 a~o~ y,py ,,pIar ipyi q stinn that Damint