The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-19

| general agent on the Pacific coast. He
| said: you know California has the repu-
| tation for fine fruit. but these are the
| finest largest and juicest peaches have
| ever eaten" All that the farmer can sell
brings the Middle Western price plus the
freight. There is no protection like this
anywhere on earth that know Of.
CONSERVATIVES PARADISE
Another most interesting feature here
is the opportunity for consumptives. This
section of New Mexico is at the mean
elevation just requisite for the victims of
this dreadful disease. Numbers Of our
best business men are graduates from
the fatal u. B. New Mexico has done It,
Many victims are here now making the
last fierce fight which means the passage
into health or over the river. If they
come in time and take tho open air
cure" follow the healthy exercise and
good food regimen they have everything
in their favor But few cah stand the re-
turn to the lower and sultry sections dur
ing convalescence. The rule Is: Come to
stay. The second breakdown and return
here seldom ends In anything but death.
But above all they must come in time.
Just outside of town lives the wife of Mr..
j. P. Morgan's Paris partner. Her at
tecdants had to bear her off the cars last
fall. To-day she Is strong. healthy
looking woman and is driving everywhere
she wants to, and is promising we'll Two
months ago & lady came in from Eastern
Texas, too weak to do anything at all.
Now she is able to do all her work eX-
cept the washing and is wonderfully i'm
proved.
This valley Is the scene of a vigorous
young community on tho one hand: it is
great santarium on the other Seeing
the vast enterprise of the business world
in retaining the desert, one can but de-
sire a like enterprise in a measure in the
effort to reclaim the heridties of mans
spiritual nature ,.lSH,WEyrg,
NO MORE WOOLINESS.
came away from my successful and
promising work in West Virginia with
the greatest reluctance. No man should
desire greater loyalty in service and con-
sderation than was shown by our select
bands of workers there But the Lord
had said: Get thee out of thy country and
from thy kindred. and from thy fathers
mouse. and from thy people unto a land
that VIII shew thee Gen. 1919 And
so came, leaving that promising field to
my young assistant to whom the details
were providentially familiar must con-
Tess that / came West with an awe OF its
"wooliness,' much like what the ladies
East nave OF 1t. And this too despite
my remark In reply to a West yirginian.
nc had SAID: II suppose you are going
as missionary into country where the
people are rough and wicked set"
SAID to him: lou don't suppose I am 20
ing away from here to find work among
wicked ana rough people, do you? If that
were the reason. l would just stay where
am SO well fixed for tho business"
There is no Woody Vest any more a.
course, there are bad men, here 8 thor
are there. But with all the local dfrer-
ences, adaptations to the soil, so to snenl1
me genus homo'is essentially the same
ana the dominant factors here are made
OF mat same cultivated, aspiring, essen
a.ai's moral ana religious stuff that rep
,sse'ts INC true American everywhere
e, "i'u SO. save from the distance
from home, from Virginia. I find th,s =
most delightful community to 1.-Two IN
ana an opportunity for the most nationt
ana falthful pastoral work. Virginia ~
hio" TOO we'll the old colonial histo,v
uhder foreign shepherds not 10 ,mda,
stand my task. '''uei-
,rhi bLiE ssG OF IRRIGATION,
,,, - a'ia irrigation system is one of thc
mastery of nature | ever saw IL =. " ,ar va
llicatlohs, It's momentuous irnport 70 IL
vestors, everything about 1t is maryeloiis
~ ., ,eNc' StillllB ah0ut 1t Is marvellous
men When the farmer Is treadinr on az
entirely new province. with no precedents
WIN Almost no use for the old soil trlith.
or Eastern experience. when almost ever,,
forty acres Is an original propositions
70 be handled according to its own In
olVidual symptoms or data who with
eyes to see can fall to be Interested n
Is, too. the strangest thing to find in
many large areas, that requiring water.
the land suffers for water. OpinIon dif,
fcrs from four to twelve feet az In
the necessary depth of soil for sal farm,
INC purposes. Unless there Is sufficient
depth down 10 the underlying rock strata
the land Is swamped by irrigation and
IS so alkalied as TO destroy vegetation. 1t
is fact too. that the danger of salt
deposits from the water by means of
EVAPORATION Is very dangerous. But by
heavy dilution from the rain and by tho
| sandy soils acting as Il Sieve" and not
| as a litter rs Is the case with clayey
| SOILS. the salts and other minerals are
| swept away, and farming Is profitable,
| pretty problem with the farmer here is
! not merely the Eastern one OF taking wa
| ter out of the soil. but how to prevent
| the water which Is to give life from so
| entering the soil by subirrigation nv
| waste fran the canals and bitches as IN
| destroy life IT Is solved by finding the
| place of entrance and making deem
| bitches, Again carrying off the water
! properly, in irrigating, Is OF the utmost
| Importance. The experienced irrigat tor
| keeps his water moving to prevent