The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-09-01

VI muGu ueplH dHu SIliiie1 AiSe
has the black waxy soils SO full of
humus sut with some lack of mineral
elements, which grow poorer under
exhausting cultures and which 2
restorative crops to maintain fertili-
ty. The country of upland plains has
a strong brown soil in-exhaustibly
rich in mineral qualities and ome
times poor in that humus of which
the humid prairies have too much,
but which grows better under judic-
ious cultivation; and which is from
the beginning better adapted to grow
ing all kinds of trees, than are the
miasmatic soils of the low countries.
The low-land plains have beer in
cultivation for half a hundred years.
Their crops have revolutionized the
commerce of the world. To move
them to the consumer a hundred thou
sand miles of railway has been built.
To grow and harvest these crops
and to take hem to market, and to
supply the needs of these producers,
employees the energies of thirty mil
lions of people. The continued pros
perity of this fertile domain is more
indispensable to the welfare of man.
kind than that of any other district
of the world.
But these brown looking highland
prairies have been held aloof from the
consideration of the pioneering. i'm
provement-making American people
by the blanket of aridity with which
the Creator covered them, until the
time was ripe, and they should be-
come necessary to the proper develop
ment of the American nation. In the
nature of these soils of Gods high
country they are well adapted to the
growth of all kinds of American crops
But the nature of the climate places
a limit to the growth of cereal and
forage crops by cultural methods, and
by rainfall lone. In many districts
irrigation is possible. as in the great
valleys of Colorado and New Mexico,
of Wyoming and Montana, in Western
Kansas and Nebraska. And the gov
eminent work now developing this
possibility will Leaf to grand results.
In many sections is an unsupported
! wealth of subterranean water, which
can be reached by boring which
will burst forth in ever-fowing foun-
tains creating magnificent GASES of OIL
chards and vineyards and perennial
pastures. The extent of this under
ground supply of waiting waters no
man knows. But there are large dis
tricts Of these wide prairies so rich
in everything but flowing water,
where We know that wells are easily
made, and the water stratum is shall
low, where an abundance of water
has long been had for stock uses-lift-
ed by the cheap power of the winds.
How large is this supply? Does it I'm
derlie all of this beautiful high plains
country? l have not sufficient data
on which to base an opinion, but I
am lead by man. statements made
me, to hope that the underground wa
ter supply is almost as unlimited as
the acreage of land. If this proves to
be true, then there is a future for his
grand Panhandle country,-and for all
the high plains so under supplied
with water. of which your prophets
have scarcely dreamed.
The contrast between the w mag.
nificent prairie districts of America
consists in this, that the lower section
has untold wealth of soil and unlimit-
ed water supply by rain to produce all
arnno NJ tom Nnrotn attitudes hlIt u
handicapped by excessive and IN
wholesome humidity, that breeds my
riads of troubles-insects and diSeaS-
es-against which the farmer must
wage constant warfare, and from
which suffer u~npreventable losses.
While in this glorious uplifted prai.
RE region where the sun shines nine
ty per cent of the time through
out the yea and every wind that
blows is free from all destructive
germs, and tonic with health, the soils
are still better for the highest Dur-
poses of the farmer; and the climate
will forever protect him both in field
and orchard, from that hos of incura
BILE evils which beset the producer of
crops in h humid territories down
toward the level of the sea.
1t is a question of altitude of coun-
try, and of a bordering of mountains
1t is his that makes the climate.
And the agriculture of a country, ard
especially the horticulture of a coun-
try is much more a matter of climate
h it is a question of soil.
1t is right here that We of the up
lands are strong. 1t is our grand com