The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-09-26
pEcos varIEY
Of a Stranger Writing
to His Home Paper.
From Lake Arthur Times.

From Lake Arthur Times.
Lake Arthur. N. NJ, Sept. al
came from South Texas to the Pecos
Valley February last to look over the
country with a view to changing 10
cation.
1 spent some three weeks looking
over the valley from Roswell to Pc
COS City, Texas, and decided to return
to Lake Arthur. N. NJ, which did
early in March.
First, will say hat the Pecos Val
ley has gained a national reputation
as a health resor Our nights are
always cool and one gets more rest
and refreshment from sleep here than
elsewhere.
b is strictly an irrigated coun-
try. There have been hundreds of
wells sunk in the last two years and
the flow is usually two to seven feet
above an open casing.
One of the new wells flows eleven
Texas rice farmers will have a fairly
clear idea of the volume of ate
that such wells will supply. The
lands are very fertile and with aver
6 care will produce four to six
tons of the very best alfalfa, which is
the leading crop.
Oats reach far toward the hundred
bushel mark. Indian corn, wheat,
rye, barley, millet, and all grain crops
suited to this elevation and climate
do well. Elevation about 5000 feet.
All that is required to insure success
is water and cultivation, the rains
having been sufficient to grow the
crops owing to the richness and free
production of the soil.
With regards to prices of lands
will say that at present unimproyed
lands can be had in two to FIVE miles
of Lake Arthur, at $3.50 to $500 per
acre and the cost of sinking the well
SIS to 80 per acre taking as a basis
800 acres. The artesian belt las
what is determined as the deep and
shallow flow, Or fist and second flow.
The first flow is found usually at
dOooI Gfo ~ oOO 1CSt OSIo" Inc III
face. The second flow 600 to 900 feet
Judge William E. Rogers formerly
of GAINESVILLE, Texas who spent some
time in South McAlister, 1. T., re
marked yesterday that he had not
seen a ranker crop growth, not even
as, than he had noticed here in the
last few days.
Mr.. H. H.. Sigman, of Brentwood,
Texas, has what is known as the Sig
man ranch, one mile out of town. Two
hundred and forty acres are seeded
to alfalfa. I visited the ranch last
spring and was informed that over
300 head of hogs were being fed upon
thirty-seven acres of alfalfa and not
iced hat there was grass to spare.
1t would seem from this that alfal-
ia and hog raising would be very re-
the Santa Fe railroad, so l have been
informed by a shipper, gives a sos
car rate either to Fort Worth or Kan
sas City, with a feeding privilege IN
route.
The Valley is a world beaten for the
poultry business, as it is so well adap
ted to dry climate and the easy rails
ing of said crop make it inexpensive.
California now recognizes the Pc
cos Valley as dangerous competitor
in fruit growing. Some of the finest
orchards are to be found here. Many
of tho old Oroh rda oro,rd Poowoll
and Hagerman are wonders.
The Bartlett pear reaches it's great
est perfection here. The zine crops
such as melons, cantaloupes, beans,
peas and IN fact all truck plants,
grow and fruit to perfection and with
less cultivation than elsewhere.
l would say to the man who wants
a more ever climate in which to build
a permanent home see the Pecos val
ley.
Capt. J.. Henry Putnam, late of
Houston, and who is widely known
throughout the rice and oil sections
Of Southwest Louisiana and South
east Texas, was here on his second
visit last week. He invested In a half
section of Ian two miles from AXE
Arthur, which, added to his former
investments shows his confidence in
the valleys future. Among his pur-
chases is 800 acres of the finest land
in the valley. He is very ~favorably
impressed and thinks that we nave a
great future.-C. F. Matthews lin Gal
weston News).
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