The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-10-06
A A FOR HI EYES.
The Pecos Valley Exhibit Car Proves
Source of Pleasure.

Source of Pleasure.
From Superior lNeb1 JOURNAL.
The Pecos Valley Exhibit Car which
has beer sidetracked at the Santa Fa
station for the past two days. las
proven the mecea of many persons
from Superior. Nelson, Weber and
other nearby towns, who had heard
in the past of the famous little valley
in the west. where irrigation conquers
drought and the well driller has the
weather man job. The exhibit de-
monstrates the fact ms the man who
depends upon the elements and trusts
to luck. There is no may be SO"
about it. What grows one year will
grow he next, SO they say
h car was a perfect bower of
beauty to the man who owes works
of nature. The walls and ceiling
were hung with ripened grain of all
kinds. including that which the Me-
braska farmer loves best, corn, oats
wheat, alfalfa. Upon long tables ar
ranged on either side were piled pro-
ducts of the garden and truck patch
es. and bushes of the world-famed
big red apples" which by their SUI
perb color and flavor command top
prices on every market And, paran-
thetically. we might remark that they
took the gold medal at he Worlds
Fair. at the same time that Pecos
Valley peaches captured the silver
medal. One Pippin apple was exhibit
ed which weighed .twenty-four ounces
and measured sixteen inches in cir
eumference. One pear weighed two
pounds and several peaches shown
tipped the balance at one pound each.
That un~pretentious friend to every
family, the onion came in for some
-o+A~5at- -E~ rafron fuyo ~nrn1o
A former Nebraska citizen now living
at Artesia, the home of the largest
artesian we'll in the world, also sent
back a specimen of his skill as an
agriculturiSt. 1t was a cucumber
which measured sixteen inches in
length and was raised by VIM Gran
dali, formerly of F~airbury. Mr.. Gran
dali is now mayor of his newly adopt-
ed home, and it goes without saying
that he makes a good one. A specl-
men of oats was shown that made
s~eventy-eight bushel to the acre this
year on sod land. Some monster wa
termelons were brought along to tan
talize the tooth of the man who loves
sweet things. One of mem weighed
eighty pounds. A bunch of grapes
were shown that weighed four pounds
Rows of fine corn were strung around
the car that ~equalled in every respect
the products of our own great state.
Five crops of alfalfa are made eacn
season in the Pecos Valley, and N
years crop will amount to almost as
much as it requires to buy the land.
There were a number of attend
ants in charge of the car, who seem
ed to find peculiar pleasure in explolt
ing the virtues of this Eden of the
west. They had some wonderful tales
to tell, and seemed to be plenty able
to back tnem up with statistics. Con-
trary to the usual rule, there was no
land graft connected with the car.
There are thousands of acres of
idle land in the valley and water to
go with it, and all the commercial
clubs want is to get the farmer down
there to put it in use. The Pecos Val
ley covers a scope of country about
seventy miles long and fifteen miles
wide and it has been found to be OF
singular richness. This fact was not
appreciated until a few years ago.,
when a tremendous flow of arterlan
water was discovered and farmers by
the hundreds fiocked in to get advan-
| tage of the free government land then
there. Some of these will flow as
much as five thousand gallons OF
| the purest water per minute and one
is sufficient to water from n to SIX
undred acres of land. Where there
| was nothing but a desert a few years
ago there are now rich farms. A
number of farmers from this section
| have gone down there and made mon
ey in investments and otherwise, and
other are going on the excursion next
week.
The exhibit car was in charge OF A.
Foltz assisted by w. c. Breeding, or
Lakewood, Gayle Talbot, of Artesia
| and Louis Lenox, of Roswell.
Aery Turner and d. L. Meyers, Of
| fcials of the Santa Fe, endorse this
kind of advertising, for the country
thro which the roa runs, and 1t is
in our opinion a good one.