The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-02-25


probably older in it's successful appli
cation in that, region than any oUher
on the continent. He said in north
ern Mexico, where the Tarahuamari
j Indians of the present raise bountiful
crops ON the tablelands on a rainfall
OF from nine to fifteen inches, there
are ample evidences that dry farm
ing was carried on successfully by
a race of men whose doings history
records nothing. The same applies
to the eastern section of New Mexico
he declared, all along the line of the
present El Paso Southwestern rail
road, where ruins of ancient pueblos
| hundreds of miles from any water
save the wells at moderate depths
from which the stock and households
are supplied, snow plentiful evidences
of farming carried on by a race of
| people who inhabited the country be-
fore the Red Man came.
| Getting down to the subject at hand
he told OF the success of numerous pio
neers in the dry farming" industry
| in the vicinity of Ell Paso-east IN
west Texas across the famous Staked
Plains, and north in New Mexico for
hundreds of miles.
u. F. Reeves" he declared, 'who
resides 20 miles north of Ell Paso on
the boundary line of Texas and New
water-melons, milo maize, kafir corn
pumpkins, beans, peas and onions
from land he had purchased but the
year before at IS per acre-and the
watermelons, of which there were but
two acres netted the owner 5000. AL
faffa and winter wheat were also
success.
No finer crops of milo maize, kaffir
corn or sorghum was ever produced
R~<>x~n IL Z,
the valley about Ell Paso" the speaker
declared, .'than was produced on this
dry farm and Mr.. Reeves did not get
a drop of rain until June 2, 1908, and
he had less than eight inches between
THAT and harvest time, as the Ell Paso
weather bureau records will show.
The average rainfall for Ell Paso is
only 9.86 inches for the year, extend
ing back for 20 years"
The speaker cited many other in
stances of equal success north of Mr.
Reeves around Alamogor1o, Tucumca-
RI. Tularosa, Santa Rosa and other
points in New Mexico and reminded
the delegates that congress had to ere
ate an additional land Office for New
Mexico with headquarters at Tucum-
carl, to take care of the entries this
year. He said the records show IT,
100000 acres of so-called arid land
of this character in New Mexico, op.
en- to entry free of cost under the
United States homestead laws. OF
the 23 900 homestead entries in New
Mexico last year, he said 10000 were
on this so-called arid land. Continu-
ling the speaker said:
'In west Texas the land, which pro-
duces Just as well and on which the
rainfall is heavier than in Ell Paso,
the same being the case with New
Mexico further north from, FL Paso-
where an 18 inch rainfall is not un-
common-the land is sold by the state
but at from 81 to $3.50 an acre. with
40 years time for payments. In ad-
dition to the usual dry farm crops,
sugar beets have been raised success
fully in the Valentine valley; also cot
ton, producing over half a bale to the
acre. A Campbell demonstration farm
at Valentine, where the rainfall an
nually is over 20 inches, and prove
that he can raise anything that will
grow anywhere else in Texas, and
just as good-and they grow mighty
lot of different things in Texas.
1.-The government has demonstrh-
tion farms at Amarillo and Dalhart,
Texas, and is carrying on experiments
in the Rio Grande Valley near Ell Pa
SO on private farm. A measure is
now pending in the legislature of Tex
as to establish demonstration farm
at Ell Paso and two others in the So
called arid region of Texas, the sue
cess of the dry farming movement,
having made it's worth felt to the peo-
pie Of Texas as well as New Mexico.
They realize that north and east of FL
Paso there are homes and profitable
livings for millions yet unborn, for the
once trackless American desert of our
childhood geography is disappearing
under the magic hand of the farmer
who knows how to conserve the mois-
| ture that God gives him, and the dry
farms are proving a blessing to the
people of crowded eastern communi-
ties who come west to escape the rig
orous climate and find profitable, hap
py homes
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