The Washington herald., 1909-07-25
INVITES THE FARMER
Nara Visa Country Has Many
Acres to Spare.
FREE HOMESTEAD TO BE HAD
Portion OF New Mexico Contiguous
to Rock Island Railroad Offers
Region Described by One Who Has
Made His Home There.

Nara Visa, n. Mex, July 2f-Nara Visa
Is the business center Of a fast develop
ing agricultural country thirty miles
around. Located on the Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad, near the
lines which connect with Amarillo. Fort
Worth, and Dallas. It is assured OF good
markets. The town has banking and
mercantile concerns, hotels. churches. and
school facilities IN advance OF many
towns which existed before Nara Visa
was thought OF. It's population has more
than doubled in the last two years.
Since the act Of Congress OF Febru-
airy 10. 1909, every person who Is entitled
TO make homestead entry is entitled 70
enter 800 acres OF government land In
the Nara Visa country, and on proof OF
five years residence and the cultivation
Of forty acres commencing with the sec
ond year, and eighty acres. commencing
with the third year. Will be given patent
from the government OF the United
States. This gives the settler a chance
10 get a farm that VIII not only make
him a good living but will make him indie
pendent In few years.
Lands Wait Settlement.
Thousands Of acres Of vacant public
land in the Nara Visa country may be
entered under the homestead act by any
person entitled TO make homestead en-
try. II one desires 800 acres OF free pub
lie land. in the land OF sunshine. where
the climate Is unexcelled. the soil Is the
best In the world. with ample rainfall
TO raise crops. and where the water IS
pure. he should come 10 Nara Visa
1t is generally assumed BY a new set
tier that IL IS hardly possible 20 raise
crops unless the conditions are the same
as those left behind In the East. The
average settler from the East finds II
difficult 20 understand how II IS possible
10 raise crops unless the soil is soaked
during the larger part Of the winter and
spring. II he has ever given the matter
attention he has learned that the aver
age rainfall OF the Northern Mississippi
Valley Is about thirty inches per annum,
and he is convinced that II is impossible
10 farm on a less amount; and when he
learns that the winter in the Southwest
Is comparatively dry and that the aver
age rainfall is about twenty inches. he Is
al a loss 10 understand how II is possible
10 raise crops under such conditions.
MisunderstOod the Conditions.
To this we say that there is a great deal
OF misunderstanding as 10 the amount Of
rainfall necessary TO raise crops. and also
a great deal depends upon the time OF
year the rain comes. 1t has been dem
onstrated that crops can be successfully
raised on a ten-fnch annual rainfall II
81.
OF the year. In this connection II must
be borne in mind that one inch OF rain
fall is about all the soil will absorb at
one time, and that all over that amount
is excessive and does more marin than
good, by washing the life out OF the soil
Hence the Southwest. with an average
Of about One-half inch OF rainfall dur
Ing the winter months, and an average
Of two and one-half to three inches per
month from April to october. is an ideal
country for farming and dairying.
The writer feels called upon to remind
the person who is looking for a home
that fully half OF the farming throughout
the entire world Is conducted on less rain
fall than the rainfall OF the Nara Visa
country. In a large part Of Russia. Aus
tria, Turkey, Turkestan. India, China.
South Africa, and Australia the rainfall
does not exceed twelve TO sixteen inches
year. and m many cases comes at an
unreasonable time of the year. yet in
these sections millions of people have
been supported for centuries on the prod
ucts OF the soil AS a matter OF fact,
our Durum wheat and alfalfa are natives
Of countries where the annual rainfall
does not equal the rainfall OF the Nara
Visa country. HENRY A. NACHTRIEB.
Siamese Ship Service to Europe.