The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-03-26

where the rainfall is plentiful 1t Is
humanity impossible to regulate the
sunshine and temperature. The pro-
ducts of Pecos Valley illustrate the
difference. The alfalfa there is more
abundant and a bale OF it is green
through and through. 1t commands
So a ton more on the cars at Roswell
or Lake Arthur than at Topeka, Kas.,
which is acknowledged to have the
best freight rates of any city in the
country. s. The runks and limbs OF
Pecos fruit trees shine as thought
polished. There is no scale in that
valley of sunshine. Fruit growers net
500 to $500 an acre from those big
red apples, for which we pay five
| cents apiece at the fruit stands.
Before and After.
1t is an interesting trip by buggy
or auto from Roswell at the head of
the arabic valley, down it's length.
After leaving the immediate vicinity
of Roswell, which is highly cultivated,
raw prairie Ian covered with prairie
i grass mesquite bushes and cactus,
and sometimes densely populated with
' gopners and jack rabbits on one side
of the road, and irrigated orchards
and alfalfa fields on the other, like
the picture of before and after TAX
ing" tell an uncontrovertible story of
the possibilities of irrigation.
Homes take precedence over barns
in the valley. Rains are seldom and
few nights are cold nough to drive
stock in doors. Alfalfa bales are
stacked in The open. Cattle are cor
rallied in 20 acre lots and fed alfalfa
instead of being pastured on valuable
i 100-acre tracts.
Roswell is a beautiful city of 5000
and all her streets and roads for miles
around are shaded with c~losesetting
cottonwood and willow trees some
times forming a canop over the high
way with their interlacing iboughs,
veritable lovers lanes. The vicinity
of Roswell shows what eventually will
be done for the whole~narrow valley,
and and there is becoming as valu-
able, as If it produced the golden ap-
| pies of the Hesperides, instead of the
luscious red fruit of m Far
Their down the valley development is
now more rapid, and while land is
comparatively cheap, it is advancing;
for the wells are stronger and cana
BILE of irrigating more land, n the
soil is just as fertile.
The valley Is a garden, fenced In by
mountains, aglow with blossoms or
the ripened fruit waving with alfalfa,
green with the foliage of trees, noisy
with the humming Of bees, singing of
spring birds and the laughing OF
splashing fountains. Bluffs to the
east mark the of the easy-going
Pecos, too lazy to cut its "a straight
to its terminus. Ell Captain mountain
rearS its wooded crest 60 miles to the
west, and sixty-ive miles still further
the White Mountains. snow crowned
ten months. in the rear, rise to an al
titude of $4,000 feet. Nature has
completed few mor perfect products
to bewitch the senses than this little
valley, fifty miles long and fifteen
wide.
The Population.
It is the literal truth that every
prospect pleases," but 1t would be un
just to add that "only man is vile,'
for the Pecos Valley has a population
(entirely Whitley that a be equalled
in the same area of few states. The
bankers say they all can sign theil
own checks; the traveller a testify
that the arrived of a stranger in
small town does not attract the after
ion of a curious throng and the resi-
dents boast there are no loafers
There has been no floating population
in Lake Arthur within the memory O
the oldest living inhabitant. Tha
sage is a grocer. who has been in Blu
siness there four years.
There Is much to be cen and a 10
of fun to be had on a trip to the Peco:
Valley. In the first place. the trip 1:
comfortable. Land companies rul
their special cars to all parts of TIT
southwest from Kansas City, and o
lst sleepers and standard Pullmans
! bearing b announcement that the,
! are private cars of such and such {
: company are e on every train OIL
the Santa Fee. 1t Is a matter of loca
: interest that the trip described wa.
!; in the cars of the "Pecos Valley Lane
and Development company" witt
which Mr.. d. w. Coons, formerly sec
rotary of the Paducah Commercial
club is connected. We slept IN tht
cars at Lake Arthur and remained OF
them as TAI back as Kansas City.
L. v. ARMENTROUT.