El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

The subject of irrigation bugbear to majority of
eastern and northern farmers. There is settled idea
among them that the necessity for irrigation is draw
back 1t is not necessary to tell anyone who has resided
in the Rio Grande Valley of Ell Paso Texas even for
brief period of the benefits of irrigation They
manifest The greatest results in agriculture and hor
cuture obtained by irrigation regions of continu
Gus sunshine where the process of growth is kept up
without the interruption of cold and cloudy days Such
conditions with the addition of water ideal for the
rapid development of vegetable life Success hinges
the supply of water both for early and late irrigation
With the of sufficient water the rrigating
farmer become the most prosperous farmer in the
world Success under such conditions becomes mathemat
1cal certainty The farmer who embarkS his calling
irrigated farm in the Rio Grande Valley can calculate
IN the beginning approximately what crops he will har-
vest under intelligent cultivation and what revenue he will
derive from his land This certainty of success has been
sufficient to attract many thoughtful and ambitious
to the valley lands who being followed by others Who
through publicity becoming acquainted with what the
valley offers the industrious farmer in this land of oppor
tunity Farming by irrigation the ideal method of agr-
culture 1T the farmer be the of an unfaing water
supply he is able to produce all the field and orchard
products suited to this latitude at less cost in time and
labor than farmer anywhere under conditions such as
prevail In the eastern and central states In the Rio
Grande Valley and under the irrigation bitches he is indie
pendent of weather conditions all crops are reason
ably he gives them the that good practice re-
qulres 1t is impossible to imagine families more indie
pendent than those who established on irrigated farms
Under analysis such condition makes close approach
to the ideal
their northern and eastern homes and have transpanted
themselves to the rrigatng regions of the southwest
have become quickly weaned of their ongngs to
their former abode This fact is for those who are afraid
they won't Like it. Those few exceptions who have pulled
up their stakes and have gone back their former
haunts almost without exception trailing back to
the southwest declaring that the not what was
their ideas having changed
When you contemplate lake 40 miles long with
enough water In it to drown three small states and
sweed besides by that feeds the of the
Rockies which will be created by the Elephant Butte dam
under construction it does not take much assurance
of engineers to convince that there will be enough
water there for the irrigation of the 10000 acres of land
having rights under this system, making it possible for
thousands of those who reside the bound re-
gons where the billiards grip the land in ice clutches
in the winter and the humidity makes gasp like fish
out of water in the to procure homes the sunny
temperate Rio Grande Valey-a land where the frost
never damages in the colder months and the drynes of
the atmosphere In the summer precludes the possibility
of the distressing "steam bath
Here in the Rio Grande Valley, in the "Land of Sun