The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-09-17
hsrenee to the truth by that class which
makes a business of location.

ing class that recognizes its limit ut ions
and who are ready aud willing TO take
hold of all Of the natural helps. They
must recognize in the first place that
there will bc years not ~infrequcntly
" hen little or nothing can be raised,
and that no farm with profit here re.
quires even more industry than in the
rain section, since 1t entails the most
thorough tillage and conservation Of
moisture. There are dry farmers by the
succeeding because they understan these
facts. There are others who are not,
and who in the course Of time must let
loose. Most of those who are succeed
ing came here with n full realization
Of the facts. or the ability TO adapt
themselves when they come, to under.
stand things generally.
Unquestionably the final development
Of The dry farming impulse will he ION.
nectcd closely with n certain aount of
irrigation, aud that will come with the
securing OF some cheaper and better
power than il now available. Nearly
everywhere there is n sufficient flow
of water to stand n profitable degree
of pumpage. which used in connection
with the dry produce of favorable
years, will ma ke the yield much more
profitable in proportion that the same
upau IN n min antufrN ar .nnFGa ~
will be profitable TO all who understand
that there must be lean years aud who
RELY upon such rainfall az there il alone,
but the fullest measure of profit will
come TO thos ewho iudiciously mix the
two principles. The day of cheaper pow.
er is close at hand, too.
Taking it all in all the outlook in
the main is encouraging, in spite of
the lies Of n considerable number of
men who ough, to Ice in the pepitcntiary
now for saying things deliberately cal.
culated TO deceive. This country has
been handicapped by their methods.
when il had enough sond merit To
make falsehood wholly uniustifiable.
On the 2lss of this month, there will
he a great gathering of the Knights of
Pvthias in and for the Territory OF
New Mexico at the city of Deming.
which is the county seat of Luna coun.
Ivy. and is sometimes known as the
" windmill city 1t is not accident
that the Knights are to meet at Dem.
ing. They are partial to water and
Deming has best water in the territory,
not even excepting Roswell. which has
TO pump IL juice, and has no need
for the forest Of windmills that adorns
Deming. Then again there are lots o,
pvtbians in the southern tier of the
counties, and il is only right that they
should have the convention. some day
when New Mexico becomes u state and
il is possible 10 get the railroads 10 net
derentlv the convention NAV he held
IN Roswell or some other town in the
Pecos Valley, which has n few Pythians
of It's own.
II is natural that the announcement
of the coming gathering should attract
general attention, for the story of Da
mon and Pythias is one that appeals
II does TO me, though ! have not the
good fortune to be- one of the great fra
~ternity which has mmOrtalilei the
~friedship Of the two. They lived il
J whore they make fire engines, but thai
classic burg on the eastern shore of the
Island Of Cicily, which il at the soutl
door and q part of the Kingdom 0i
! Italy and has u large trade in hand.or
, gans and spaghetti. Their time wa
quite n while ago. ever before statehood
was promised to New Mexico. Just how
long ago makes no particular difference
People should not he too all hred par
%ticular about dates anyhow. n * Ger
, tain that the friendly pair lived, though
accounts differ AZ 10 the degree of lhei.
mutual admiration and various otheI
things. They Just simply had to exist
II they hadn I the world wodld have
missed one Of it's most beautiful %Storiei
, aud the blessing Of world wide fra
tcrnity would have been lost "a man.
! There WASH I any difference az to th'
chumship OF Damon aud Pythias. The,
mad 1t bad, II began way back in the
/ puppy days, when one would not 81
} swimming without the other and contin
ued into the days of adolescence, wheI
they were pitcher and catcher respect
lively of the champion Syracuse Tigers
IL IL rnlntnh tim they shnreh thni