El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-01

The 1O-acre man is a
Gradually and with little flourish of trumpets, the
irrigation projects of the United States reclamation
ice constituting in the aggregate the greatest work of the
kind ever undertaken being completed and the lands
unit by unit are being filled with settlers.
Probably fourffths of the work on the main projects
completed and work is also being done in extending
canals and building aterals the actual settlement Of
the land progresses This work will be continued for
many years. the process of colonization will necessarily
be somewhat slow The major portion of the great task
completed, however, and Uncle Sam points to the
desert lands that hold untold possibilities of wealth and
says Come The invitation is being responded to
couragng fashion, and the farm units completed
the various projects houses spring up with rapidy that
should encourage those economists who believe that the
only solution for present high prices for food stufs the
slogan back to the farm "
Probably the most convincing demonstration of the
wonders OF irrigation shown the gigantic Elephant
Butte project In New Mexico the greatest and most ex
pensve project undertaken under the reclamation act It
is estimated that the Elephant Butte dam will be com
pleted Id or years. which that of 10000
acres will be irrigated All this land has been
reclaimed; canals will be built across vast stretch
es OF barren desert which nothing but cac-
tus and sage brush has grown. Some Of the cac-
has lowered twly or thirty feet high and tic min
formed onlooker would hazard the opinion that conquer
ing such formidable desert would be an rnpossi5ty
yet IN years highly developed farms will form checker
board OF many of the places where giant cac
tus held undsputed sway and within five years after the
completion of the Elephant Butte DAM doubt the rri-
gable under this great project will be literally bios
soming as the rose.
Hope is the most energizing factor human affairs
and is to reach the with ambition deternna
ton and the faith his ability to accomplish as much as
his neighbor under like circumstances and to such we can
promise successenOugh of it to insure him aproxn tie
y as much III year. financial way as he can ac-
cCTnpllsh IN town IN three years.
Instead of being buyer of high priced food stuffs be
producer of them Instead Of paying about one-tird
OF your earnings for roof your head your own
home away from the SCOT and CRIME and catter of cities
There thousands of farmers the older eongesed
communities who would gladly escape the rigorous win
tiers of the North and who realize that their present hold
mgs have rea. ked their maximum of value considering
that their farms paying only about much wnen
heir land estimated at perhaps half its present price
I'll Paso valley lands being purchased by a high
class of farmers business men, truckers and fruit grow
ers from all over the country and hundfeds-yes thou
sands ct acres being put in cultivation Almost
aid there but little doubt that fully 80 percent of
the buyers will become bonafide settlers
Buyers of our land are assured of an adequate SUD-
ply OF water for irrigation purposes from the Elephant
Butte DAM each purchaser being given contract to that
effect.
There is place where with just little CAPT.
tai can get start and be making something more
than llvmg to be compared with this section AS soon
rs ne can make money trucking he out fruit
trees the returns running from $500 $1,000 acre.
no risk OF loss of crop rule The soils of the Ell Paso
Doco bocQ Of