El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-17

The subject of irrigation is bugbear to majority of
eastern and northern farmers There is settled idea
among them that the necessity for irrigation draw
back 1t Is not necessary to tell anyone who has resided
IN the bio Grande Valley of Ell Paso Texas for
brief period of the benefits irrigation They are too
manifest The greatest results in agriculture and hor
tcuiture obtained by irrigation In regions of contnu
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 ON
the supply of water both for early and late IRRIGATION
With the of sufficient water the irrigang
farmer may become the prosperous farmer in the
world Success under such conditions becomes mathemat
1ca certainty The farmer who embarks In 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 he will
derive from his land This certainty of success has been
sufficient to attract many thoughtful and ambitious men
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
unlfy Farming by irrigation is the ideal method of agr
culture the farmer be the of an unfailing water
supply he is able produce all the field and orchard
products suited TO this latitude at less cost in time and
LABOR than FARMER anywhere under conditions such
prevail In the eastern and central states In the Rio
Grande Valley and under the irrigation bitches he is nde
pendent of weather conditions and all crops are reason
ably he gives them the that good practice
quires 1t is impossible to imagine families more indie
pendent than those who established on irrigated farms
Under anal yss such condition makes close approach
to the ideal
their northern and eastern homes and have ransplanted
themselves to the irrgatng regions of the southwest
have become quickly weaned of their longngs to return to
their former abode This fact is for those who are afraid
they won like it. Those few exceptions who have pulled
up their Few stakes and have gone back to their former
haunts almost without exception trailing back to
the southwest declaring that the what it was
their ideas having changed
When you contemplate lake 40 miles long with .
enough water IN it to drown three small states and
swelled besides by that feeds the of the
Rockies which will be created by the Elephant Butte DAM
under construction 1t does not take much assurance
Of engineers 10 convince that there will be enough
war there for the irrigation of the 10000 land
having rights under this system, making it possible for
thousands Of those who reside in the snow bound
gons where the billiards. grip the land in ice clutches
ia the winter and the humidity makes gasp like fish
out of water In the procure homes in the sunny
temperate Rio drande Valey-a land where the frost
damages the colder months and the dryness of
the atmosphere m the summer precludes the possibility
of the distressing sssteam bath y.
Here in the Rio Grande Valley. in the "Land of Sun