Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-02

ded TO the marketable products. OF
this district he writes:
Another town of the famous Pecos
valley is Artesia This comparatively
is a new town in the northern part Of
Eddy county, the southeastern corner
of New MeXiCo-the most regular
county of the bunch in boundary lines,
being prefectly rectangular, siXty-six
by 90 miles, Approximately The
| meeting at Artesia was held in a tent
| and, though the audience sat ON boards
without backs to the seats, they
caught the bait at the very first cast
and shouted for more Yankees
Greed" after one and one half hours of
IL had been ladled out at 200 words to
the minute
Artesia has a Methodist college, rich
soil, and hundreds of gushing wells Of
water, some of oil and some of gas 1t
| is a new growing town. Thomas r.
Smith gave us a ride about the country,
| fourteen miles in an auto, Such
natural roads all over New MeXicol
| Such fields of alfalfa, and such
orchards of APPLE and pear! OFTEN we
could count six or eight artesian wells
throwing their spray of water into the
| irrigating ditches They are so big
and bumptious that one could see
them a mile away. Think of it, 1000
| gallons per minute for single Well
! six inches deep, and flowing a a pretty
/ pace! Here apparently unmitigated
! desert next a forty-acre field of way
| ing alfalfa. Haying time was on for
| the first cut--April 2S. How it piles
up on the ground There's hardly
| room for il. Cut it one day. bale ii the
next, sell it the next for $12 to SIS
/ per ton. Three or four crops a year,
Some farmers get $40 per acre for
three months pasture for sheep ana
! then cut two crops of good alfalfa.
We saw 20, 600 sheep, thousands of
horses and cattle, 10, 600 acres of fins
orchards and 15 600 acres Of alfalfa.
! in our morning ride. No wonder
! Tom is toppy ON Artesia. We visited
an oil wei, where ranchers can get
crude oil to burn in their smudge pots
/ to stave off untimely frosts. They
! thus saved their peaches and apples
| this year.
AT one well whose eight-inch pipe
delivered its stream vertically, the
whole force was turned on, and the
big clear column of water shot twenty
feet into the air. Your writer jumped
from his seat, grabbed his sombrero.
and uttered a yell that made "A mule in
a far-away field cock one ear and
part of another.
This area of artesian wells extends
for about fifty miles north and south,
and makes aVaiab BILE a portion Of land
| larger than some whole states of the
! Union. Bless you, the Pecos valley
will support more people than are now
| hanging on in some whole states.
| These wells cost about $4,000 each,
! Up to date their flow is unchanging.
| one will irrigate fully 240 acres, easily.
| bagas, kaffir corn, milo maize, oats,
roots and vegetables are grown with
| Y II %.
! S65 per acre, and, once into alfalfa
or fruit, brings $500 or $500.
All the Artesia youngsters were
herded in church by Superintendent
Bishop and II. II. p. gave them some
| fathefN advice Thus we sandwiched
| sightseeing with school work. and
again caught the accommodation
train by an eye-winker.
Southwark in the same country. the
| traveller comes to Carlsbad and to the
| United States reclamation project, by
which 10000 acres of the valley have
been reclaimed and converted into
| orchards and meadows. OF this visit
he writes:
Carlsbad the county seat Of Eddy,
| IS old and famous for its medicinal
/ springs. Carlsbad has q fine new high
school. Here was the smallest
audience and the finest auditorium of
any on the tour. Even the teachers
were not in evidence by a majority.
The folks who were there, however,
proved to be the survival of the fittest.
FROM the sturdy, manly row Of small
! boys on the front seat to the its in
the flanks and rear, there was not a
listless or inattentiVe auditor
But that Saturday morning ride set
up by the board of trade was no frost
! Superintendent Kaiser was our at
| tentiVe chaperon 1t was thirty miles
in an auto First to the famous springs
Gagged in a cement box twelve by
twenty feet and ten feet deep, clear
as q crystal boiling, bubbllng, seeth-
ing from the pebbly bottom, and flow
/ ing d tail-race stream to the PecOs.
Right by is the great flume from the
! government dam of the reclamation
service taking the waters of the Pecos
| across itself in a great cement aquc-
duct on graceful arches athwart the
/ stream. Farther on it crosses Black
Canyon by a big cement inverted
siphon that runs the great stream for
a hundred yards below the bed of the
| wash Then we were taken to those
farms and possibilities of farms far
away where the waters Of the govern
| ment reclamation service spread out
make fine farms and happy homes.
The raw land here may be had at
present for S25 per acre. The dam
/ above Carlsbad makes many thousand
acres available that otherwise would
lie lmost unused.
Now ne crosses a mountain range
i westward. and by the Santa Fe rail
way comes to Deming. where agricul-
ture. made possible by artificial irri-
CATION. is taking over the Mimbres
valley This valley, a desert only re-
Gently. impresses the Michigan pilgram
very much He says.
4 Deming is a dandy Climate, soil
water. situation. folks. and a faith.
com bined with gumption, get-up, and
go. make it stand out in memory and
I on the map with characteristics all its
own.
1t is the county seat of Luna county
! in southwestern New Mexico. 1t is the
\ junction point of four railways 1t
is in the center of great plain of
deep. rich soil. fringed all about with
4. Just such jagged. handsome mountains
I as YOU would see in picture books. The
town is handsomely laid out, has fine
/ business blocks. public buildings,
beautiful residences, and hundreds of
windmins Il has been known as the
windmill CITY" but these are now Civ
ing way 10 the city waterworks.
n The schoolhouse is in prettilN
. shaded ground. and $4,000 has just