La Junta tribune., 1910-07-16

and b. al from the field They are
yraciD1s They iEht Ike taraH-
rgla for human blood These land
sharks. -hlle only less numerous than
the mosquitoes. are even more yor
aclous
The Satsuma orange and the fix
ErD~ SslI almost everywhere on the
gulf coast. and ln all sorts Of soil.
especially The fix The ng j. a pro
life bearer and commences to bear
within three years. while Ia. orange
does not commence quite 10 early
The Satsums Or4ng. BE- said not 10
be- first rate keeper and. hence. not
a good shipper The ftE Is a very pr
.sh4Dls fruit and can only be mar.
ketsd. in any quantity when dried
or preserved. do not believe the
ng MI le prof able and have ser
ious doubts Of the raising Of N"
sarsuma orange being profitable II
Is ny Judgment that many man
. -lu IO-e bis fortune. all he has. iH
Ero~inE oranges and ~ in Louis
lama aud Texas
. Travelled from Laredo into Dui-
ru."t county. about one hundred aud
nry miles southwest Of saa Antonio.
ia th" arid part OF Texas As
wrote Ia a previous letter. great prof
ils have been made growing aabbas.
and onions ! talked Sita a tanker
A. Laredo sho. UitH three DrHer-
owned a tract Of rg.l,. hundred
acres They soil. this year. sl1fy-fts
thousand dollars worth % onions.
EruUH on bat tvo hundred and sew
rury acres 70 fh. above farm. being
all they have iu cultivation ] saw
tho account sales of tho shipments
Eighteen hundred cars Of onions were
shipped this year. from LaredoErDNu
ou two thousand acres. almost Que
carload per acre.
D.mmIt county b. l1 an arrrslau
belt and ss an onion. cabbage and
truck country. and ErBDs corn. cot
ton. alfalfa. fruits and a Er,ar many
other produrts lr Is std-ly adyrr.
used and people az, nDcknz 10 this
country
a man named Richardson owns
many thousands of acres n thp com.
- 30" laid out the town of Asher.
ton one year ago and later luilt a
railroad 10 the t0~u. tn. town con
thius about five hundred or more peo-
pie and is lively place The cDun.
Try il densely covered with mesquite.
being cleared out aud farmed essry.
where and they are beautiful farms.
The land is rich. the climat. dry aud
IA" country is adapted 10 the sr,ai.
rst variety oi products. II i an IT,
rlEat'd country II is 80 dry nov
that no green vegetation OF grass j.
70 be- seen. The vater IL obtained
from artesian w.lls With which 10 ir
rtEats Thee" aTt.siEu Eal.s al. but
s''ra or eight hundred feet deep
aud cost about on. thousand dollars
each saw Nells that flowed SUN.
Client water 10 irrigaJ" on. hundred
aCr,s Here too IA mosl serious dif
firulty. As N. country develops aud
n" numtsr OF wells Increases. The
floS OF water diminishes aud. In som.
Instances, wells have ceased flowing
entirely, when another veil ~as sunk
near vy \ photograph Of n. first
~-ii bored a. Ashertou shows great
fountain Of water gushing hirh into
the air 4 second veil Mas sunk ln
another part Of th' town recently,
sh'u tao first veil ceased flowing On.
ur"ly said To man at work In a
n'ld one days Your crop looks
httl. dry" Yer" h. said We
couldn't gct our pump for good
Nhii.. When that Ncll over there
Mas bored our Neil almost stopped
running We sent for pump rlght
aNay. but II Mas delayed fof about
a month aud ihlh crop had no water
fJr more Than month our we'll
flowed twic. as much a. NJ. are nov
pumping The Will referred to was
almost quarter OF mil. from this
w'll Il seems evident. to my mind.
that a. this country is srttlcd aud
numerous wells are bored they viii
all c"as" 10 flow. They may pump
them for time. but even this may
fails almost certain to fail.
Even here the land shark has got
Ia his work Great tracts Of land
haY. been divided Ia ten. twenty.
forty and eighty acre tracts and sold.
through agents. aud ~ advertising.
and by mail. TO unsuspectlnE peopl.
ali otsr this fouutry ga IA. maid Ia,