Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1910-06-10
GREAT EDUCATOR
BOOSTS DEM|NG
Prof. Pattengill Says Some
Mighty Nice Things
About Us
n WONDERFUL FUTURE
Story in Michigan "Modera-
tor-Topics" of Inestima-
BILE Value to Us.
WONDERFUL FUTURE

1oil, water, situation, folks and faith,
combined with gumption, get-up.
md go, make II stand out in MEM
Dry and on the map with character
Iatics all its own.
IL is the county seat of Luna
county in southwestern New Mexico.
e Is the junction point Of four rail-
Dads. Ii is in the center of great
lain of deep, rich soil, fringed all
bout with just such jagged, hand
some mountains as you see in pic
lure books. The town is handsome
n laid out, has fine business blocks.
public buildings, beautiful resi-
dences and hundreds Of windwheels.
u has been known as the windmill
city,' but these are now giving way
10 the city waterworks.
The school-house is in prettily
shaded ground, and $4,000 has just
been voted to build another, and
please note that there was not a
dissenting vote. The meeting here
was a large and especially fine one.
The hall was a beauty, the audience
superb, the school exercises admir-
able, the brief addresses by the
county superintendent and DR..
Swope very appropriate. The Off
GERS of the Chamber of Commerce
had received us and banqucted us Mt
the Harvey House. and from the
Youngest boy to the most important
IT. our welcome was unanimous and
bubbling over the top of the tube.
Supt. Doderer and his teachers did
heir full share, and our visit to
the school emphasized the fact that
the work done there was Of first
quality.
Our pleasure in Deming, how
ever, was in meeting again those
fine Michigan citizens of yore, who
are now full iledged boosters in
Deming, Ralph Ely and Willard
Holt and their families. Ralph Ely
is president of the Chamber of Com
merce, a leading attorney and re-
ferred to as the father of irriga-
ton in Luna county. He has been
in Deming a half dozen years or
more. He was once head of the
Alma, Mich, public schools and is
the son of our State Road Commits
sioner Ely. Willard Holt is the
former live wire of the Michigan
Press Association. wheel horse of
the republican party in the Wolver-
inc state, editor of Bellevue Gazette,
now editor of the handsomest paper
in New Mexico. The DEMING
GRAPHIC He is all gone on Dem
ing. II would take a long pry Ia
loose him from that handsome home
in the booming town. De Puy, his
efficient partner, was his loyal fore
man in Bellevue. Water, 99.9s
government test. Air 100. Every
body's test!' are the GRAPHIC slo
gans.
Roses were in their full estate II
Deming. Such large, luscious, fra
grant, beautiful. blooded ones! DIR
Swope kept us supplied with them
But yards were full Of them, home
embowered in them, the circumambi
ent ether perfumed with them. Supt
Clark confscated Cartercar ant
with Holt, Swope and Pat took al
early morning spin to some ranch
crs that have already put dow
their wells and established thei
fruitful fields.
1T seems that at the north par
of this county the gushing Mimbre
river, as it leaves the mountains
ducks under ground and does no
appear again as river till Il show
\. UP in Diaz land But 1t makes a
\ underground lake Of Luna county
Water comes within 20 or 80 feet q
the surface and the water strata
600 feet thick. Ralph Ely spent
small fortune in proving that tn
great supply existed and that
could be proftsbly pumped for i
rigation. Luna county can mail