El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-27

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Herald staff man.
how to do it He is 1biIant at his
success thus far and believes that he
Till be able to help people the Pecos
region with hundreds of thrifty farmer
families who will help TO make the new
country what he thinks il ought to be-
A Health Resort
The railroad company which is
building the new line into Balmorhea is
preparing to advertise the region ex-
tensively. The Gould railroads have
promised 10 advertise the country and
back a great hotel for tourist resort,
The water is net only a wonderful
life giver TO the soil, but it is rich in
mineral properties. While palat2ble
TO the taste it is heavily impregnated
with sulphur and is said to be equally
valuable for human ills as it is for
producing growth in plants.
The Davis mountains. a little east of
the Toyah valley and hemming in that
beautiful little paradise spot, are rich
in wonderful scenery and valuable for
their health giving atmosphere. They
also abound in game. Another hotel in
the mountains is planned by the Gould
lines.
The Toyah valley is already so rich in
are erecting a mammoth alfalfa meal
mill and they have contracts for the
output sold two years ahead of time.
With the new road to BalmoThea they
can save three dollars a ton on Ship
ments; the new road will put fall these
things at the very door of Pecos and
viii help 70 make it one OF the great
est, if not the greatest town on the
plains of this western Texas
In Famous TOyah Valley.
c. W. and Eugene Swenson. two
young men from Chicago, are the mas
tiers Of the situation in the Toyah val
ley. They have purchased all the avail
able land, including the water rights, in
the upper Toyah valley, and are now
selling homes to eastern farmers who
are tired Of crop failures and drouths.
They are bringing in excursions every
two weeks and each excursion finds
many farmers staying, TO build homes
for themselves and their families.
The Swenson brothers are able to show
the results that have already been ac-
cOmplished and that is their sole argu-
ment. Purchases follow at once. These
lands, $4,000 acres Of them, are irrigated
from mammoth spring at the head of
the valley, and the water is carried
throughout the valley in canals.
Beautifully clear, with waving green
on the banks and the ripping waters
glistening like diamonds in the sun
light under a clear sky, or singing
their lullabys beneath some stately
fruit or shade tree, the water makes
the Toyah valley the most valuable
adjunct to the future prosperity Of
Pecos, indeed, veritable oasis
Town Grows Fast.
The town OF Balmorhea has sprung up
as if in night, yet it is substantial
The valley is already dotted with
many houses and the stores in the new
town carry a complete line of every
tkIng-drugs, groceries. dry goods,
clothing lumber-the new town has two
lumber yards, both active-and every
thing the settler needs or wants. Doc
tors, watchmakers and blacksmithS
have already located there. But there
is no wonder. The alfalfa crop already
amounts to many cars a year and the
fruit shipments are heavy.
Griffins Noted Orchard.
c. ". Giffin, who located there just
IS years ago, shipped almost $4,000.
worth of pears to D. NJ Payne Of FL
Paso. season before last, and pears
are only one of his many products. He
rides in an automobile and takes life
easy He lives in comfortable adobe
and stone house, in the forks of two ir-
rigation bitches, the banks covered
with delicate weeping willows and
stately cottonwOods and his orchards
give him amusement and profit at one
and the same time. Apricots-he has
the biggest apricot tree in the state
peaches, pears-the pears were break
ing the limbs from the trees a few days
ago and he had already picked the
young fruit twice-plums, crab apples,
grapes, apples. ounces, blackberries,
figs, cherries, and other numerous and
valuable fruits grow in profusion. Great
lucious peaches, pears as big as two
fists, cherries as sweet as sugar, bla ok
berries as soft and sweet as a breath
of morning air, grapes as fine as any
that California ever produced, grow al
most without care
Some Fruit Profits.
Eugene Swenson figures out the prof
it from one variety Of Mr. Giffin's
grapes. They produced 500 pounds TO
the vine, calculating from the number
Of vines to the acre, he figures that
there is gross income of $500 an acre
With alfalfa bringing s12 a ton and
seven cuttings TO the year, totaling
about eight tons TO the season, he nat |
urally had no trouble figuring an in
come of sos an acre. Water rights !
cost $3.50 an acre; to Mr.. Giffin they
cost nothing, for he owns part of the big |
spring that waters the whole valley,
some Is miles in length. Mr.. C'tf:n has |