El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-25
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A EEEG3sE ID
Gradually, and with little flourish of trumpets the
irrigation projects of the United States reclamation
ice constituting in the aggregate the greatest work Of the
kind ever undertaken being completed and the lands
unit by unit, are being filled with settlers.
Probably four-ffhs of the work on the main projects
completed and work is also being done in extending
canals and building laeraS the actual settlement Of
the land progresses This work will be continued for
many years. the process of colonization will necessarily
be somewhat slow The major portion of the great task
completed however and Uncle Sam points to the
desert lands that hold untold possibilities of wealth and
says Come The invitation is being responded to in
cOuaging fashion, and the farm units completed
the various projects houses spring up with rapdty that
should encourage those economists who believe that the
only solution for present high prices for food suff the
slogan ''back to the farm
Probably the most convincing demonstration of the
wonders of irrigation shown on the gigantic Elephant
Butte project in New Mexico the greatest and
pensve project undertaken under the reclamation It
is estimated that the Elephant Butte dam will be
pleted IN or which that of 10000
will be irrigated. All this land has been
reclaimed; canals will be built vast stretch
es Of barren desert which nothing but cac-
tus and sage brush has grown. Some of the cac-
tus has lowered twy thirty feet high and tue
formed OnlOOker would hazard the opinion that conquer
ing such formidable desert would be an impossibty
yet in years highly developed farms will form checker
board of green many of the places where the giant
tus held undsputed sway and within five years after the
completion of the Elephant Butte dam, doubt the rri
gable under this great project will be literally bios
sOming as the
Hope is the most energizng factor in human affairs
and aim is TO reach the with ambition determine
ton and the faith In his ability to accomplish much
his negbOr under like circumstances and t. such we can
promise successenOugh of it to insure him aCruxm tie
~ as much III year. financial way he can ac
mpllsh IN town in three years.
Instead of being buyer of high priced food stuffs be
producer Of them Instead Of paying out about one-Crd
OF your earnings for roof your head your
home away from the SCOT and Crime and clatter Of cities
There thousands of farmers the older congested
communities who would gladly escape the rigorous win
tiers of the North and who realize that their present hold
ings have rea:ted iheir maximum of value considering
that their farms paying only about much when
aher land was estimated at perhaps half its present price
FL Paso valley lands being purchased by high
class OF farmers business truckers and fruit grow
from all the country and hundreds-yes thou
sands Of being put in cultivation Almost
every Ten, Twenty and Forty tract VIII have settler
AID there but little doubt that fully 80 percent of
the buyers viii become bOnafde settlers.
Buyers of our land assured of an adequate sup
ply of water for irrigation purposes from the Elephant
Butte DAM each purchaser being given contract to that
effect
There is place, where with just little CAPT
tai can get start and soon be making something
than living, to be compared with this section AS
he make money trucking he set out fruit
trees the returns running from $500 to $1,000 an acre. and
no risk OF loss of crop rule The soils of the Ell Paso