El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-16

iIding Greater FL Paso
rcng structures have sprung up and today continue to do
omse placing Paso the head of the procession to-
the Ell Paso Chamber of Commerce Book, "The Story
2OOOOOOO and idea of the magnitude of the work
may be obtained from the following figures: The eng
will sixtyve feet below the bed of the river IN
order reach solid rock for their foundation The dam
will be $50 feet thick at bed rock and $50 feet long Ii all
the cement required to construct this huge dam were de-
lvered in Shipment it would require freight train
fifteen miles long with every car packed to It's full ca
pacity.
An amount of water equal to that found in the Hud-
son river from Albany Manhattan Island would have
about the covering power the quantity which will
be held in reserve in Lake Hall.
The top of the dam will be twenty feet wide
and 400 feet long; extreme height being 270 feet Con-
crete rock and huge iron bars will be used its cOnstruc
tion One hundred and seventyve feet above the
twenty feet below the crest of the dam, splways will
be built carry off all of water after the reservoir
proper full The storage of water will reach 1922 3O6
100000 cubic feet 100000 gallons. Lake B. NJ
Hail. which the given this huge reservoir to be
thrtyfour miles long and will average IL miles wide
To reduce these figures practical basis, the Elephant
Butte dam WILL when complete reserve body of water
capable of covering 100000 acres of land to the depth
of foot enough to satisfactorily gate the entire Rio
Grande Valley for distance of 10 miles during period
of three years.
DRY FARMING
Dry farming IN the vicinity of Ell PasO is In its IN
fancy The few tests made have proven most satisfactory
and profitable
The Department of Agriculture has been studying tie
soils and crops suitable for these regions which Will
suit in great value to agriculture and horticulture
To persons looking for investments in low priced land
there great opportunities the second bot
tom lands adjoining the valley either side back for
distance of few miles When the science of dry farming
applied to this land will be productive dry farm
ing land section OF the country This land how
will probably be irrigated the big Elephant
Butte dam project is completed and the electric power
proposition developed is the intention of the recama
ton service to furnish electricity for pumping water 70
these lands, at small cost The soil on the
is fine and will grow almost anything particularly is it
well adapted for orchard and vineyards. There
many thousands of of this land which will
probably be irrigated within few years. In the
time with the methods of dry farming applied to them
section the entire Southwest today offers the prospects
that the second bottom lands adjoining the Rio
Grande Valley do
1t is but natural that ranch property should be
remely active when such gigantic enterprise has been
guaranteed by the Government
LAND VALUES.
Land values the Rio Grande Valley are very low at
the present time and there worlds of opportunities
for to get small large tract of land It is
the land not cheap per land the TRY
farming districts in places where irrigation is uncer-
tain Five years ago and three years ago. before
Elephant Butte dam project certainty even
possibility valley lands could be bought low five dol
lars per During the past since the big project
became certainty, and when the engineers actually be-
gan work. land prices have gone up fast This five
dolar-an-acre land selling for $3000 and high
$4,000 per Cleared lands IN cultivation, in al
falfa orchards vineyards with houses barns etc.
high as 100000 per and yet is low In the Ell Paso
Valley land quite high Good land can bought
low proportion to its producing capacity Orchards