El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-28

The subject of irrigation bugbear to majority Of
eastern and northern farmers There is settled idea
among them that the necessity for irrigation is draw
back Lit not necessary tell anyone who has resided
IN the Rio Grande Valley of Ell Paso Texas for
brief period, of the benefits of irrigation They too
manifest The greatest results in agriculture and hOr
cutre obtained by irrigation in regions of contnu
Gus sunshine where the process Of growth is kept up
without the interruption Of cold and cloudy days Such
conditions with the addition of water ideal for the
rapid development of vegetable life Success hinges on
the supply of water both for early and late irrigation
With the of sufficient water the irigating
farmer become the most prosperous farmer in the
world Success under such conditions becomes mathemat
lcal certainty The farmer who embarks in his calling
irrigated farm in the Rio Grande Valley calculate
III the beginning approximately what crops he will har
vest under intelligent cultivation and what revenue he will
derive from his land This certainty of success has been
sufficient to attract many thoughtful and ambitious men
to the valley lands who being followed by others who
through publicity becoming acquainted with what the
valley offers the industrious farmer this land of oppor
tuRity Farming by irrigation the ideal method of agr
culture 1t the farmer be the of unfailng water
supply he is able to produce all the field and orchard
products suited to this latitude less cost in time and
labor than farmer anywhere under conditions such as
prevail IN the eastern and central states In the Rio
rande Valley and under the irrigation bitches he is indie
pendent of weather conditions and all crops are reason
ably if he gives them the that good practice re-
ql1res 1t is impossible to imagine families more indie
pendent than those who established on irrigated farms
Under analysis such condition makes close approach
to the ideal
People who have cut the tap roots that held them in
their northern and eastern homes and have ransplanted
themselves to the irrigang regions of the southwest
have become quickly weaned Of their longngs return to
their former abode This fact is for those who are afraid
they won't like it. Those few exceptions who pulled
up their new stakes and have gone back to their former
haunts almost without exception trailing back to
the southwest declaring that the east was not what if was
their ideas having changed
When you contemplate lake 40 miles long with
enough water in it to drown three small states and
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Rockies which will be created by the Elephant Butte DAM
now under construction it does not take much assurance
Of engineers to convince that there will be enough
water there for the irrigation Of the 10000 of land
having rights under this system, making it possible for
thousands of those who reside the bound re
glons where the billiards. grip the land in ice clutches
IN the winter and the humidity makes gasp like fish
out OF water IN the summer to procure homes the sunny
temperate Rio Grande Vaey-a land where the frost
damages in the colder months and the drvness of
the atmosphere in the precudes the possibility
of the distressing "steam BATH
Here in the Rio Grande Valley in the ''Land of Sun