El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26
CITY Of Flowing Wells," Pecos, Tex,
Puts Up 100000 Bonus For Railroad
$4,000 In New Buildings In 1915 IS Pumping Wells In
the Pecos Shallow Water Belt In One Year

I opments and Investigations cannot b
disputed. Enough already is known t.
| prove that when cultivated city Of
large proportion must arise at Pecos
| fhe manufacturing, commercial, job
bing and financial center of the Pecos
valley. There must too arise a goodly
number of smaller but progressive
| towns in the territory embraced prop
erly within the Pecos valley of Texas
Important Growing Towns.
Already Pecos, Barstow, Toyah. Bal
morhea, Saragosa, Grandf Falls and
Fort Stockton are important and grow
ing towns. each with large local
business and each the believer in an
optimistic and progressive future for
itself and for the country in which
they are respectively loca ted-all with
in the Pecos valley of Texas-said to
be by many leading agricultural ex-
perts the only possible future competi-
tor California may expect in the pro-
duction of those high class fruits
which the American citizen is daily
demanding in larger and larger guam
titles and for which he is willing to
pay constantly increasing price.
Pumping for Irrigation.
me zeal beginning a ;d,hi'ed water
irrigation was started IN the Pecos
valley by j. w. Moore with a small
lump Tie scale Of his operation was
snsll--tut he succeeded. in raising d
cr,D tiat well paid for the exiI.nse lie
had gone to. He was followed by the
DcIiiD2 by the state OF Texas of an
irrigated experimental farm three miles
from Pecos. This farm was watered
by pumped water The plant here,
while good, still is largely short of
what is really needed. The expert
mental farm is hardly eight months
old and yet here again success has
been achieved and the crops already
produced have demonstrated once again
the absolute practicability of pumped
water irrigation here in the Pecos val
ley.
After this the growth of pumped wa
ter. irrigation took a much stronger
impetus and today, hardly one year
after the agitation by the citizens and
commercial bodies of the valley for
such development, about As such out
fits have been put in.
This is a really astonishing growth.
Certainly a most splendid growth for
one year-and while the crops for 1911
on a large number of farms irrigated
by pumped water were late in being
planted, enough has been done, enough
seen. enough accomplished, enough
realization IN being, to prove beyond
the widest expectations that from
henceforth the valley is u be dcttea
here, there and everywhere with
pumped water farms until in a few
years the visitor to the Pecos valley
will be able to behold section Of
country which shall proudly lift it's
smiling head and irvite comparison not
only with proud southern Callfo. MA,
but with the world at large-feeling
that a true investigation shall reveal
the fact that it has become another
garden spot within the Americas
5000 Acres "Under Pump
The pumped water plants already
put in have been spread over a wide
section of territory and they will lrri-
gate perhaps 5000 acres of choice land
A good start indeed. In the San Joa-
quin valley of California where today
more than 1000 pumped wells have
brought into being what is said to be
the most beautiful section of the Pa
cific coast and certainly one of the
leading fruit and alfalfa sections of the
world, there, in the San Joaquin val
ley. the first years start in pumped
water irrigation was on a much more
meager scale than here near Pecos in