El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

pounds Neither the alfalfa nor the
melons had any irrigation.
Ed smith gave rye a trial on his
farm along with other things planting
it last fan and cutting it this spring
for FODDER. He cut it before IL matured,
. but says il 1t had been allowed to grow
to maturity, it would have yielded 20
busnelS TO the acre and 1t had aDSO-
lutely no attention after planting. He
merely seeded the ground in the fall
and left u Tor the SHOWS to do the rest.
He did It not mature for the reason
that II was more valuable to him as
forage, he says. and then here are no
threshing machines in this neighbor-
Frank Adams, an Oklahoma man,
has crop Of corn, frijOles and maize
that viii net him a gOodly sum this
year The crops were put in on new
land.
To Try Summer Wheat.
John f. karrl, a German farmer from
Colorado, has. ike the others, produced
crops, but has also planted and har-
vested spring wheat this year with sue
cess. Some OF the farmers are talking
Of experimenting with summer wheat
planting just before the June rains
and attempting to gather It before
the frost They believe this experiment
viii prove success and II 1t does,
there are thousands Of acres Of raw
land now that viii be turned into gOI-
den harvest fields in a few years, for
the hOmeSeekers are coming fast and
everyone that comes with the tnten-
ton Of staying is making a living and
staying.
Vaughn, like many other sections,
suffers some from the men who come
in and file on piece Of land and after
putting up shack, leave It, hoping to
live upon 1t Off and on for the five
years and then get title and sell It to
somebody for good figure on the
strength Of the development work by
their neighbOrs, the corners and stay
ers.' These men are thus preventing
the real hOmesteader from coming in
on some OF the land, but they are going
to find I mighty rocky going" as one
of the Vaughn people put It, when they
attempt to prove up" and get their
government title at the end Of their
F. B. LittIe-"oId man Little" the
tOWnspeOple call him-has one Of the
show places Of the community. He has
a farm only two miles from town,
where he has six acres in cultivation
that are as pretty as anything in any
Of the irrigated valleys Of the state.
Last year he had the entire six acres
in beans and he cleaned up $500 and it
was a dry year, unusually so. This year
he viii make more than that from
very small patch Of beans, and besides
his beans he has milo, lIaffir, and corn.
His corn win make so bushels to the
acre.
There are cOrnstalks on exhibition IN
Vaughn that are II feet tall with ears
on them Is inches long-grown right
out On the prairie with no irrigation.
Sheep and Cattle Center.
While Vaughn is looking hopefully
to the future when the httChstraps OF
the farm teams win iii their tieing
posts, they have good sheep and cat
tie region to support their town at
present The wool clip from this town
forms quite a large tonnage, and the
cattle shipments here amount to a
considerable figure in the tonnage OF
the two railroads In year. vaughn is
located in a strategic position at pres
and future farm section, with two rail-
roads crossing 1t like the letter x and
serving a territory in four different di-
reCtiOns for q large area. The Santa
Re crosses from the east to west and
the FL Paso & Southwestern from north
to south The Santa Fe has a freight
division located here, which includes
large rOuudhOuSe and shops where
temporary repairs are made TO the
locomotives and rolling stock in
transit. The Vaughn people are also
working 70 have the SouthWestern re
move its division point here from Du-
ran, urgin- Vaughn because Of its al
most central location between Tula-
rosa and CarriZoZo, the other two d.
vision points for freight trains. Du-
ran is fighting hard 70 hold It's round
house, however
With the building OF the Santa Fe
(the Belen cutoff IT is called through
Clovis, there was created large and
substantial Harvey house-the Les
Chavez freight and passenger sta
tion, and library and reading room for
employees of the road These three
buildings. in mission design, in a row,
add much to the appearance Of the
town. while the hotel adds most ma
terially to the comfort Of home peO-
pie and visitors. as il is modern in eT-
cry respect, like all houses Of the Har- (
vey system. Rooms with baths, run |
ming hot and cold water and steam !
heat are mere Incidents Of the general /
arrangement Of the house Vaughn has Z