El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26
125,O00 Fruit Trees Planted This
Year At Artesia, New Mexico
100000 Bonus Gets New Railway Land Is Being Devel
oped and Realty Is Active; Big Crops.
CBy S. E. Ferree.)

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A RTESIA. N. NJ. Aug. 26.-De-
~ spite the financial depression
in the east precluding large
numbers of settlers from locating in
the Pecos valley. the year 1911 trans
cends all previous years in advance
ment and in laying the foundationh
for permanent prosperity in Aretesia
and vicinity.
New Railroad Certain.
The banner event for 1911 was the
raising by Artesia Of a 500, 900 Bonus
and $4,000 rightofway. and by Hope
of a $4,000 bonus and rightofway for
the San Diego, Ell Paso & st. Louis
railroad from Artesia to FL Paso via
Hope and later for its continuation
from Artesia east through the Pan
Handle with eastern connections. The
road will form part of a transconti-
mental line from San Diego to the At
lantic coast Work on the Artesia-
Hope section of the road viii begin
next month. The rightofway calls for
sufficient land at Artesia for shops
and terminals.
Alfalfa and Meal.
The alfalfa crop. for 1911 is over so
percent more than in 1910 and has
been disposed of at enhanced prices
There Will be from five to six cuttings
this year from which will be shipped
several hundred cars of alfalfa meal
Alfalfa has brought as high as $12
ton this season
125,0O0 Fruit Trees Planted
While alfalfa is the principal crop,
within the next five years IT will be
surpassed in value by the fruit crop
About $4,000 fruit trees were set
out in 1911. As most of the orchards
are young, shipments of fruit were not
large compared with older districts
A fruit growers association was
formed and there were shipped by fast
freight and express about $4,000 boxes
of peaches that netted from 70 cents
to 81 a box, besides plums, apricots
and grapes. Some of the peach and
plum trees netted $50 worth Of fruit
apiece
Fruit Wins First Prize.
There viii be shipped about rs car
loads of apples from Artesia and Hope
this season This is the first year
that smudge pots were installed
though there was little occasion for
their use.
It is predicted that with he number
Of young orchards coming into bear
ing there will be three times as much
fruit shipped next year. The fruit
raised 1T sArtesia and Hope is very
superior and took the Hearst trophy
at the National Irrigation congress at
Albuquerque in 1908 against fruit
raised in Colorado. Washington and
other fruit sections.
Several tons of honey were produced
about Artesia in 1911
A melon growers association was
formed and about 400 acres were
planted to cantaloupes. From one to
two car loads of melons are shipped
a day and are expected to net 81 a |
crate. The melons are said by experts
TO exceed in flavor those raised in
other districts
Fifty New Artesfau Wells.
About so artesian wells were drilled J
IN 1911, most of them in the Cotton |
wood district about u miles |
northeast Of Artesia and on !
land that was supposed to be
outside Of the well district Many i
surface wells were dug and pumping |
plants installed, demonstrating sue |
cessfully that sufficient water can be
secured from surface wells to raise (
fruit and corn Some of the power for |
the pumping plants was secured from /
the power and light plant that IN |
creased its capacity.
The removal by the government Of |
Its order Withdrawing from entry land /