El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05

keeps careful books reports his income
from a little less than half an acre for
the first half of this year at S162.75,
and will equal this during the second
half, an annual income of S325.50 per
half acre, or 1851 per acre. This was
at local wholesale prices. Onions have
just been brought in from several own
ers yielding at the rate of upward Of
$3.50 per acre from this crop alone,
and 1t might seem reasonable to as
sumo that a total annual yield of that
amount could be achieved on the aver
age, considering the first example
above cited. Deduct the fixed charge
of S13 per acre, with an additional Sc
per acre for fuel and s25 per acre for
labor, and the net yield would be s206
Distant marketing might involve
heavy proportionate charge but surely,
and especially in view of the $3.50 &C.
tually being made in one case our
supposititious truck man might count
on an annual net income on marketing
of $3.50 per acre.
within a drive of five or six miles
from this city on all sides there are
certainly 100 points where the condi-
lions here assumed can De practically
realized-10 acres under irrigation, on
the average. on each one of the 100
sections of land included in the square
Of 10 miles Of which Midland is the
center. If the figures here cited are
permissible, this would mean an in
come of $500 a year to each one of 100
men, and an income to the district from
the sale of vegetables OF $50, 1000, where
about $1,000 are now being sent out an
nually to distant markets for exactly
the same produce''
Another Pumping Advocate.
Continuing his argument printed
some time ago in The Herald Guion
Gregg, of Midland. Texas, writes:
We are given a soil free from all
minerals deleterious to plant growth
stretching out level for miles and miles
around US, inviting US to yield up It's
agricultural wealth that the appetites
of men may be gratified. as fine and as
hea1thful a climate as was ever warmed
by the glad rays of a temperate sun In
summer and tempered by the short
duration of cold spells in winter We
must recognize the duty which the Gre
ator has placed upon US; that is, of
supplying the one thing necessary, the
water. VIII we do it? Yes. Where
will we get it? Underground. How
will we get it? By the means of drilled
wells and modern pumping plants.
Every citizen of this country must
know and realize that we have on the
great south plains the largest area of
fruit and truck land to be found in
Texas, and 1 might say upon the face of
the earth, combining the sand with the
soil in proper proportions to produce
the greatest Development and most
abundant yield We all know that in
every section of the state where a lit
tie stretch Of sandy soil is found. 1t is
given up to the production of fruits
and vegetables because of the peculiar
adaptability of sandy soil 10 these pro-
ducts. and the yield is in proportion to
the quality of the sand, and because of
the enormous yield per acre in money
from such industry, the prices of such
lands have advanced far beyond the
price of similar acreage in the same To-
cality not so well adapted to these pro-
ducts.
Here on the great south plains we
have natures most wonderful deposit
of sandy soil, the mother body of them
ALL vast in its proportions. wonderful
in its food properties for plant life.
slight evidence of this fertility was
manifest this spring in the luxuriant
growth of weeds after rainfall, and In
the great profusion Of prairie flowers
to gladden. our sight In fact. the pro-
ducts from this body of sandy soil are