El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

have bought and several are planned
! TO be built this fall.
The splendid growth of trees, garden
| truck, alfalfa and other crops, on
what prior to this season was dry
land, and the consequent changed APP
| pearance of the land is a fine object
lesson that creates decided interest In
every person who sees what has been
| done
Electricity For Pumping.
! The tract is all to be irrigated by
pumping with electric power. Some
! IA miles of $500 volt transmission
lines have been completed and in oper
alton for several months. together with
about II miles of $50 volt secondary
transmission lines.
There is now in operation eight
pumping plants, ranging in capacity
from 1000 gallons per minute up to
!, 800 gallons, with six more plants un-
der construction, and more orders
placed for apparatus for as many more.
Practically all of the pumping plants
are of the vertical type, centrifugal
pumps operated by vertical motors and
housed in small concrete block build
ings of artistic design Each plant is
provided with private telephone
which places it in direct connection
with the power house in Roswell.
The water from each pump is dis
charged into concrete weir boxes by
means of which the exact quantity of
water may be determined, and COM
plete performance of each plant is ac-
curately recorded, showing exactly
the power consumed, and the amount
of water discharged.
The company operates and maintains
all transmission lines and pumping
plants.
buildings and improvements.
Roswell has this year finished the
following new modern buildings:
Citizens National characterization
Gflkeson hotel, $4,000.
ellison building. 50x19S feet, rein
forced concrete $4,000.
Valley Fruit and Cold Storage Co.
building. 50x19S reinforced concrete)
and refrigerating plant $4,000
Chaves county court house, $4,000
Register Tribune office, reinforced
concrete.
Jaffa-P Prayer Realty & Investment
company, two large reinforced con-
crete buildings additions in rear of
.their large store buildings
r. s. Hamilton, office building, so
foot frontage, Spanish mission, type.
P F. Jacoby, reinforced concrete
store building, so foot front.
Roswell High School building, $780,
600.
Federal building, to cost $4,000,
excavations for the foundation being
made.
To Pave Streets.
The city council of Roswell and GER
tain property owners are endeavoring
to come to an agreement to pave 81
blocks of the principal streets-seven
blocks of Main street between Ala
media avenue and Sixth street; five
blocks Of Richardson avenue; three
blocks of Virginia avenue; and four
blocks, each. of Second, Third. Fourth
and Fifth streets, between Pennsyl-
vania avenue and the Eastern railway
rightofway. It is proposed to do the
work under the provisions of chapter
81 of the session laws of 1909. New
Mexico legislature, and it is estimated
that the cost may reach 100000. The
plan includes the widening of Main
street sidewalks from ten feet to Is
feet, leaving "a feet for traffic.
Real Estate and Pumps.
One firm reports the following trans
fers of real estate and power and
pumping plants handled recently:
Thirty acres within city limits sold
three times. first at $40. next at SIS,
and lastly at s125: this is now divided
into city lots.
Acreage property north and west of
the city within a radius of three miles
five sales. 400 acres, most of 1t sold
twice; prices ranging from $40 to $50
per acre
Several ten acre tracts In fruit and
alfalfa near town at about $500 per
acre; Is IL acres of bearing orchard.
without any improvements, at $1,000
per acre; $50 acres of alfalfa at s135
per acre co miles from RoswelD; 90
acres of young orchard at $525 per
acre; 20 acres Of dry land near fair
grounds at s45 per acre.
This firm has sold seven Venn-Sev-
erin oil engines, burning 8 "a cent
fuel oil. Six Of them pulling pump
ing plants for irrigation purposes, and
the seventh. a 90 horse power which
is doing the refrigeration for the Val
ley Fruit & Storage company. These
plants represent about 100000 invest
ment-
Bearing apple orchards are cheaper
at $1,000 per acre now than they will
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