El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-23

in the Rio Grande valley is completely solved as far
as concerns the flat lands of the great valley from
west of Santa Fe to FL PasO. This is a sweeping
statement but when you come to look into it, it is
true statement It all comes down to tangible figures
which may be grasped by anyone; In the MImbres
valley, by pumping much greater height than Is
necessary here, they can, as demonstrated by the
Deming people, irrigate five times season at 70
cents an acre every time. This makes Sl25 an acre
a year. In Colorado and elsewhere, where the farm
ers pay for their water understand they pay from
$3.50 to $500 per acre. Here unless we work on the
bitches, our cost is $3.50 an acre. fthey can rlgate
for half that sum In the Mimbres valley, we can do 1t
here. There is the whole thing In a nutshell. Now
the proposition is to go ahead and do it The things
learned by personal observation down there open
up tremendous prospect In the whole state; but the
point is that what is done down there completely
solves our own problem here"
Every member Of the party is fully as enthusi-
astic as Mr.. Brooks. Volumes of printed matter do
not mean as much to the ordinary as seeing the
goods" Fifteen hundred gallons minute Of crystal
fresh SOFT sweet water boiling out the end of ten
inch pipe and splashing down the irrigation bitches
like mill race Is sight to see; 1t Is much more spec
tacular when across the line fence there are acres
thorny mesquite and sage brush and crossword dry
and blistered and forbidding, but with soil fertile
enough to raise anything on EARTH II water is ap-
piled to it. In the Mimbres valley the conventional
farmers costume has given place to the greasy over
als and cap of the mechanic; he lets electricity and
oil do his farming for him.
The excursion was most valuable one IN every
way and the aggressive methods and energy Of the
Deming men have furnished an object lesson which
will 60 long way toward better united action the
part of the Albuquerque Commercial club.
F. A. Bush, editor of the Silver City Enterprise,
published short time ago the following editorial in
his paper:
Sunday morning bunch of Deming boosters
took the Silver City Eks out to the irrigated dis
trict and it was an eye-opener to the bunch, many
of whom travelled over the same ground ten years
ago when they could have had the land for the mere
asking for it. Now it is worth anywhere from $50
to 5000 an acre and every foot Of the ground is taken
up. The entire region is sUb-rrigated, the Mimbres
river losing itself in the sands just north of Deing
and spreading itself along underground for many
miles. Wells are sunk to a depth of from 80 feet
to $50 feet according to location and gasoline engines
and pumps installed The land is cleared Of mesquite
and prepared for cultivation the pumps set at work.
and presto change, in six months that particular
spot has been transferred from a monotonous piece
of desert into veritabe flower garden. This ex-
perience has repeated again and again around Dem
ing until the land values have had truly remarkable
rise within the past two years. It is southern Cali
fornia history in process of repetition.
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