Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-12-08

improved decided land may be
purchased for. from $500 to 500.
90 per acre, the prices being regu-
lated to a certain extent by the dis
tance from Deming. the chief
market town Of the valley, and chief
railroad center of New Mexico.
Tracts Of five to twenty acres, i'm
proved with water developed, may
be purchased, close in, at $l25.OO to
$4,000 per acre.
Cost Of wells and pumps: A well,
pump and 35-h-p. electric motor,
sufficient to successfully irrigate 15O
to 200 acres. costs $1,000 to $26OO.
Same we'll costs from $4OO to 5000
more, crude oil engine being
slightly more expensive than either,
which Is overcome by cheaper
operating expense.
Cost of putting water on the
ground: Getting right down to
brass tacks. in order that a child
may understand and computing the
cost of 100 or more large and small
successful pumping plants, 1t costs
half cent to pump 1000 gallons
Of water, a seasons irrigation, cost
ing from $500 to $500 per acre,
according to the amount of water
required for various crops and the
skill Of the irrigator. These figures
are based on electricity at 3 cents
per X. W. engine naptha at IL cents
and crude oil at 9 cents per gallon,
and with the increasing consumption
all Of these products are getting
cheaper.
Flowing and irrigation are carri-
ed on every week in the year, and
in most of the market gardens.
vegetables are grown the year
round. Winter irrigation for
spring and summer crops is gaining
in favor.
What are the profits: OF course
that interests everybody most. Bas-
ed on the actual experience of our
farmers during the Ma. two years,
we can say: Alfalfa $50 to $40 net
profit per acre; pink beans. $50 to
$50; white onions, $3.50 to 1926; cab
bages, $3.50 to $3.50; tomatoes, $4OO
to $500; potatoes, 5000 to $500; Kaf-
fir corn and Milo maize $40 to SIS;
watermelons and cantaloupes, $3.50
to $275; garden truck including Gel
cry. chill. rhubarb, asparagus, $500
TO 81 900 per acre.
Every kind Of fruit, except citrus
varieties, grow in great abundance.
The Mimbres Valley captured the
first prize for the worlds largest
apples to the st. Louis Worlds Fair,
the big fellow weighing 4S ounces
and measuring % inches in circum-
ference, and it is interesting to
note that 100 trees in this same
orchard this year produced 100 tons
of choicest fruit. 1t is a significant
fact that New Mexico apples, made
to blush in beauty by our wonderful
sunshine, command the highest
market prices in the world.
Peaches, pears, plums, grapes.
nectarines and all deciduous fruits
are grown at tremendous profit.
The opinion of others who have
made extensive Investigations in this
region, may be of interest:
Postmaster-General Hitchcock
says: You have a marvellous devel-
opment and bright future" which
statement is verified by former Sec
retary, James R. Garfield. Alfred
Penry Lewis writes the speaker as
to,.ows: You have right 10 be en-
thusiastic over your wonderful
country. It's great. It's majestic.
It's marvellous. II Is a story that
interests the human family and the
intelligent American citizenship that
is fast peopeling this region will
make 1t an abiding place much to be
desired"
Gov. Folk, western presidential
timber, says, 1T is one on the most
forward parts of our Union"
Lee A. Philips. the largest indi-
vidual farmer Of California, and
chief of the loan department Of the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany. is an ardent advocate Of
pumping for irrigation. and his ex-
perience proves that one or two
more crops are possible under this
system and bitches do not carry nox.
ious weeds or seeds from one farm