El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-23


use by Mr.. Mckee in magazine work
in the east Photos AMI descriptive ar
tiCles have also been furnished W. d.
HOrnaday, of AUSTIN, Texas, special
travelling correspondent, 20 be used in
newspaper and magazine articles.
Geming has entertained Ioauy listiH-
gUished visitors during the last six
months, among them a party OF eight
officials Of the Santa Fe system, while
four officials Of the = p. nave been
here twice in conference with youc
board of directors and cltizens. Mayor
Kelly, Of FL PasO, DR. Garrison and
Prof. Sage, Of the Agricultural college,
state superintendent Of schools Clark,
and state engineer C!as l.. Miner, eX-
Gov. Folk, of Missouri, Kermit Roose-
welt, postmaster general Hitchcock, and
ni5ny other influential persons, uewspa-
per men, travelling men, real estate
dealers, and high officials from many
states, each having gone away with a
friendly aad enthusiastic feeling toward
Deming which cannot help but result I'd
our advantage.
Union Station Exhibit.
A lease has been secured from the
Southern Pacific company for space
on the station platform at the union
station for an exhibit case, and a con
tract has been let for the building Of
the case, which is to cost $50 This
case, when complete, will contain glass
jars of fruit, samples of dry feed, as
alfalfa, sorghum, millet, and a full line
Of advertising matter for the infOrma-
tiOn Of the hundreds Of hOmeseekers
constantly passing through Deming.
Arran gements have also been COM
pleted with the Southern Pacific sys-
TEN for parking -its-right Of way Op-
pOsite the Deming union station. At
the suggestion OF the company, the
chamber executed a lease on the part
Of the Deming citizens, which has been
forwarded for execution by The COM
pany. Informally and by correspond
ence, the Southern Pacific have agreed
10 lease the right of way, SO feet by SIS
feet, 10 the chamber of commerce at
the nominal rental of 81 per year. The
town is then to make the fill and to
establish the park and turn 1t over to
the railroad company, who will furnish |
the water to irrigate the same and
maintain the park thereafter.
Now, in the vernacular Of the day, |
coming down to brass tacks," what |
has all this work Of the chamber OF
the cTucible in which the efforts of this /
chamber must be tested. If there have |
been but little or no results favora- |
bic to Deming's growth and prosperity !
then we have failed Of our goal.
Results Of the Work.
It is extremely difficult. and in |
deed, impossible. for the secretary to |
know the full results of the work of To- !
eating people in the valley and in DEM |
Ing, as every week persons drop into /
the office saying that they filed or /
bought land a week or month before, |
persons whom the secretary remem- )
bers having correspondent with. Also /
strangers come into the rooms as a /
result Of our correspondence and ad- /
vertising, and then look the valley j
over without calling in again, but in & 4
week or a month some Of our real es= |
tate dealers will casually remark that 1
they located such and such a man. so !
that we hear Of enough persons lOcat-
ing to know partially what work we 1
are accomplishing, and If the known /
results constitute 50 percent or so /
work Of locating accomplished by our i
chamber the same cannot help bat be 1
gratifying to every member. There fol- q
lows list Of 100 names Of persons who {
have been brought in by the chamber
Of commerce.)
Many New Settlers.
The above names are taken from the
chambers register, some Of those pos
ttively known to have located here.
within the last few months, and OF the
above list, almost one-third have al
ready moved their families either to
Deming or TO farms nearby. have not 4
inquired Of the local land office. nor OF
the local real estate dealers. but il is I
safe to multiply the above list by four
70 come anyway near the actual num-
Der OF new Demingites. feel certain
that every man here present can each
recall the names Of from two to dozen I
given. The secretary does not claim I
that all of these, but that a great many
Of them have come 10 Deming either
directly or indirectly through the
chambers Advertising. Recently five
carloads of household goods. agricultu-
raj implements ana livestock were !
known to the secretary to have arriv-
ed in Deming within one week, and it [
is fair 10 assume that this was not the
total for that one week either, and ev-
cry week tells a similar story. Then,
too, during the early part of the sum- /
mer many Deming houses were vacant,
v hereas today there is not known.
desirable vacant house, and strangers
are arriving daily and many are COM
planning to the secretary that We are |
advertising for people to cast their lot
with us and then when they come, we /
have no available homes for them to !
move into. Every merchant and bust (
ness man present here tonight can I
doubtless give the names Of many new Z
customers or clients, and many more
whose names they have not vet
or two ago he knew everybody on the
streets. but now he does not knOw-Oae---
lalf the people he meets, and, moreover.
that every day he sees people that he
knows were not here yesterday, or last
week
The Tangible Result.
These newcomers form a part of the
actual tangible result Of Deming's de-
Now Just a moment as to the imme-
1iate outlook, More than so persons
have written Your secretary within the
past go days that they are coming to
Oeming this month. or January or Feb
-uary, or March, TO look the country
over Indications are that there viii
be many prospectors visit us during
The next few months. and in this con-
lection L viii read extracts from just
a few letters which / am daily re-
'eiVing. tSecretary here read q num-
Der of extracts from lettersD
The secretary ventures the predic-
ion that the next three or four months
viii see such an scceleration to our
growth and development that nearly ev-
sry merchant and business man in town