El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-16

try. They want to know how much it
costs and what are the profits They
don't want hot air theories; they want
ice cold facts based on actual expert
ence.
Using the Aimbres valley as a leading
exponent of pumping for irrigation, We
submit the following facts: Relinquish-
be obtained for from $500 to $500 PEI
acre Unimproved decided land may be
purchased for from SIS to 500 per acre,
the prices being regulated to a certain
extent by the distance from Deming,
the chief market town OF the valley,
and chief railroad center Of New Mex
leo Tracts Of five to 20 acres, i'm
proved with water developed, may be
purchased, close in, at S125 to $3.50 per
acre.
Cost Of wells and pumps: A well
pump and 50 horsepower electric motor,
sufficient to successfully irrigate 100
well costs from $500 TO $500 more,
crude oil engine being slightly more
expensive than either which is over
come by cheaper operating expense.
The Cost.
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 OF more
large and small successful pumping
plants, II costs a halE Il cent to pump
1000 gallons Of water, a seasons irri-
cation costing from So To 50 per acre,
according to the amount Of water re-
quired for various crops and the skill
Of the irrigatOr. These figures are
based on electricity at three cents per
K. W, engine naphtha at j cents, and
crude oil at six cents per gallon. and
with the increasing consumption all Of
these products are getting cheaper.
Flowing and irrigation are carried
on every week in the year, and in most
grown the year round Winter irrj-
cation for spring and summer crops IS
gaining in favor.
What are the profits: Of course that
interests everybody most. Based on
the actual experience Of our farmers
during the past two years, we can say
Alfalfa, $50 TO $40 net profit per acre;
pink beans. $40 to $50; white onions,
$3.50 to 1925: cabbages, $3.50 to $3.50:
tomatoes, $500 to $500; potatoes. 5000
to $500; kafftr corn and milo maize,
$50 to SIS; watermelOns and canta-
loupes, $3.50 to S275; garden truck, in
gus, $500 to $1,000 per acre.
Fruit Grows We'll.
Every kind Of fruit, except citrus va
rieties, grows 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 As ounces and measuring p
inches in circumference, and it is in
teresting 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 sun
shine, command the highest market
prices in the world
Peaches, pears, plums, grapes. necta-
rines and all deciduOus fruits are grown
al tremendous profit
The opinion Of others who, have made
extensive Investigations in this region,
may he of interest
Postmaster general Hitchcock says:
You have marvellous development
and bright future" which statement is
verified by former secretary James R
Garfield. Alfred Henry Lewis writes
the speaker as follows: you have
right to be enthusiastic over your Won
derful country. It's great It's majes-
tic. It's marvellous. 1t is a story that
interests the human family and the in
telligent American citizenship that is
fast peopleing this region will make it
an abiding place to be desired
Gov. Folks Praise.
Gov Folk, western presidential tim
Der. says, 1T is one OF the most for
ward parts Of our union"
Lee A. Philips, the largest individual
farmer Of California, and chief of the
loan department Of the Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance company, is an ardent
advocate of pumping for irrigation,
and his experience 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 to
another. As proof of his faith in the
magic Of pump, he has very extensive
loans in the Mimbres valley and other
irrigated valleys OF New Mexico, pre-
ferring to make loans on lands fri
gated by the pumping system to land
irrigated by any other method
One of the newspapers Of Chicago
saws: Herein stretches the Egypt OF
the new world. There is the same clear,
luminous atmosphere overhead and the
same delicious climate"
A great agricultural journal Of the