El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01
5WEBTSH0PS
To 60 FOR
FACTORY
Homes Where Women Toll
Over WashtUb and Sewing
Machine to Be Wrecked.
NO PAVING AND
NO BIG HOUSES
1t Is Just a Typical Mexican
Settlement, Where Are
Homes Of Many Hundred.

When the big Elephant Butte dam
IS completed and the water from the.
RIO Grande is turned into the arts
ficaI lake. a number OF small New.
Mexico towns viii be inundated
A corner OF old 81 Paso IS to bal
wiped of the map as completely as
win be the little towns at Elephanti
Butte when the big Pearson plants
are built In south FL Paso.
Rerinnfue one block south OF the
Adv school and the tree lined lrrl6a-i
ton ditch and extending SCUM az
most to the river from kansas streesi
to the grain elevator. the rlncou o.
adobe houses viii be erased ron Ln9i
map OF Fl PasO BY the progress OF llal
city. This little settlement On ll4i
river flats IS a community 20 Als1-L-
IL is the municipal laundry OF FL Paso
and the official sewing woman 1ort
many Of the housewives On the norm
adobe house in the doomed district. ana.
every house Is adobe ana doomed
there IS an outfit Tor Wasf-ns comes
and the Mexican women spend tn5
Greater part Of their long days over
The tubs Where the iuproTlsed laun-t
dry is not present, there IS a sewing
machine in the sala the parlors
living room. and bedroom OF the
crsr15ed mud houses and the plain
sewing for many FL PasO homes IS
done there-Ef Fasos s7Tea-anops tne3.
A faded red Rag, originally tbs
sign OF pestflence. which signifies to
the Mexican mind that meat IS Tor
sale within, flutters from the corner
where the site of the big Pearson mills
begin on the intersection OF Ninth ana
Kansas streets The Fourth OF July
grocery has this place Of honor at the
main entrance TO the great min site
From this corner, the site OF the big
paper and wood working mills extends
south to a point opposite the amer
can approach to the stanton streeE
bridge East the site extends almost
TO the barnlike grain elevator, which
stands as a sentinel near the river
No Paved Streets Here.
There are no paved streets side
walks nor curbs in the bit OF south
side scenery that Is to be destroyed
Between Ninth and Eleventh streets
the streets crisscross each other like a
grtdiron, then run OF 70 seed into g
common where goats roam and 1lg1t@
ing chickens stage their battles Wits
out audience or seconds Unlike many
parts Of the section below Overland
street known as Chihuahulta- this lit
tie corner Of the city is as clean and
well cared for as the city parks
Mesquite trees and vines cover the
front Of almost every house and few
are without the cool, earthern-floored
patiOs in the rear.
One Of the more pretentLous houses
IN the settlement viii be q house dl-
vided against itself when the site IS
delivered to the Pearson company and
the houses are wrecked TO make room
for the big steel and concrete mills
and factories. AT the extreme south
ern side Of the site there is a low
oblong house Of adobe with a cotton
wood tree in the front and q goat
corral In the rear The dividing line
between the property which has been
leased TO the company and the land be-
longing TO the Texas & Pacific rail-
road runs through the middle Of this
house andd Senior South slider who
lives there VIII be deprived Of the
privilege Of his WhiteWashed parlor
and bedrooms when the destroyers get
in their work
some who VIII Move.
A gasoline driven saw mill buzzeg
its defiance on a vacant lot near the
river as If the Pearsons and all oe
ers had nothing on it, There are a
half dozen small Mexican stores
scattered over the dozen blocks which
are included in the site for the mills.
These VIII have to strike a final ball
ance and go out OF business. for Thew
VIII not be an adobe house laft on ths
entire - blocks The Chamlzal saloon
VIII also have TO suspend publication
and the ice cream shop on the corner
Of Tenth and Campbell Win be forced
TO seek pastures new
In place Of the unatracttve square
OF squat adobes, the largest WoofI
working factory In the world win -
built, by the Pearson company. The
paper mills VIII spread over the sta
Ike blanket and tracks and sidinra
viii interlace these buildings the
arteries Of the great commercial orr
ganization.