Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-04-21

other well.
County Clerk Lester Is doing lot
OF land clearing these pleasant days.
The number Of new ranch homes
going up over the valley surprises
even the oldest inhabitant.
d. L. Pond has taken home
st 'ad north Of Red Mountain and
will proceed to develop at once.
John Ingram has leased the J. M.
Young farm and will raise. this sea-
son, 30 acres Of corn. cane. maize
and pink beans.
A weir test at the Frank Cox
ranch, We lnesday. showed 700 gal
Ions per minute. lifting 75ft. with a
25 hip Alamo engine. which looks
like going some.
Speaking Of ranch development,
the Deming Machine Works Is un-
loading another car load of Fair
banks Morse engines. today. That
makes better than 20 carloads all
told. during the past seven months.
C. II. and h. C. Taylor of Indi-
anola, Nebraska, are two good citi-
zens who have purchased land near
lola and will develop fine farms.
C. II. is a brother Of Postmaster
Taylor.
Jas. H. Tracy has rs acres plowed
on his ranch 3 miles south of town
and has set out a small orchard. He
will put in large pumping plant
later to irrigate the whole so acres.
o. H. Cooper has just completed
a shallow well for house use and is
only "a feet in the first stratum Of |
water. but the flow Is so strong
that his pump has no effect on i'll
whatever. and Albert Ernst figures
on having enough water from the |
first stratum to irrigate 80 acres.
W. E. Fowler of Brookville, Kas.
has purchased 40 acres of T. G. |
Aitken, near the Mcbride farm and
has commenced the erection of a
ranch home, and will soon send for
his family. He is accompanied by
M. o. Bixler, who is assisting in the
building Of fine ranch home.
Edward A. Layne, Michael F.
Downes, Robert T.. Cameron and
Edgar Hepp. all of the Deming Ice
& Electric Co., have invested in two
full sections of rich valley land, FIVE
miles north of the city. Bob and
Hepp will soon be in a position to
invite every person who is from
Missouri to come and be shown.
There IL sure some class to this
Mimbres Valley.
A. o. Duncan a live wire from
Oklahoma City purchased two farms
this week through the Plainview
Realty Co. The farms were those
Of Rev. II. M. Bruce and Claude
Taylor. Mr.. Duncan will move his
family here at once. He has al
ready made a contract for well and
will build a house and put in a
plant at once.
j. l.. Gray is very much elated
over the fine well just completed on
his farm south of the Red Mountain
by Kimbrough 4 Morgan. A 10
foot stratum was struck at 60 feet
and the supply seems well-nigh in
exhaustible. A l00O-gallon well
would not be at all surprising. Mr..
Gray took out 300 fruit trees Tues
day and will start a fine orchard.
He has been making improvements
on his farm for some time.
Mr., and Mrs. F. S. Horner of
Fresno, Calf. came to the Deming
country to get rid Of chills and fe-
YER, and like all the rest of sensible
people, they will become residents
Of the sunshine state. They have
returned to California To arrange |
affairs to return. We shall be very
glad to welcome them. Mr.. Horn
err Is one of the Santa Fe train
dispatchers.
F. |. Brown Of Hillsdale, Mich,
representing the Alamo gasoline en-
gines, has been in the Mimbres VAL
ley this week comforting with Paul
Harrison, and became infected with
the land fever before he had been
here 45 minutes. The disease kent
growing on him until he bought a
fine quarter section of decided prop