El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01
A Fine Civic Spirit In
Progressive Tucumcari, N. M.
Clean Substantial odern-GOOd Schools Costly Buildings
Important Railroad Center

merchants Of the place, is president Of
the school board, and W. B. Rector
and William IrOup are the other two
members. Last year they spent S24,-
600 on the schools Of Tucumcari.
Extensive Irrigation Project.
The Pajarita irrigation project is the
biggest thing that Tucumcari has in
view at present 1t contsmplates the
1mpounding OF flood waters for the
irrigation OF 10000 acres of land
which IS to be cut into small tracts
and sold to vegetable gardeners and
already demonstrated the rapidfty with
which fruit and vegetables may be
grown here by irrigation and others
have demonstrated what can be done
without irrigation. A. D. GOldenberg
and w. +. Buchanan, residing on dif-
Ierenr sides of the town, have demon
strated the wonderful manner in which
fruits can be grown by irrigation, and
are growing with success practically
every known variety Of fruit except
that particularly adaptable to the
tropics Zach has irrigated his orch
ard, but not heavily. Grapes, pears,
peaches, pIums, cherries and other
fruits have been grown successfully.
Ed Saxon, an attorney, has demon
strated that these same things can be
grown without irrigation, and his fruit
farm in the edge Of town, watered
only by nature, is one of the inter
esting sights OF Tucumacri
F. GerhardL who has conducted the
experiments near town for the state,
has raised some very fine milo maize,
kaffir corn. both in several varieties.
wheat cotton and indian corn, TO say
nothing Of beans, turnips and other
such articles. His cotton, known as
the Burnett variety, planted May 20
and June /, is fast maturing and will
yield a good crop, although he has
very little OF il in cultivation. His
wheat did not yield more than five
bushels to the acre, but this year was
very dry and all his crops suffered
more than usual The wheat was
planted last October and harvested in
June, and the moisture that fell upon
the land was less than 8 = inches, as
only one good snow fell during the
winter The annual rainfall, tested
during the past six years, has been
about 1919 inches. This year the farm
ers have had that much already, but
there was an extremely dry spell in
the early summer when crops needed
the rain most. Last year the rainfall
was only about 10 inches This re-
suited in partial failures both years
among many Of the dry farmers but
still the collection Of Watermelons
cantalOupe Of very fine flavor
corn, pumpkins and other such ar.
ticles, gathered early in October for
they Quay county fair, show that old
Quay viii continue to rank as a prize
winner. And everybody knows what
quay county did as a dry farming
prize winner at the FL PasO fair two
years ago. The certificate with John
NJ WAITS classic Georgia sigma ure
is still hanging in the office Of editor
Sid Wharton, Of the TucumCari News.
Active Commercial Club.
Tucumcari has chamber of com
merce that continues active all the
time. Postmaster a. r. Carter when
not busy helping to conduct his post
office and postal savings bank man
ages the Republican primaries states
and delegates, and acting as president
of the Quay county fair, is busy with
the chamber Of commerce. The things
the chamber has done, in cooperation