El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-14

Irrigation is almost as old as history itself 1t was
known and used with profit by the Egyptians. The rivers
Nile Amazon, Ganges and Danube have all furnished
their quota of liquid help for mans enrichment but never
in the history of the world has irrigation received such
impetus in recent years.
Mankind has awakened the that it is better to
have ones RAIN right at his door, the kind that don't
drench him to the skin soak his land as to stop
~ all work his farm for days and days at time. It is
known that farmer can by simply opening up
sce gate let just the right quantity of water his land
regulating the flow himself for the crops that need
imum those that need minimum of moisture This is
the very best kind of and the farmer controls it at
will without the attendant dscomforts of the old time
hghtning's spfutter and the thunders
Soil experts rightly concede that irrigated land is the
longest lived to fertility and producveness the
being that the water from irrigation canals contains the
same elements found in the soil itself acting at all
times natural fertilizer. Plenty of water from well
supplied irrigation canal good SOIL the right climate and
sunshine 800 days out of the 365 of the year mighty
hard combination to beat.
In Hawaii water for irrigation purposes is lifted 600
feet yet Notwithstanding that expense farming
In that country pays 3OQO more per acre than In Illinois,
Indiana Iowa and Kansas and fully 10000 more per acre
than in the New England states.
The growing season is months in Colorado only 100
days in which to plant cultivate and harvest crop
The balance Of the year the farmer may be up his neck
in snow yet irrigated land in that state that so far has
felt pillow SHARE bringing up 5000 and over per
acre because the adjoining land already under cultivation
has demonstrated its worth
Over most of the Northwestern states the o. S. govern
ment has expended large of public money locating
What would appear high prices have been charged
tiers for those lands and they have had hard shedding
with perhaps months of producing weather yet with
all that the northwest has become of the nations great
sorehouses proving beyond question the value of rriga-
ton.
be said without exaggeration that the Ell Paso
Valley offers t0day the most inviting field the United
States for the who desires farm few of land
under the most favorable circumstances climate SOIL
water. market and home conditions farm of 10 or 20
here properly titled will net the owner as much as
the average farm of 100 200 the northern and
eastern states These lands under intensive cultivation
intelligent selection of crops and marketing of the produce
by the methods of cooperation practced in California
should net the owners 800 more per acre annually
Orchards vineyards and gardens of small fruits vege
tables for supplying the home markets, for shipment in
carload lots to distant markets for canning or otherwise
preserving in netting much more These
figures look large to the average farmer from the north or
east, but they can be verified For example, one mans
returns from Bartlett pears shipped to the eastern mar
kets melted him about S. per tree It is easy figure that