Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-09-01
NOTED WOMAN EDITOR
PAYS DEM|NG A VISIT.
Writes Of Good Things Here
From a Business Point
View
ENTERTAINING STORY
Story of Intense Human Inter-
est Told in Plain English
Language.

Ones first impression on getting
off the train at Deming, is that II Is
by no means a dead town. II is a
live one. People are at the station,
many Of them. Not has beens,"
sitting on goods boxes and whit
tling. or idle women simply looking
to see who comes; but active, intel
ligent. wide-awake. rosy-complex-
ioned men and women rushing
about attending to their own bust
ness.
The Santa Fe deposits its passen-
gers from incoming trains on one
side of the spacious depot and
Harvey house, while the Southern
Pacific tracks approach on the oppo-
site side. We stepped off our train
about $3.50 in the morning and
escaping the hotel representatives
and bus men, had the pleasure of
walking up town alone. While 1t
is, in a social way, delightful to be
met at a strange station by ones
friends. or in lieu of that, by a
booster, who at once explains the
import of each building passed, yet
for pure, unadulterated. valuable
first impressions. one should see the
city alone. If this be pleasing,
then every hand shake and every
word of explanation which follows.
helps to clinch the favorable impress
sion. And so it proved on our visit
to Deming, last Thursday.
With a word Of direction from a
pedestrian we had no trouble in
locating the GRAPHIC office. Editor
Holt is the best booster in the new
state, and has the happy faculty of
recalling names and faces. He ex-
tended his hand and exclaimed to
his partner, Mr.. DePuy, who was in
the act of carrying a type form
to the job press: "Milt, come here
at once. don't wait single minute,
| want you to meet Miss Farrell"
Such brand of cordiality naturally
pleases every visitor. and incident
ally reveals the character of the
man.
Thru Editor Hollis kindness, c.
j. Laughren, live real estate deal
er, took us in his auto. together
with three other ladies, to visit sew
eral irrigation pumps in operation
in the country. At the John Humid
place, so h. p. engine, consuming
81 gallons of gasoline per hour, was
pumping an immense volume Of
water, which this season irrigated
10 acres. The fourth crop Of
alfalfa this season is nearly ready
for cutting. Acres and acres Of
beans, "frijoles," planted in rows as
straight as string, were being irri-
gated. We drank freely from the
cool water. which is said
to be the purest in the world. Mr..
Humid himself was sitting under a
shade tree listening to the exhaust
of the engine, and said they had
been running 30 days and nights
steady, and that a breakdown was
very unusual.
Next the ranch of DR.. Connoway
was visited. Here are l73 acres
covered with growing crop that
would make the eyes of any eastern
town almost jump out of their SOCK
cts. Maize. sorghum, pop corn,
pumpkins, beans. alfalfa; and plant
ed all along the fence by the road
way were watermelon vines loaded
with melons. These were big and
covered the ground so thickly that
Conductor Hugh Williams remarked
a few days previous that the mel
ons had to climb the fence to find
room to ripen."
This Is the first year there has
been a crop on this land, showing
that the first year. a crop sufficient
to almost put a man on easy street,
can be raised. DR., Connoway was
taking a nap at the pumping plant,
but came out to greet us and 70
impart valuable information about
farming with the head as well as
the hands.