The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-09

| ture repays her children for efforts in
the right direction. Jim Whftmore
| owns about five thousand acres of land
a part of the Ortiz tract. Through this
tract runs the Rio Conchos and Gal
! linas rivers on their way to the Gulf of
Mexico. All the way from the Glori-
| eta mountains southeast, about Los
Vegas and on into the valleys about
Gallinas Springs, the one thing neces-
sary to make New Mexico the garden
state of the Union is found and plenty
! of it-Water.
Water Is Soft and Pure
Springs of the softest, purest water
gush out to meet the thirsty, dusty
| traveller who comes across from the
staked plains of Texas and eastern
! New Mexico. All over San Miguel
county these springs mark the home
of a Mexican a village or cattle
camp headquarters.
Chaperito. the Oldest town in the
United States. according to Mexican
history. is located north of Whitmore's,
about six or seven miles. 1t is strictly
a Mexican village where the women
and children ran out into the road.
seized and held on frantically to their
canine companions to avoid fatalities
as our automobile passed through.
Natural Reservoir on Ortiz Tract
Still farther on to the north the Cal
InTOugn
a mountain, leaving solid rock bluffs
standing several hundred feet high.
Here, Whitmore explained. is where
the American Sugar Manufacturing
company will put in one of three dams
which will irrgate the valleys of the
Ortiz tract. This site is one of the
most wonderful and most advantag-
eOus of any ever discovered for an irri-
cation plant. On either side of the
GalIinas river the high rocky bluffs or
mountains extend back in widening
oval for fifteen miles and where the
river cuts through, dam one hundred
and thirty feet long will check and
hold the waters effectively and furnish
enough to irrigate fifty thousand
acres of the richest land in the west.
A Natural Sugar Beet Country.
Jim explained that two more storage
reservoirs are planned and surveys
made and will be constructed in can
yons to the west of the dam site across
the Gallinas river. Near ChaperitO
an experiment farm has been operated
by Mexican" said Mr.. Whitmore,
''and sugar beets grow to immense size
and according to experts tests con-
tain more saccharine or sugar than
beets grown in any other sugar beet
section in the country. He raised beets
weighing eighteen pounds. Don't take
many beets like that to weigh ton.
They are worth SIS a ton and on an
of beets per acre may be raised. In the
northeastern portion of New Mexico,the
valley land is rich and will grow any
thing common to the temperate
zone. In about Las Vegas and
to the southeast about Ga1linas
Springs. on south around Santa Rosa
and into the Pecos valley there is
water in abundance if it is properly
held and conserved. Takes money to
conserve it. Capitalists are coming in
III.
money. Artesian wells pumping
plants and reservoir propositions are
being put in on such thorough business
like basis that investors in irrigated
lands are receiving returns from their
land large enough each year to pay
the original cost of the land.
They Are Splendid Entertainers.
Coming back to our evening at Jim
Whitmore's we hasten to pay compli-
ments to Mrs Whitmore, the charm |
ing woman who presides over the |
Whitmore household and extends a
genuine hospitality to all who
are sheltered in their home. I !
and will receive the approval of the
entire party of visitors and travellers /
there that night when I say that /
everything that was possible was done |
to add comfort and enjoyment to our
sojourn there. During the evening J. |
Beauvais of Pueblo told of the dis
agreeable features of his home city /
explaining that the water proved the |
greatest disadvantage to that city.
Pueblo Man Likes New Mexico.
I'VE spend half of our time fiItering /
the soda. alkai and other foreign sub
from the water we drink at /
Pueblo said Mr.. Beauvais. 'FWife and /
I take a time about fltering water and |
ore or the other is always busy get /
ting drinking water fit for use Then /
our ice bill in Pueblo is doubled be-
cause of the necessity of cooling this
water and the constant opening and
closing of the refrigerator by members
Of our large family
Mr. Beauvais drank the cool. soft
spring water, visited the orchard load
ed with fruit. saw the green corn field
below the house. watched the fat sleek
cattle come and go. then grew enthu-
siastic about the country and impatient
% come to Jim Whitmore's land to
make his home
Sending Representatives TO Buy Land.
a gentleman from Kansas who ap-
lreciated fully the advantages of the
which abOunds in springs and
Of Volland Kansas. While Mr.. Heise
vas not a loquacious person he threw
back his shoulders, breathed in the
pure air. drank the water, ate the deli
efous fruit and smiled his satisfa ction. !
Credit must be given Mr. Heise as
being a mighty handy man to accom-
1any an automobile expedition as he is
IS handy with machinery as he is a
inished cabinet workman.
Mr.. Heise represented several men
Who are purchasing land in the Ortiz