El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

beet factory mas DeeQ recently eSCaDuSH0(
near Huntley, and the farmers are rails
ing beets. getting IA tons to the acre
which they sell for SIS ton. They cal
grow 300 bushels of onions or $50 bush
els of potatoes on almost any part Of
the government lands, and there is al
instance of one farmer who grew SOL
worth of eucumbers on one eighth of al
. acre never before touched with the pillow
In connection with cucumbers / have q
letter here from Nat Marten of Hunt
ley, who made $4,000 out of dill pickles
which were raised on less than seven
acres of land. He put up $50 barrels
of these pickles and sold them at 81;
a barrel. He says that most of the GU
cumbers were raised by the neighbors
on the above land. He paid them l cent
a pound, and this gave a good profit
as some of them raised nine tons to the
acre. Mr.. Marten says he expects to
double his output next year and to raise
most of the cucumbers himself
Another Huntley man writes that he
came from Latrobe, Pa, and that with
out any experience in irrigation farm
ing got Il acres from the government
and titled it alone, with the assistance of
his children, the oldest of whom was just
Ii years. His first crop brought him
in $1,000 and he expects to produce at
least $4,000 worth of stuff this year. This
man says: Tt don't take a big man to
do this l weigh only 132 pounds" His
name is w. w. Keslar, and his children
are 10.
Not Bad Place for Children.
A number of these letters show how
the babies thrive. There is one from
Hermiston, Ore, written by E. P. Dodd,
saying that his neighbor, Bushnell, had
came there three years ago and landed
with a pair of twins in a double baby
buggy. He now has four boys and a
$500 house, and at the end of five years
will have a $4,000 property all paid for. A
young carpenter bought a given-up home
stead of 10 acres and has it now paid
for, and another has planted 20 acres
to alfalfa and grapes.
One of the Hermiston settlers SAYS
that he is raising 500 bushels of onions
per acre without fertilization and crops
of other vegetables are quoted almost as
large. This is from the Umatilla pro-
ject, where water is now available for
1000 or $4,000 acres and where the
first settlements were made about four
years ago. The locality has excellent
banks and schools, Hermiston having an
$4,000 concrete school building, with 1e0
pupils There are newspapers, churches
and fraternity lodges.
Ostriches and Dates.
Do Won want to raise ostriehes, figs
and dates?
There are plenty of chances to do SO
on the lands which Uncle Sam now of
fers in southern Arizona and New Mex
leo. The Roosevelt dam viii open up
100000 acres which will grow alfalfa,
upon which ostriches will thrive. It is
south, and so also of the irrigation
schemes of southern New Mexico. In
these regions the country is practically
frostless, and oranges, lemons, grape
fruit and olives can be easily grown.
The lands lie several hundred feet above
sea level and the temperature ranges
from 20 to 11S degrees above zero.
In some of the tracts the units are as
low as 10 acres, which is found to be
plenty, as crops can be raised all the
year round. Irrigated lands bring from
800 to $3.50 per acre, the government
tracts varying in cost, according to the
expense involved in each project. The
government report from Carlsbad, n. NJ
states that the finest of grapes can be
raised, bringing a profit of $3.50 an acre,
or lettuce and peas will net $500 per
acre. while Bermuda onions IRE welding
5000 pounds to the acre and readily
selling for cents a pound
These are few notes as to the profits
from Uncle Sans desert farms. Each
OF the "a projects now being reclaimed
has its own special crops, varying ae-
eording to climate and soil, and those
who would settle can receive full in
formation concerning them by writing to
the government officials.
How to Get a Farm.
but how does one get a farm on these
fertile GASES? The lands are allotted I'M
der much the same terms as the home
stead law, save that the settlers must
pay the actual cost of erecting the dams
and making the irrigation works which
put the water upon the lands They
must also pay a small rental cost per
acre each year for the use of the water.
The payment for the land is made in 10
annual installments, the money all going
works are paid for the land and the
works will belong to the community, |
md they will be TO a certain extent un-
Ter the secretary of the interior for the |
future. The scheme provides against |
No one has the right to own
more than 100 acres on any of the tracts !
Ind the units of ownership are some |
where as low as 10 acres. In other pro-
ects they are 40, and in others so.
II the land is taken up under the |
homestead law, the settler must live on !!
= Az live cdIS DcIOIe he can get a |
title, and this is so whether the land |
las water yet or nots The amounts paid |
or water vary with the cost of the irri- |
gation works needed to redeem them, but
n no case are they anything like the
-alue of the land when redeemed. 1t is
.stimated that the cost of reclamation
yill amount to about $50 per acre. and in
learly every project, as soon as the wa
er is on the land, it is worth 500 and
Upward an acre. In the case of bearing
as l have said, it may sell for
1000 or more
Our Gases Communities.
The population of these GASES promises
o be the highest type of American man
iood and womanhood The conditions
re almost Utopian Each settlement
vii be one of well-to-do farmers. who
re carrying on intensive cultivation and
making comfortable incomes. with less
york than is possible in any other part
f the country. The farms, being small,
re close together. and the people have
of interests which leads to
operation and social organization
hey will market their fruits and crops