Deming graphic., 1912-04-26
THE GREAT SCHEME OF DEVEL-
OPMENT BROUGHT OUT BN
THE LITTLE VINEYARDS
COMPANY.

rapid rise in the price of raw land.
There are numbers of instances OF
extraordinary profits derived from Il
speculative investment.
Less than five years ago great
herds of cattle occupied the open
ranges. subsisting on the native
grasses aud weeds, and slakng their
thirst AT watering places which their
owners provided. The man who had
the tcmcrity In those days TO talk
about pumping for irrgiatng pur-
poses and to prophesy tho ultimate
redemption of this land and its prof
liable cultivation was the object OF
ridicuc and his efforts the object
of mirth.
The land in those days was not
worth taking up except for the pur-
pose of securing watering places. II
took sixty acres or more to sustain
a steer and 1t was quite out of the
question to expect that land of such
mcagre earning power should possess
any tangible value.
Today these same acres are bought
and sold at prices which would then
have seemed outlnndishly high and
in every instance the buyer, what
ever price he may have aid, has no
come a seller, il he so desired. after
the passage OF a few months. at a
price which netlcd him handsome
profit There is reason for all
this. People are not simply land
hungry. These acres are not more
productive in their native state than
they have been for ages past. It is
not dry farming district where Sci
cntiIic, thorough cultivation will
make crops possible. where crops
We're unknown before. The area OF
ed throughout our country as to
make our ordinary desert waste so
suddenly desirable. The reason is
: a more simple one. II has been re-
vcaled that when thesc lands are ir-
rigalcd, at a cost which is very rea-
sunahlc indeed, they can he culti-
,,tcd at a splendid profit; that the
soil, the water, and the climate, all
are here To make this fruitful and
habiable spot for man, and men
are coming; coming with their fam
ilics from al over the country 10
live In this valley because its con
dilious are M once hralthful and
commercially inviting.
I'ut the fact remains nevertheless
that the uudcycloped acre is worth
no more today intrinscally than 1t
was worth five Years ago. II has the
same grasses. the same lack ol water,
the same appearance OF n desert
waste. ii there is any peril before
us il is IN the danger ur the too rapid
prowDh ui the town and Ol the prices
ct undc,cioprd land and the 100 slow
development of water and cXpcndi-
urc Ol energy in the cultivation Of
the community that sixty acres
should produce IT least one steer
: than that the sixty acres should be-
fenced M. the steer excluded and nc
other form of wealth produced.
Probably no one in the Mimhres
VALLEY believes more absolutely IL
It's ultimate destiny than do the own
"rs ol The Little Vineyards Com
panN They were the first To spcnt
their money and their time in tht
Development OF water. and they arr
today still engaged in the aetna
transformation of the desert into tn
oasis. II IL the increased carnini
power of the acre which appeals &
them aud II is their hope and dream
to see the land for mites in ever
direction, from the city ol Denim
ana reaching Suuih 10 lhc llne of vi
Mexico. cut up into little plots q
from five 10 forty acres and ever
plot a(fording u comfortable liveli
hood for u family. About three year
ago IN the course OF talk when tn
writer was urging upon his neigh
hors ana friends, the wisdom of com
munily action for both development
and publicity, he called attention {
the marvellous struggle Of little Ho
- and against the sea. and of the ei
forts of that heroic people, by mean
of dykes and bitches and of pumps
Ia redeem from watery waste,
garden spot upon which their peopl
might he sustained: and he state
that that country was infinitely ricl
or than our own because their evel
acre sustained its man, while hel
It took sixty acres TO sustain stee
The time is coming. II Is bound
come, when every acre in the Mir