Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-11-22

of the clcarest, purest water. 9th
erS followed suit and il was found
that the sands of the Mimbrcs Val.
ley when slightly mostened with
this water yielded crops that made
the farmers from the old states :
grow dizzy with contemplation.
And Deming awoke to her pOssibili-
ties. She organized Chamber Of
Commerce, and the above dispatch
tells the rest of the story. Ii tells
between the lines what has been
done and the figures tell what is
being done now, and challenges the
wisest seer TO forecast what may
yet be accomplished.
Brother Barnes has given Deming
interviews to almost every paper in
the Southwest of any consequence.
and with his co.worker, Wade Gun
ningham, has done Dcming more
than one good turn. The Southern
Pacific Railroad is ready to do any
thing for the Mimbres Valley that is
possible, according to Mr.. Cunning
ham. Certainly the railroad is
glad to see an opulent community
grown up along che line"
Mr.. Barnes, in an interview given
to the Fl Paso Herald, explains why
Southern New Mexico is outstrip-
ping communities that have had the
impetus of an earlier start As
usual, Deming and the Mimbres
Valley are thrown into the lime
light. The interview is given in part
below:
Mining and agriculture in New
Mexico continue to manifest in
creased activity. Values continue
to show steady advance and immi-
grafton a marked increase. New
Mexico investments are attracting
capital from all over the country.
There is no doubt hut that this is in II
large manner due to the very con
servative spirit manifested by the
New Mexico law makers toward
those imported agencies which are
cooperating to develop the vast re-
sources of the state.
"Coincident with the development
at Deming and other points in the
Mimbres Valley, attention is now
being directed toward the rich
lands of the Animas Valley and
other territory tributary to Lords
burg. A petition, unanimously
signed, addressed to the secretary
of the interior, was forwarded from
Lordsburg this week, requesting
that the lands of the Animas Val
ley be surveyed as soon as possible,
as many settlers are coming in and
desire to perfect title to the farms
they are improving.
WHAT'S THE SECRET
Roy Bedichek, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, is kept busy
answering letters from other towns
in the Southwest asking for informa-
ton relative to system. These
inquiries do not take into considera-
ton the fact that nature has blessed
the Mimbres Valley in a most extra
ordinary manner in the way of an
extensive valley of rich soil, an in
exhaustiblc underground reservoir
of the purest water and climate
salubrious and healthful in the eX-
treme.
The fact that Deming citizens can
get together and do boost is due to
the fact that it is an all-American
, community of the highest type of
citizenship. intelligent enough to
take advantage of the gifts the gods
have dealt out to them so bounti-
fully.
SILVER CITY WANTS TO KNOW.
Extracts from two letters are
given as fair samples of hundreds Of
others. Here is one from Silver
City:
One thing | would certainly like
TO know, and that is how you can
raise 500, 600 down there and we
have such u struggle to rake up
$3.50 month. What's the secret?