Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-09-13
Chamber of Commerce Bull
letin.
letin.
BY THE SECRETARY.
THE sEcRErARY's MAIL.


months. During the past weel
l09 personal letters have been writ
ten in answer to inquiries, ga book
lets and POP other pieces of literature
have been mailed out. Word ha:
been received from the Sunset Pub
fishing Co. that eight thousand new
booklets have been shipped to us
This new supply of booklets viii
reach us in a few days. An in
creasing number of correspondents
indicate an intention of visiting
Deming this fall.
THE REGISTER.
Twenty-Five prospectors register.
ed at the rooms Of the chamber the
past week. One of the most inter.
esting visitors was Prof. j. j.
Thornber, professor of biology in
the University of Arizona. He
stopped off here on his return from
a year of study at the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington. Prof.
Thornber expressed his confidence
in the success of pumping water for
irrigation where conditions are as
nearly perfect as they are in the
Mimbres Valley. He says that he
thinks the tepari bean would be an
ideal crop for this section. This is
a product gotten from Arizona In
dians who have cultivated it for
centuries. This bean in its wild
state grows on nearly all of the
mountains of this section, showing
it to be native to this region. Ii is
about half the size of the ordinary
frijole bean and produces about
double the amount per acre, and is
just as nutritious. He thinks the
Mimbres Valley admirably adapted
to the growth of this bean.
W. Edgar Ward, a mining man
of Los Angeles, registered here the
past week, and after looking at the
valley for several days, announced
his intention of returning here in
about two weeks for the purpose of
locating permanently.
W. f. Killett, of Carbon, Texas,
and l.. c. Winston, of Saragossa,
Texas. registered here last week,
and are now visiting their old
friend, +. d. Gaines. They both
expect to locate permanently in the
Mimbres Valley.
AMONG THE FARMERS.
f.. j. Brewster, of Myndus, call
ed at the Chamber of Commerce
rooms last week, and reported con-
siderable activity in the vicinity of
his home. DR.. Morris, he says, is
putting down an irrigation well $50
feet. S. W. FAINT has employed
Kershaw & Ringle to sink an irriga-
ton well on his place. Mr.. Brews-
ter himself contemplates doing
some developing work a little later
on.
This is not the right time of the
year to cut mesquite stays for
fences, according to G. l.. Baker,
The proper time, according to this
eminent authority, is in the spring
when the sap is rising. The stays
will peel then and will last several
times as long as those cut at other
times in the year.
J. T. Stephenson, living eleven
miles southeast is experimenting
successfully this year with eleven
acres of Texas Seeded Ribbon cane.
He says that he is sure from this
years experiment that this pro-
duct will prove great money
maker in the Mimbres Valley.
THE EXHIBIT.
J. T. Stephenson brot in a sam
pie of the Texas Seeded Ribbon
cane referred to.
K. A. Lane contributed a sheaf
of oats grown on his place south of
town as a nurse crop for alfalfa.
j. b. Hodgdon contributed a
plate of peaches grown in his yard,
upon a tree twenty-seven years old.
This remarkable peach tree is So
inches in diameter, and has failed