Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-03-15
NEW SANTA FE FOLDER
HAS DEM|NC PICTURES
The Famous Mimbres Valley
Furnishes Views for Some
Classy Advertising
FINE FARM PICTURES
Great Possibilities of the Sun
shine State Admirably
Set Forth.


inst issued beautiful folder on
"Ncw Mexico, the Sunshine state, y
,,rt.d in colnrs and profusely
iInstratrd and the Colonization
p,portmcnt has used excellent
Indictment in using Demlng scenes
for eight of the seventeen attractive
half tones including the front page
coIorcd cover. In speaking of the
Nimbrcs Valley the folder says:
Ey the Dcmng and Silver City
branch of the Santa Fc Railway,
leaving the III Paso line at Rlncon,
hnmr : scrker come t. Dem
ing and the Mimbrcs Valley. The
head of this Valley is in the north.
ern limits of Grant county, where
the Mimhrrs is n sparkling noun
tain stream. Near the southern
line Of the county, the Rocky bed
and banks run out, coarse gravel
coming in. Here the stream dsap-
prars, absorbed ~ the porous soil,
and thence across Luna county
southward for a distance of more
than forty miles, it is the "sunken
Mimbrcs. y
The store of water in the depths
Of the MimbrrS Valley has not been
explored fully, but the irrigablc
area uow known is said to be two
hundred and fifty thousand acres.
Al, this was public domaia six
years ago, bat now about half of
il ha> been taken under the Home
stead Net, or the Desert Land Act,
ralInp one hundred and twenty-five
thousand acres still to be- filed on.
Improved land here, especially if it
be- uu alfalfa, is worth 500 per acre,
and few sellers at that.
Ih the federal statute, opening
lhr public domain in the west to set
llcu, nj. the head of a family, or
any adult person, may file on home
stead Of 1870 acres, and by the side
of it, If the land be- without growth
Of native hay on timber, take des-
rrt claim of like area. Upon the
homestead, the claimant must live
five years before he may demand a
patent. unless he chooses, after four
teen months, to commute by paying
>l2j pr acre. a patent for the
dc,rr, claim is obtained simply 10y
sinking we'll and setting pump
which will develop supply of water
sufficient to irrigatc the whole quar-
ter. \ patent, in either case, makes
it decided land, ," and the owner may
sell IT,.
There is no question of the abund
ancr Of water. 1t easily is lifted by
windmill for stock, and for II long
time. until city watcrworks came
windmillS lifted it for domestic us,
in Dcming. irrigation is done by
pump, driven by gasoline or crude
oil engines. Lately Il central clcc
trlr plant has been established whict
furnishes cheap power within n ra
duS Of many miles. A ChinamaI
whose garden Of twenty acres al
joins the townste of Dcming use
power from the electric station. H
cultivated his ground intensivcly
and common report says he earn
from $4,000 to ~ 900 annually. II
1905 he deposited $1,000 in the bank
For the present the settlers ar
planting alfalfa, but the soil wi
grow all the other hardy products
The sugar beet grown here yield
seventeen per cent saccharinc. lher
is no bect-sugar factory nearer MIN
brcs Valley than the Arkansas vale
but the beet-sugar industry is nc
dependent upon factory for
market. Boets are profitable If fe
to cattle and hogs, and there is sue
great demand here for that KIN
Of feed that farmer can dispose
his entire product at good price
Indeed, better than selling the pr
duet is feeding It upon the farr
This puts the market value OF bo'
the beet ami the beef or hog on hoo
and it walks to town.
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