El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-19
Catches Many GrasshOppers
Machine Designed by Local Firm
Gathers in 20 Bushels in Four
HOurs-LfttIe Interviews
the comments The Herald
has been making upon the grass

hLTNOTICE the comments The Herald
has been making upon the grass
L hopper situation in the south
west" said H. E. Birney, secretary
treasurer of the Myers company, land
I believe The Herald and the public will
be interested in knowing that we have
got out a successful grasshopper catch
er, and believe that if you knew we
wanted to put this before the public
without any profit to ourselves, that
you would gladly give space in the
columns of your paper to apprise the
public of this fact
We have completed a machine which
catches them very successfully, having
II in service in the upper valley at
present on the ranch of 2. H. Bailey. at
CanutillO, Texas Mr.. Bailey can tell
you what a wonderful thing we have
done for the farmers in getting up this
catcher, he having caught 20 bushels in
I hours the first try out and 500 pounds
in actual weight the second try out.
This is not a money making PROPOSE
ton to US, as we are not Offering them
for sale, or not even Offering the blue
prints for sale, which we propose to
furnish to any of the farmers who want
to try and exterminate their grass
hoppers by this catcher. They can have I
any carpenter or blacksmith in their
vicinity build the catcher for them
selves.
ing similar tools to this in Colorado
and other places in the last so days to
help get up the ideas of this catcher,
and we hope The Herald will apprise
the farmers Of the success of this ma
chine in DISCRIMINATING the grasShop-
pers- and to say to them that We will
gladly furnish them free of charge blue
prints and specifications of these tools
If they will but call on US"
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T.
my life as by the peculiar reception 1
received down the valley near Alfalfa
Wednesday," said Capt. Ernest D. Scott
of battery c, Sixth field artillery, sta
valley and rode into a yard at Alfalfa
4 woman sitting on the porch stood
up and said: don't want you in here;
don't you come in here 1 replied that
I thought I might use her telephone
as had some important business, but
she said: You must not come here l
will not have you come in 1t seemed
strange to me, Tor had never before
met with any discourtesy in the south
west"
viii some one kindly tell me why
that difference in nameS?" asked G. X
Jones, Familiarity known as Casey"
Jones. conductor on the Mexico street
car line, as he pointed to two signs on
South Stanton street buildings. One of
them. a grocery store, read: La Cos
mopolita-" The other, a saloon, read:
''lIl CoSmopolita." 4 guess it must be
because booze is so much stronger that
they make it masculine" he said.
why the banks should be closed on
election day along with the saloons is |
more than my knowledge of American
government viii tell me-" said Henry
Capeu. Saturday was the busiest day |
of the week for Ell Paso business men !
and the bank was almost a necessity |
on that day, yet the Texas law com |
pels the banks to remain closed all day !
and the merchants and people with /
payrOlls either had to wait until Mon |
day or get their payroll accounts the !
day before and take chance of losing |
them overnight. OF all the fool Texas |
laws, that one is the worst"
When Gen. Porfirio Diaz was in Paris |
in voluntary exile during the OrOzco |
revolution, he had big map of Mexico /
into which he stuck black and white 1
pins corresponding to the positions of /
the federal and rebel armies in the |
north. In this way he could tell at a |
glance how the military matters stood |
and could reason out his own ways OF /
meeting the enemy, should he have been |
in command At the office of Mexican [
consular agent Miguel Diebold on |
North Oregon street there is a map of |
Mexico with the same kind of little |
black and white heaedd pins that Gen |
Diaz used for marking his map. The |
white pins represent the federal forces !
black pins have been in the majority in /
northern Mexico but there is a row of /
white pins which move up day by day /
toward Chihuahua, which represents /
Orozco's army, Caraveo's forces and 4
Guillermo Rubion Navarette and Gen. |
Joaquin TelIez's commands. The Mex (
lean federal government is pouring /
1O. 900 men into the field in the north. {
These columns are moving slowly for (
the bridges must De replaced" senior !
Diebold says. but they are moving and |
with the achievements which are con- !
staEtly arriving from the south. they I
viii crush the life out of the revOlu I
ton in the north. The federal govern /
trent will triumph. OF that 1 am con- /
fdent and the prestige of the Mexican !
flag Will be quickly restored"
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This is a hard grind for midsum- j
mer." postmaster J. a. Smith said Sat !
urday. as he sorted the Mexican mail I
which has accumulated in his office !
But / am always glad to do anything |
can 90 to accommodate Americans and l
the Americans in Mexico. to I
whom this mail is addressed. They /
have had enough TO contend with in the /
rcrublic and I am doing what I can to /
get their delayed mail to them /
wherever possible Just then one OF /