El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-22
City Pumps Water CheapIy
Costs Only 61z Cents Per 1000 Gal
Ion TO Lift Little Inter-
views With Ell PasOans.

TT costs the city half cent more to
pump 1000 gallons of water at the
mesa plant than it costs to buy q
] pint of milk. Percy McGhee, assist
/ ant superintendent of the waterworks,
/ says that it cost s II cents per 1000
I gallons to lift the mesa water out of
the gravel strata 24O feet below the
mesa surface. This is done by air. ''El
/ Paso must be on the water wagon
/ Mr.. McGhee says: Last year the
I records show that FL Pasoans used less
| than 100000 gallons of water daily.
| Now they are absorbing 100000 gall
/ Ions of the stuff that was formerly used
only for washing buggies and sprInk-
ling lawns. The cost per 1000 gallons
is considered, very low by efficiency
engineers for the amount of lift nee
essary- The air is blown down into
the wells and it forces the water up
over the tops of the well castings.
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''El Paso people do not realize what
danger the people in MADEIRA are in
at the present time" said A L La
throp, of the Pearson company. Those
men, among them some of our best mill
men, are down there with absolutely
no protection from the bandits except
what Villa has furnished them so far.
There are 16 Americans there and OF
Ills Au4ADGE SIX nave their IallllGS-
The federaIs have sent no troops there
to protect them and they are depend
ent upon themselves TO- whatever pro-
lection they get 1t is hardly posi-
Die TO conceive of similar situation
There are Americans within a compar-
atvely short distance of the border,
yet without means of getting out and
without protection Of the law in any
form We are trying to do everything
we can for them and have appealed to
the Juarez commanders for troops to
lie sent there to protect them from the
bandits who are infesting the hills
near there
They say cannot put Alamogordo
on the map again" said W. R Edison,
the new manager of the town company
as he sat in front of the Sheldon
watching the rain fall. Il did it once
and what 4 man does Cnce he usually
can repeat As soon as I return from
the east IN August, I am planning to
start a legitimate publicity campaign
Tor AlamogOrdo, install a power plant
In La Luz canyon TO utilize the power
from the waters of this canyon. ir-
rlgate the streets and parks and start
things to moving once more UP there.
The people of Alamogordo are to-
gether in this development campaign
and L am not only going to put Alamo
back on the map but put her there in
red"
B. Coldgen is q peach of a judge"
SaAQ 4AdSOn EOlldIQ saturday between
trips 10 the polls with amendment vot-
ers in his automobile. Ballard is a
graduate Of the state university one OF
It's most famous football players and is
In the than whom class of university
patriots. Yet when the motorcycle cop
caught me hitting it up a little Sat
urday morning getting out the vote for
old Texas Z, what did he do but make
me put up SO cash bond for speeding.
I'm goat if that is not hard luck for
one brother in the cause to deal an
other brother"
Andy Reeves tells this one on Bob
Rinehart Bob has a car with a lock
on the gear shifting levers so that he
can lock it when he stops. and insure
it against theft. The other afternoon,
he left it out in front of his board
ing house and friend hoped into IL
after supper and drove several blocks
IN 1t Bob decided to fool the friend
next evening, so when he drove I'D in
front of the boarding house, he held
up his lock so his friend could see 1t
from where he sat on the front porch,
then. with a smile, locked the car with
It. This was all very well, but after
supper, when Bob went out to unlock
his car. he found that he had forgot
ten his keys, and he had to ask the
friend that he had been taunting. who
also has a car, to go and get II and
take him home to get his keys. The
friend says Bob. ought 20 have bought
a drink, but he hasn't as yet"
tells on him. Rinehart puts up
this one on Andy: Reeves was
telling some friends about meet
ing a girl on the street, who in
PRODUCED him to another girl, who made
some very broad hints about what a
fine night it was to take ride out to
Washington park. According to Andy,
the girl said she thought such a ride
would be very, very fine and that a
nice little supper after such a ride
always struck her as about the thing. |
/ took in all the conversation and then,
telling her how glad was to have met
her, babe the two of them good night |
and walked away Andy said in tell
ing the story to Burt Orndorff. Andy
then asked Burt what he would have |
Just what you did, you darn liar Burt |
retOrted.'
Some people are complaining OF |
hard times" said V. E Ware, a local |
jobs that Fave been promised me for ]
the fall I will be so busy that I will 4
have to eat at a quick lunch restau-
rant"
villa reminds me of a famous gen
eral," said an American resident OF |
Juarez Monday. You know, that one |
that marched his soldiers up the hill,
then marched them down again. He /
has moved his men from Ascencion to |
Palomas and back nearly every day for
weeks"
Who said water can't run up hill?"
asked T. K Partridge agent of the i
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient rail-
road. Look at the water running up
Oregon street" And he pointed to the
rain being blown up there past the /
Tuesday a rHav, F1,aN