El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

per hog and will bring, live weight
in the FL Paso market or at Fort
Worth. Texas, (where is located large
branch packing houses of Swift and
Armour from SIS to $50 per hog. The
cost of raising varies from SIS to $500
per animal. Eighty acres Of land viii
produce, from this industry. from $4,000
to $4,000 per year net profit.
Interurban Line
The Stone-Webster Corporation is
now building an interurban electric
line from FL PasO- to Ysleta, a dis
lance of twelve miles east Of Ell PasO,
This is the first electric line to be
constructed out of FL PaSO and the
first to tap the rich FL Paso valley
Within a very short time this line
will be extended on to Fabens, Texas
a distance of sixteen miles from
Ysleta or tWenty-eight miles from FL
Paso. Ell PasO city has over thirty five
miles Of electric car lines.
Good Roads
For sometime past the Ell Paso val
ley has enjoyed the benefits Of some
sixty miles of paved macadam roads
During the past few months. the voters
of the county passed a bond issue OF
$500, 900 to be appropriated to building
more good roads. This road is already
in progress and will not be completed
for more than a year The cost OF
these new roads will vary from $1,000:
to $4,000 per mile. After the compile
ton of this work, there win be a very
few farmers in the FL Paso valley not
On a paved road. in addition to having
one electric and two steam lines at
their service.
Land Values
Land values are very low in the
Rio Grande as compared with otner
irrigated tracts where water is fur-
nished by the reclamation service.
Since it became an established 1act
that the United States government IN
tneded to build the Rio Grande dam,
land sales have been very active and
the price of land in the valleys nave
increased materially. At the present
time there is a splendid opportunity
for large investors TO buy unmproEeu
land, clear and fence it, put II under
cultivation. build houses and barns
and in fact have ready MADE IarIh 70
sell the small investor. Small farms
cut up into ten to eighty arce tracts
ready to live on find a ready sale at
good price. Now is the time Tor
this kind Of enterprise, since no one IS
practicing it.
Improved lands range in price from
$3.50 to $500 per acre, depending on
how extensive the Improvements ana
location. Fruit land, in bearing brings
the highest prices.
Plenty of Room in the Valley
There are in the MesilIa, Rincon
and Ell Paso valleys some twenty IlVe
thousand acres of unimproyed land lndI
can be purchased from s35 to 500 per
acre. The price is governed by the 10
cation, transportation facilities ana
the cost of clearing and leVellhg Inc IIe
land preparatory for irrigation 11IS
land improved with house. FENCES, GU,
can be sold at from three to SIX tunes
its first cost The cost of clearing anu
leveling land varies from $40 10 s9U
per acre with the average cost OF IesS
sons. This land lies in lots varying
from 300 to 1000 acres
Data recently compiled shows some
so, 700 acres of land in cultivation. Dur
ing the first five months of this year
there has been an immense amount OF
new land put under cultivation, II TINS
progress continues throughout the
year. reports viii show some 15,OOV
acres having been put under cultivation
during the year 1913.