Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-04-02
SCHOOL ELECTION
PROVES 'Qutl
" N "a .
Little Scratching at Deming /;
Considerable New sIrriga.
tion Works Being Cc!nplet!
ed in Mimbres Valley. y
Special Correspondence 60 Sac Herasdl

tspeeial Correspondence Go ths Eseratdl
peminE n. NJ. Apru The t,chSol
election " progressing quietly. Al
3;3O p. m. there had been hut i37
ballots east. Mrs. r.. W Baumann
voted this afternoon, helms the FIRST
wnman ever to cast ballot IN Dem
ms. The ticket H. as follows: w. r..
Holt. G. l.. Baker. g.. i Laughren.
JAS. w. barracks, and .. H. Cooper.
II ~ the only ticket IN the field ana
there h very little scratching being
done.
Messrs. Hannah & Ferguson have
just finished a 2O0-foot irrigation well
for II. ~. Jacobs one and one-eighth
miles northeast OF Red mountain.
There Is a six-foot pit to the water
level at eighty feet and N SIS cas-
ina from the eighty-foot level on
down. Seventeen feet OF excellent
watcr-benring material was cncoun-
tered and~the casing WIN be~ perfor-
ated contiguous TO the ,wnter-bearl
ing strata. A six hundred gallon ca
paciiy bucket pump viii be- Installed
In this well.
The above well-driiling firm Will
move from the Jacobs place to the
Spaulding tract few miles north
west OF pcmlng where they have q
contract for puttiuE down thirty rive
irrigation wells for the Rio MimbTcs
Irrigation Go. The firm will pur-
chase two more well-rigs for com
plotting this contract.
The Little vineyards company u
Leo
eter aud % feet high having a cnpa
city OF 10000 gallons for storage at
the headquarters OF the company near
the center OF the .O0Oracre tract that
Is now being reclaimed This water
storage Is for domestic use, supply
ing the dairy herd. work horsen. etc
A large irrigation we'll Is being put
down within "a few feet OF the stand.
pipe T-Cunnection with the dis
charge pipe of the irrigation wei
viii allow the staudpipe 20 he filled
n "a few minutes. An adobe struc'
turc 75x2b feet W under construc-
tion, which viii contain live two.
room apartments. Each OF thc@
/ apartments will Doe furnished Coz
/ light housekeeping. and rented u
iahofers who work on the place, \
large horsA barn VIII soon be built 4,
accommodate the work stock
John ~ McTeur. superintendent
for the Alfalfa Farms comPanys re
ports excellent progress being mad,
In the work OF retaining IA" com
panys property fourteen miles east
at DepiuR Ninr mile OF grpda'
road are being built between ths
/ guarter-sertions Of the tract ON
thousand acres are being plowed
narrowed and packed. Half ~ each
forty tract Is thus being made
ready for seeding In this work q
25-A6 tractor Nv being used. pulling
disk plOwe, disk harrOws ana "a sol
packer. The company has Ordere,
5000 tractor which will be here IL
few days. Seven pits have beef
dug 60 water and concreied, FINISHING
three and q half feet in diameter
Three well-rigs viii be here shortly
and viii be- pm 10 work at once, On'
Well-rig is already la operation %
the tract The company puFchnsre
last week f2,O00 WORTH of EASING p
as 10 haze "a supply constantly o.
humid ihns preNcptpg any delay 81
me inhana,i,M glSl9e cdAns. ~,
wells 10 FAR pui down arc one mile
each way FROM a central wei.