El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-20
Hope Takes Apple Prizes
New Mexico Town Needs an Electric
Railroad to FL PasO, Says p. c.
GetzwiIleF; Little Interviews.
GGT HERE is no place in the coun-

*" HERE is no place in the coun-
try where they can raise bet
ter apples than in Hope" de-
clared P c. Getzwiller, Of that place,
who is here with a party of six others
on an automobile trip. I'VE have al
ways taken almost all the first prizes
at any fair where we have exhibited
our apples and pears, and it is the
same with other fruit. We took Il
firsts at Albuquerque in 1908 and the
same number of firsts at Artesia this
year on apples. Hope is a community
that is rich il resOuT ces and we want
to be connected with Ell Paso by rail-
We put up the money for a railroad
once and IS of tne % miles were
graded out from Artesia and then the
p-ciect fell through.
I'VE are hoping that an electric line
will be built to connect US with FL
asO some day. There is now talk of
an electric line from CloudcrOft, n. NJ,
TO Hope, but we think it would be as
cheap to + uild it to FL Paso and 1t
would. of course, be much quicker TO
built IT,. FL Paso. The new automobile
road puts Hope within 15S miles of FL
Paso, just a days run by AUTO, but we
want better cOnnec tiCn than that. Some
Of our party had never been here be-
fore. because it was such q long trip
here. The new wagon roads makes II
possible to come here in one day. We
are going to spend two or three days
in FL Paso This in a small way
shows the value of roads to a city
Without this new, short road, we would
not have been here. AS it is. seven of
us viii be here several DAYS, paying
-otel bills and spending money seeing
the sights "
with only two cases of contagious
diseases reported in a city of $4,000,
healthiest cities Of its size in the
United States" says F a. Mayhem, /
clerk of the city board OF health.
I'VE now have two cases Of diph- I
iberia, and no measles, scarlet fever or /
smallpox There are only four cases OF
typhoid fever known to exist in the /
city. The present situation IN regard !
to the lack of contagious diseases is !
as notably healthful a town as IL |
Paso."
AS many guns as arc being used /
people generally would be better &C /
Quainted with some of the various \
makes" sheriff PeytOn J. Edwards re- 1
marked. He referred to a statement |
regarding 1910 Mauser rifles for the /
use Of the Mexican rebels. There Is /
no such thing as a 1910 MauseT," said !
the sheriff. American rifles particu-
larly those of the Winchester Arms (
are designed in calibre sizes.
Mauser rifles come in seven millimeter
and eight millimeter bOres. They are
n favorite arm with the Spsniards and
Mexicans, just as the German army /
prefers the Mannlicher. and the Amer |
lean army the Springfield rifle"
These rapidly changing politics on /
the other side Of the river MAKE the |
CO on the repair OF the Mexican dam at I
the beginning Of the AceQuia Madre a /
rather difficult thing" said engineer !
l. c. Hill Of the reclamation service |
since we had those several days con- (
sultation with the mayor and engi- J
neers Of Juarez both of them have been
in office, and now with Villas
occupation of the town an entire new
go ahead and repair as much as we
can on our side and wait until the
officials become permanent
enough to undertake further consulta-
tons and work
ct heard an entirely new theory ex-
pressed about the Mexico situation the
other day" says Dave Sullivan. Il
was talking to a man who said that
Huerta would not wait for interYen-
ton. but would declare war on the
I n1ted states. Ny informant believes. |
that the Mexican provisional president
will let things drift along until he
feels that Intervention IS Inevitable, I
then he will create a situation that
viii give him a chance to declare war.
OF course, he'd be whipped, but the
Mexican nation would set him down on
flames roll as a hero
x
ct see The Herald says that four
regiments of cavalry are to be sta
toned at FL Paso." says Q. r.. Calvin.
That is good news for US who live
here. While it is possible that we
may never have trouble with Mexico, l
still il is always wise to be prepared
We must admit that if anything did
start, El PasO would get the brunt OF
{ for a short time, at least With 1000
0r 5000 troops here. we would be much
better off than with Just one or two
regiments OF cavalry"