El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-25

| same night OF publication. at % cents /
per month.
Deming, n. NJ, July 25.-AH the pros
DectOrs who came here to look over the
property of the Mimbres Valley Al
, falfa Farms company have purchased
( land, the aggregate sales amounting
70 1000. and one option being taken
/ on $4,000 worth of land Mr.. Am
mon. of Livingston county, Illinois,
has returned to his home for the pur-
pose of dispOsing of his property, and
moving here with his fine stock. He
is a fine stock breeder of Illinois, and
will establish a stock farm on the land
purchased from the company. David
Mcbride of Pittsburg, Pa, is building
a residence on the tract he purchased
II. F. Mette, for years county treas
was also postmaster at Flanagan, Ill,
for several years, purchased ITO acres
Of land, also a town lot in Miesse, and
f1Ye-acre tract near M1eSSe- He has
gone. back home to make his arrange
ments for moving here permanently
Isaac Hollinger. manufacturer and
farmer of Greenville, o., and who has
just recently completed the develop
ment of 1000 acres of land in Canada,
has OptiOned $40 acres of land and will
return to Ohio to induce some of the
young farmers of his church in Ohio
to come here and go into the farming
business Mr.. HOllinger's brother is
a prominent Dunkard minister, and he
states that his brother will help him
did opportunity for the young men Of
the church to better their candiuon-
The Dunkards are noted the world
over Tor being excellent farmers MI
HOIlinger also wired his son in Canada
to abandon his intention Of taking up
government land there and to come to
Deming at once. where better oppor-
tunitieS exist. d. K. Noble has pur-
chased a choice piece of land and will
move here from Dayton, o., in the near
future. Mr.. ElwoOd. an Iowa farmer,
purchased so acres. and will move here
just as soon as he can arrange his
business affairs in iowa
Governor W G. Mcdonald inspected
the development of the Miesse tract
while here
Charlie Holman, charged with vio-
latiOn of the white slave act and now
in the Deming jail, will be tried be-
fore United States commissioner B. Y
McKeyes. There will also be a trial of
two Mexicans, Manuel Castillo and
Valentine Ponce, charged with rObbing
the United States mail near Hachita,
where Charles J Waggeners a soldier
was carrying the mail to a mining
camp. He was halted by two Mexicans
who robbed him of his mail sacks, but
as they were doing so, ne made break
for liberty His asSailants shot at him,
putting two bullet holes in his hat and
piercing his right arm
z. E. Burdick Dies.
E. E Burdick, for IS years a resident
of this section and prominent in the
cattle and farming business, died last
night, at the age of 81
A. A. Temke and wife have left for
Monrovia. Cal, where they viii spend
some time in recreation.
Parsonage To Be Built
The building committee of the
Methodist church at its meeting last
night decided on the plans for the
new Methodist parsonage This build
ing will be of brick and will cost about
$500. The plans will be given to con-
- ha in
by the close of the week Active con-
structiOn will begin by the first of
August. The new parsonage viii be
constructed on the site of the present
J. NJ Crawford arrived from SAT-
ford, Ariz., with five large draft
horses and 10 Jersey milk cows, which
he will sell in Deming-
L. J. Pritchett gave a stag banquet
at the Harvey house to a number OF
friends. The jOvial affair was at
tended by the following guests: A w.
Pollard, H H. Kelly. c. J. Kelly, B. Y.
McKeyes Joe ROsebOrough, D. B.
Stephens, Chris Raithel, Clyde Earl
Ely, Frank MOnser, W. S. Clark and
r Bedichek-
Mcpherson Addresses Farmers. \
Alexander Mcpherson, the noted
agriculturist, is spending the week IN
Deming. having been called in consul
tatiOn by the Deming Ice and Electric
company to solve certain problems in
connection with the furnishing OF cleo
trio power for pumping. AS an incident
to the visit of this authority on irri-
cation to DeMing, he was invited to
address farmers and others interested
in irrigation at the county court
house Mr.. Mcpherson delivered an
address on the duty of water, to a fair
sized audience, and spent the remain
der of the afternoon in a sort Of
round table discussion with a number
Of prominent farmers concerning spe-
cific problems confronting the farmer
in the Mimbres valley. W. E Holt in
PRODUCED Mr.. Mcpherson and declared
that McPhersOn's work had become a
part of the permanent history Of agri-
culture in the west.
Mr.. Mcpherson prefaced his remarks
by stating that his investigation of
conditions here had convinced him
that there is wealth here for the farm
er, if farming is gone about in prop
in harmony with immutable laws
which to violate is to invite disaster.
After showing how water is held
by the soil, and how some soils hold
more water than others, and how i'm
pOrtant it is to keep moisture condi-
lions just right, he went on to point
out certain defects that he had no
ticed in irrigation methods in this
valley. One thing, he said, was that
in many instances the lands were too
long, thus allowing one end of the land
ID become too thoroughly soaked while
the other end did not get enough wa