El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-18
DEMING HAS NEW
TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Former Editor Makes Sue
cess of Farming; Dem
ing Woman Dies.

ceived a postcard containing the fol-
lowing message: AT z o'clock a m
August II, you Will kindly begin using
your new telephone" The company
! has installed a complete new telephone
system in Deming, with very little in
convenience to its patrons. The wires
in the business section have all been
replaced by underground cables, 50
that when the new system is in use, all
poles and wires of the old system will
be taken away, to the great enhance
ment of the appearance of the town
Deming has been made the district
headquarters for a number of counties
in southern New Mexico and in southern
Arizona and new exchange building
has been erected. The company has been
working IS men here ever since last
spring.
The Deming chamber of commerce was
instrumental in inducing the company
to make these Improvements and move
the district headquarters from Las Cru
, ceS here. The new system, which VIII
I be in use from Sunday morning, IS as
uptOdate as the system of any city
Editor Succeeds as Farmer.
Two pumping plants and 100 acres
IN splendid crops are the net results
| of the labOrs of W. E Holt, since ne
sold out the Deming Graphic rev
months ago, resigning the editorial
I chair to c. Z. Ely Mr.. Holt began i'm
mediately the improvement of a choice
| tract of 40 acres just south OF town
| and he has made good the enthusiastic
! boosting that he used to do as an ed1-
tor. He has so acres of beans that
! cannot be eXcelled in the valley, ~
acres of fine maize and cane, and sew
1 en- acres of garden truck. Two good
J farmers were imported from Artesla
| to farm q portion of this place, h Z
MAR and W Z. Griffith. The rest IS
rented to J. D. Vawter, also from the
PecOs valley, and J. F. WhemhOemer,
! from Oklahoma. The well on the West
! ern edge Of the town is equipped with
! a Simple Oil engine and No. GouId
pump, and the other well is equipped
/ with a 20 horsepower Rumley engine
/ and a No. 4 American pump Each
1 of these wells delivers 500 gallons
/ per minute against a head of about 60
/ feet. and the fuel and lubricating eX-
1 pense amounts to p cents per hour Tor
both plants.
! % cents per hour is considered In this
/ valley fairly cheap water, ana TINS
| cheap water is due mainly to the fact
/ that the Mimbres Valley Farmers as
| sociation of which Mr.. Holt is secre-
tary. is selling an excellent grade OF
I cistillate for Z II cents per gallon MI
Holt is about ready to begin install
/ ing q silo to take care of the enSilage
/ which Will be produced on the farm,
! mostly maize and kafflr corn he eA-
/ poets to purchase a number OF COWS
/ soon, and several hundred chickens
! He has built three very comfortable
! rent houses on this farm
Mrs. 4. D. Hyder Dies.
! Mrs. A D. Hyder, Il years OF age,
/ died at her home in Deming and buried
! Sunday at p. m. She had resided
) here for Is months, having come here
from West Plains. No She leaves TWO
/ sons, Hugh and James and married
| daughter Grady Holmes. Of Plains
/ Texas, besides her husband, A II.
To Pilot westgnrd.
/ The Deming chamber Of commerce
! has made arrangements for a pilot car
! to meet ". O. L Westgard at LOrdsburg
| and conduct him here. Mr. Westgard
/ is logging tranScOntinental route,
which Will include the Borderland
Lillian Larson and Pansy Young have
! left for Wichita, kans-, where they
! will visit relatives. They VIII go IRON
] there to New York. stopping day at
! Niagara Falls, thence to Porto Rico,
/ where both secured positions in the
/ schools of that island
SpaId1nE Denies Report.
The current issue of the Sporting
| World contains the following note; y
| G. Spalding says the reports. printed
! that he has under way school for
! baseball players after the idea ad-
I vanced by Charley Carr, are untrue He
! says the reports have caused him con-
I siderable annoyance He has been so
! flooded with applications OF old time
! ball players. broken backed football
1 artists. spawned sprinters, etc, that he
! can't find time to attend to the bust
! ness in hand. which is the development
/ of a large tract of land he has near
| community. Mr.. Spalding is laying out
! the new town known as 'Spaldfng. and
! the fact that Re had instructed the
/ architects and engineers to make am
! pie provision for athletic fields seems
I to have given a start to the idea that
| he meant baseball school
| Finds Dry Farmers Prosperous
Ralph c. Ely president of the New
| Mexico State Fair commission, has
/ completed a tour up and down the
/ Southwestern in the interest of the
HeA1 Eas- .1a.rrf toll hos r..
/ cred some information concerning New
| Mexico calculated to make the average
/ New Mexican sit up and wipe the dust
| out Of his eyes. He covered towns as
! far as Tucumcari-
Il have understood from time to
/ time says Mr.. Ely that dry farm
ing which is practiced in the northern
portion of the state, was not altOgeth-
er successful and that a great many
of the farmers had gone away. It is
I true that several more than usually
dry years were pretty discOuragtng,
! but it is alhO true that nobody knew
( just what could be done to the best
| advantage in the dry farming sections
and there were a great many Of the
| farmers who were not familiar with
| the methods of cultivation which are
I employed in sections where the rain
! fall is barely adequate under the most
/ scientific methods. I find that a great
/ many of those who have remained are
/ very hopeful indeed. They have in
/ trOduCed the Silo and there are sew
] eral In the vicinity of Tucumcar1, IKE
I wise in the vicinity of ROY didn't get
/ to Roy and everyone of the
F, farmers who has a silo attained
| good results last year, and all those
/ who expect to put in a silO this year
/ are confident of increasing the net
1 profits of their farming considerably.
MANY are grazing their cows on ma
] tive grass and experimenting this with
/ enSilage They have a creamery at
/ Tucumcari which is making 5000
! pounds of butter per week and the
! spirit of the local merchants is such
/ I am told they don't sell any other but
/ ter. until they are absolutely compelled
| to by the demands of certain custo-
! mers.
There is an experiment station at
1 Tucumcari that is doing very moe
/ work indeed. and which is exceedingly
4 helpful to the farmers of that 10
/ cality. 1t is now maintained by the
/ federal government. but was first es-
J tablished by the people of Tucumcari.
! Then it was helped little by the state
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