El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-06
FARMING
FLOOD To
IRRIGATE HIS FARU
Catches Floods Be
fore They Wash His Land
and Uses Them.

A Milwaukee physician has discOv-
cred a remedy for the high cost of liv-
ing in FL PasO. His is a simple pre-
ScriptiOn and the best of it is that ne
has tried 1t with great success on him
self
He is DIT. A. E. Lauson. late of Mil
WaUkee, but later of Anthony, " NJ
right side of the road, first house as
you go up the Canine Real to Las Cru
Ces- Dr- LausOn came TO the southwest
nine years ago and located in Anthony.
He bought five acres OF land on the
outskirts of the little town for $40 an
acre He values IL at $500 an acre at
the present time. out IL is not for sale
at any price. The first thing he did,
after buying his ranch was TO do bit
Of original research. de observed that
the land, which is all on the mesa, 30
feet above the valley, lay at the toe
OF draw which drained a large strip
of the higher mesa
When it rained. as only it can rain
on the mesa OF the valley during the
rainy season DR.. LausOn observed his
land converted into a miniature lake
This started the gray matter under his
StetSOn to work. he built a border
along the east side OF five acre tract
setting II off the property line Ear
enough to make one of the Is divisions
winch he laid out on the south haif
Of his five &C e. Connecting with this
Eol'~ev was Distributed dltcn wtE
check gates, laterals and a spillWay
like the irrigated ranches in the val
ley On the north half he built his
ranch house, suSk d wei and erected a
long legged wind pump and built two
more borders, one to direct the water
onto strip at the northeast corner Of
his place and the other to bring The
Hood water onto the lower division be-
low the house He connected these up
with check gates ana tied them into
lne central ditch so that the water
would run around and not through hls
house and COW lot This simple but
effective system of irrigation, was SUI
tlcient to handle the flood waters
Wnlcn naQ been TUmp1Qg of down the
valley before ne butt his borders 20
the windmill he hooked up a system OF
pipes for delivering water to the dill
ferent divisions when there was no rain
water coming off the mesa. The five
AGREE were then ready for cultivation.
The irrigation system is now four
years old Last season DR.. LausOn
raised peaches. apples, pears, ounces,
aprlcOts, cherries. grapes soft shell al
monds, pecans, mulberries and some
WatermeIons that weighed so pounds
each. Garden stuff is raised in QuantI-
ties sufficient for the doctors table
and some to spare. He sends some OF
his stuff to FL PasO to sell. but the
most Of 1t is sold at home, as there is
always a greater demand than supply
for the LausOn ranch products. His
apple trees are just beginning TO bear
and he expects TO have plenty of fruit
TINS season Plums and peaches are
MS best crop Dr. LausOn says. His IS
a mesa proposition, he says, and it is
only where the flood waters can be
utilized that the best results can be
obtained, he says. Water can be OBJ
tained at a depth Of SIS feet, but ne
found the best water at 30 feet
Many people go from Ell Paso, to see
the little five acre ranch with its fruits
and flowers and garden up on the
mesa above the valley and without OUT
side irrigation Dr.. LausOn says that
when the high line canal is completed
by the government. thousands OF acres
of benchland can be brought into Gull
walton and splendid crops of peaches
and other fruits grown there.