El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-25

product. Artesia IS a new town and
! peach growing is a new industry, but
in addition to peaches, there were mar
/ keted from this place nearly 100 car
loads Of apples, 1900 cars Of alfalfa, 80
cars Of cantaloupes, a carload of honey
and grapes, plUns and other fruits in
smaller quantities.
Artesia irrigates with artesian well
water, which flows from wells at COM
paratiVely shallow depth and this year
more than so new wells were put down,
all with success
Anything VII Grow.
Roswell irrigates from artesian wells,
pumped wells and from river water.
One of the biggest private irrigation
enterprises in the country has been
completed at Roswell during the year
the RerrendO project-and the power
for the pumping IS furnished by the
city lighting plant, which was more
than doubled in capacity this year to
take care of the great amount of BUSH
ness resulting from the demands from
the farmers who are irrigating with
pumps and find it profitable. The pow
er plant is now Of 1900 horsepower ca
paciUy. Roswell does not cOnfine itself
to the production Of apples, but celery,
peaches, plums, grapes, alfalfa and gar
den truck are grown and shipped In
cos valley this year marketed 5000 car
loads of alfalfa.
All Irrigation at Carlsbad is done
from the PecOs river by means of a ire
States reclamation service, TO supply
water to 10000 acres Of land. Cotton
as an experiment has passed the expert
mental stage and this year the gins at
Carlsbad and Loving, nearby. had to
be enlarged to accommodate the crop,
which only a few years ago, was IN
known The farmers readily grow a
bale Of cotton to the acre.
Alfalfa. throughout the valley OF the
Pecos nets four and five cuttings to the
season generally five, with an average
Of a ton to the acre for each cutting.
Cooperative Pumping system
POrtaleS, at the head Of the PecOs
valley, but on ground too high for ar
tesian water, yet with water shallow
enough to pay the farmers to pump it,
has the only cooperative pumping plant
in the country OF its size The central
power station generates the power and
is then carried on wires throughout the
valley TO the pumps Of the stockholders,
where the water is raised to the sur
face for irrigation at a minimum cost
The original cost Of the plant was $780,
coo for 10000 acres of land It was
erected by pfedging the land Of those
participating in its benefits, to redeem
bonds issued for the construction of the
plant The same crops as are produced :
at Roswell, Carlsbad, Hagerman, Arte-
STA, Lake Arthur, Lakewood and Hope,
south Of POrtales in the Pecos valley,
are grown at Portales, but Portales is
IN It's infancy as producer, the pump
ing plant having only been completed
this year. This year the farmers raised
sugar beets on a large scale and the
American Beet Suga rcompany, at Car
den City, Kas-, is planning to erect a
branch refinery at the town to use up
the production.
In the vicinity of MeIrose and Fort
where there is another extern
sive system Of Irrigation, another sugar
beet factory is to be erected, contracts
having been made during the year. De-
velopments in that region were very
extensive during 1912 and several hun
dred acres were added to the cultivated
area
Area Largely Increased.
In the Mesilla valley, a part of the
large area to be reclaimed by the con-
strucion Of the Elephant Butte dam
about 1000 additional cultivated acres
were added during the year. This re-
g1on produces practically all the fruits
that are grown in the Pecos valley.
Celery, asparagus and cantaloupes, In /
addition to the standard crop OF alfalfa,
form the principal production of the |
Aesilla valley, but apples, pears, cab !
oages, asparagus, chill pepper and on