Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-30

ana calls Joseph Bra lley, J. l.. Brown
and carl Mueller to testify that 20l
bushels per acre are common. an,
500 not unusual This product q
worth per bushel ordinarily. an,
the company maintains a publ,
storage house for growers who mas
want 90 hold for two cents. or ever
three and four cents, per pound. Last
year The valley produced 5000 bush.
eds of sweet-potatoos. and this year
The crop ran up 10 1900 bushels
November i5, there were 1900
bushels in storage at portalcs.
cantaloupes were very profitable
here this year The local association
advanced the growers forty cents per
crate. Cantaloupes also are great
feed NJ The market happens 10 be- un-
satisfactory Carl Mueller, who has
had experience. says that one acre of
cantnloupes is worth moro in the pro-
duetion Of hog meat than one acre
of lnlian-corn.
Dairy Cows.
There nre lii00 milch COWS within
wagon distance of Porulcs Mr. Rog-
trs says that number will be signed if
a creamery comes.
The valley also should support "a
vegetable cannery Thrcc-fourths of
the canned vegetables now consumed
ln New Mexico are shipped IN. and
Mr. Rogers slys that soil. water. CHI
mate ANA the numerous lines of the
santa Fc railway in the district make
fortaies q great opportunity for eap-
ital 20 invest In a profitable enter
prise. Tie points 20 the cannery AT
Lakewood IN the pccos valley OF
New Mexico, which SELLS lts entire
product TO one wholesale house. Tie
pledges himself 10 slan for an the
area necessary to supply n cannery
with kitchen vegetables The oppor-
tunity rs $50 great that. even before
!aT.nr foundation for the cannery
its promoters would be able 10 con-
tract rs per cent OF iis product.
Tho company has 100000 invested
IN the central power station. seven
.y-five miles OF transmission wire,
and seventy complete pumps ana mo-
ors TO run them Every farmer owning,
lr buying a farm Of eighty acres owns
he pump ANA motor upon t. No
and Is offered for sale without pump
ma motor Every person who lives
Do town, or within eighteen miles OF
own. may have on his place olectrl-
IT'S for heat. light, and power. He
nay run his laundry, sewing machine,
ream separator, or any other ma
hine on the place. even curl mIadya
ialr, with il. Indeed, this company
iffers settlers the couvenionces Of
he clty-eleeuic light. kitchen heat .
ma telephone, even telegraph by long
Iistancc, al by the central power
tation All pump equipment is m
duplicate, and a farmer only has 10
telephone for repairs 10 be made
The hcadWaters of the Brazos river, .
Which flows southeasterly across
'exas into the Gulf Of Mexico. lie
uried in this valley This ls not a
uess, but the testimony Of geologists.
{ Is from four to six miles wide and
he gravel In which the water flows
rom twenty-five 10 sixty feet thick.
{ is claimed that fully 100000 acre
eet OF water. annually. are avail
bile bys pump IN this underground /
ream This is enough 90 put four
eet of water over $4,000 acres. Since
he wells are equipped with meters
nd wires. water used for irrigation
nay be measured by the farmers
themselves. Mr. Rogers says that
'ater now pumped. or contemplated
, be pumped within the next three
ears, lies only twenty feet beneath
he surface. some of il only fifteen
'ct. This year the valley at three
airs took forty-two first prizes
Ighteen second prizes. and twelve
lird prizes.