Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-09


ter"
"lrs. see the machinery, but
what il it ior!'
Irrigation by pumping"
Activity EVERYWHERE
The passenger wa, Interested I'M
mrdialrIy, aud thrust his head far
ont at the ear window He saw Office
building, machine shops, rlrrtr"
light plant. barns and corral, water
tower pumping plant, oil tanks, plat q
form loaded with engines, pumps,
drllI- and parts, and a miscellaneous
collection "l bunk houses and tents.
Activity was on every hand tu the
Tar hurIlon where the whlsp, Of
-mokr aud towering drfricks in
dicalcd the location of the busy well
drillrrs. IN the middle distance the
drab pumphuu-cs. covering the com
pIclrd wells. stood like sentry boxes
un every quarter section ui j,OOO.
acre tract.
II didn't see anything growing,
complained the passenger as the
tram gathered way.
DEVELOP BEFORE SELLING
"Thal's because the work was
only begun last summer. There will be-
plenty next spring when those moguI>
get through" he declared pointing
cut the tractor engines, drawing
gang pIows capable of ploughing
twelve acre, each day. The
company, of which \. G.. Spalding
oi san Diego (thc sporting goods
man, YOU know, Is president, and
l. q Fisher of Chicago, is vice
pres drul. will develop all the water
before offering II foot of the land for
sale"
MANY ENQUIRIES
The questions which the one pa,
Sengrr asked are being asked every
day. not only by those who travcI
through The Mimbrc> Valley. but bN
many thousands who live IN distant
sections. aud who have heard of lh,
project through the fame of Mr.
SpnIdlu.. Letters are being rrrriy
rd from points in Europe. aud all
wish lo know: "Whrn will the land
be- Sold Not until every pump Is
in place" i, the invariabIr answer.
UNIFORM EQUIPMENT
And thanks 10 the local manager
T.. II. liicki"rd. nearly all the pump,
are IN place. While the tract ot
lOO.O 900 acres ha~ nearly 100000 IT.
rlgablr acres. only 1000 are being
Developed III the first unit. On thi,
will be- placed thiny-two wells, ON,
ul each lGO acres. OF these al
are completed but eight, and theN,
will be pumped within the next sixty
day. The equipment has the ad
vantage Of being uniform. The ol
burning engines are forty and fifty
horse power of the Fairbanks Mors,
make, and the pumps the ccntrfuga
type made by the l.aynr and Bowie
corporation. This equipment wa
purchased through. aud sci in plac,
by f.. \. Mooney, an expert III lr
rlgalion machinery. The wells will
Judging hy those already tested. de
velop from a thousand TO twolhou
sand gallons of water minute
Those who have not seen the bl,
wells flowing can hardly realize tn
great volume of water Indicated b.
The figures. ~ II i comparable lo
good sized trout stream. The brs
Inrl. too. is that the water is 900
per cent pure and always at th
command Of the farmer. From III
surrounding 100000 square miles u
wild mountain country. the waite
comes aud j. carried by the sunke
Mlmbrcs River INTO the basin of tn
ancient lake whose shores are th
boundaries of the Mimbrcs Vale,
~ GRAVITY AND PUMP
The company has now four pro
duc;ng ranches. with poSsibly 81
hundred acres of fruit. alfalfa. I'M
corn lands. but these are on the up
per Mimbres river and are irrigate
from the surface water before it