Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-10-02

DEFINING, NEW MEXICO OCTOBER 2,
PASSING OF THE WINDMILL CITY
There was Windmill City was handy DESIGNATION given t.
lend variety to newsp:ps, STYLE and the editors Of the Southwest
the City, Albuquerque City, Vegas Meadow City
q @ THAT q: q: ss s IT a' p:t .
would not know its meaning The eyno Of the word reveals
born of rails yesterday enepns agricultural
and commercial city Of today.
Before Southern Pacific
Desert the Nmbres Valley stretched league after the
Mexico sunshine wit. rs waving low mesquite graceful Yucca
available from Haywood Hot Springs
the Mexican boundary. forty miles the SOUTH In the
dry years they betook themselves to the mountains.
tried here before even Apache built his signal ares on
Mountain But they depended the RAINFALL and finally
side the ancient pbos we're lost in the m,sss desert The Apache.
knew the valley thorOushfare through they
They found water the Cooks Peak
the rocks Of the Foda where the rain caught against their
Great SAHARA - -"
The overland mail route studiouy avoided the Dsmne region h.
there they thought Leaving Paso the stage
Mesa thence Fort the range
by way Haywood Of Shakespeare The
as" almost third longer
than the flies The Great Donphan with his volunteers
Dmiu The spot was one seemingly cursed
Of God Even the Mexican farmers al valleys up
from his Texas home besides
his wide boots and ansn spurs brought windmill The
and American flags marked the outpost
Of Eden The found bleaching cLsss
travellers had marked the absence of
which had rolling pure through centuries
and only few feet under the Beside house
and the housewife planted hoyhocks
and all the dear blooms Gods land grew
beautiful with its waving tamaack The
birds flew the hot sands nest in the branches eah
pool which continually renewed by the eless
claimed that the land good to in. ~
In those days took ten and the little patches
green could be placed only nquen but they broke the
the United States engineers had failed discover stage drivers
did not know the keen railroad officials readily the ranch
Somewhere Fl engines must drink and Dmny
into being Demng owed its inception generous impulse to
phlanihropc but rather those
days people stopped of necessity and left
tied The cowboy however found convenient
they had punched the unwilling the stock
to take certain f the gambling holes oushe
and Tucson and Albuquerque Dms Demg grew The windmis
multiplied until modest cottage boosted Of
tive after drawing water from The
windmill looked unlike the and day and
night the ekng of the wooden wheels propesy
which could go no longer unheeded.
IT, observed citizen vegetables can be grown BY
ing the augmented into ditch It was
tired thirty but the mechanics of the
such that it was considered glowing
To the tancontnental travellers the wndm half
Of green were the most remarkable sights to be the
with the background of dull desert growth practical
quantities ample evidence and his knowledge Of
and limited that modern scientific methods bring to
we'll he bored and after striking kept right going till he found
lower strata. which swed finally gushed forth
water the baked earth His example who
later until the desert green Demng in
stalled works pump now Yields
III the the city Of $500 can use. $
But the touch the romantic past with
cowboys and the wd From
troops broken Wheel with missing its lament for
good old days before the bark of the
The plains dotted by ruined
dobe WALL few dying for the which
longer marks the pioneer home Hard by the explosion
crude oil tells in sharp taccato Of a
on transformation wonderful indeed that full portent
be fully uderstood The which
provides for whole family with ocks windmill had
rved its Its RELOCATION the
eming from sleepy a wide awake modern city, AZ
al