The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-10
SPLENDID DISPLAY
OF MOVIES TAKEN
AROUND PORTALES
Roosevelt County Will Have
One of Notable Reels in the
States Picture Show at San
Diego.

santa Fe, n. NJ, Adg 10.-Typical
90 the publicity and of the character
OF pictures that are being taken ay
h New Mexico exposition commits
sion for those counties that have voted
funds TO assist the commission In
making an adequate display az san
Diego OF the New Mexico resourccs, ad-
%vantages and opportunities, are those
filmed by Moving Picture Operator
Chase Bell a few days ago NJ Portales.
these being In addition to the cduca-
tional pictures and the views snapped
on educational rally day last Friday
/. Parade up Colorado avenue
passing In front OF the court house
and going toward the depot, glving o
idea Of the type Of citizenship OF
Roosevelt county.
2. Panorama OF the Immense
crowd on the sidewalk in front OF the
courthouse demonstrating that In
places where only a few years agC
prairie dogs and Jack rabbits were
the only denizens. there are now
thousands Of prosperous empire build
ers and public buildings of a substane
tial nature.
3. Picking cantaloupes on the farm
of Carl Mueller, demonstrating that
the desert can be turned into farms
producing abundantly. This farm
shipped 500 crates OF melons last
year from land that a few years ago
wasn't deemed worth ten cents an
acre. This year. on this farm there
are a. acres in c~antaloupes. yielding
$50 crates to the acre. Water for
Irrigation is furnished by a motor
driven pumping plant on the farm.
This one picture alone will bring into
Roosevelt county hundreds OF pros
porous farmers willing to pay douole
what land now commands and repay
ing the country n thousandfold the
appropriation Il made to advertise it,
self At san Diego.
4. BalinR alfalfa on the farm OF
J. u. Priddy. the water being furnish
ed By a m6tor-driyen pumping plant
on the farm. II shows wildly how
soil and energy arc turned into doll
lars In New Mexico's dry farming
sections.
3. Picture OF the well on the Con-.
verse farm showing construction
work just being completed and in
background land prepared for alfalfa.
The well throws 1850 gallons per
minute and the picture shows the
amount OF time required from the
time the former opens the starter box
10 turn the current into the motor UNI
Ill "A fun stream Of water Ii obtained
cut OF the pipe.
6. Picture showing one OF the two
150--horsepOwer horizontal gas en-
gines In the central generating sta
ton Of the Portales Power and lrri-
cation company. This power plant
distributes electrical current over IS
miles OF transmission hnes and II now
handling about IS TO so directly con
nected pumping plants. The plant has
capacity for $4,000 acres and the
average pumping lift II only 35 feet
including draw down. This Is the
largest gas producer gas engine in
stailation in the world exclusively
handling irrigation By pumping.
Z. Forty-acre farm OF Or. Bailey
In the foreground. The marvellous
growth Of an crops, practically hiding
the house, Is shown. There Is am
other farm scene IN the back ground,
the crops being kafir aud Indian
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falfa, sweet potatoes. Cantaloupe and
melons. the crops in the fore
ground growing between young or
chard trees.
8. View OF another motor-driven
we'll, illustrating the amount of time
required for starting up. This well
throws between 1909 and 1900 gal
Ions OF water por minute. All the
water In the Portales valley In clear
and pure and good to taste.
>, View of buchanan brothers
place, showing alfalfa seeded last
year In the foreground; feed crops In
the distance; buildings and orchard
on the right with Intensive crops be-
tween the trees. consisting of sweet
potatoes. cantaloupes, onions, sugar
bcets and garden truck.
10. Picture OF the handsome Por-
tales railroad station and the busy
traffic employees. All the express and
refrigerator trains from the Pacific
coast to the east a here, includ-
ing tho fastest transcontinental train
In America from Chicago TO Los An
geles and san Francisco.
OF course. the county that misses
this unparalleled opportunity To ad-
vortise itself Is certain 90 fall behind
the next decade or i've as compared
with the counties n Roosevelt
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