El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-12

, palms as big around as a hoSsHedtt
that have been planted within the 49,
generation. The big trees on TINS e $50
are numbered by the hundreds OF o nQod
sands and they have all been pIanleu
since 1884, which was the time WheH
Don Salvador began to turn ms an
cestors grain and dairy farm lhto q
nursery. Some of these trees are Ia Sl.sIo
solely for wood, and there are 4LIie
forests of eucalyptus containing th4u-
sands of individual trees that are Pc
ing grown for this purpose. some "a
these trees are only a year or SO Wv.
while others are from IS to lou Iee'
high.
LOmbardy POpIars 100 Feet High.
Around the large fields making up
the plantation are rows OF LomDatuy
poplars 100 feet high. These are ny
fences Of the estate, and they mahe
walls of green Of wonderful beautg'
They often follow the irrigation often
es making a double row OF these
trees, walling the orchard or pas
lures within. The rows of poplars aIe
often $50 feet high, and that although
they are only 16 years old. Ihe GUS
tom of using them for fences ana 70
mark out the boundary lines IS COM
mon throughout the central valley 'oI
Chile This adds greatly to the beauty
of the country. It changes the race OF
the landscape and makes it look great
ly like the farming regions of france,
II is safe to say that the country haS 7
This great estate is divided by such
trees into sections. Some are deVoleo
to grain, some to vegetable ana Irult
growing, and others to the raising OF
plants. flowers and trees like our large
nurseries at home. Going onward, We
are soon in the nursery part Of the
estate. We pass rapidly from one great
tTee-walled enclosure to another, RIO
ing on the railway.
There are so many separate planta-
items, and the varieties are so differ
emit that I cannot describe them. Don
Salvador tells me that altogether ne
has 10000 different species OF trees
on the farm. He sells half million
eucalyptus trees every year, and re-
ceiVes single orders for as many as
10000 trees at one time. He has one
plantation of citrOus trees III their
various stages of cultivation, and here
YOU may see oranges, lemons and grape
fruit of every variety. He has long
lines of pOplars from stock that came
from South Carolina, and in one OF
the nurseries there are 10000 aca-
cias.
In another section we find 100000
peach trees ready for sale, and as we
pass this we come into acres of apple
trees, ranging in size from mere
sprouts to almost as high as our heads
There are 10000 apple trees in this
field, and they are twice as tall and as
thrifty as trees Of the same age in our
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made of Don Salvador and myself as
we stood in the nursery to show the
height of the trees.
Where Cypress Trees Grow.
Our next visit is to plot containing
15D, 900 cypress trees. These were
planted out only a few days ago, and
they are now about as long as my
finger. I pick up a bunch out of the
plot and count them. I have 81 trees
in my hand, each of which is an ever
green that will soon be decorating
some lawn of Argentina or Chile
These trees are raised under great
tents of brush or arbors, with brush
spread over them. They make me
think of the tobacco tents in the states
a little farther on is a plot of palm
trees that contains 100000. Farther
still are oranges, lemons and figs, and
other semi tropical fruits.
Taking the car, we ride to the floral
part Of the establishment. There are
more than y miles of railroad on the
estate, and we can go rapidly from
one place to another. The flowers are
variety of the temperate and tropical
zones. There are great lighthouses con-
tanning thousands of orchids and in
one section are 10000 rose trees. in
Guiding more than 1900 varieties. There
are also vast beds of lotuses and water
lilies, and near them are groves Of
persimmOns, which Don Salvador is IN
Producing into Chile. He has 40 varie
Japan, Korea and China, and he ex-
poets to make the Asiatic persimmon
as popular in Chile as it is now in the
states.
During my stay I visited the packing
establishments where fruit and vega
tables are put up I might almost say
by the ton. The hacienda has great
cement warehouses equipped with the
most modern machinery for drying,
preserving and canning. It has great
buildings filled with tin plates made
by the steel trust of the United States
and brought here for the purpose. The
cans are made in the factory by ma
chimes run by electricity and managed
by Chileno men, women and children.
The peaches are peeled by a machine
that does the work OF $50 women, and
all Of the fruit and vegetables are
cooked by steam in the cans. The fac
tory can make 10000 cans in a day
and it ships its product away by the
carload.
In connection with the canning I
want to tell you about the vegetables
and the fruit in the fields I visited one
section where ninety acres of vege-
tables were ready for the factory.
There were great sections of ripe, red
tomatoes, long rows of green beans and
are enormous quantity of sweet corn.
From there I went to the peach or
chards, which now have $4,000 trees
loaded with ripe fruit. The trees are