Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-05-15
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'""""ourfS VIII rcuilLe iron
$i5 to $23 an acre net. and withou
taking any part in the work per
sonally. Expenses and profits ar,
TAX. from common fund.
TWENTY-FIVE WELLS
When the Deming Ice and Electri,
Company completes the work nov
under way, the Miesse companies will
have twenty-five wells in operation
of course, several of these wells have
already been extensively pumped. and
II Is a matter of record that they are
producing more water now than when
they were brought in. The last well
to be tested is equipped with 60
ID. p. Rumely engine and an American
centrifugal pump, which will produce
at least 1000 gallons of water II
minute and which can be pushed on
occasion. to $500 gallons n minute.
ADEQUATE FENCING
The fields, under cultivation, are
being protected with rabbit tight wire
and bob-wire. Four sections win be
enclosed with this fence by the end
Of this week.
SEEDING ALFALFA
1t is II novel sight to see the
squadrons of horses and small army
of workmen in the fields. The soil is
first disced by the tractors. drawing
gangs of disc plows. When the plow-
ing is completed in one direction the
plows are turned and the fields disced
in the cross direction. The
horses and mules. six abreast, then
go in with the harrows and over the
fields once, and give place to the
tractors again for an additional
discing. The narrowing and lcveling
is then completed, leaving the soil as
fine as in garden. and so level that
when the water is turned in il spreads
in every direction over the flat. level
surface. The checks are next laid
of, the borders thrown up. bitches
made, and the seeding done with B.
row drills which place the seed well
down and near the moisture. The
water is then literally applied. The
men who do this work are paid mp
proyimately $4,000 n month. aud they
earn il.
BTMPER CROPS
The estimate on the cost of pro-
ducing the crops for the absentee
holders furnished by r. II. ID. |
Thompson, who has the irrigaiing in
hand, will be materially lowered. it |
is said. Indications ARE that a
bumper crop will be- raised. Large
profits from the first year on irrigat-
I'd land is something of novelty.
but Mr.. Bailey declares that their en-
pectations will be fully realized. +. |
II. and Hiram Harris. who have
charge of the mule teams, declare
that they have worked on many ir-
rigation projects, but that this heats |
hem all, and that they will, them
selves. purchase land.
BUILDING HOUSES
BESIDES the work on the land and
N the TOWNSHIP of Mics,c. there is
improvement by owners
now on the land. George Longest
and Caliph Longest have each built
|, new bungalow; Dell Feldirchner is
now building; and Harlan Weeks. W.
II. Waggoner, and II. II. Beehtol will
begin const ruction in n short time.
ONE MORE CONVERT
T.. A. Riser of Columbus Grove.
Ohio, was in the city the early part
If the week and purchased eighty
,cres on the Southwestern tract. He
will make his home here in the near
future. Mr.. Riser told represen-
ative of the Graphic that he came
o the Mimbres Valley prejudiced
against the country. but that he was
low convinced that the form If ir-
.igation practiced here would soon
its superiority over
very other method. He maintains
hat such q combination Of excellent
Ind abundant water, uniformly good
,oil, agreeable climatic conditions,
and transportation facilities,
will make the Mimbres Valley one of