Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-02

lively to befricnd the farm
or ~ in the Mimbres Valley
Imagine what comfort il must he
10 do your farming in region where
you never have to worry about how
long il will be before II rains. nor
tramp about in the mud aiterward.
~ the annual rainfall does not cX-
coed eight inches, there is generous
margin left for sunshine. Instead of
praying for rain. and then curslng
his luck because it doesn't come, the
New Mexican farmer strollS over to
hi, artesian well and sets the pump
a-soine. From the viewpoint Of
health il would he hard to improve
non the climate of the Mlmbrc>
valley. on, for that matter at ANY
other portion of New Mexico. H.
elevation of 1900 feet, taken with
the fact that il i in the same Iati-
tudc H. Algeria aud Japan and
~oulhernmost California, giving II
summers which are hot without being
humid or oppressive, and winters
which are never uncomfortable cold
Like their ncighbors in other part,
Of the Southwest. the farmers IN the
NImhrce valley have gone daft over
alfalfa. 10 me- might Il well
admit ii lrankly--onc patch of alt
alta look, exactly like another and
they all look extremely unintcrcsling,
hut | suppose that if they wcr" net
ting me from fifty to srvcnty-livc
dollars an acre year, a. they are
their owners. | would take II more
lively interest in them never ar
rived ut town in New Mexico.
dirty. hungry and tired, but that
there was group of eager boosters
awaiting me at the station with u
du>t.coycrcd automobile. Jump
right in they would say. 1--WE have
am alfalfa field over here that We
want Ia show YOU. lt'> only about
thirty miles acro>, the desert and
wen get you back back before the
hotel dinm. room i. closed They're
~ enthusiastic about Il patch of alt
alta in New Mexico n the Eskimos
of Labrador are about a stranded
whale.
If you have I'm idea that YOU would
ike lo he hardy fronlicrNman and
wear broad brimmrd hat and be
come the owner of u ranch some
where in that region which lies bet
wrcu the ella and the PccoS. il were
well Ia disabu~r Yourself of several
erroneous impressions which seem to
prevail about life along the McYican
border. IN the first place. you can
dress lust ~ much like the ranch
men whom You have .ccu depicted OF
moving picture screens ~ Won wish
,o- ilcrcy chapurrcro> and . horse
hair hal-baud and u pair of spur
that sound like an approaching iom.
m-hUnd, and all the rest Of the
paraphcruila-ior they are u lolrr-
ant folk. are the New McNIcuu~. and
have become accustomed Ia all sort
Of queer doiug~ by newcomers. H.
many RESPECTS they are the polilr>t
people that ! know When wa,
bon New Mexico carried cane. and
uu one even smilcd. But the new
conner mast not imagine that he can
ride madIy across the ranges, 1T len Il
IN th" vicinity of the towns. for he
j. more likely than not 10 BE- hauled
Gp before Justice of the peace and
lined for trcpa->iug on someone,
alfalfa field or cabbage patch. lCah-
bagc>, though drradiully pro,aic. are
''' w., 'V,' P'v"''''' crop W"
''' 80" ~ ~" "'N''" '"'; pay
dollars an acre. And the intending
rauchrr must make up hi mind that
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