Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-06-19
DENVER POST WRITER TELLS
OF RAPID RISE OF DEFINING

wrote AN excellent article ON the
Rise of Demine IN Three Years"
hi,h hc said wa remarkable even
for the West. The following is the
Iiiclr:
The .pirii 81 Drming. which has
rr.a..d tn mesquite wastes with
. n'iNalrd frld aud which has
iiu formed the drcary railroad
ian, ton town inlu city in miniature,
81. nan & ted IN the progress made
lrrin. thr y'ar- that have followed
.i, crn,u, of 1910.
At that time there were 1854 in
hnhiInnl~ in the town. Now there
ARE ! 200. Then he taxable value Of
I'll the prnperiy in the county was
-, lj2 900 IN 1913 il had grown to
S9.9S3. 700 In Dcming in 1910 the
ASSESSED valuation was Sl3i,702.
Last year it had increased to ST.
$4,000 The postoffice receipts
jumped ia three years from S6,0Sl to
Sl2.SjS, ar 81 per cent in volume.
Graded county roads in 1910 had a
mileage of 3, while now this mileage
is 10. gain of more than 800 per
cent.
What j. true of the expansion of
the town is likewise true of the char
actrr of the physical improvements.
Several new business buildings of
handsome appearance aud of sub
stantial construction have been erect
ed in the last year, while numerous
bungalows of pretty design and mod
ern equipment grace the residence
sections.
4 syndicate headed by State Sen
ator Lauehren is developing tract
of 800 acres on the edge of the city
for small farms of from 10 TO 40
acres. Some of these have substan-
| tlal homclike cottages, others have
not. On all of them wells are sunk
and pumping equipment installed, so
that all the busy worker who covets
n bit of n farm needs do is move on,
without interference with his daily
routine of work.
When il comes to doing things in a
broad way, Dcming people seem to be
right on the job. At the beginning
of the year the chamber of commerce,
with which all the towns business
men are allied, decided to raise a
large fund 10 advertise the climate,
the unbounded supply of water and
The fertility of the soil Of the adj
cent country.
One property owner was called on
for II subscription, and he replied,
Get all YOU can and ! will add 10
per cent of the total subscription"
When the campaign was over. the
secretary of the chamber, Willard +.
Holt, informed the Topper center that
the subscriptions totaled $4,000.
IAN right" was the reply. 'lIere's
my 81 300
Last year the city authorities de-
cidcd Ia build n sanitary sewer sys-
TEN. IN the popular vote on the bond
is,ur of 100000, only five taxpayers
were in the negative. and this in spite
of the fact that only a short time be-
fore there had been unanimous vote
for $4,000 for high school. A
$50. ZOO county issue for courthouse
got through with only eight negative
votes.
Deming expects TO make great
Roadway rs Il distributing point for
the products of its farms through its
peculiarly advantageous railroad po-
siiion. Ii Is center from which ra-
date five railroad arms, belonging TO
three great systems.
The Santa Fe has one line to the
northwest, reaching the copper camps
around Santa Rita and the gold mines
of the Mogollon range. and another
To the northeast connecting with its
main north and south line. The
Southern Pacific bsects the county
from east TO west, penetrating re-
gion dependent upon Dcming for farm
products. while the III Paso & South
western has branch line running al
most due south Ia its main line. which
skirts the southern boundary of the
state.
All these lines serve Deming terri
tory, the city's only competitor being
Fl Paso, distant n hundred miles and
thus out of the radius of its farm
product trade.
BY actual count there are 400
farms in the underflow district al
ready Some of these have pitifully
small development, the result of i'm
pecunious settlers coming into a game
that calls for money, rs well as
brains and Drawn. The ability of this
class to wrestle with the problem will
he tested in year or two. but if they
draw lesson from Deming's rise
from frontier town into fast
growing city. they will conquer by
sheer will and then hardihood will