El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-28
New Mexico Flowers As Fine As CALIFORNIA;
Southwest VIII Basoms FL2vsrlaad Of Nation
Southwest

ct OR all the talk Of the beautiful
flowers of California, there are
none that are more beautiful
than those OF New Mexico said J
ThornhilL Especially are such flowers
as the carnation and chrysanthemum,
which come from the hot houses Of Al
buquerQue, superior 10 any like flowers
that come into FL Paso from the coast
A time is not distant when this great
southwest VIII be one OF the Hover
lands Of America just as southern
France is the nowerland Of Europe"
I like to sit on the front porch and
watch them and wonder who's fool
enough 10 try to ciimD them. out as for
hanging on by my finger nails and toe
nails to small Lodges Of rocks, nothing
doing said ". Lightbourn. Now and
then 1 meet some people with mountain
climbing habits trying TO break
records and bones scaling peaks but
as for me I'll take my lunch in the
foot hills. The Franklin mountains
and the Juarez mountains look good
mighty good But God placed them
where they are and I'm going TO let
them remain just there
we want to 90 slow on this federal
census thing" said Park ". Pitman.
Just now our city IS filled with refu-
gees, but they will be going back be
fore long and then we viii not have
as many by 10000 or more. To show
a decrease or q failure 10 increase in
population viii be a detriment for FL
PasO, as II has been for other cities.
For instance, Omaha was hurt badly
by Just such a thing. In 1880 Omaha
had 3O,51S. In 1890 she had 40, 49, In
1900 this dropped to 102,555 and IN 1910
il had increased to only 1906 The
result was that Omaha received q black
eye from which she never recovered
and TO this day the blow has hurt
Omaha The men who sold real estate
and boosted up the census in 1880 had
either been run out or gone 10 congress
before the next census was made and
the result was Omaha has never been
able to catch up with that census. We
have plenty OF time 10 take a census
and it would be better for US to claim
$4,000 than 10 have an inflated census
made which we could not equal at the
next regular enumeration"
What has been done at the Medina
dam, near San Antonio, IN the way OF
creating q resort for fishermen, shows
the possibility OF our Elephant Butte
dam" said county auditor Roy D. Bar
mum During my recent trip TO Aus
tin and San Antonio I was taken out
TO the Medina dam by ". F. Milligen
OF San Antonio, for a fishing trip Our
party Of five found fishing good in the
lake and in the river above. We caught
mainly bass, but there are lots Of
perch trout and catfish in the lake In
going out the street within the city
was as rough as any Of our county
roads, but from the city limits to the
boundary line between Bexar and Ne
dina counties, we Travelled over a fine
stretch Of road. In Medina county we
struck bad roads again and they are
the worst I ever Travelled over. The
fishing and scenery, however, are well
worth the trip. The Medina dam i'm
pounds, I should judge, about one
third the water that the Elephant
Butte dam will impound completed
It is claimed that the project will irri-
gate all the land in the Medini valley
The Pearson interests. builders Of the
dam, have 200. 900 acres which they
plan to irrigate. The lake is % miles
long and covers 10000 square miles of
territory There are really two dams.
the second a smaller dam to impound
the waters that pass through the spill
ways Of the larger dam"
University Of Michigan alumni liv-
ing in FL Paso are justly proud of the
record they have made in leading all
cities in the United States in the
amount subscribed towards the 1000
000 Michigan building to be built at
Ann ArbOr," said justice J J. Murphy
Twenty four of the q alumni in FL
Paso subscribed the required amount