El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-21
COOPERATION Gets BIC FACTORY
NORTHAMPTON FOR LAS CRUCES
Everybody Pulled Together When Things Looked PesSl-
mistic and the Result Was Assurance Of Factory
and It's Attendant Prosperity for the People OF the
valley-Big Event Celebrated in Big Way
BY G. A. MARTIN.

had charge OF the celebration Nednes-
dav we signed up TO plant a certain
number OF acres and We are Gu
10 do IL ON a business basis and believe
there Is money in 1t for Us; II some OF
the small farmers in the valley WISH 70
take some OF the acreage on our hdnu7'
they NAV; If not. we don care
What Cooperation Does
That Is the attitude OF everybody iii
Las Cruces. Everybody pulled together
and everybody worked hard w b.
Vaudeville. one OF the leading bankers
of las Cruces and among the Iorelnosi
citizens OF the valley originally loon
up the beet sugar project
All Las Cruces merchant, iaMNeI'
: doctor. saloon keeper and private GU
/ izen-rallied to the - o. = can, anu
there was d mass meeting the IKE ol
which the CITY had not seen m years
Politics were laid aside: 80 were Ousl-
ness iealousies- Competing bankers SAT
side by side: Republicans rubbed shoul-
ders with Democrats. even forEaye them
for their political beliefs for the time
: beino. and they got down to business
No Time Lost; Acreage Signed
There wasn't time TO 20 out among
the farmers and sign i've acres here
zen there and one. two and three acre
tracts in isolated localities ne men
IN Las Cruces owning or cohtrOtlh- piE
rracts were visited and before the COM
mittec had completed many hours OF
active work 1900 acres were signed
Only 1000 had been needed. II Is true
that many business men signed Tor
several hundred acres each. and they are
I'm earnest about it: they are reliable
mon and If they don't plant the beetS
or see that they are planted br some
one else thev are good Tor the money
The main idea Is to allow the farmers
Of the valley later to sign up small
parcels Of land. each parcel signed he
inc subtracted from the larger acreage
signed by some merchant or business
man. thus distributing the acreage over
the whol, valley and giving every body
some of IT, But If the farmers do not
care To- do this. the business men as
unit have the same idea as chairman
Holt they are willing TO plant the
acreage signed Tor as purely business
proposition and believe they VIII make
money. Sixty dollars an acre net Is the
smallest they figure any man viii
make. from that upwards In Cali
foruia they have many instances show
inc 500 an acre net 10 owners OF beet
sugar land who are planting beets IN
soil not as good As that of the Mesilla
valley
Not only Is this beet sugar factory
for Las Cruces going TO be big thing
for Las Cruces and the Mesilla val
lev hut II is going 70 benefit the Fl
r.iso valley farmers said s r. Suther-
land THE factory is going TO absorb
the freight charges on heets from any
point in the valley and ceets can be
sold n El Faso as readily as at Las
9 Cruces As soon AS the acreage Is
large enough another factory VIII
surely result for FL Paso. but At pres
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care or IL all"
There is stiH another feature to the
growing of heetS said OTIS Coles,
OF TT paso- W no has watched with IN
terest the. activities OF the Las cruces
ueu. and has been working among the
Fl Paso valley farmers "a have them
sign up a certain acreage IN beets-
This feature. and a big one Is the re-
lation of beet growing TO the land
ReetS are one Of the greatest veGe-
tables known for dra wing alSaG out
Of the soil. There is some alkali land
! trat is not fit for alfalfa this. I an
told. viii make good sugar beet land
and in a short time. the heets VIII
/ leave IL rich and sweet and free from
any dana EinC chemicals
4 Help To FL Paso.
T. 3 Orndorff, president of the Il
{ Paso cham Der Of commerce as he eN-
pressed himself at Las Cruces We'd
nesday in responding 10 mayor Nays
address Of welcome. sees nm the beet
sugar industry Of the upper valley, a
renewed asset TO Fl Paso. i'm that II
strengthens the closely trade territory
Of this city What benefits Las
Cruces benefits Fl Psso." said Mr.
Orndorff we are neighbors, SO
closely allied that Las Cruces cannot
! prosper without rejecting its pros
ueritv I'm the marts of trade i'm El Paso-
Every new crop that is introduced into
the valley and makes money for
the farmers and business men OF
d the valley. reflects their prosperity in
I the general welfare of the cOmmunitT.
Everybody from Doua Ana county who
g could muster a mule and a wagon or
. an automobile or reach the train.
q poured into the county seat Wednes-
: dav morning over three score II
d Pasoans went up in q special car on
the Santa Fe morning train and almost
as many kept the dust boiling behind
their automobiles as they motored
! from the Pass City to the city OF
; Crosses
The Days Program
Once inside the fair grounds. chair
man Holt took the platform and the
] ceremonies were begun without any