Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-14
MIDWEST TOWN
FOR GUARD CAMP
DEMING, N. NJ, TYPICAL OF FROM
TIER DAYS NOW
PASSING.
GUN PLAY BY coW5oys
rs NOT iNFREoUENT
Sun Shines Nearly Every Day Of Year
Days Hot, Nights cooI-camp Site
10 In Sunbaked Desert Near Town
Of 1000, Hall Of Whom Are Mexlcans
Water and Rattlesnakes Abundant
Special to metropolitan.

Special to Times Republican.
Washington. July 1.-THE following
picture story Of Deming. n. NJ, where
the Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and
North and South Dakota national
guardmen will camp before their dis
patch to the fighting front in France
was procured today from one of the
most observing correspondents among
Washington newspaper men, VINO
served with the newspaper men when
the state troops and the regulars were
on the border last year and early TINS
year:
AT Dening the Iowa and other
states assigned there will have one OF
the finest training camps in the coun
try. Dramatically and physically the
camp is as near perfect as any place
in the United States.
1.-The little town of Deming lies on a
broad plateau about 5000 feet above
sea level Off to the north the Santa
Rita Mountains rise about 5000 feet
above the plains.
The climate is the most equable OF
shines nearly every day in the year
last year there were only thirty cloudy
days, There is scarcely any rainfall
The so-called rainy season comes in
July and August. For a few days 1t
rains in torrents.
During the summer the temperature
rises as high as 120. but owing to the
dry air it is less uncomfortable than
an Iowa sizzler The nights are de-
lightful. AS soon as the sun goes
down, the cool breezes begin to blow
off the desert
Camp In Sum- Baked Desert.
"The camp all lies off to the north Of
The town on the hard, sun-baked des-
crt. For miles in every direction the
nat desert stretches off, covered with
Stunted mesquite bushes and cactus
and inhabited by big jack-rabbits, coy
totes, horned toads and tarantulas. On
,tfne mountain sides there are plenty OF
k1attlesnakes.
'Only thirty-fiv miles south is Co
nmbus, the town raided by Villa on
the border line Sightseers are still
Ahnwn the ruins of the buildings
burned by the Mexican bandit.
! 'Deming Is a typical wild-western
lAown. The cowboys from the outlying
branches, dressed in the approved boots,
ehaps' and scmbreros, ride into town
And leave their ponies standing in the
tBtreets in front of the bar rooms. And
Frequently there Is gun -play-just as
IN the movies.
aIn population. about one half Of the
1000 are Mexicans. One OF the sights
tof the city Is the mud jail where six
!Nillistas were hanged last June after
tPershing had captured them in the in
lterior of Mexico.
Many Of the houses Of the little
4own are Of adobe-mud bricks.
Water Supply Abundant.
"The water supply Of the town is
famous thruout the southwest. 1t
fbubbles UP from artesian wells, and is
fused to irrigate the little farms lying
Iaround the town.
Not far north Of the town there are
levidences of the ancient cliff jewellers.
VA little industrious digging will usually
tunearth skeletons and implements OF
These prehistoric people
THE principal occupation of the res
idents is ranching and mining. Huge
tdeposits OF silver and lead are mined
In the mountains around Demins.
There also are sand storms, but
zone of these must be experienced to be
Thoroughly appreciated"