Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-07-06
Espee VIII Advertise LOrdsburg
Agent Graham Prepares Publicity
Thompson Canyon Scenes Included

out and won the struggle in the Okla
homa oil fields and who assured the
writer that the indications were equal
in some respects, indeed superior, to
the surface indications that afterward
proved the wealth of the oil fields of
Oklahoma, and this field is only lit
tie over three miles from this town,
and has the immense advantage of be-
ing close to the S. P. lines and within
hail of this distribution point
STEMS Pass
Within a short run of this division
is Stems Pass, a mining center where
an important ore and supply shipping
business is done, and where the pros
pector works srom the boundary of a
rich and paying mine. II is grow
ing town with citizens who are prov
ing the worth of the faith they have
had in the futue of their chosen field,
by the success of their mining and
commercial ventures.
One great advantage that makes
Lordsburg of such real Importance as
center that has for its surrounding
such wealth of mining, CONNER
cial and agricultural scope, and scenic
charm is the arrival each day in the
morning of splendidly appointed
train of the Arizona & New Mexico
line, which meeting the convenient
trains of the Southern Pacific, leaves
on its return journey in the afternoon
for the Arizona border.
Duncan the first stop of Importance,
n beautiful little town, embowered in
trees, and proving in its pretty farms
the extent of the wealth that intensive
cultivation as practiced by the skilled
and Industrious Mormon farmers can
produce and holding out to the ranch
man the opportunity of still acquiring
land of the utmost agricultural pro-
mise, and still on through this fertile
region, to where the immense mining
properties and their great dependent
towns of Clifton and Morenci invite
the wonder and astonishment of the
visitor, and the active participation of
the American hustlng business man.
ThompsOn's Canyon
From Lordsburg, within the dis
tauce of few miles is "Thompson's
Canyon While the canyon itself is
wonder of gloomy depth and with
walls precipitously sheer worthy of the
travellers regard. Within it's protect
ing walls were built the homes of a
mysterious race, the relics of whose
existence in the enduring dwellings,,
and the articles that were a part of
their domestic life.
Skilled in tire art of irrigation race
of long ago built their ditch and con-
veyed water to their farms, and at this
age as a proof of their knowledge of
irrigation, that ditch, plainly traced
from a short distance Of Lordsburg,
runs toward the canyon, and is pointed
to by modern professors of irrigation,
as the proof that the building of
great dam ab "Thompson's Canyon"
can be, and will be, an accomplished
fact, a source from where thousands
of farmers will procure the essential
factor in the growth of agricultural
wealth, on tens of thousands of acres
as fertile as the Nile region.
Forthe antiquary to visit this region
of ancient life, will be to find and
search among frequent evidences of a
civilization that however crude, still
shows signs of a domestic existence,
with much to recommend in simplicity
and in form of art that stamps it's
personality on the pottery and imple-
ments so readily found by the ex-
plorer.