El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-19

Continued f
visitors made automobile trips 20
nearby gardens and farms: many Of
friends II seemed all too short =
time when TWO hours later the an
aboard Of the conductor notiIled
everybody that the locomotive was
putting 10 be on its way up the nils
TO Hurley. Santa Rita and Silver City
Reach Deming Nearly on Time.
Though the train got out of II P2so
four minutes late, il reached Demlng
almost on time, carrying several OF the
DeminE citizens as guests TO Hurley.
santa Rita and Silver City J. F Wad-
dell was &c conductor and Schneiiey
the engineer. II. N. Blaim was brake
man and y. H. Holman and T T. Smith
were in charge of the baggage car
Holt Welcomes FL PasOans-
After the Fl PasOans marched up
town. Willard +. Holt delivered the
address Of welcome. asserting that
DeminC is growing with FL Paso and
that the EI PaSoans were always vel
come
Last year We canned half million
cans of tomatoes ne said, and Fl
Paso ate half OF them This year we
are going to can a million and We ex-
pect FL Paso to eat ali of them We
welcome the people Of one of the most
progressive cities in the country to an
other of its most progressive cities
We are always glad TO shake your
hands. even if You did take the Perish
ing celebration away from US, when We
were entitled TO it
Martin Responds.
G. A. Martin, on behalf OF the ~
Pasoans. responded. stating that FL
Paso was extending the glad hand TO
all its neiEhbors. none Of whom mad a
warmer place in its heart than those
of Deming.
He said FL Paso did not work for the
New Mexico celebration, but gladly ex-
tended a welcome and cooperation 10
the New Mexicans, as it always does
10 all its neighbors. when they come TO
El Psso with their celebration
DeminS People -HOme Folks
He closed by inviting the Deming
people TO remember always that they
We're not strangers, but home folks
when they came TO FL Paso-
After the ceremonies, the III PaSoans
ana the band marched up TO the home
Of ex-mayor John Corbett, who is ILL.,
and serenaded him
At Hurley After Lunch.
Lunch was over when the FL PasO-
ans reached Hurley. which is on a (
branch line that leaves the Silver City /
branch at Whitewater Hurley was put I
on the map by the Chino Copper COM l
pany. when It erected big concen- !
traitor for crushing the tons OF low 1
grade copper ores taken out of the I
mountains At Santa Rita offices !
homes for employees and other build 4
lIf2S make up t4AlG q tDNN H. q - pa
mining town Everybody was at the
train, glad TO see the FL PasOans. and.
as at Deming. the Sixth infantry band
and its music made hit FL Psso-
ans and Hurley people tauSoed at the
depot and everybody got into the spirit
Of the big excursion. which is good
viii. jollity and friendliness-
Santa Rita. Wonder Town
From Hurley the locomotive puffed
10 the hill to santa Rita. a picturesque
mining settlement in the midst OF
great SCARED mountains where steam
shovels have scraped off the earth and
its ore contents and sent them down
to Hurley for treatment Santa Rita
is. like Hurley. principally on the map
because of the activities of the Dig
copper company. 1t is modern IN
every respect. The buildings are all up
to date, lighted by electricity and most
Of them heated by steam Hundreds OF I
miners. trainmen and mechanics are
employed here, to say nothing OF the
official force maintained by general
manager John y. Sully, the mayor !
nd general --jefe" of the place stores
many times the size of Santa Rita
are TO be found here, stores where you
can buy everything. from nickefs
worth OF chewing gum 10 dress SUIT
Warm Greeting.
The FL Pasoans got the usual warm
greeting from the Santa Rita people
everybody who could get away being
AZ the depot NHEu lllE Tram SltdlAiEu
into the town. the whistle footing and
The band blarinE . popular air The
mining, OF course, was OF most m
terest to those bent upon sightseeing
and many hurried away Immediately TO
watch the big shovels at their work of
changing the face of the country. This
is the only steam shovel mining prop
osition in the entire southwest and
the ore could not be mined profitably
under ordinary prices We're il not pos .
sibls to do it with these big shovels.
which are run about from place 10
place on railway tracks. There are
miles and miles of railway trackage J
throughout the section owned by the
Chino company, now being operated
upon
Only half an hour was allowed By
the train schedule for the visit here. 3
and the visiting had TO be done hur- {
-iedly SO the train could get back down !
he mountain to Whitewater and Up
he rest Of the way to Silver City at
80. where the evening IS to be spent 7
Leaving Silver City tonight at IL / J.
o'clock, the special comes back TO Dem =
ng then proceeds west to Lordsburg. !
where the Arizona and New Mexico
DAD VIII pick W the Pullmans Tues -
lay morning. the beautiful cottonwood =
grove at Duncan is to greet US for
breakfast. as the train is due there at 4.
go. Tor half an hours stay. Everybody
Ein be digging into grape fruit about G
hat time, II past precedents are fol- !.
owed, for Duncan usually is reached =
While everybody is eating, and it is Al
Inc TO look out of the window at -
ne bis, cottonwoods and see the people +
ONE down to meet the train The -
arly risers and the late ones-those 7
Tho have eaten or who have not vet l.
cached the dining car-exchange
-reetings with the Duncanites while
he others finish eating; then. they
90, go out and say good morning I M
nd the day is begun -
The day viii be spent al Morenci and ! u
'lifton. l.
Uniform Caps Hit L.
ne UNIFORM orange and yellow cans L
Z the boosters make q nifty, nattv C
ppearance, and already they are be u
rs sought after and some of the
Dung members Of the party are go Il
lg 10 be out several dollars If they f.
ompiy with every request for a cap ( N
$ a souvenir. IS il will cost a man q l.
oliar every time he calls for a new
ap al. the baggage car The excur
ionlsts also wear orange ribbon
aoSes and the EOrarians have an ad-
i