The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-23
No. Ss
PLANTING ORCHARD UN.
DER IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Reservoir Containing Five So.
Miles Holds Water From
$500 Gallon Well.

in the future Of this section of
the Southwest by the investment
of much cash, and time. and
thought-for its dovelopement
is the well known Oil Capitalist.
l.. VI. Stiles, who came from the
successful Caddo Oil properties
in Louisiana TO New Mexico.
where irrigation Is now absor-
bing much of his attention.
just a mile from the Inter-
national line Mr.. Stiles has cree
ted an irrigation plant which
can be expanded until thousands
of acres Of land now given over
10 mesquite and cacti can be
made 10 bloom as the rose"
A great pumping station and
reservoir are but part Of the
engineering feats accomplished
by Mr.. Stiles and his able assis.
tants which include Mr.. l.. VI.
Carl, engineer of construction.
and Mr.. Arthur Poole. superin-
tendent. with Mr.. Wilcox 10 help
on the great game Of getting
the very best out Of the arid and
almost antagonistic region on
the edge Of the Mexican desert.
The pump draws thirty-five
hundred gallons a minute, and
the irrigation ditch is six miles
long at present. with arrange
ments making Il possible 10 cX-
tend the carriage of water 10
Arena with comparative ease.
The reservoir is over five
acres in extent. and now work
ing well. AT one time there
was trouble in making the water
hold. but this Mr.. Carl aflirms is
now corrected and the reservoir
a complete success.
Last summer. as n result 0f
the water system. feed stuff was
raised in good quantities. and
Of fine quality. Milo and corn
were among the crops. Water
melons and cantaloups and gar
den truck came TO perfection
also.
Now. a landscape gardner
from FL Paso is laying out five
acre orchard in which applos.
peaches, plums and pears will be
among the trees planted. and
grapes win be experimental
with.
Mn. Stiles has had five room
house built with celler and
porch-the later is 30 by Is feet
well screened. and a garage is
also in course Of construction.
with a store room connected
under the same roof; the total
Of both buildings being some
thing like fifty feet long bv
eighteen wide. An electric
plant furnishes light for the
house and offices" and water
is piped into the house.
There is said 10 be much
money invested in the improve
ments Mr.. Stiles has Inaugural
ted, and Tots more where that
expended came from" II is
= cheering 10 see faith in a new
land Of the strength that makes
. eastern capitalists willing TO
sink vast sums in a project for
the future good of a section.
This irrigation plant with It's
? attractive gardens and orchards
about il will doubtless be fore
runner of large system Of
irrigation in Luna County MIR.
% Carl saws abundant water can be
Z secured AT shallow depth and
the plant as il is now operated
% can get water, enough for culti-
Z avtion, for from ten TO fifteen
thousand acres Of land. One
! well Of the capacity Of the one
Y now gushing so abundantly can
!. irrigate a thousand acres to the
i point of luxurious vegetation.
j. Mr.. Stiles is one Of the men
$ who benefit a communitv nv nut.
G ting money into circulation,
J. some months his pay roll reaches
n the comfortable figure for the
d employees Of eight hundred dol,
o lars-never il is st'ted are the
n figures less than five hundred
dollars, and all the money circu.
lates right here at home. Ma,
/, more Eastern men follow thu
:, example of the promoters or
y. the irrigation scheme.