Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25

high-pressure production and steady
carefully planned profits in order to
make his payments for water, power
and what not
Douglas and the Sulphur Springs
valley offer to the farmer something
different. Here is the finest land to
be found anywhere with a 365-day
growing season every year, with two
or three killing froSts out of the IL
months of the year, with enough
rain for one crop annually and with
sufficient water just beneath the sur
face of the soil to produce swamp
rice if anyone cared to grow 1t.
This land, with the IL months
annual growing season, and the linn
itless supply of water, is offered at
prices ranging from $5 to $40 an
acre and in many cases these prices
are for land that is cleared, fenced,
ploughed, supplied with wells and
! pumps and with farm buildings and
farm machinery.
/ If the land is raw, the way God
made it, the cost of clearing 1t Is
of no consequence. An ak or pair
of railroad rails and tractor will
clear 160-acre ranch in week or
10 days. There is nothing that must
be blasted out. The mesquites have
big roots, but the soil is so loose
that they pull out of the ground
when little pressure is exerted and
when the mesquite is gone a plough
does the rest and the land is ready
to plant
IN order to level the fields in the
Sulphur Springs valley so that they
can be properly irrigated one needs
only a good heavy grader, withwhich
| to bank a little dirt after ploughing
as one may purchase thousands Of
acres with just the proper pitch from
level to make irrigation conditions
perfect without any work whatsoever.
] A well can be secured for an out
lay of not more than $500. This well
may be dug of. drilled but the dug
wells are probably the best, although
good results are secured with drilled
wells. pump may be secured, for
the very deepest water that can be
| found in the very poorest section OF
the valley, for much under $1,000.
This means a 100O-gallon pump. 1t
is considered that a 1000-gallon pump
! is altogether adequate for the ordi-
nary purposes of irrigation for reg
ular 16O-acre farm as all the crops
will not need water at the same time
and there will be many seasons when
not all of the land will be in crop,
while many ordinary ranches devote
number of acres to pasture all the
| time, thus reducing the amount on
which water needs to be turned.
There is at the present time no
valley, which cuts down assessments
/, to the regularly constituted taxes
that one must pay everywhere. This
also means that water and power
must be produced with the gas or
crude oil engine and there are many
farmers in this valley who are get
ting satisfactory results with that
method. One may purchase new
/ gas or oil engine or, what is cheaper
! and serves the same purpose, is to
| motor into one Of the areas in the
central part Of the state where elec-
trio power is used for pumping and
/ there purchase a secondhand engine,
Many are to be found in those areas,
which are practically as good as new
and which, in one way at least, are
better than a new engine. The very
fact that they are to be found on the
/ ground where they were operated
perhaps for several years is an indi-
cation that they were considered good
pumping engines by the farmers who
used them there before electric power
came.
| Douglas and Bisbee spend annually
more than $S,OOO,o0O for hay and
grain and produce which is shipped
into this district from outside. This
means that a farmer starting to farm
in the Sulphur Springs valley would
have to raise more than $5OO,OOO
worth of alfalfa hay annually before
there would be any chance of flood
ing the local market. This is just
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