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Rio Grande Valley Bank and Trust
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EL PASO, TEXAS.
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Ice Cream? Of Course!
SMITH'S, The Good Kind. Take home a pint and be con
vinccd. Saturday and Sunday, at the
GEM RESTAURANT
Meals at all hours. Fresh bread. Candies. Tobacco.
Cold drinks.
R. J. HARRINGTON, Prop.
A Trip to Ike Coostry
Cnnllnmnl from Pnc 1.
In
A FINE LINE OF
General Merchandise
Toilet Articles and Sundries.
Ladies Furnishings a Specialty.
We have a nice stock of Staple
and Fancy Groceries. Fresh Veg
etables always cn hand.
G G G Store
'Good Graded Goods.'
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We Have A New Buggy
And you may just as well have one too. We will sell it
to you so cheap you can't afford to walk.
We can also furnish anything you need in the line of
Hardware, Furniture & Gents Furnishings
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Columbus Outfiting Co.
B. . Sisco
You have not read all the News in this
paper until you have read the "Ads."
ington vectlojil type, centrifugal
pump, and in jerking out enough
j water to irrigate twenty acres.
The water now stands about ten
I feet in this well. This fall he ex
ipects to extend the depth until
he gets a thousand gallon flow.
Mr. Durham is doing some exten
sive experimental farming thin
ycar; has a Hue, large garden,
nKnlfa and forage crops, and is
planting several acres in buans.
btanding in Mr. Durham n
door yard one can loolc across
j northwest and see the windmills
of W. D. Close and Mrs. W. S.Le
I Baron, who each have nice wells
on there respective- homesteads,
(furnishing an abundant supply
' fur domestic purX)ses and small
'irrigation.
Just west or Mr. Durham lives
N. B. Hampton who has also dug
a well, four by six feet, to the
tirst stratum of water which was
reached at a depth of forty feet.
Mr. Hampton has an eleven h. p.
Fooa engine and a No. -i horizon
tal centrifugal pump, which is
supplying .-uflicient water to ir
rigate twenty aorus. He has a
line Held of ulfulfa planted about
ifour weeks ago which is now
some eight or ten Inches high.
Other crops planted are showing
n fine growth.
Southeast of Mr. Durham's a
bout one mile, we passed the
homestead of S. K. Hunt, who is
also making big improvements.
He has a two story house; a fine
well ovur which he is now install
ing an excellent pumping plant;
lias six acres in orchard, bun ring
fruit this year; a nice Held of al
falfa and other growing crops.
0. S. Gibson who lives about
itwound uhalf miles northwest of
the new school house is now put
jting down a first class well. At
present he has a supply of some
5100 hundred gallons a minute,
the water coming up within
twenty-five feet of the surface
But not satisfied with this he is
still drilling, and will continue
going down until he gets at least
I, 000 gallons nor minute. Ho
now has a twenty-five horsepow
er engine and a six inch centri
1 ugal pump installed.
Adjoining Mr. Durham on the
astisfcho claim belonging to Mrs.
I I. T. Carson -a beautiful piece of
level land, practically ready for
irrigation in its virgin stato, and
with a tip top well of water on It
which is being used to irrigate u
large garden and small aurengu
tract,
R. A. Carolook, living In the
same vicinity has a good well al
so, but is making preporations to
drill for more water.
About two miles east of the
new school house is the home of
Chas. Heath, who, together with
his estimable wife and daughter
came here from New Yo-k City.
The Heaths are very enthusiastic
regarding the future of tills part
of the valley, nod have u country
homo that for beauty, good chiv r
and genuine hospitality challen
ges comparison.
The buildings are all well con
structed showing they were
not put there for "a' day only."
And the quaint little bungalow is
as cool and cozy within as it is
romantic in its outward appear
ance. Just south of tho house is
a fine young orchard which is as
green and thrifty as is to be
found anywhere. Quite a scope
is devoted to tho raising b.f gar
den truck, of which they have
sold a considerable amount in the
local market this sumtnev. Lead
ing from the house is a nice ar
bor, the grape tines entwining a
round the trellis in thick mats,
and from which hang numerous
bunches of the ripening luscious
fruit. Out in the barnyard are
to be found chickens galor , vhile
the bosom of tho beautiful lagoon,
just cast of the house is covered
all day long with the downy duck
lings disporting themselves in
the clear, pure water, while tho
"landlubber" chickens ohase
bugs and grasshoppers in the
Bermuda grass growing along
the banks.
Mr, Heath was formerly a Wtdl
Streefc business man, bub he says
tho Empire BUte has no more at
tractions for him. He has alfal
fa which has already been cut
three times this year, ami the
fat, sieok condition of his horis
bear testimony to tho nutrition
quality of tho product.
Taken altogether, this is cer
tainly ono of the beautiful sec
tiois of the valley, and those
holding land in this vicinity
should certainly be proud of thoir
acquirements. Many others of
this section are making just as
valuable and attractive improve
ments as those herein mentioned.
There is so much of it, wo simply
didn't have time to visit it all.
