El Paso herald., June 29, 1912, Week-End Edition, Real Estate and Too Late To Classify, Image 13

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'PUREST WATER IN AMERICA3
This is the second advertisement of a series of
twelve advertisements, which together will present
a consecutive story of the forces that are building
the Deming country.
The items discussed in this series are: Water;
Soil; Climate; Railways and Markets; Educa
tional facilities; the chamber of commerce; Pump
ing system for irrigation; American population;
Land titles; high-priced produce; mining re
sources; stock-raising.
Water is, of course, the foundation of the pros
perity of all irrigated districts. The quality,
amount and accessibility of the water for irrigation
are factors of the first importance.
The rainfall in the Mimbres Valley is slight,
averaging for a period of twenty years only a little
above eight inches precipitation per year. This is
insufficient for even the dryest of dry farmers. The
months of greatest precipitation are July and
August, so that the little that does fall may be con
sidered only as supplementary to irrigation. Slight
rain fall, where water for irrigation may be ob-
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tained at all, has great, advantages. Farmers are
relieved at once from all danger of floods and
destructive hail storms. Alfalfa growers are
assured of good weather in which to cure the hay
crop. This is in itself a big item. It is very rare
that the Mimbres Valley alfalfa grower loses any
hay from wet weather. Again the farmer knows
just what he may count upon. He has absolute
control of his moisture. So the slight rainfall in
the valley proper is considered an asset.
The rainfalL is fortunately much heavier in
the surrounding mountain ranges from which the
valley derives its great underflow. Upon the vast
mountain watershed of the Mimbres river and the
Silver City draw (comprising some 1400 square
miles) the rainfall averages above twenty inches.
This precipitation is the real source of the great
"Purest Water in America."
Mimbres Valley underflow. Rushing down the
precipitous canyons of this great watershed, the
water finally debouches upon the valley and sinks
into the porous sand and gravel strata, and is con
ducted through these strata under the valley at
depths ranging from fifteen to 1 50 feet. Gravel
strata carrying a tremendous water-supply occur
much deeper, but those occurring within the first
150 feet are ample to supply wells pumping from
500 to 1 500 gallons of water per minute. Accord
ing to the estimates of competent engineers, the
Mimbres Valley underflow receives yearly acces
sions of 450,000 acre-feet of water, enough to
flood the entire irrigable area of the valley three
feet deep. But the sand and gravel strata under-
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lying the valley constitute a vast reservoir from
which the irrigator may draw at will and of suffi
cient capacity to irrigate the entire irrigable portion
of the valley for ten years did not a single drop of
water flow into it during that time. This condition
certainly settles the question of the amount of
water available for irrigation.
The quality of the water is as satisfying as the
amount. Chemists search it in vain for any harm
ful element. Indeed, its purity cannot, as one
chemist asserted, be accurately indicated in deci
mals a yard of 9's is insufficient. When it is
considered that man drinks much more than he
eats, that a large portion of any food which he
takes is water, that water, if impure, is a source of
endless diseases, it will be seen how very import
ant is this matter of the purity of water for domestic
purposes. The purity of the water is one of Dem
ing's greatest assets.
The quality of the water is also a determining
factor in its profitable use for irrigation. Many
localities have an abundance of water for irriga-
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tion, but due to harmful salts and alkalies, it is use-
less. In many other localities, while the water is
not entirely useless, it contains sufficient impurities
to deaden the soil after a few years, necessitating
expensive leaching.
Again, pumped water contains no seeds of
weeds and no silt to crust the fields and kill young
vegetation. .In short, water from the Mimbres
Valley wells is absolutely ideal for domestic pur
poses and for irrigation. This assertion cannot be
gainsaid. It is an irrefutable truth which even the
most skeptical must admit.
The matter of its accessibility for irrigation
will be treated later under the caption "Pumping
Water For Irrigation."
As stated in the first advertisement of this
series, the cheapness of land in the Mimbres Val-
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Secretary Chamber of Commerce, 1 9 1
Deming, ISJew Mexico
Dear Sir: I am interested in Deming and the Mimbres Valley and would be
pleased to have you send me full information regarding the following: -j.
MARK X TO THE RIGHT OF SUBJECTS THAT INTEREST YOU MOST -
Climate Deeded Land Other Farm Products
Soil - Small Tracts Mining
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Water City Property Irrigation
Stock Raising ' Garden Truck Business Openings
Railway Fruit Manufacturing
Relinquishments Alfalfa Schools
Name
Street
Town and State
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ley is the real sensation of the whole proposition.
It is cheap because the proposition is new. When
the investigator has convinced himself of the su
perior advantages of this region, he is taken off his
feet when he finds that land is so cheap, and he
immediately renews his investigation to find some
flaw which accounts for the low price of land. He
finds the explanation in the fact that the region is
barely three years old agriculturally, and he finds,
also, that prices have been steadily advancing ever
since the accessibility of the water-supply was
demonstrated.
Detailed information will" be forwarded you
upon any point about which you are in doubt, upon
application to the
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