Image 19 of El Paso herald (El Paso, Tex.), December 30, 1911, (Comic and Feature Section)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1911
availability: public_domain

EL PASO HERALD Saturday Im1 19 mr tartlin About C 1 N I I The Most S g Ihmg J Vs 4 Deining i Mimbres Vail ey To the investor is the wide difference in pricje between raw land and improved land An improved tract of land in the vicinity of Deming sold recently for 1 75 per acre Raw land next to this sellj for 75 peracre In other words there is a difference in this vicinity of 1 00 per acre between the raw and the improved rarm It is conservatively hgyred that for every dollar intelligently spent in improvement of farm land m the Mimbres Valley two dollars added to the cash selling price is This condition makes the field particularly inviting to the man who desires to do actual de velopment work This explains the fact that a hundred newj pumping plants ranging in size from fifteen vo fifty horsepower are now going in in the Demmig country It explains the fact that substantial farmhouses have sprung up as if by magic all over the valley It accounts for there being two tremendous traction engines with gang plows capable of breaking from fif teen to thirty