Image 42 of El Paso herald (El Paso, Tex.), January 27, 1912, (PIONEER and Progress Edition, New Mexico Good Roads and Progress)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1912
availability: public_domain

Rapid Agricultural Development In New Mexico 7 Mining Progress In the New State HasUeeii a Big Feature Of the Past Twelve MonthsProgress On Great Dam Work Of Construction On Elephant Butte Project Is the Most Important Event Of the Year In the New State But Construction Of Chino Mills At Hurley Has Also Been a Big Step In Develop ment Mining Progress Is Active In Many Regions W HILE the development of New 1 In its Infancy m a producer thepump Mexico was steady and active f t JTT K J J COM 4tPWj VM KITS to raise sugar beets on a large scale and the American Beet Sugar com pany at Garden City Kansas is to erect a branch refinery at the town to use up the production In the vicinity of Melrose and Fort Sumner where there Is another exten sive system of irrigation another sugan beet factory is to be erected contracts velopanents In that region were veryM extensive during 1911 and several hun dred acres were added to the cultivated j nst closed its last year as a territory tie greatest adTance was made tn agrl ultural development The states biggest event of the year r