The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 15, 1920, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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TEXAS DESERTS
YIELD RETURNS
Irrigated They Produce Vegetables
and Fruit Second
to None.
I Brownsville, Texas.?The cabbage
is driving the cactus from the deserts
here and the grapefruit grows
where once there was only sage
brush.
Uncle Sam's new garden, watered
by the Rio Grande, bids fair to rival
the famous irrigated lands of southern
California.
The garden comprises nearly 250,<900
acres. The land once sold for 50
cents an acre, Mexican. Now $2000
an acre is not unusual and $200 an
acre is a common price.
There is romance here, though the
land is young. It is a steady, "homey"
kind of romance of farmers who
struggled here for years to make
their lands give them even bare ex'
i: tence. Now they are living in com
fort on the same land under irrigation.
It was slow business, before the
kwater came. One year's small profits
might be wiped out by bad seasons
the next. But under the hot
sun tjiesc farmers labored to make
up in work what they lost in reverses
and hoping always that "this year
nothing will happen."
farmers Had Long Wait.
It was a long time before "something"
did happen that meant a new
life for the farmers. Though the
f-rst start toward reclamation was
n ade in 1904 when the Gulf Line
Railway jtoas built and irrigation
tried on i.small scale, it was not until
vast expenditures of private capital
were made in the last few years
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The total cost of the system that
brings the tuibid waters of the Rio
Grande from their narrow and deep
, canyon to the parched desert was
$12,000,000. It is estimated that the
land is producing $18,000,000 a yQar
now and that still greater crops will
be raised.
Citrus fruits, all sorts of vegetables
and small grains are grown.
Grapefruit, said by some to surpass <
the California fruit, are beincr shin
ped in increasing quantities. There
no winter time here. When the
truck farms of the north aire under
snow the farmers here harvest their <
crops and wear straw hats. It is the ]
tand of perpetual sun.
Brings $100 Ton.
There are some though, who are
having a hard time to make both
ends meet. Northern farmers, accus
tomed to rain-belt farming, are
: brought here by landselling syndicates
and shown orchards of grapefruit
trees which bear $50 crops to
the treq. They are shown fields of
I cabbages which have sold at $100 a
ton.
They forgot, in their enthusiasm,
j t.iat it takes years to make a citrus
orchard boar in the midst of a desert
and that cabbages may not always
net a fortune at top prices.
Experts say it requires 50 acres
of Rio Grande land and hard work
fr. make the same yield that 200
acres give in either regions. Farnir
? s should have $25 an acre to clear
their land and $50 an acre for opcr.
afion. Plots of 20 acres and 40
acres are large enough for the average
farmer, they say.
But on the whole the Rio Grande
i.: making money for the farmers
land increasing the food supply of
the nation. Thc^re is talk of oil to
be found here and a Houston millionaire
has purchased 30,000 acres
and will sink a 7000-foot test well
soon. The farmers are interested in
the oil possibilities, but if no oil is
found they will still have prosperous
money-making farms.
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' REAL COMMUPi
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Consider the tumbleweed an<
For a seascn the tumblcwee
| in spring and summer. Then co
| of winter. What of the tumble
across the prairies, the sport c
wind is too light to stir it, no ol
But, docs the oak go swirling
autumnal landscape? Not the
oak stays put. It roots deep in
colony cf oaks that have grov n
ered the winds of winter togetl
ITlie tumhlcwecd serves a pi
the permanence cf the oak, ai
that the practice of rooting dee
In these times there seem tc
tumbleweed variety being swe;
are so many tumbleweeds scurr
be overlooked. Start to coun
I plenty of oaks?men who nav<
their home soil.
One of the present day pro
I while to attempt the task of i
| and decreasing the number of
I to be noticed about the oak is
| does not spring up in a day.
I tablishes itself by taking root.
I Community building is oak
I tumbleweeds will not do the t
i Before men begin to root <
| must have an abiding interest
| be more than a chance fence coi
I whirled. Too many communit
1 for the people that live in the
8 that community building broug
8 life is a constructive work, 1
| Service movement has perfom
| munity building means more o
I tumbleweeds.
POSTOFFIGE BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Washington.?An appropriation of
$1,415,000 for aerial mail seivice
from New York to San Francisco
vas written into the annual postcff'ce
appropriation "bill just before it
passed the Senate and was sent to
conference. The House rejected a
similar proposal but Senate leaders
were hopeful the House would
change its stand.
The route provided for is by way
of Chicago and Omaha. Various pro
posals for Southern routing were
thrown out on points of order, as
was a motion of Senator Dial, Dcm~
Protect
Certain-teed Roofi
your property again
est storms. Drivir
develop no leaks. 3>.
and ice will find n
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Certain-teed keeps
of your barns and otl
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IITY BUILDING
i the oak.
d grows green. It flourishes
me the fall and the early gales
weed? Hither and yon it flies i
>f every vagrant breeze. No
bstruction too small to halt it.
; around, a moving part of the
it any one has noticed. The
i the soil. It is a member of a
up together, that have weath- ,
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urpose if it calls attention to
na if it drives home the fact i
p into the soil has its virtues. (
be a great many men of the
pt hither and thither. There
ying about that the oaks may
t them though and there are
3 struck their roots ueep into i
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blems is whether it is worth
ncreasing the number of oaks 1
tumbleweeds. The first thing
that it is of slow growth. It 1
The next thing is that it es- 1
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growing. Raising colonies of
rick. i
deeply in a community they 1
in it. That community must r
ner into which they have been
ies are simply stopping places j1
m. In driving home the fact j
;ht about by a real community
the present day Community |
[led a distinct service. Com- j I
aks. A lack of it means more \
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ocrat, of South Carolina, to ostabli h I
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an additional route from New Ycrk
to Atlanta.
Bill Carriee $102,000,000.
As it passed the Senate, the bill ,
carries $402,000,000 for expenses of
the postal service during the next
fiscal year, an increa e of abcut
$1,500,000 over the Houre f;gure.
The Senate also inserted provisiors
for retention of the abandoned mail
tabes in various largo cities and for
appointment of a congressional committee
to investigate the whole question
of mail transpoitation in c:r\gested
districts.
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"Logs are worth more than ever in
the history of this county.
; Your Property
rtam-teed Roofi
tig shelters And Certain
st the cover- advantages,
ig rain will and cpark-prc
belting enow toed for 5,
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Yet Certain-t?
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less to buy, le
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leir contents
,ter of good roofinj
;ed is proper- ^ee y?u deal
ly cemented teed. He eitl
an impene- get it quickly
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General Offices, St. Louis
Offices end Warehouses in Principal Cities
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EFIMQ & DELATED ? RXJI1
DEMOCRATS NOTIFIED
TO ORGANIZE
The County Democratic Chairman
lias started earlier than usual this
year to have the Democratic Clubs
organized and the necessary work
done to hold the County Convention
nd get the democrats enrolled on
the precinct registers. In this issue
of the paper there is a notice from
him calling the precinct clubs to
meet on April 24th for the purpose
r.f organizing by electing prccinc:
d-aiir^n nl^o secretaries, executive
: v! .v . and enrolling commiacc,
which shcul l be compose 1
o( three members, and a delegate to
die Ccunty Convention for every
twenty-five members, or majority
fraction, at each precinct. The County
Convention will be held at Con
tvay on Monday, May 3rd, 1920, and
Lit that time the neoe isary number
cf delegates will be elected to attend
the State Convention in Columbia.
Since the war is over, there is no
great outside interest this year to
claim the attention of the people,
ond it is generally believed that
politics will be as warm as ever in |
every part of the State. While there
were very few candidates out in the
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III 11UI ltV V "Hill \ , HUI11"
bers of them aro expected to enter
the campaign this year.
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Many of our farmers have thoroughly
prepared their farming lands
this year and expect to go in for
large production this year on their
farms.
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PAGE THREE
1ST IMMIGRATION
CONFERENCE HELD
Discusses Naturalization and
Immigration Laws and
Other Matters
SAYS AMERICA NOW
IS 4,030,003 SHORT
Coleman Dupont Adds That
Situation Calls For Concerted
Action.
Now York The first national immig.ation
conicrer.ee ever held in
America began here today to discuss
naturalization and unmigiation laws,
the shortage of labor, the exodus of
imtnigri nt from America and the
ci.UfC c untest among the foreign
horn with a view to formulating
lecommendutions to Cong, ess. The
mealing was under th.e auspices of
\he intcr-radical council of New
Vo:k. and delegates included representatives
of thirty racial groups
and spokesmen for industry, agriculture,
capital and labor.
William H. Parr, president of the
[nter-Ra. ial Council, and spokesman
foi industry, and General Coleman
Dupont, chairman of the board of
directors of the Tnter-Kacial council,
>pene! the metting. A statement
prepared In K. T. Meredith, secretary
of agriculture, was read, in
v hich he approved of any "legitimate
effort to point the way in
which the immigrant may he helped
t< become a thorough-going American,"
"America is 4.000.000 short as a
result of the dwindling of immigra
uon since the war," Gen. Dupont
raid. "Thousands of immigrants arc
going back: other thousands are migrating
to Canada. South America
and Australia and other countries
arc making organized efforts to attjact
immigration. The United
States is not.
"There are over 200 bills pending
i.i Washington which, if passed,
will shut out the future supply of
imnvgrant workmen and will dcmora'izc
indu -trial an I credit condl^
lions in America.
Denunciation VTu.t1.
"The indi. criminate do. uneiation
of the foreign bo n. which has been
taking place in America, *s resulting
in many of then ha iag this countiy.
"'1 ho siiuaih n is a giave one callirg
for con.cite!, nationwide action."
The immigrant will no longer
ct'ine to America to enjoy freedom
c; worship or the right of free
. peach, but the "impelling reason
\vdl t o economy," Mi. Carre said.
See.etnry ?.Ie: edith's statement
cutlining the wvik of the department
of agricu'lure and with reference
to immigration ami the farmlabor
pvobli m Miid:
"Many thousa ids of immigrants
v lio came from farms in their home
country and who are real lovers of
i 1 io soil, have been sidehackcd in
c ui great cities because they do not
knew how to about it to get .1
foothold in the agricultural ladder.
"With the poor living- conditions in
the congested tenters, these people
ire likely to become discontented.
Living in colonies in the cities,
earning nothing of our language,
ustoms and ideals, they may become
he prey of agitators and form an
dement of unrest.
"Large numbers of the discontented
elements can be transformed into
contented agricultural workers if
hey are told bow to make the
ight move."
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