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mestic and stock purposes can in most places be obtained by boring- 

 wells from 25 to 100 feet and using windmills. 



It is difficult to do justice to the industry of Chaves Couuty with- 

 in the limits of this article. 



All the fruits of the temperate zone are raised here to perfection, 

 but the apples in particular are without rivals for size, beauty, flavor 

 and soundness, and yet the yield is phenomenal. The acreage in old, 

 bearing orchards, is comparatively small, but the young orchards, 

 many of which are now commencing to bear, bring the total up to 

 1250 acres, and include one apple orchard of 500 acres. The acreage 

 is being rapidly added to each year. 



The entire absence of any of the orchard pests, which give so 

 much trouble in nearly every other fruit region of the country, re- 

 lieves the fruit-grower here of much of the arduous labor peculiar to 

 other localities and makes the occupation of the orchardist much 

 more satisfactory. 



Exhibits of fruit from this Valley have taken first premium 

 wherever allowed to compete, and have excited the wonder and ad- 

 miration of people from every part of the United States. 



The Celery raised in Chaves County is pronounced by those 

 qualified to judge, superior to any raised anywhere else in the United 

 States, and the fact that it leads all competition in every market it 

 has reached, would seem to verify the assertion, particularly when it 

 is known that it came in competition with the product of the most 

 famous celery farms in the whole country. The soil of the Valley 

 seems to possess to a marked degree the peculiar constituents which 

 impart to this table delicacy the peculiar nutty flavor so much sought 

 after by epicures. 



Farming by irrigation is a science, and is often attended by fail- 

 ure when undertaken by persons who fail to inform themselves as to 

 correct and successful methods, before beginning. The results at : 

 tained in this Valley, as well as elsewhere, prove conclusively that, 

 whenever intelligently managed, the irrigated farm surpasses every 

 other agricultural proposition in producing power. A little capital, 

 fair intelligence and plenty of energy, together with the ability to 

 manage well, will rarely fail to crown the efforts of the practical 

 farmer with success. 



Roswell has good graded school, with two good brick school 

 buildings, costing $7,500; five church organizations, Methodist (South), 

 Baptist, Christian, Episcopal and Presbyterian; a flourishing Com- 

 mercial Club and Board of Trade, with elegant club rooms; one Bank 

 $50,000 capital and $10,003 surplus; a U. S. Land Office; the New Mex- 

 ico Military Institute, a fine building; an Agricultural Experiment 

 Sub-Station; a Masonic Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery 

 of Knights Templars, Knights of Pythias, a Woman's Club, a good 

 Board of Health, an efficient Volunteer Fire Department, a $30,000 



