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EL PASO HERALD
Thursday November 16 1911
AUTOMOBILE CLUB
ro mopRGTs
El Pasoans Join National
Oxganization; Arrange
For Incorporation
Wednesday evening the El Paso-Au-tomoblle
association met at the cham-
ber of commerce and though having
for It primary purpose the discussion
of the proposed Incorporation papers
and admission to the American Auto-
mobile association of America there
was a. seepage of gasoline stories. Plans
were made to avoid being taken to the
police station if arrested for speeding.
The meeting was called to order by
president F. 87 Cary and by unanimous
couseiit the reading of the minutes of
the last meeting as well as old busi-
ness was dispensed with placing on
the business list the correspondence
from the secretary of state relating to
the act of incorporation contemplated
by the club.
On account of some misunderstanding
the fees sent with the corporation papers
last week 'were too small being about
150 shy of the mark This matter was
taken up. and acting secretary W. J.
Hand was instructed to forward the
necessary amount to Austin and hare
the papers approved and filed in the
secretary of state's office.
jets Aatteaai uody.
For some time it has been a pet
scheme of the automobillsts to affili-
ate with the national association known
as the "Three As" or the American
Automobile association and Wednesday
night that idea was carried into effect.
It will become necessary to make ap-
plication to the stat branch at Austin
Tex. and the secretary after a ballot
was taken to this effect was instruct-
ed to Immediately file an application
for membership.
This affiliation will extend courtesies
and numerous exemptions all over the
country as well as obviate the neces-
sity of accompanying a peace officer to
the police station when arrested for
speeding. This may be avoided now by
presenting the national membership
card to the guardian of the law which
states that the association stands good
for the fine for all members of good
standing.
KmMem la Adopted.
At the same time the emblem of the
"Three A's" was adopted and all mem-
bers win be supplied with these as
soon as cuts can be made. The badge
is a well designed affair being a five
pointed star with three gold enameled
"A's"' mounted on a blue field and the
'whole surrounded by a golden rimmed
blue cirole bearing in raised enamel
the inscription "El Paso Automobile
Club " About 200 of the badges were
ordered and though there are but 100
now enrolled the committee expects to
tiring up the roll to the 200 mark.
A check for 48.18 signed by Geo.
Ie Baron and H C Mills members of
the former association organized a few
years ago was received. This money is
part of the fund of the former organisa-
tion and by virtue Of its charter re-
verted to the present organization.
Members present were: Dr. F. S.
Carv president; Phil Toung W. H.
Hawkins A. C. Staples Newt F. Tld-
well. C. A Keidmund. Wallace Morris
and J. J. Kaster. G. W. Kennedy sec-
retary was unable io be present owing
to illness and W. J. Rand acted in
that capacity. No date was set for the
next meeting but it will be held dur-
ing the latter part of November.
"FEAT" ORGANIZES
AT THE Y. MC. A.
Eat-a-Bite Society Is the
Latest; Directors Hold
Meeting
About a week ago a bunch of Y men
organised a "frat" principally for the
purpose of having a recognition whistle
such as the O. U. Ks. have.
A large number asked to be allowed
to enrol and Sunday November1 12 a
meeting was held at the Y. M C. A.
and the organisation perfected. '
The name chosen was "Est a Bite of
Pie1' and the following officers were
elected: Chief eat a bite of pie. H. N.
Alleman; assistant chief Larry Mooney;
chancellor of gltnlzers. C. I Slrmans;
chief pie tooth Dobby Perolta; as-
sistant H. Kilburn; sergeant of pie
house W. A. Haile.
After the election of officers it was
decided to hold an Initiation to take
place next Saturday night at 8 o'clock
in the Y. M. C. A Besides the initia-
tion of new .members the eating of
various flavored pies will have a prom-
inent part.
On the following Saturday night No-
vember 25 an open meeting will be
hold. There are at present SO mem-
bers. The regular monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the Y. IC C A.
was held Tuesday evening at 7: JO
clock when general business was dis-
cussed. e
TpTHI drinking coffee or tea results in a
I l feeling of nervousness and irrita-
bility you may depend upon it that
caffeine the drug in the coffee and tea is
getting in its "back licks" the reaction from
the drg.
Oonjmon sense would suggest stopping
the causecoffee and tea short off.
The change is easy if you have well-made
P0STUM
the food-drink inade of wheat including the
Phosphate of Potash (grown in the grain) for
rebuilding brain and nerves.
A
Postnai is known to be free from any drug
whatever' and s rich in the vital elements
which make for sturdy vigor.
"There's a Reason"
Fosium Cereal
Save Your Time
YOUR time is money. When you go to your
bank for business purposes you want to be
waited upon promptly. Quick service is our watch-
word. We are thoroughly equipped to receive de-
posits answer inquiries in regard to individual bal-
ances and other questions with dispatch and
accuracy.
4 PAID ON SAVINGS AND TIME DEPOSITS
The First National Bank.
Capital and" Surplus $800000.00
Cor. SI Paso & San Antonio Sts
El Paso Texas.
DEPOSITS ACCEPTED BY MAIL.
Climbing the Steep Road to the
Roosevelt Dam ra an Automobile
Across Desert Through Forests of Caoti Around Canyons and Over Mountain
It Is the Scenic Highway of the World.
By G. A. MARTIN.
- OOSBVEIT ArlsL Not. 16. Re
E member the last scene in "Polly
of the Circus" where the wag
ons are seen slowly climbing the hills
in the distance only their lights mark-
iner their path as they wind up the
steep road? Recall this and you have a
picture of an automobile party climb
ing the road at night between this place
and Phoenix. Looking across a can
yon half a mile wide only the head
lights of the cars mav be seen comincr
slowly down or going slower) up the
mountainside ror ail the worm line
some giant insect with a phosphores
eent glow crawling over the rocky
sides of a great rib of nature.
The Roosevelt road was built to
reach the Roosevelt dam from - Mesa
Ariz. some 60 miles away and it is
the most dangerous piece of road in
the world engineers say and probably
just as picturesque as any in the world.
The cost was tremendous. The first
few miles over the desert from Mesa
which is In the Salt River valley near
Phoenix the road is graded across a
comparatively level country through a
"forest" of giant cacti that stand as
desert sentries 30 to oo feet .nigh. Then
suddenly the roadway begins to -climb
and soon it is lost in the mountains
meandering first around the side and
then the brow of a mountain; then
down one side of a tremendous cliff
then around th head of a .canyon up
the other side and off onto another
mountain. For forty mites or more the
road winds its way through a country
once pronounced inaccessible; some-
times the distance to the bottom of a
canyon if an automobile should skid
is 2000 feet and more. Ruggedly pic-
turesque the sun showing off all 'the
beautiful colors of reds greens browns
and yellows in their wonderful gran-
deur and splendor by day; the moon
shedding its soft light over them by
night these canyons are among na-
ture's best. Sometimes it is necessary
for the automobile to take a switch-
back to make one of the sharp curves;
again a curve can be made at a good
6peed after the driver and the passen-
gers have got their nerve and no longer
catch their breath just because they
have to look out of the car down a
precipice 1000 feet deep or sometimes
more.
There is never any level road; it is
either going up or down all the time.
Sometimes to reach a point directly
across a canyon that is not over 1000
feet in an air line it is necessary to
make a circuit around the sides and
head of a canyon two or three miles.
Practically every bit of the road is cut
out of the mountainside and a great
deal of it is cut from the solid rocks.
In places it was necessary to out in
considerable masonry work to prevent
the floods taking out the road and at
other places concrete bridges had to
be built. Steal add wooden bridges are
frequent where t;hey can be suspended
from one brink of a chasm to another
but where there is any danger from
flAoda. concrete lias been used.
Reaching Ae Sam.
Finally the great Roosevelt irrigation
Company Limited Battle Creek Michigan.
project is reached nestled between two
mammoth rock walls and here the Salt
river has been Impounded by the largest
dam in the world. It is night when
you come upon the place you see the
lights for more than a mile before the
dam is reached for the top of the great
structure is studded with ornamental
iron posts each supporting a round
globe covering an electric bulb. Below
nestling in the former bed of the Salt
river on the lower side of the dam
is the great power house that gener-
ates the electricity for these lights and
sends It over immense wires down
through the Salt river valley and into
Phoenix the capital city to give lights
and furnish power for turning the
wheels of industry.
A cement canal that catches the
water several miles above the dam
drops it over the mammoth turbines that
turn the dynamos at the dam. There
is no expense in generating this power
and the water users of the valley sell
it annually for a sum that is largely
cutting their cost of maintaining the
great irrigation system. On one side
of the dam the water gushes out in
two immense streams Niagara in min-
iature and courses miles on down the
river to the canal below where it is
spread out upon the orange orchards
the olive groves the rose gardens and
the date palms.
The Great I) am.
These streams through the dam can
be made as large or as small as desired
by the' operation of mamrnot1 bronse
doors that Increase or lessen the flow
as they open or close the apertures.
Electrical machinery deriving its own
power from that water impounded be-
hind the great pile of masonry and con-
crete operates the gates.
The jrreat dam Is locked into the
ides of the solid rock walls that im-
prison the river at this point and is
constructed with a curve upstream
like an arch over a door so that all the
pressure of the great lake extending
for IS miles above is brought against
these walls rather than against the
dam. It is perpendicular on the upper
side but slants on the down side be-
ing several times thicker at the bot-
tom than at the top yet at the top
it is so wide that there Is a roadway
over it en which several automobiles
or wagons and teams can pass. Heavy
iron posts and rails on top of a con-
crete balustrade give protection to ve-
hicles and prevent them coming to any
harm in crossing the great masonry
monument. Thus a bridge and a dam
are afforded two in one. It is the
most novel bridge and the biggest
dam in the world.
A Really Big Undertaking.
At present It is the greatest irriga-
tion undertaking in the world but the
Elephant Butte project at El Paso is
going to be greater. The waes is car-
ried down the channel of Salt river
as it will be at El Paso in the Rio
Grande to various diversion dams
where it is then transferred to tho
ditches and carried out to the farms
ana the orchards. There is so much
water that even the yards- of Phoenix
are irrigated from ditches rather than
from the hose. One cannot wonder
then that every yard in the Arizona
QUIT COFFEE A.D TEA
What the Great German Specialist Say.
It disappoints some pedple to be told
that coffee and tea cause disease. But
it is beet to look squarely at facts and
set the face towards health for that's
more fun than anything else anyhow.
A Cincinnati man consulted a Berlin
physician on nervous diseases and says:
"Poor years ago I was aa habitual
coffee drinker having: used it for 35
years and being naturally of a nervous
temperament I became almost a ner-
vous wreck greatly suffering from in-
' somnia almost constantly constipated
and weighing' only 1S6 pounds.
"I consulted physicians and took
medicineman the time bnt had no relief.
About three and a half years ago I
went abroad and while in Berlin beard
frequently of a great physician Prof.
Mendel an authority on nervous trou-
ble so I resolved to consult him.
"Prof. Mendel surprised me very
much by asking at onee if I was a
coffee drinker and "on my telling him I
used it two or three times a day he
said 'It is poison.' After carefully ex-
aminlng me he told me there was noth-
ing the matter with me whatever but
what could be entirely cured in SO days
by letting coffee and other stimulants
alone and-dieting.
"I had a hard time following his ad-
vice. I did not know what to do until
I came home and told my wife who got
some Postum. We tried it but at first
did not like it; then we went over the
directions on the package together and
found we bad not boiled it long
enough. '
"That was the beginning of the end
of my trouble for the Postum was de-
licious after that and I drank it reg-
ularly and it helped from the start
"In a very short time I began to feel
much better and in the last three years
I haven't been absent from business
one hour on account of ill health for
my health is fine now. I have a good
appetite sleep well and weigh 175
pounds."
Anv nervous person who drinks cof-
fee or tea will feel better from a 10
days' change to Postum. Trial easily
proves this.
Look In pkgs. for a copv of the fa-
mous little book "The Road to Well-Tille."
Quality
M
No other form of amusement can cost you as little
for what you get as that presented by a
Victor Talking Machine
Edison
or an
No home is complete without one of these wonderful
instruments and a nice library of records.
Our Very
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t
W. G. Walz Company
Catalogs on application.
PROSPERITY
will meet you half way if you te-
iaforce your energies at
Faywood
Hot Springs
It cores and you remain cured we
know and you will if you try it.
Conceded the greatest kidney water
on earth.
Why not visit Haywood Hot
Springs first sisce you will eventu-
ally go them anyway!
Large Modern Hotel Perfect Cli-
mate. Booklet.
T. C. McDennott "The 7aywood"
Faywood N. M.
capital is a mass of blossoming beauty
and fragrance; that American Beauty
roses can be bought for $1 a dozen and
yet enrich their grower; that the cap-
ltol grounds of this supposed desert
state should rival the botanical gar-
dens of Washington and New Terk.
Great steel towers at intervals of a
few hundred feet support the wires
that carrxjlhe power from the dam
over that IT Aires of eowntry to Phoe-
nix. Not only Phoenix but Terape.
Mesa and Glendale ge't their electricity
from this great enterprise. The ques-
tion of fuel no longer troubles tbfe man
or corporation in the Salt River valley.
for the great Roosevelt dam has solved
I the problem by giving all the electrical
Want Government Aid.
The dam has cost the landowners of
the valley considerably more than they
expected to pay however and there is
a movement under way to have the
government either extend the time in
which the propect can be paid for or
to have the government make an out
and out appropriation to assist the
project. The Phoenix Republican says
that when the project was originally
started it was not expected to cost
much over three millions of dollars but
that it has cost nearer nine millions
or about S46 per acre. Ralph Cameron
Republican candidate for United States
senator is advocating government aid
for the project and has made the
statement that If he is elected he will
make an effort to have the government
make an appropriation to help pay for
the work. "The government aids the
seacoast cities to get deep water" he
says "and why shouldn't it aid the in-
land communities to farm? I am going
to make an effort to have the govern-
ment take up a systematic system of
aiding irrigation enterprises the same
as it now assists the harbors. It la
only right."
The water users of the Salt River
valley have one of the finest buildings
in Phoenix for their headquarters a
handosme mission structure two sto-
ries with a basement surrounded by a
large lawn beautiful as all Phoenix
lawns are. In the building there is an
auditorium where the farmers can meet
to discuss the affairs of mutual inter-
est. "What Irrigation Does.
The development of the Salt River
valley around Phoenix cannot bnt en-
thuse anv visitor with the Dossibilltles
of irrigation. For miles out of Phoenix
the bouses are almost as thick as in
the town itself and while Phoenix is
nominally a city of 12000 people the
country it has to draw from places it
in the center of a community of prob-
ably 100000. Beautiful mission resi-
dences surrounded by magnificent
groves and drives of palms line the
well-kept oiled macadam roadways
while tiie foliage of cottonwoods and
willows on either side meets in the
center of the drives. The eountry is
a veritable garden. Prank Murphy tells
the story that in the early 'days the
farmers only had to plant ten penny
nails to grow barb wire fences.. Any-
how the fence posts which they put
down into the ground sprouted and
grew and have made these beautiful
country lanes attractive.
The farms are all cut into small
patches and oranges olives dates lem-
ons grape fruit and the Salt river
grape fruit has no quinine taste in it
either alfalfa almonds r.nd other
semi-tropical fruits are grov n. Canta-
loupes in season are another good crop.
In practically everything that they
grow the Salt River valley farmers get
to the market with it several weeks
ahead of other communities growing
the same products and therefore com-
mand the best prices. The oranges for
Instance are about ready for shipment
from the valley now and will be in the
eastern markets several weeks ahead
of the California product
Flowers Are Fragrant.
Flowers that have no rivals for frag-
rance are another product of the Salt
River valley that have made it famous.
A Californian at Phoenix only this
week remarked that California grew
bigger roses but none with any such
rich color and that their fragrance did
not begin to equal those of Phoenix.
Other Calif ornians agreed with him.
The towns of Mesa and Tempe vil-
lages a few years ago have grown
into small cities and are operating
flouring mills creameries big cold
storage and ice manufacturing plants
and have many stores that would be a
credit to places several times their
size all to supply the big population
of the valley which is still growing
at the rate of several new families a
week. Pretty homes many of them in
the mission style so characteristic or
the capital city grace the trre-dotted
residence streets of these little cities.
eets Price
Phonograph
Easy Terms
103 El Paso St.
ORDERFROM
Bruce Seeton Successor to
0. 6. Seeton & Son
THIRD AND CHIHUAHUA STS.
and mate them beautiful ntfatotures t
the state capital.
The Bgrrt at America.
The palm Is one of the plants that
attracts the attention of the visitor first
and heWg It longest. Everywhere there
are rows of palms and In many of the
yards the luscious fruit is now hanging
in muslin bags aa protection against
the birds while it ripens for the -market.
Most of the crop has been shipped
away however. They say that three
acres in date palms will make d man
rich in a few years. Palms line the
public roads palms decorate the walks
and drives of the city and eountry
homes and on several ef the streets of
Phoenix palms have been planted in
the parkway In the center with drive-
ways on either side. It Is a palm coun-
try this Phoenix section Is and with
Its balmy atmosphere and mild winter
climate It has become better known
not as the Salt River valley bnt as the
Egypt of America and it deserves the
name.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
BOOSTS THE CITY
In Oetober Eeport Calls At-
tention to Sanitary
Conditions
EI Paso's city health department Is
boosting the city by calling- attention
to the health regulations aad also by
cautioning people not to send Indigent
sick here.
The following is quoted from the
October report of the health department
and bears the caption "A Word About
"As the winter is coming on and the
tourists are beginning to think as to
-what nart of th pnuittrv ti fif
spend the 'cold months in I believe It
will be well to enumerate from a health'
department view what our city has to
offer them.
"We have as fine a climate as the
sun shines on' one in which the weak-
est may daily spend a large part of the
time out of doors and in fact can sleep
out also if desired as. many do.
"We havq water in abundance com-
ing from a high mesa and which will
test chemically and bacteriologiexlly
as good as any in the state.
"We have splendid dairies all of
whose cattle are tested with tuberculin
every six months and are branded
sonnd or unsound as may be.
"We have an inspection of all ani-
sHHIHasii For msssl
; lV the most HHH
imp eggs a hen HHH
Hf must have fcafir.BRaBH
HPT wheat corn oats ASfcVjJG
waKtf barley milo maize. HFiri
8 jFy granulated meat lin- w 21
Ri seed meal charcoal TraB
IVy mindlines bran sen- B m
IB f flower and miscellaneous "
W seeds. The purest and best
II of all these ingredients form Vrg
IB Purina Chicken Chowder Ml
If and S
Purina Scratch Feed Lffl
1 ft These two feeds will srodace flf
Jtmore eggs than any other J
I fV feed in the country and we JLf
M & can prove it to yon with I
kJBk your own hens. Sold A MA
B H. only in Checker- gf
lira am. Doardbags. J mJ
If 1- Try itm idoTm I
The Lumber Men Say
We use more
SELECT lumber than any other
builders in El Paso
Another reason why our houses are the best
Perry
Contractors
Small Bank Accounts
Grow to be large ones and being first to encourage small aceooate we
feel we are especially adapted to handle yonr account.
We are A Guaranty Fund Bank with Capital sad Sarptos of
$350000.00 giving yon the benefit of every security.
4 Paid on Savings 4
Rio Grande -Valley Bank & Trust Co.
L
"BANK
State National Bank
ESTABLISHED APRIL 1881.
CAPITAL SURPLUS AND PROFITS $200000.
INTEREST PAID
C. R. M0REHEAD President.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIK V. Pres.
L. J. GILCHRIST Asst Cashier.
Do You Wish to Plod Through Life
Alway Worrying About the Future ?
Or do you prefer to save small araoant of your earnings each day and be-
come independent ? Look back fire or tea years and see bow easy it would
have been to have saved $1.00 each week. If you had begun ten years ago
to save this very small amount you would now bare 1650.00 or if it had
been $2.00 each week you would now have $1300.00. Almost anyfcody can
gaive a small fortune.
Ask yourself what has beeeane of the money you have earned.
We Pay 4 Interest Compounded Twice a Tear.
EL PASO BANK & TRUST CO.
EL PASO TEXAS.
New
vSi OiL BUftMHO If!
I LOCOMOTIVES I J
American Bankers7
Association
Tickets on Sale November 17 to 20
LIMIT NOVEMBER 30th
4
Extension Privilege to December 26 on Payment of
One Dollar at New Orleans
Double Daily Train
Se
10:35 A. M.
City Ticket Office
mals offered for food on our markets
both before and during the time they
are butchered also a dally Inspection
of all markets inside our city.
"We require the fumigation of all
houses in which tuberculosis has been
and all contagious diseases are isolated
their proper period and the nproperly
disinfected.
"We require all school children to be
vaccinated before they can go to the
public schools.
"All our public schools are inspected
as often as is necessary and all chil-
dren are looked over for diseases of
the eye ear. nose throat and lungs.
All found deficient are given a card to
parents explaining what deficiency may
exist.
"We have an snnnal physical exam-
ination of all school teachers teaching
in the public schools and any of these
suffering from tuberculosis are not al-
lowed to teach. For that reason all
teachers are healthy.
"Under the ausplees of the Women's
and Kirkpatrick
OF SERVICE"
ON SAVING ACCOUNTS
C. W. BASSETT "vice PregMeat
GEO. D. FLORY Cashier.
Orleans and Return
$43.95
ACCOUNT
rvice
8:00 P. M.
206 North Oregon
Civic league our town has Jstu been
given a thorough cleaning and is keep-
ig up its reputation of being the
cleanest and healthiest city in our
state.
"We wish to call attention to health
officers generally to the enormous
number of indigent healthseekers being
shipped Into the state of Texas espe-
cially into the southwest.
"The cities and counties have abso-
lutely no provision for them and the
amount raised by subscription by their
friends in mistaken kindness had bet-
ter be give ntbem at home than to
send them to a strange country where
they so often arrive with nothing left
but a used up railroad ticket. They
would live longer at home In no mat-
ter what climate."
When you have a billons attack give
Chamberlain's Tablets a trial. They are
excellent For sale by all dealers.
FhH aeware at Southwestern Fuel Co.
209 Mesa
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