El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Eighth Year, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1888 Page: 2 of 8
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El Paao Times, Tuesday, February 14, 18S8.
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BUS is DBLITiaKD DAILY BY CARRIBR8 in the
(allowing towns at the hoar named ON THE DAY
OF PUBLICATION:
Paso del Norte.. 8 a. m. Clifton, A. T.. .6 p. m.
Dealing 2 p. m. Lordebnrg 3 p. m
Sliver City 7 p. m. Kingston 10 p.m.
Las Cruces, 9 a. m.
We reach also ON DAY OF PUBLICATION the
rottowing places:
» NEW MBZICO.
Aatheny..... Dona Ana Port Selden
Wnoen Lake Valley San Martial
Bngle and Socorro.
IN ARIZONA.
Howie Wilcox Nogaies
Beaeos Huachaca Dnncan
Tucson and Carlisle.
IN TBXASi
Ysleta...... Camp Bice Socorro
flan Bllsario Port Hancock Sierra Blanca
fort Daris and Marfa,
and we clrtulate throughout Mexico.
BO OKABOB r«BPOBTA«B.
THE IRRIGATION PROBLEM.
Under the above head we find another
plea in faver of government aid for irri-
gation, an editorial in the Las Angeles
Tribune, a paper published in a country
where the value of water for lands is
thoroughly appreciated. It say#:
There is very much to be said in ffiver
of the proposition recently broached in
congress to use some of the jurplusia the
construction of great systems of water
works for the redemption of vast tracts
of land in the west which, but for the
application of water under some well
regulated system of irrigation, must re-
main forever practically a barren waste
We of California appreciate the necesai
tj of water to bring to life the marvelous
fertility of our soil, but we are work-
ing out the irrigation problem for
ourselves without the aid of the gov-
ernment. That is, we are working it out
in all the parts of the state which have
become thickly settled; and, as more land
is needed to sustain our rapidly increas-
ing population, we are gradually redeem
from sterility the great stretch of
country which has beoome known as the
Mojave desert. This section, however,
could be much more rapidly reclaimed
having already been demonstrated that
even the most sterile portions of it need
only the touch of water to make it bios
som as a garden—if a system of immense
lakes were created by the government in
the Sierras surrounding it and the water
carried all over i^ as was done by the
race which inhabited Arizona before the
days of history.
i But, as ha* been said, California will
work out her own salvation in time. We
may reclaim the deBert by slow degrees,
but eventually we will redeem it. It is
to the much poorer and much more
Sparsely settled regions of Arizona and
ew Mexico that the helping hand of the
government could be advantageously ex
tended, with the result that vast bodies
of public land now practically useless
could be redeemed to settlement and be
come the homis of prosperous and busy
people. QThe work would Involve the
reclamation of millions of aores of land,
the diversion of rivers into lakes, cover
ing immense areas, the conducting of
water through thousands of miles of
ditches around mountain chains, and
across wide plain*—in short, the con
struction of an irrigation sys
tcm such as would dwarf
even the herculean works of
former race, the ruins of which can still
be seen all over the same section. Btil
this.would involve the expenditure o
large sums of money, it is true, but it
would add incalculably to the wealth o*
the nation—and it would be far better
than throttling our manufacturing indus-
tries, in order that we might run the gov-
ernment on a, cash basis so long as the
surplus in the treasury lasts and then,
presumably, run into debt for current
expenses.
On the same subject the New York
Graphic says:
There is in the Merced canal incident
ahiht of national importance. A big
slice of our national domain, 600 miles
east and west and 1,000 miles north and
•ou^h, if compactly arranged, is arid in
character. It has a precipitation of rain
averaging about twelve inches per an
num. Of our whole arid area possibly
ope-fiftcenth may yst be redeemed by
. conserving the natural water supply and
maltifcg snows and distributing them b>
irrigation ditches. There can be nw
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great utilization of this vast area with-
out concurrent action of the state and
national governments in the way of con-
serving the water supply. There is an
opportunity in the irrigation problem for
statesmanship. Private enterprises can
have no right to monopolize water. It
is not able to do the engineering neces-
sary for the full conservation of supplies
created by a snow fall of fifteen feet per
annum. It is a matter for national en-
gineering at least.
The Merced canal was formally opened
on the 2d of this month. The canal was
begun five j ears ago by Charhes Crocker
and C. H. Huffman. It cost $1,500,000.
It is twenty-seven miles long, 100 feet
wide at the top, 70 at the bottom and 10
feet deep. It will irrigate 300,000 acres
of the most fertile land in California.
The great engineering features of the
work are two tunnels, one 4,400 feet
long, driven through the hill of solid
rock, no supports being necessary; the
other 3,000 feet long, faced with timbers,
The dam across the small valley near
Merced, constructed to form a reservoir,
is 4,000 feet lon&, 275 feet wide, and 54
feet high.
Life Among the TaraScanR.
"One thing at a time" is the principle
of life among the Tarascans. Perhaps it
is carried to exaggeration, but it produces
wonderful results. If of a Sunday morn-
Ins you saunter down the road leading up
from the lake to Patzcuaro you will meet
thousands of the Tarascans coming to
market with their wares and products to
sell. Each Tarascan, or family of Taras-
cans, will have a stock of one thing. It
may be earthenware; it may be the flat
pancakes called tortillas; it may be fish; it
may be feather work. Whatever it is the
quality will surprise you.
Tho traveler sees a good deal of the one
idea principle in other parts of Mexico.
Going down through the heart of the ta-
ble land from El Paso to the City of Mex-
ico he encounters it in a striking manner.
At Leon he is beset to buy the woven
wraps called serapes. The numerous
peddlers have nothing but serapes to sell.
A few hours further down the road, at the
station of Queretaro, the stock in trade of
the platform venders is opals, nothing but
opals. At Celaya fifty men and boys
thrust boxes of "dulces" in one's face and
will not take a refusal to buy, as long as
the train stops. The dulces are sweet,
paste like compounds, flavored with pine-
apple and other fruits. They are offered
in little, round wooden boxes, and are
of all sorts of colors. The round
boxes are assorted, according to
flavors, and packed in long boxes of
varying sizes and prices. Celaya is
known all over the republic for its sweets.
Within two hours' ride of Celaya is Ira-
puato, where strawberries can be bought
at the station every month in the year.
The peddlers have nothing but strawber-
ries, but they always have them put up in
quart, two quart and three quart home-
made baskets of willow—great, luscious
berries. Probably the fruit could be cul-
tivated with equal success elsewhere, but
It isn't. Irapuato has the monopoly of
strawberries. Eren Mexicans, passing
through and going 500 miles beyond, buy
a basket of strawberries at Irapuato, just
as they always get off at San Juan del
Rio, further down the road, to buy lari-
ats. There is a little rope walk in front,
of nearly every house at San Juan del
Rio, and the people do scarcely anything
but manufacture lariats the year round.
—Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Character la Antogrnphs.
Recent statements about the economic
and wise mother of Napoleou show that
he, while always speaking to her in Italmn,
wrote to her in French. How Bhe e^er
contrived to decipher his manuscript, if
that also developed corresponding contor-
tions of his signature, we cannot divine,
unless, indeed, as often happens, there is
a way of reading with the understanding
heart as well as the affectionate eye.
Notoriously bad writers like Choate,
Greeley and Balzac have always some-
body contemporaneous who can readily
interpret their hieroglyphics, and when a
noted western editor furnished copy that
any printer might suppose to be ancient
Egyptian, there was born into the world
a compositor in that town who preferred
it to copper plate inscriptions and set it
up with celerity and dispatch.
Tracing a man's character by his hand-
writing is deceptive unless we know tho
man's career by heart, and then we di-
vine what is not hidden. At tho same
time it is not a little curious to follow tho
convulsions of Napoleon's signature from
tho obscure time of an artillery lieuten-
antcy to the victory of Austerlitz, the re
treat from Waterloo and captivity on that
"lone, barren isle in the midst of the
ocean." We may not agree with the de-
ductions made from the specimens given,
but curiosity will be provoked and grati
fled in a peculiar way If nothing else.—
Baltimore American.
DIETER &• SAUER,
Paso del Norte.
Deliver duty paid choicest brands of
wines, liquors, Havana and Mexican ci-
gars, Westphalian ham, genuine Emmen
thaler cheese, preserved meats and vege-
tables, e'c.
Dr. Poo War Tai,
of Canton, China, has opeaed an office in
this city, on No. 200 St. Louis street, and
is prepared to treat the most complicated
diseases and Bickness. Parties dJsiring
his services at their homes can procure
the same by letter.
Fine Stationery.
Hotel Menus,
Dinner Cards,
Breakfast Cards,
Wedding Invitations,
Bali Programmes,
Invitation Cards,
Visiting Cards,
Engraved Folders,
Etc., Btc., Etc.
Timks Job Officb.
J. B. KLATTENHOFF,
NO, 110 Lane Block, El Paso, Texas.
UNDERTAKER AND.-. EMBALMER,
AND
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Agent for Iron Fences and Monuments.
Mr! mix kj Ik*
Cfcsmkalfc.
we •ord'.alljr reeomaieii*
yourG as Ikekmi rmedy
fcJHmn to UifcrGwiorrhot*
aid Gleet.
We hare flold coasidw.
able, and ia every c*M ■
tea fiven tali atactica.
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M. Y.
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EL PASO
ABSTRACT COMPANY,
P. F. Edwards, Manager.
BRONSOl! BLOCK.
Carefnl and accurate abstract! of title*
to real estate in the city and eonnty of
El Paso at rtaionable rates.
E. KRAUSE,
aMTECT
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
Fine Groceries, Wines, Liquors,
Havana and Mexican Cigars,
Paso del Norte, Mexico. {
POBTOJfFIC® ADDftaftw
BL PASO, TEXAS.
Everything New.
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Best Table in the City.
The Most Central Location.
Its fine Verandas on Every Fioor
Give it a Commanding View
of the Entire City.
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Elegantly Furnished. Prompt Service.
O. S. CROWTHER, Manager.
W. Gr. DAVIS, Prop.
KIMBA
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Corner Texas and Utah streets.
GOOD TABbK
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Ro Grande Pharmacy
Is now located In tho
lowest
Opposite Grand central Hotel.
R. CAPKL6.
L. HAMMER.
Capels & Hammer,
Contractors and Builders,
EL PASO, TEXAS.
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SUPERINTENDENT,
EL PASO, - - TEXAS.
PJ"JEt3"WS,
Strange Sights la Cub*.
In Havana bay there are certainly 1,000
lighters constantly In use, so that 8,000
men are thus employed ana at least 15,000
souls thus comfortably snstained. Mont
of these folk live over at Regla, just back
of the Santa Cataliua wharves or the still
quainter Calle Buluarte quarter, and in the
narrow streets and through and about their
queer old abodes some of the strangest
sights you ever wituessed will be seen.
Children of ull colors and caste aud ages
disport naked among hairless dogs, ag-
gressive goats, demure donkeys and all
ma a nor of fowl, with the ntmoHt inno-
cence, content and good nature. Little is
neeiud to sustain life, heme happy lieurted-
nes* among them is universal Night or
dny, for nearly all the year, the only real
effort is made to get outside of clothing;
anulast Sunday morning, when I was
wandering in the vicinity of the little
old llegla market; I actually stepped over
fourteen naked sleeping women and xhil-
dren lying in all sorts of postures on End-
ings, along galleries and at the doors of
little nlcobas. Some of them opened
their handsome eyes a bit, but noho
moved or aoemed in the least disconcerted
by the intrusion.—KUgpr L. Wake man's
Letter.
INKS
ALL UKADKN.
Al l, COI,OK\
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SEND ORDERSTO
Ketelsen & Degetau,
■ Paw, 1sbm. OUhnafcaa ud CMihairiaukis, Vni«>,
WHOLESALE BBAL&M IV
Dry Goods, Groceries,
HA1BWAM, A#WCULTtTRA* IMPLIM**, MVVG
SUPPLIlfl, ITO.
Commission and Forwarding Merchants.
Sole
Company
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agents for Baneo BTaeioial de Mexico. Sehnttier Waeona, Barnard Powfer
' of New York. Herotlea Powder Company of Ban Franeiaoe. New Hoffll
Sewing Machines.
KRAKAUER, ZORK & MOYE,
Wholesale and Retail
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Agents for Laflin & Rand Powder Co. and Turbine
Wind Mills, Arms and Ammunition.
TOOLS AND TINWARE.
HILLIPS BLOCK, EL PAHO STREET,
EL PASO, TEXAS
SMITH & THOMPSON
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-WBOLUiAJUi—
Produce i Commission,
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