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EL PASO—THE STORY OF A CITY.
WHAT THE SOIL WILL DO.
ITH the semi-tropic climate and the rich soil of the Rio Grande
Valley, large profits can be made growing all kinds of garden truck.
El Paso and the surrounding mining towns consume all that is pro-
duced at the present time. The Northern, Eastern and Southern
cities furnish a market for early vegetables and for fruits and alfalfa.
Plant Food in Sediment.
Rio Grande
Nile
Phosphoric acid
Per cent.
0.14
0.21
Potash
Per cent.
1.21
0.68
Nitrogen
Per cent.
0.13
0.12
The Valley is especially adapted to the growing of perfect fruit. The
pears and grapes being famous and much sought after in Northern and Eastern
markets.
A tabulated list of the average value of crops in this district is necessarily
vague, as the modern methods employed by the American rancher of the Southwest
result in the actual harvesting of two and in some cases three crops of a variety
of products grown consecutively on the same acreage. As an example, from forty
to seventy bushels of winter wheat to an acre has been harvested on a well irri-
gated tract, and a second crop of beans yielding 2,000 lbs. to an acre, taken from
the same ground during the same season. With wheat selling at $1.00 a bushel
and beans at 3 1-2 cents a pound, the net results seem quite impossible to the East-
ern farmer. From four to five cuttings of alfalfa are made annually. A perfect
stand produces one and one-half tons to an acre per cutting. Such results show us
that one hundred acres of well cultivated and properly irrigated Rio Grande Valley
land will produce as great results as one thousand acres of ordinary farming property.
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El Paso Chamber of Commerce (Tex.). El Paso: The Story of a City, book, 1910; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth213964/m1/30/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting El Paso Public Library.