Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — Way Down In Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Way Down In Mexico.

Anson Perkins, who left here some time ago, to work for a Chicago well machinerv firm, and not knowing whether they would send him to Australia or Novo Zembla, finally pu'led up in Mexico. He is in the state of Sonora, drilling irrigating wells and putting up pumping outfits on what he calls, a “little ranch” of 168,280 acres, and has been there since last June. It rains there only once or twice a year, and never snows or freezes, and all farming and gardening is done by irrigation. The days now are about 70 degrees and the nights 55. They first sink a well about 20 by 40 feet and 40 deep for a reservoir, and from that drill about an 8 inch well, down about 300 feet. He says they are having new lettuce, potatoes, onions and watermelons, right along now. Also that the wheat crop is just being sawed. The ranch will putin 1000 acres of wheat, and harvest ft in May. Also 500 acres of co r n. These facts are from a letter to his cousin Judson H. Perkins of our town, written Jan. 20th.