This famous military camp of Uncle Sam’s National army adjoins the city of Deming, in the heart of the Mimbres valley, where farming is done by means of irrigation, the water being supplied by powerful pumps that run continuously if necessary and are driven by gas engines or electricity and deliver from 300 to 2000 gallons of water per minute, which means from a half million to nearly three million gallons per day of 24 hours.
The valley, or rather plain, comprises three to four hundred thousand acres, completely surrounded by towering mountains in which are stored nearly every kind of mineral and semi-precious stone. Extensive mining operations are conducted the year round.
The ancient peoples who inhabited this vast plain in prehistoric ages left many evidences of their civilization, the boys in khaki never failing to bring in from their interesting hikes ancient pieces of pottery and other interesting relics that have been burled for centuries. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918
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