Maize Mush and Burro Milk During WWI Fence Project
In 1918 Claude Gobble and Grady Mills, Rodeo School students, built four miles of bare bed wire fence for $30 a mile under Hidalgo County. With flour rationed in WWI, the boys subsisted on maize mush milled with burro milk, plus beans, for about two months near the Peloncillo Mountains. The four-strand fence ran south of the Frank Miller place, dividing Nolan and Miller ranches, and remains today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Gobble
Grady Mills
Rodeo
Tom Nolan
Hidalgo County
Gobble
Deming
Frank
Shorty) Miller
Pelonetllo Mountains
Nolan
Rock Cabin
Miller Ranch
Miller
Better Cotton Yields for Profits and Markets rally in 1971
The article notes cotton’s market share growth as demand returns for prints knits and denims. It highlights a USDA ASCS state extension campaign with the National Cotton Council to boost yields and market strength, stressing benefits for Hidalgo County and national economy. Farmers face investment stakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Department of Agriculture
ASCS
State Agricultural Extension Services
National Cotton Council
Hidalgo County
New Books in the Library Listings and Memorial Volumes
A catalog of new library acquisitions and memoriam entries listing titles such as Ghost Stories of the West by Ned Collier and North Country Challenge by Ernest N. Patty. Also notes on In Memory of pages for several individuals and a range of Western themed volumes with author names and partial titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Collier
Robert Moorman
Denhardt
Ernest N. Patty
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Ted Raynor
Peloncillo
Hachita
Little Hatchet Mountains
Animas
Theodore Floyd Miller
Post Office Canyon
Douglas
Arizona
Ata al Behmain
San Felipe Mission Hall
New Mexico
Jack McGhee
Julia Johnson
White House
Janet Halliday
Ervin
Cliff Adams
C.L. Brown
Dudley Robertson
America
Peggy Larson
Maye Jones
Doris Sawyer Smith
H.g.merriam
Glenn R. Ellison
Manfred R. Wolfene
Alice S. Hutchens
R.W. Cureton
W.E.S. Foleson D, Dickerson
Porcy Brey
Ethel A. Becker
T.B. Wy
Leland Lovelace
Mery
Abu
ATA
Heather Mor
Florafax
Redwood Gardens
Go Modern
Your Electric Light & Power Company
Victor Reay
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