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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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no permanent water or eventemporary tanks are found in the Big Hatchet Moun-tains. The broad, gently sloping Hachita Valley ex-tends along the eastern side of the mountains, at about4,200 feet altitude, with drainage toward Lake Guzman,Chihuahua, while the Great Playas Valley lies west ofthe mountains. The Manzano and Sandia Mountains form the easternborder of the Rio Grande Valley opposite Albuquerqueand Belen. The northern part of the range is known asthe Sandias and the southern part as the Manzanos, thetwo ranges being separated by a high pass or open saddle.The Manzanos are joined loosely toward the south to thelower San Andres Mountains by way of the Cerro Mon-toso, Chupadero Mesa, and Sierra Oscuro, but the mainpart of the range includes only the Manzano and SandiaMountains, which reach altitudes of about 10,000 and11,000 feet, respectively, and carry narrow crests of theCanadian Zone and a wider and continuous area of theTransition Zone. On the west these ranges drop abruptly
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The Mountains of New Mexico 319 to the low Rio Grande Valley, while eastward they slopeoff gradually to the high open plains. The upper zonesare narrow on the steep, barren west slope and muchwider on the gradual and better-forested eastern side.Though in the midst of an arid country, these mountainsare high enough to induce considerable precipitation,which results in a good cover of vegetation and extensiveforests. There are numerous springs and a good supplyof underground water far down the slopes, but streamsare few and mainly ephemeral. The Canadian Zone covers the tops of these mountainsand the cold slopes down to about 8,000 feet. It is wellmarked by a rather meager forest of white fir, blue spruce,Douglas spruce, Pinus Hexilis, aspen, and Rocky Moun-tain maple, with mountain ash, alders, and willows in coldgulches and along streams. It has a few characteristicmammals, the spruce squirrel, pocket gopher, duskyshrew, and probably others not yet recorded. The breed-ing birds are l

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