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Identifier: landofsunshineha02newm (find matches)
Title: The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max, comp Walter, Paul A. F
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Publisher: (Santa Fe, N.M.) J.S. Duncan: public printer
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in the Navajo Indian reservation; 1,470,000 acres are stillsubject to entry under the land laws; about 260,000 have beenappropriated, and about 300,000 acres are irrigable. It is fiveand one-half times as large as the State of Rhode Island;three times as large as Delaware and it contains 900 squaremiles more than the State of Connecticut. Topographically the county, or at least the irrigable portionof it viewed from above, presents the appearance of a basinsurrounded on all sides with mountains and high ridges, witha deep notch cut. into one side, through which the San Juanriver flows. It is not mountainous, but is located in the foot-hills, on the mesas, and in the valleys with gigantic mountainmasses to the north in Colorado. Some of the hills, however,rise to a considerable altitude. Outside of the river valleysand the upper mesas, which are broad and level, the countyconsists of a series of double lands broken by arroyos andgenerally composed of fertile soil, upon which the native
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OO 03 HISHO m o <1 THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 241 grasses grow luxuriantly. The altitude ranges from 4,500 to5,800 feet. The annual rainfall amounts to fourteen inches.The water supply for irrigation is abundant and is distributedby splendid systems of canals and ditches, several newsystems being under construction. The irrigable areas arefound on the table and bottom lands of the San Juan, LasAnimas and La Plata rivers. About 100,000 acres are underditch, of which 50,000 acres might be easily cultivated, butthus far only 15,000 acres are under actual cultivation.Alfalfa, the cereals and the best of fruits are the principalcrops. Its apples are famous in eastern markets. Climateand conditions are especially favorable to dairying, poultry,farming and bee culture. The live stock industry is importantas by far the greater part of the area of the county is freepublic range. The largest coal deposits of New Mexico arethere, but owing to lack of railroad facilities, they are beingworked only

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