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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., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l Lobo, Trampas, Twining, Valdez, Pima, Talpa andChamisal. The county is the most picturesque and in many respectsone of the richest in mineral resources in New Mexico. It isalso one of the oldest in point of settlement by white menand one of the best watered. At one time it included Coloradosouth of the Arkansas river, Colfax and Mora counties andpart of Rio Arriba county, but at present it is small in extent.Yet, its area is 1,470,000 acres, or 2,265 square miles, beingmore than twice the area of the State of Rhode Island and 305square miles more than the State of Delaware. Of this almostone-half, or 650,000 acres, are open to entry under the federalland laws; 300,000 acres are still unsurveyed. About 120,000acres are reserved and 700,000 acres are appropriated,about 600,000 acres being included in private land grants.The county is one of the most densely populated in theTerritory, but could support five times its present popula-tion. The Rio Grande traverses it from north to south,
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 277 but through rocky gorges, hence the cultivated lands arealong its tributaries. The county is characterized by thegreat number of small perennial streams which, rising in highranges on the east, debouch at about one-third the generalwidth of the district upon the high mesas forming the centraland western thirds and flow into the Rio Grande. The Taos range, comprising the catchment area from whichthese streams derive their waters, ranges in altitude from7,000 to 13,000 feet above sea level, with slopes tree-cladand with precipitation greater than in many sections ofthe Territory. Only one-haif of the available water is usedand with the building of storage reservoirs, the area undercultivation would be 200,000 acres instead of 20,000 acres. Thecereals yield prolifically and vegetables and fruit grow well.The county is rich in gold, copper ores and other minerals,the principal mining camps being Red River, Glenwoody andTwining. There are a number of lesser camps.

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