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Title: The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico ..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company Lyman, Clarence Augustus, 1871-
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Publisher: (Denver?) Passenger Dept., the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s point flows in a very deep cailon,finally joins the stream and follows along its banks, until it climbs the hillinto Santa Fe, which is on a tributary stream. More than 40,000 people now live in this section, and 400,000 more can bebrought in without crowding. Most of the present population is Mexican orIndian, but all through their farms are scattered the holdings of more enter-prising Americans who have realized the possibilities of the region, haveestablished farms and planted orchards, and are now making enormous profitsout of their foresight. This region is said by experts to produce the mostperfect, grapes of any section of the United States, exceeding in quality eventhe product of the famous vineyards of California, and equaling those vineriesin yield. Peaches, plums, apricots, pears and apples yield abundantly andfailures are absolutely unknown. The sugar beets of the Santa Fe Valleyexperts have declared after analysis the richest in sugar contents and purestraised anywhere.
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An Orchard in the Espafiola Valley, New Mexico 94 THE VALLEYS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO HOT SPRINGS AND CLIFF DWELLINGS Along this line there are a number of famous hot springs. At Wamsleysand at Ojo Caliente, reached from stations on the Denver & Rio Grande road,there are hotels and bathing facilities. Some of the well attested cures fromthese springs are almost miraculous. There are other springs, as yet undevel-oped, one group near Taos Pueblo and the other up the Pueblo River. Fromthis line only are accessible the cave and cliff dwellings of the PajaritoPark, thirty-five miles west of Santa Fe. Here, amid settings of wonderfulscenery, are 20,000 caves, formerly occupied by a prehistoric people, withthousands of communal buildings, some of more than 1,200 rooms, now inruins. TAOS VALLEY The Taos Valley, reached from Embudo, Servilleta and Tres Piedras onthe Denver & Rio Grande, was at one time called the granary of New Mexico,and is one of the most beautiful agricultural valle

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