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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, comp Walter, Paul A. F
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Publisher: (Santa Fe, N.M.) J.S. Duncan: public printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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well LandGrant Company, which at one time owned more than one-halfthe area comprised in the county and has done much for itsdevelopment, still has on the market thousands of acreswhich it sells to home seekers upon very hberal terms. Thewestern part is mountainous and here are located the Eliza-bethtown, Moreno, Cimarron and Baldy mining districts,which have produced gold to the value of several milhon dol-lars. Here also rise the Vermejo, Cimarron, Sweetwater,Ponil, Rayado, Chico, Moreno and Ocate rivers, which furnishirrigation waters for a large agricultural area. There aremany fine reservoirs sites, and the Maxwell Land Grant Com-pany has constructed several irrigation systems excelled onlyby those of the lower Pecos valley. The principal of these arethe Cimarron or Springer system, which takes up the drain-age of thirty miles of the majestic Taos range, and the Ver-mejo system, along which there are twenty reservoirs. Theclimate is tine and the altitude which ranges from 5,000 to
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CIMARRON CANON, COLFAX COUNTY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 157 12,000 feet, offers invariably cool nights and cool summers, adry, rarefied atmosphere and protection from the north andwest winds. The principal agricultural sections are the val-ley of the Sweetwater, the Rayado, the Cimarroncito, the Ci-marron, the Ponil, the Vermejo, the Red River, the Una deGato, the Chico, the Moreno and the Piedra, the VermejoPark, the Black Lake section and Johnson and Barela mesas,on which last two named, crops are raised without irrigation.Wheat, potatoes, beets, cabbages, carrots, parsnips, turnips,artichokes, celery and other staple crops are produced. Theregion around Springer is especially adapted to the cultiva-tion of the sugar beet. The Springer, Mills, Dawson, Chaseand other large ranches are famous for their fruit and alfalfacrops. Apples, peaches, pears and plums are the leading orch-ard products. The county is very favorably located for stockraising. The mild winters, the cheap range and the

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