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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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uthern part fromeast to northwest and the El Paso and Southwestern along thesouthern boundary from east to west. The county has 3,000,-000 acres of range which furnish pasture the year around forcattle, sheep, goats and horses. In the Organ and San An-dreas mountains there are successful goat ranches. Thereare several mining camps, that at Organ having produced con-siderable gold, silver and copper. In the San Andreas andBlack mountains, the mineral indications are very promisingand considerable prospecting and development work has beendone. The post offices are : Anthony, Berino, Chamberino,Dona Ana, Earlham, Garfield, Hatch, Las Cruces, Mesilla, Me-silla Park, Modoc, Organ, Rincon, Rodey and Victorio. Thecounty seat and largest town is Las Cruces, the City of the Crosses, beautifully situated on the easternedge of the far-famed Mesilla Valley and in the midst of thelargest body of cultivated land within the Territory. Thisvalley has an verage width of about five miles and is seventy
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 165 miles in length, embracing 100,000 acres of the rich alluvialsoil of the Rio Grande. However, only a comparativelysmall-portion of the valley is under cultivation, perhaps 30,000acres in all. Of course, all cultivation is by irrigation. Forthis purpose the Rio Grande furnishes an abundance of waterusually, but in late years there have been occasional drouthsfor brief periods; but the farmers and orchardists have with-in the last few years learned that there is an inexhaustibleflow of water under the surface of the ground at a depth ofabout twenty-five feet and that it is perfectly feasible and pro-fitable to utilize this underground flow to supplement theriver in times of scarcity. Consequently a number of pump-ing plants have been erected in different parts of the valleyand are now in use w^henever required. When it is consideredwhat has been accomplished in California by the use of waterraised by means of pumps for irrigation, the advantages ofthe valley in

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