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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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section of land for several miles around this settlement hasbeen taken up, and is occupied and under cultivation by home-stead entrymen. Sandoval County, Area 3,959 square miles. Population 12,500. Assessedvaluation in 1903, $792,565. County seat, Sandoval. Postoffices: Albemarle, Algodones, Bernalillo, Bland, Cabezon,Casa Salazar, Cuba, Jemez, Miller, Pena Blanca, Perea,Placitas, Sulphur, Sandoval, Senorito, Thornton, Woodbury. The county was created by an act of the 35th LegislativeAssembly in 1903, Bernalillo county contributing the largestarea. Of its area, 1,230,000 acres or one-half, is still subjectto entry under the federal land laws, while a considerableportion of the remainder is included in so-called private landgrants. The Rio Grande cuts through its southeastern corner.The Puerco river rises in the county. Next to the Rio Grandeand the Puerco, the Jemez is the principal stream. TheGalisteo, the Frijole, the Una de Gato and the San Pedro arethe streams in the eastern part.
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SANDOVAL COUNTY FRUIT. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 235 The main range of the Rocky mountains here called theValles, or Cochiti and Jemez range, and the ContinentalDivide penetrate into the county, some of the peaks rising toan elevation of 12,000 feet. These mountains are cut by deepgulches and canons. In its southeastern part is the massiveand picturesque Sandia range. It is the thirteenth in size among the twenty-four countiesof the Territoiy, covering an area almost four times as greatas does the State of Rhode Island. The principal industries arestock raising, farming, fruit growing and mining. Its centrallocation, great diversity of topography and fine climate,together with the fact that the central Rio Grande Valleystarts in the county and extends through it for more thantwenty miles, giveit prominence and attractiveness. Thereare nearly 600,000 acres that can be brought under irrigationand about 1,500,000 acres are good pasture. The mesas ortablelands are usually long stretches of pl

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