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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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town commands an extensivetrade territory and is the center of a large sheep and woolindustry, a wool scouring plant having been recently built. Rio Arriba County. Area 5,810 square miles; population 1900 census, 13,177;since then Espanola precinct of Santa Fe county has beenadded to it. Present population of the county, 16,500.Assessed valuation in 1903, $981,685. County seat TierraAmarilla. Post offices: Tierra Amarilla, Park View, Tusas,Espanola, Chamita, Cordova, El Rito, Canjilon, Vallecitos,Petaca, Hopewell, Chama, Monero, Lumberton, Dulce, Abi-quiu, Alcalde, Coyote, Dixon, Embudo, Gallina, Lyden,Mariana, Rinconada, Truchas, Velarde and Rosa. It is theeighth largest county of the Territory. It has more than fivetimes the area of the State of Rhode Island, thrice that ofDelaware, a greater area than Connecticut, and is almost aslarge as Hawaii. Although a large part is covered by privateland grants yet almost 2,000,000 acres are still subject toentry under the federal land laws.
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CANON ON THE BRAZOS, EIO ARRIBA COUNTY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 221 Rio Arriba is one of the richest of New Mexicos subdivis-ions, the census of 1902 showing that its agricultural wealthalone amounted to $2,566,000. The surface is very muchbroken. The principal mountain ranges are the Cumbres,the Gallinas, the Jemez and the Cejita Blanca, a number ofthe peaks rising to an altitude of 12,000 feet. The mountainsgive a large drainage area and the streams, in consequence,at certain times of the year carry a large volume of water.As there are many good reservoir sites, a considerable portionof the water supply will at some future day be available forirrigation purposes, but at present most of it flows to waste,only about 50,000 acres being under ditch and 30,000 acresunder cultivation. The county is in the drainage area of theRio Grande, except that small portion west of the ContinentalDivide. The principal rivers are the Chama with aboutfifteen tributaries and the Rio Grande. Rio Arriba cou

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