Irrigation in New Mexico (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Vernon L. Sullivan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332590896 ISBN 13 : 9781332590896

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Irrigation in New Mexico



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The Territory of New Mexico formerly included parts of Colorado, Utah, and Texas, and all of A rizona. On March 2, 1867, the boundaries of New Mexico were fixed at 31 20 and 37 north latitude and the one hundred and third and one hundred and ninth meridians. The area of the Territory is 122,469 square miles, or 78,370,160 acres. (PI. I.) Grand chains of the Rocky Mountains traverse the Territory from north to south, but become scattered into short ranges as they progress into the central part. Between these numerous branching ranges are many valleys, watered by rivers flowing southward from the snow-capped mountains. Broad mesas and plains cover many thousand square miles above these river valleys. (F ig. 1.) Owing to the large expanses of free range, the cattle industry has been a leading pursuit of the people for many years. To this was joined the raising of horses, sheep, and goats. With the influx of population many farms are taking the place of grazing groundg and the ranges are becoming more curtailed year by year. New Mexico in mineral wealth equals neighboring States and Territories. It has, in common with southern Colorado, large deposits of copper, gold, silver, and coal. Big railway combines are being formed to develop the extensive coal fields of northern New Mexico. Although in one of the oldest parts of the United States, these large deposits of wealth have as yet hardly been tapped in real earnest, but now, with the westward movement, mines, smelters, and mining towns are being rapidly established. Mining, stock raising, the operations of railways, and agricultural pursuits occupy the attention of a large percentage of the population. A very large portion, probably 50 per cent, of New Mexico spopulation is composed of the descendants of the old Spanish settlers, of Mexicans, and of I ndians, while the percentage of immigrants from the Eastern
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332590896
• ISBN 13: 9781332590896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 55
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