The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico (1904) (14782101782)

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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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nderflow that is to betapped in the near future to furnish the City of El Paso, inTexas, with water. These rivers and streams are the arteries upon whose flowthe very existence of the Territory depends. They differ inmany respects from rivers in the east, owing to peculiaritiesof climate, of soil and the uses to which their waters are put.So called arroyos or dry water courses, furrow New Mexicoin every direction, in addition to the rivers and streams.These arroyos carry water only after rains or when the snowis melting in the mountains. Most of them have an underflowbut ordinarily they appear to the eye, as rivers that have beendried up by the sun and the winds. Irrigation. Excepting in a few mountain valleys and ujDon high mesas,irrigation is necessary to the successful pursuit of agricul-ture. Irrigation permits the application of water to cropswhen they need it. That this is the ideal condition under which to raise cropsgoes without saying, and is proven by .i.OOO years of history

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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 41 in Egypt, Italy, the East Indies and China. No excessivemoisture, no drouth, worries the husbandman who possessesan irrigation right in a perennial stream or w4io has fortifiedhimself with a reservoir. Irrigation means intensive farming,it means that the land will be fertilized at the same time thatit is watered, it means certain crops and a maximum produc-tion per acre. In its jjerfection, agriculture by irrigation, isas distinct an advance upon the methods of agriculture in themore humid states, as manufacturing with machinery is overmanual labor. When it is remembered that out of a total area of over78,000,000 acres only about a quarter million are in actualcultivation under irrigation ditches, then it Will be seen thatthere is a vast opening for enterprise in reclaiming broadareas of as fertile lands as God ever created, lying under aperfect sky, and in a well nigh perfect climate. Nor is therea lack of water for reclaiming at least a portion of the vast a

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