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The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico (1904) (14595814808)
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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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the ditches of this stream is7,628 acres. The Mora river and its tributaries supply waterfor practically all the irrigation systems in Mora county. Twoditches have been constructed, by which, during the periodsof greater scarcity, water is taken from the Rio del Pueblo inTaos county and diverted through passes in the mountains.All the ditches along the Mora and its tributaries are eitherprivate or community ditches. The Pecos river becomes a considerable stream at its con-fluence with the Gallinas. As the river has mountain sources,the flow in the upper portion of its basin is perennial; butshortly after it emerges from the highlands much of itswater is lost by seepage and for several months in the yearthis part of the river bed carries very little water. In the lower part of its course in New Mexico the Pecosreceives large quantities of water from numerous springs,which are a notable feature, many of them emerging from theearth with such volume and force as to prove beyond question s
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 47 that they come from the drainage waters of the high precipi-tous mountain ranges on the west. The following are the principal tributaries of the Pecos,several of them furnishing a constant supply: Mora, AguaNegra, Agua Negra Chiquita, Rio Hondo, Berendo rivers(north, middle and south), the Sjoring rivers (north and south),Penasco, Seven rivers, Rocky Arroyo and Black river. Thedrainage area of the catchment basin of the Pecos river lyingwithin the Territory and available for irrigation purposes isestimated at 20,000 square miles. It extends along four de-grees of latitude, with varying altitudes of from 3,000 to 11,-000 feet. In the valley between Roswell and the territorialline, many of the lands subject to irrigation are of excellentquality. In the western plateau region the total number of acresirrigated is small compared with the other two main divisionsof the Territory. The waters affording supply for this regionare the San Juan, the Gila, the Zuni and th
The Zuni are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley, New Mexico. The Zuni are a Federally recognized tribe and most live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico, United States. The Pueblo of Zuni is 55 km south of Gallup, New Mexico. Before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Zuni lived in six villages. After the revolt, until 1692, they took refuge in a defensible position atop Dowa Yalanne, a steep mesa 5 km (3.1 miles) southeast of the present Pueblo of Zuni; After the establishment of peace and the return of the Spanish, the Zuni relocated to their present location, returning to the mesa top only briefly in 1703. The Zuni Reservation was created by the United States federal government in 1877, and enlarged by a second Executive order in 1883. During the early 2000s, the Zuni opposed the development of a coal mine near the Zuni Salt Lake, a site sacred to the Zuni and under Zuni control. The plan to build it was abandoned in 2003 after several lawsuits.
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