The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . ?^^.. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 91 The Stock Industry. Next to agriculture, the stock industry is the greatestsource of wealth, in fact, as far as the area devoted to it, itleads all other industries. This is easily explained, for be-sides an extensive private range, there are 50,000,000 acres ofpublic range, and the chmate is all that can be wished for bystock raisers. Many fortunes have been made in stock rais-ing and with each year the grade of stock is being improvedand thus becomes more valuabl
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . ?^^.. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 91 The Stock Industry. Next to agriculture, the stock industry is the greatestsource of wealth, in fact, as far as the area devoted to it, itleads all other industries. This is easily explained, for be-sides an extensive private range, there are 50,000,000 acres ofpublic range, and the chmate is all that can be wished for bystock raisers. Many fortunes have been made in stock rais-ing and with each year the grade of stock is being improvedand thus becomes more valuable. Over 1,000,000 cattle areon the ranges of the Territory and in Chaves county are to befound some of the highest grade cattle in the United States,Herefords predominating. Chaves, Grant, Sierra, Luna,Otero, Dona Ana, Union, Leonard Wood, Roosevelt, Colfax,Eddy, Lincoln and Quay are the principal cattle counties. Sheep. There are between live and six million sheep upon theranges. The mild winters, the grassy mesas and watered val-leys, the sheltered canons, help to make sheep raising veryprofitable.
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