. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . A Garden and Orchard near Farmington, New Mexico all kinds of fruits and vegetables—peaches, pears, apples, grapes, melons,tomatoes and peppers—-for which there is a ready market in Durango and themining towns up the river. The town of Farmington merges immediately into orchards, rising in along slope up the hill north of the town. Here every year hundreds morepeach, apple and pear orchards are set out. It is claimed for the Farmington-Aztec section that it sells more landwith less noise than any other section of the West. In the ear

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. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . A Garden and Orchard near Farmington, New Mexico all kinds of fruits and vegetables—peaches, pears, apples, grapes, melons,tomatoes and peppers—-for which there is a ready market in Durango and themining towns up the river. The town of Farmington merges immediately into orchards, rising in along slope up the hill north of the town. Here every year hundreds morepeach, apple and pear orchards are set out. It is claimed for the Farmington-Aztec section that it sells more landwith less noise than any other section of the West. In the early days a goodmany people from Texas, Oklahoma and other southern points moved intoSan Juan County and soon found that, besides being a good place to makemoney, it was a very pleasant place in which to live. They have been sendingword back to their old friends and acquaintances, and these when they camesent back word to others, so that by a sort of endless chain process the coun-try is being settled with a very fine class of people. Of course, the same. Jm .,■.•->»..■;

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