The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . H l-H o wu> (—) w?<w oo Hi o H t—I O THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 51 The average cost of constructing the ditches is $1,738 permile and $ per acre of land under ditch. Of the 12,311 farms, excluding those in the Indian reserva-tions, 9,128 are irrigated and 3,183 are unirrigated. The acresin the irrigated farms number 2,892,855; in the unirrigated,238,023. Live stock on the irrigated farms has a value of$15,785,760, and on the unirrigated, $15,941,640. Irrigatedfarms are, in number 74 per cen
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . H l-H o wu> (—) w?<w oo Hi o H t—I O THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 51 The average cost of constructing the ditches is $1,738 permile and $ per acre of land under ditch. Of the 12,311 farms, excluding those in the Indian reserva-tions, 9,128 are irrigated and 3,183 are unirrigated. The acresin the irrigated farms number 2,892,855; in the unirrigated,238,023. Live stock on the irrigated farms has a value of$15,785,760, and on the unirrigated, $15,941,640. Irrigatedfarms are, in number 74 per cent, of the total in the Territory;in acreage ; in value of land and improvements, exclusiveof buildings, ; in implements and machinery, ; in livestock ; and in total farm wealth, per cent. The average size of all farms, exclusive of those held by In-dians, is 464 acres, and that of irrigated farms, 380 irrigated farms make greater use of the public domainfor grazing purposes than do those which are unirrigated,and an income is thus secured in addition to that
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