The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . HOUSES AND DEPOT AT DEMING. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 191 Luna County. This is one of the new counties of the Territory having beenorganized in 1901. Its area is 2,946 square miles, population4,000, assessed valuation in 1903, $1,502,092. The post officesare: Cambray, Columbus, Cooks, Deming, Gage, Hermanasand Nutt. Four-fifths of the area is still public land. The Mimbresriver traverses it partly from north to south. There is run-ning water along its upper course, but at and south ofDeming it is an
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . HOUSES AND DEPOT AT DEMING. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 191 Luna County. This is one of the new counties of the Territory having beenorganized in 1901. Its area is 2,946 square miles, population4,000, assessed valuation in 1903, $1,502,092. The post officesare: Cambray, Columbus, Cooks, Deming, Gage, Hermanasand Nutt. Four-fifths of the area is still public land. The Mimbresriver traverses it partly from north to south. There is run-ning water along its upper course, but at and south ofDeming it is an underground river. The county is primarilya cattle and mining section, although it has a tine rich soil,which can be made to produce abundant crops of all sorts aswell as fruits of the finest quality through the medium of irri-gation. About 5,000 acres are under cultivation, mostlyalong the Mimbres river, although around Deming there aresmall truck gardens irrigated from wells. It has good rail-road facilities, the Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the ElPaso and Southwestern passing through,
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