. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . t is one of the most beautiful and most highly productive sections ofthe whole San Juan Basin. The farms are well tilled and highly improved,and the annual production of wheat, oats, potatoes, hay and dairy productsis very large. The town of Bayfield occupies a beautiful location on thebanks of Pine River and is a lively and well built little town. Its buildingsand business enterprises include a creamery, flouring mill, fine school, churches,and a high class of stores. A drive, in spring and summer, over the mesas and through the val


. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . t is one of the most beautiful and most highly productive sections ofthe whole San Juan Basin. The farms are well tilled and highly improved,and the annual production of wheat, oats, potatoes, hay and dairy productsis very large. The town of Bayfield occupies a beautiful location on thebanks of Pine River and is a lively and well built little town. Its buildingsand business enterprises include a creamery, flouring mill, fine school, churches,and a high class of stores. A drive, in spring and summer, over the mesas and through the valleysof the Bayfield section opens a series of pictures hardly to be equaled in theworld, vistas of mountains and wooded hills alternating with fields and farms,all framed in the tender green of the Colorado juniper. FLORIDA MESA—OXFORD The main line to Durango crosses through the Pine Creek country, whosewestern shipping point is at the thriving little town of Oxford. The line thendips down into the little valley of Florida Creek and then climbs again to. Harvesting at Bayfield 6o THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO


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