The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . SCENES AT CLAYTON, UNION COUNTY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 283 Union, the northeastern county of New Mexico, was formedin 1893 out of portions of Colfax, Mora and San Miguelcounties. This county is the seventh in size in New Mexico,and the seventeenth in population. It is more than five timesas large as Rhode Island, three times as large as Delaware andas large as the Hawaiian Islands. Of its area only 727,000 acreshave been appropriated, while 3,140,000 acres are still subjectto entry under the Uni
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . SCENES AT CLAYTON, UNION COUNTY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 283 Union, the northeastern county of New Mexico, was formedin 1893 out of portions of Colfax, Mora and San Miguelcounties. This county is the seventh in size in New Mexico,and the seventeenth in population. It is more than five timesas large as Rhode Island, three times as large as Delaware andas large as the Hawaiian Islands. Of its area only 727,000 acreshave been appropriated, while 3,140,000 acres are still subjectto entry under the United States land laws or to lease from theterritorial land board, which controls large tracts in thecounty under the United States donations to the territorialinstitutions and the public schools. Stock raising is the principal industry and the source of itswealth. It is one great range, well adapted to cattle growingand sheep raising. The mild winters, the free range and theflourishing grasses, make stock raising very profitable the 60,000 cattle on the range many are a good grade ofHere
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