The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . dians. Of the 66,396wage-earners in the census year of 1900, 40 per cent or 27,215were engaged in agricultural pursuits; 19,478 in domesticservice; 10,378 in manufacturing, mining and as mechanics;7,208 in trade, and 2,118 in the professions or in governmentservice. An estimate of the population of New Mexico from registra-tion and school census returns: Males of voting age, 69,000;females of the same age, 68,030; persons of school age, 68,000;foreigners not citizens, 5,000; Indians, 13,000; chi
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . dians. Of the 66,396wage-earners in the census year of 1900, 40 per cent or 27,215were engaged in agricultural pursuits; 19,478 in domesticservice; 10,378 in manufacturing, mining and as mechanics;7,208 in trade, and 2,118 in the professions or in governmentservice. An estimate of the population of New Mexico from registra-tion and school census returns: Males of voting age, 69,000;females of the same age, 68,030; persons of school age, 68,000;foreigners not citizens, 5,000; Indians, 13,000; children underthe age of five, 61,000; total, 284,000. Farms and Farm Products. Number of farms, 1890, 4,458; in 1900, 11,834. Acres infarms in 1890, 787,882; in 1900, 5,130,878. Value of farms in1890, $33,543,141, in 1900, $53,737,824. Value of farm lands,1890, $8,140,800; 1900, $20,888,824. Value of farm implements,1890, $291,140; 1900, $1,151,610. Value of live stock, 1890,$25,111,201; 1900, $31,727,400. Value of farm products, 1890,$2,000,000; 1900, $10,000,000. Acres in alfalfa, 1890, 12,139;. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 9 1900, 55,467. Acres under cultivation, 1890, 91,745; 1900,203,083. Butter, 1890, 105,000 pounds; 1900, 381,000 , 1890, 280,000 dozen; 1900, 840,000 dozen. Hay, 1900,$1,427,317. Cereals,\1900, $978,903. Vegetables, 1900, $278,-413. Orchards, 190c\ $197,331. Other products, 1900, $374, under irrigation, 1900, 326,873. Improved farms, 1900,12,411. Farms under irrigation, 1900, 9,128. Value of irrigatedfarms, 1900, $13,551,582. Value of non-irrigated farms, 1900,$3,773,177. The above statistics do not take into consideration the landscultivated by the Indians, the Pueblos being farmers andgreat producers of crops; nor of crops raised on farms of lessthan three acres, of which there are many. Climate. The United States weather bureau at Santa Fe, which coversthe entire Territory, reports for 1903, 29 cloudy days out of365; 80 per cent of sunshine;
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