The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . n the valley of the Rio Chama. For manyyears it was an outpost against hostile Indians and manyexpeditions against the Apaches and Utes were organizedthere. It has an interesting history and was, up to withinthirty years ago quite important in the county. It is today agood trading center. There are numerous other settlementswhich are supported by agriculture, horticulture and stockraising; they are found in the Espanola Valley on the RioGrande, in the valleys of the Chama and tributary streams,a
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . n the valley of the Rio Chama. For manyyears it was an outpost against hostile Indians and manyexpeditions against the Apaches and Utes were organizedthere. It has an interesting history and was, up to withinthirty years ago quite important in the county. It is today agood trading center. There are numerous other settlementswhich are supported by agriculture, horticulture and stockraising; they are found in the Espanola Valley on the RioGrande, in the valleys of the Chama and tributary streams,and are increasing in population and prosperity steadily. Roosevelt County. Area 3,110 square miles; population 4,500. The census of1900 gave this area a population of 383. Assessed valuationin 1903, $600,000. County seat Portales. Post offices : Arch,Bethel, Elida, Floyd, Langston,Portales, Stockton and county, named after the president, was created bythe 35th Legislative Assembly in the year 1903. It is distinct-ively a plains county, and, excepting a fraction of the northwest. SHi «- ^ii^S^ ^6M ^^ II -T ^^^^^^^^B^H ^_* B ^^H§^H^ |*il4fa I^ll im ^^E .MSlEliyi^!^^^ Mf^ ROOSEVELT COUNTY SCENES. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 225 corner, is rectangular in form. It measures sixty-four milesfrom east to west and fifty-four miles from north to is the seventeenth in size in New Mexico and. yet it coversan area three times that of the State of Rhode Island. Itsw^estern boundgffy is approximately along the divide orwatershed between the Pecos river on the west and the Brazosriver on the east. The principal valley crosses the countyfrom a point on the west boundary line north of the center toa point a little south of the center of the eastern boundaryline, so that the entire county is traversed in northwesterlysoutheasterly direction by a broad valley, which has come tobe known as the Inland Valley. It is for the greater partof its length skirted on either side by low
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