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This town is the trading point for «*iio of die lim-st agricultural and grazing ion in New Mexico. 111*i*lt;5 nature* bus poured forth her bounties with :i ln\i.-h hand. I hi- is ■mnmonly known ;«.s tin* Spring Ktvi r country from Ihe iM!iti1x*r of river- pronging *»l*t,om \fry faceof the plains. They have no inadwah-in as other river- Iml come • •Hi at tin? ground :ii otic place. There ate four of these riv#*rnot including; Hu* Hondo, \\ liit*li i*’ a long river, viz: Tile North and South Antelopes and h.e North and South Spring rivers, j i hey are only about ten or twelve mill's long and have no tributaries or le ad waters. The Mumv «»f North Spring river consists of one spring that ••overs about an were of ground. Three hundred ynrdj? from ibis spring the river is thirty led wide and almost deep enough to swim a hoi • The water is char a-crystal and hundreds of lisbes etui he seen sporting about in - diools of twent\ or thirty. Tin* water is entirely free from til nil-.aline sub--tMinv fin* Spring rivers are all on the we t -id • Ot the IV.o and tl »\v into It through l.hi? Ihmdo :i Tin* plains are so level that ‘lie water from one of the rivers ran he eurried through irrigating dilehr- jiero-w all the others and I he water utilized on lie \ a-1 -lopes lying beyond.Furl Iter -outli i- what t* known as the Seven Rivers country, so named from a cluster of seven rivers. Thi« i-si rich and heauliful eouuiryThe Spring ri\er-, Seven rivers, and Peeos cover a di-triet ten or lifteen mile- with? In iwentydive or thirty miles long every uriv of which eati he irrigated.Till- i- t |ui\aleiit Im J.jt) square miles or Hid.iwt acres of land, and when settled up will form *-i\lt\-lwo school districts. Tlds of courM is only counting tillable lands, outside of which there are thousands id acres of rich pasture lands. The altitude is about 2J.5UO foe I liliove the level ot the sea, hence the climate is mild and sea ii-I a . (I • r \ I ! I I .a1 Mial'l'lli I I' t It nit. Ill -ill
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Las Vegas Daily Gazette
Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
Sat, Feb 25, 1882
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