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i-entirely free In.in ill i..I aline sub--ljifii'i* -. I'iii* Spring rivers an* all on I Ilf We I dd • 1.1 (lie* Pee o a in I II* i w into it through the II mdo :i *■ * IV pitting an* so level that 'In* \vnti*r from on** of ilit* rivers •*:m ho curried through irri-gnting ditches across nit tin* others 21 n*I tin* water utili/.ed lt;ni lii vast slopes Ivins beyond.Kurtlu*r -outh L what 1 known as tin* Seven Hi vers country, so named from a duster of seven rivers. This i-!i rich ami beautiful countryThe Spring riser-, Seva it riser-, anil I'eeos cover a di-tr'c-i ten or llftcun miles will.* by twenty-live or thirty miles long ' very uere of which can In* irrigated.This i- equivalent to *J50 .sqtmrt miles or IUO.oji acres of laml. ami when set I le«| up will form -i.xty-lsvo ,-ehool districts. This of coitrsi U only counting: tillable lands outside of whidi there are thousands ol acres of rieh pasture lands. Tin* altitude is about Jt.oUO feel ifbove the level ot the sett, lienee the climate is mild and .season-long. All I he cereals arid fx nit.- lt;»t all kind- can In grown in abundance. A great portion of tin land i- still open to piv-eniption or homestead. though eastern fa run rs are -'ttiing it up rap idlyJ House* are springing up all over the prairies, young orchards started, and shade tree planted out by the thousands. Tin? whole face of the earth i being checkered with neeipiius .Tossing and re-crossing each olhn in .-very direction. An aeeipiia ha been projected and p '1 l.nill. vvlueli will he 1 v. d' e mi’*• - !••! .'. It ’i 1 ken from North Sprue: 11\ 1 wit!, u half mile oi lh -.'.nil. carried am the Iloiido and South • pi . KiV'Ts. lichee oil south, sle dding its waters toward.* the IVcns riv-T. Aeeqilia-are easily eon-stmeted, being made by plowing and scraping. The farms of Captain Lea, John Cldsitm, and Put. T. (lam tt are models.Stales earn, wheat, oats, sugar cum*, grow w. II and yield bountifully. Cam* and vines of all kind.* grow wild almost, as but little attention need he given them after the seed i- planted.Mll.l. MTK.
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Las Vegas Daily Gazette
Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
Sat, Feb 25, 1882
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