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New Mexico Land Boom Promises Growth Around Roy
The Land of Sunshine in Mora County New Mexico promotes 160 acre homesteads and 320 acre desert land entries with favorable fees. Roy, a growing town on the Dawson branch, profits from rail links to Tucumcari and French as immigrants stream in. The piece highlights climate fertile soil water resources and a booming agricultural and livestock potential including orchards sheep and goats along with affordable homeseeker rail rates from major cities. It notes extensive irrigation prospects and a healthy climate drawing settlers seeking land and opportunity.
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New Mexico
Roy
United States
Beazon
General Land Office
Mora County
Dawson
Great
el Paso & Southwestern
Rock Island Railroad
Tucumcari
Union
Themesag
Rock Island
el Paso
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
French
Kansas City
St.Louis
Chicago