PREFACE 



In this publication it is not intended to do more than give 

 in a general way, some facts about the subjects treated. 

 There has been no intention or expectation to exhaust the 

 subject matter or to be scientific only as the scientific may 

 help to explain common facts and phenomena. Since a 

 scientitic treatise in this stage in the development of the 

 state would m many ways be superfluous it has seemed 

 wiser to correlate some of the common things concerning 

 this section of the state and collect them in such a way as to 

 make them available for the interested. Since the work of 

 Survey was not begun until the latter part of July of this 

 year, the work accomplished is necessary meager in amount. 

 However since the sum of money available for each division 

 was also small, it is hoped that the amount expended and the 

 work accomplished will correlate satisfactorily. 



As the state of New Mexico perfects her secondary school 

 system, courses in phsiography and nature study, will be 

 added to the curriculum. At that time which will be very 

 soon the New Mexican student will be required to known, 

 among other things, the style of architecture nature has 

 used in the building of his state. He will be asked questions 

 in nature study concerning the "bird, the bee and the ant" 

 of his locality, and the great host of our friends which in- 

 habit the air and the earth, and which live under so many 

 varied conditions, will crowd into his mind for recognition. 

 The growth of scientific agriculture makes a grounding in 

 Botany a f undamental prerequisite for training along such 

 lines. We already have an up-to-date agricultural school in 

 the new state and the Biology of the state will be considered 

 an absolute essential of an agricultural course when the know- 

 ledge of this subject grows more complete was research fills 

 in the gaps. New Mexico will then be growing and expand- 

 ing into the new position and mission to which the times and 

 her natural development have called her. The people within 

 and without the state are asking even now, and will continue 



