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and encouraged immigration, with increased cultivation, will 

 be potent climatic features of the future. As 'New Mexico 

 lies within the migrating belts of the horse latitudes and 

 trade winds, the climate has a fundamental cause for constant 

 semi-aridity. But protected forests and increased cultiva- 

 tion will serve to increase humidity, and, can be reckoned as 

 influencing factors on the climate as the state developes. 



New Mexico is certainly entitled to be called "The Sunshine 

 State." As a natural out-door sanitorium for -tubercular 

 affections this state holds its own peculiar asset, sunshine of 

 the most continuous sort, and the pure, wholesome air of an 

 elevation of more than a mile make any part of the state a 

 great boon to all sufferers from pulmonary infections. 



THE NEW MEXICO OF TOMORROW 



The frontier of a decade ago is a thing of the past, some 

 of its characteristics still remain but with the next generation 

 they will be gone forever. The southwest has been the last 

 to receive the attention of the world of trade and of the 

 influences of the south and east. The reason for the former 

 may be the scarcity of production, the reason for the latter 

 the small percentage of immigration. Of recent years there 

 has been a wonderful invasion of the eastern part of the 

 territory by settlers from Texas and Oklahoma and from 

 states farther east and south. Already the advance line of 

 this movement has neariy reached the central part of the 

 state, and Estancia Valley is following the rapid development 

 of her neighboring valley to the east, the Pecos. Where now 

 only trading posts and small hamlets or Indian pueblos dot 

 the map of western New Mexico, in a very few years thrifty 

 villages and well ordered ***** ranches will signal to the 

 world and to neighboring states the true value and status of 

 this commonwealth. The natural resources of New Mexico 

 are many and varied. Among the most ***** prominent 

 are agriculture and mining. 



AGRICULTURE 



This state is not especially an agricultural community in 

 the sense in which the term is used on the plains. However, 

 everything outside of mesas and mountains which is available 

 for irrigation may be counted as an agricultural possibility. 

 Irrigable valleys and plains of the southern one half of the 



