Sandoval County, Its History, Population 

 and Settlements 



ANDOVAL COUNTY is one of the newer divis- 

 ions of the territory. It was created by the legis- 

 lature of 1903 chiefly from Bernalillo county. 

 Much of that portion of the county lying outside 

 the Rio Grande valley is without railroad com- 

 munication and has not yet begun to develop as it 

 will undoubtedly develop when it's vast natural 

 resources of mine and forest and range become 

 more widely known. The population of the 

 county is about 12,000, living chiefly along the Rio Grande and in the 

 Jemez mountain region. Bernalillo, the county seat, is on the Santa Fe 

 railroad and the Rio Grande, 18 miles north of Albuquerque and is one 

 of the oldest towns in New Mexico. It has several large mercantile 

 establishments, a large flouring mill and is surrounded by a very fertile 

 farming district, making it an important shipping point, while it is the 

 railroad station for the famous Jemez mineral springs and for the stage 

 lines which traverse the county to the north and northwest. 



Domingo, on the Santa Fe, north of Bernalillo is the shipping point 

 for one of the large lumber manufacturing companies of the region while 

 at Hagan, east of Bernalillo are the most important coal mines in Central 

 New Mexico to which a railroad is now building. Other important set- 

 tlements are at Jemez, the post ofiice for the Jemez hot springs ahd the 

 important grazing and timber country surrounding. Cabezon and Cuba 

 are in the sheep growing district. These postoffices are reached by stage 

 from Bernalillo. 



Looking Across the Jemez Valley, Sandoval County 



