THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY 



opportunities for development and investment and with a dependable 

 water supply from the Rio Grande sufficient to irrigate every acre m the 

 valley which can be reached by gravity canals. 



When it is considered that the entire area of the lands described- is 

 immediately adjacent to the city of Albuquerque, the largest consuming 

 and distributing market between Denver and Los Angeles and when the 

 known and proven productivity of the soil and the certamty of the 

 yield are recalled, the prices now being obtained for these lands are 

 marvellously low, ranging as they do from $25 to $100 per acre for land 

 not under ditch and from $75 to $350 an acre for land under n-rigation. 



depending, of course, upon location as to market, 

 PRICES OF LAND improvements, and the usual conditions govern- 

 ing the price of similarly located lands. Of the 

 ready market of the Central Rio Grande Valley more will be said. It is 

 sufficient now to say that country road building is epidemic through the 

 recrion Good bridges span the Rio Grande at frequent intervals giving 

 r-ady access to the lands west of the river, while the county of Bernalillo 

 is about to expend $100,000 in the construction of two additional bridges. 

 Recent extensions of the railroads reaching Albuquerque give an im- 

 mediate outlet for freight and express east, we,t. north and south, with 

 an eager demand for Central Rio Grande Valley products m all 

 directions. 



A considerable portion of the area now under cultivation in the 



Central Rio Grande Valley was being successfully tilled before the 



Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock. Every record stands to prove that 



it had been cultivated for ages prior to that date, 



THE IRRIGATION for when the first daring Spanish Conquestadores 



QYQTFM pushed their treasure seeking way north into what 



^ is now New Mexico they found the Pueblo, or 



village Indians growing their scanty crops by irrigation, leading the 



water from the Rio Grande through crude canals. Thus the Rio Grande 



Valley seems fully justified in claiming title as the Cradle of Irrigation in 



America. The claim of many scientists that irrigation in this valley 



antedated irrigation in the Valley 



of the Nile furnishes an interesting 



Ellu' Theater 



Colombo Theater, Albuquerque 



