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and for a while in the summer the air is filled with their seeds wafted 
by fluffy bari of cotton. 
To *  (tore-nee’ yo) is a small village sustained by cotton 
raising and other agricultural interests. Fabens, 6 
miles beyond it, is a town of considerable importance 
in the center of a large and prosperous irrigation 
community. 
The contrast here is very great between the sand- 
Tornillo. 
Elevation 3,586 feet. 
tion 60.* 
New Orleans 1,153 
miles, 
Fabens. hill and desert country of the terrace just north 
Elevation 3,620 fect. 280d the fertile irrigated district in the bottom lands. 
ion 1,623 About 20 miles north of Fabens, in places visible 
from the railroad, is the south end of the Hueco 
Mountains (way’co).*° 
Clint is a local center for a productive irrigation district which 
extends to and beyond El Paso. In this district the railroad passes 
through irrigated fields of alfalfa and many other crops, 
tia gardens, and orchards. One of the large ditches here 
prey conan ag aalleis the railroad for several miles. Most of the 
New Orleans 1,166 roads in this district are ‘‘alamedas” (ah-lah-may’das) 
cons embowered by overarching cottonwood trees. 
In this portion of the valley a few hundred Indians still remain, 
mostly working on ranches or associated with Mexican settlements. 
Originally they had many rancherias of their own. They were of 
the Pueblo type and known as the Tiguas (Teguas or Turcervas). 
Of the many Indians formerly i in Texas probably not more than 2,100 
remain, widely scattered in small groups, the largest of which is in 
Polk County, in the east-central part of the State. 
The old Mexican village of San Elizario, 2 miles west of Clint, 
was once the seat of Spanish government of the territory of Nuevo 
Méjico. The viceregal residence is still standing opposite the old 
church and jail. The place is famous also as the center of the “salt 
his name is used for a “screw 
Permian age lies directly on Montoya 
contains considerable 
® This range presents a succession of 
strata from Permian limestone at the 
throu 
stone). 
in 
the Bliss sandstone. In the south 
oa me eres the eneitons ‘of 
stones of Sogn sts some age. 
ll exposed in Powwow 
egy on eal highway from El] Paso 
to Carlsbad. The lower beds of the 
es regarded as Permian carry 
abundant remains of the foraminifer 
Schwagerina uddeni, 
