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counfry" would ofherwise be impassable as well as uninha^' >ble. 

 The inhabitable portion of New Mexico is confined to the unme- 

 diate borders of the itreams. The boltoms on the Del Norte are 



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about one and a half miles wide on the average so far down, and 

 are elevated but a few feet above the level of the running water. 



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The Del Norte is rapid and regular, and its waters .can be tapped 

 at any point without a dam, so that irrigation is carried on succesg- 

 fully. It remains for greater improvements, in this respect, to de- 

 velope the resources of the country. A large canal along the base 

 olthe " ' 



hills might carry 



the water of the Del Norte, and be a 



means of transportation, while its surplus water could be employed 

 in th€ winter for filling reservoirs, and during the' summer to carry 

 T^ater directly upon the fields: in this way the country could be 

 i^ade to feed ten times the present population. The rains of this 

 -country all fall upon the mountain tops, and the valleys are thus 



tion, as the water only reaches them m' the 

 At' oux camp during the night we could see 



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ependent upon irrigation, as the water only reaches them in- the 



* big drains of nature. Af Oui ^»^^t^ o ^ , j u i 4 



' -np^n the distant hills the camp fires of the shepherds who lead 

 their flocks afar from the habitations. 



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iO: the ox teams not having over- 



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en us, passed Paharito, Padillo, Isleta, Los Lentes, and encamp- 

 ed at Los Lunas: pleasant camp in good ^ass, distance U -^i-"- 

 during the day had some places of deep sand through v _ 

 would be difficult to drive wagons; the road generally good; some 

 extensive groves of cotton- wood (pecan^ on the river, otherwise the 

 country bare of trees or shrubs; volcanic rocks showed themselves 

 on two small hills on the west of the De Norte; the upaeave- 



east of the Del Norte shows a iorce to 



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the west, but at what point it has been exerted is not apparent. 



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no hard wood in this country to mend wagons with 

 oak bush occasionally, but generally not sound. „,„ :r v^ 



trees would no doubt flourish. I asked Don Jose Luna's son if be 



Plantations of 



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