Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of Dona Ana County, 1882
Great mountain ranges spring up from the plain to a height of from two to six thousand feet above its level. These ranges are from twenty to fifty miles long and seldom exceed ten miles in Width. Their general course is from north to south, and they are all rich in mineral.
Bet-ween these ranges are great plains, from twenty to sixty miles wide, treeless and almost waterless, but covered with a growth of rich, nutritious grass, that affords pasturage for stock at all seasons of the year.
Beyond the valley of the Rio Grande, but a small portion of' the land in the county is susceptible of producing agricultural crops, owing to the scarcity of water; artificial irrigation being absolutely essential in this climate for the production of crops.
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