Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1895-06-01
Five Years Progress in ChaVes
and Eddy Counties.
What a Close Observer after Four
Yearly Visits Says About Them.
One Of the Finest sections West and South
Ut the Mississippi.
IMPROVEMENTS AVID FUTURE PROSPECTS

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known ihrlug huut the VIZ, ~ y k--u and
sur"~-rinl newspaper man. cl"-- "b.-rv
~. the writer Aui authority IN New Mrl
'c", ~Ar N Albuquerque during the lApt
week ~ AtlrniAncr IN the meetings ~ the
bureau ~ lmmlgtAtiuL Aud the Irrigation
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= ten dAyr' examination Il the P-c,p Val.
ley, Anh THE titnss kn"~ing the DESIRE
~ tie thuurAUir ~ rrA,l-rp H. learn Hum~
thing drhuttr sl"ut that z-,tim ~ New
M-tIc" in,-rvir~-l t"l"n-l FIRST with
the following E.rult
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c"- country within the pact tive years anil
have kept careful Acc"unt ~ the prog
r-rs AMI development ~ tina, n-ciiou.
This has been - great that only y I-r
H"nAl examination Will convince one II itH
magnitude AMI rucc".r The irrigation
syr,-mr ~ rurr-a-ful operation IN the
""untrr II ChAvrn auh Eldy are simply
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4" dAy than would h- u-crrssry fur ten
TIMES the amount II land nov under
actual cultivation and uH- They consist
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