Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-05-06
Rainfall Sufficient
in Three-Fourths
of Territory
PROVEN BY OFFICIAL DATA
Annual Meteorological Sum-
mary Of New Mexico for
1907 Just Out.

The annual meteorological summary
of the New Mexico section of the eli.
Imatological service for the year 1907,
appeared from the press Of the New
Mexican Printing company today and
lis of considerable interest to New
Mexico people. The average tempera-
ture for the year. 53.S degrees. was 6
| of degree above the normal. The
leverage precipitation for the year was
1913 inches, or 1.59 inches above the
normal. From IL to Is inches are need
ed year to make scientific dry farm
| ing a success. The precipitation was
less than ten inches in the immediate
surroundings of Albuquerque, in San
Juan county excepting strip along
| the northeastern and along the south
ern boundaries, in southwestern Otero
county and in the Rio Grande valley
from San Marcial southwark. In those
sections dry farming is therefore out
of question. The precipitation ranged
between 10 and Is inches in Luna,
Grant and Sierra counties excepting
the upper Gila region; in Sandoval,
northern Mckinley, southern McKin-
ley, eastern Mora. southern Rio Ar
riba. southern San Juan, northern Ber-
nalillo and northern Mckinley coun-
ties and around Roswell. In those sec
tions success in dry farming would
be problematical. In the rest of the
Territory it should be a success The
upper PecOs, the Sacramento noun
tain and the Cumbress Pass regions
had more than rs inches of rain and
ordinary farming succeeds there. Be-
tween 20 and Is inches of rain fell in
Iall of eastern New Mexico from the
Colorado line to the northeastern cor
ner Of Eddy county, excepting north,
eastern Union county. This line of
heavy rainfall comes farthest west in
Roosevelt and Chaves counties. That
amount of precipitation was also re.
corded around Mountainair, along the
San Francisco river, in part of the up
per Pecos and northern Rio Arriba
county regions, and there, ordinarily
dry farming should be an undoubted
success. In the remainder of the ter.
ritory, which includes all of Guada-
llupe, all of Santa Fe, most of San
Miguel, northern Taos and northern
Colfax counties, northern and west.
ern Socorro, all of Lincoln, nearly all
Iof Eddy, western Chaves, the upper
|Gila sections in Socorro, Sierra and
Grant counties, the greater part Of
Torrance, the Zuni region in McKin.
ley county, western Mora and part of
northern Rio Arriba counties, the pre-
| |cipitation was from Is to 20 inches
and there, dry farming If sufficiently
prosecuted should yield good results
The precipitation for May 1907 shows
that dry farming would have been
successful in three-fourths of the Ter
ritory and absolutely out OF question
in only one-twentieth of the total area
of New Mexico.
Hints to Dry Farmers.
The man looking for dry farming
location should study the following
precipitation reports of stations: Over
thirty inches In 1907, Cloudcroft; be.
tween rs and 30 inches, Chama and
Winsor's; between 20 and 25 inches
Eagle Rock, Mineral Hill, Nara Visa,
Rociada, Rosedale; between Is and
20 inches, Dulce, Fort Wingate, Glen
Las Vegas, Monument. San Rafael; be-
tween Is and 1S inches, Bell Ranch,
Carlsbad, Cliff, Elk, Fort Bayard, Fort
Stanton, Fort Union, Los Alamos, Los
Lunas, MagdaleEa, Manuelito, Santa
Fe, Socorro, Tres Piedras, Tucumcari
and Vermejo; between IL and Is
inches, Albert, Cimarron, Elizabeth
town, Estancia Hillsboro, Lake Val
ley, Lordsburg, Red Rock, Roswell,
Taos and Valley; between 10 and II
inches, Alamogordo, Deming and
Gage; less than 10 inches, Albuquer-
que. Bloomfield, Fruitland. Mesilla
Park, Orange, Rincon, Springer and
Strauss. The least rainfall was at
Strauss, STA inches and the greatest
at Cloudcroft, 31.26 inches.
The highest temperature was re-
corded at Alamogordo, 110 degrees
The following other places reported
over 100 degrees: Albuquerque,
Bloomfield, Alamogordo, Albert, Bell
Ranch, Cliff, Deming, Frisco, Gage,
Glen, Lagunita, Logan, Rincon, Ros.
well, San Jon, San Marcial, Socorro
and Tucumcari. Santa Fe reported a
maximum Of only 81 degrees and the
only other places that had maximum
LESS than 80 we're Chama Cloudcroft,
Eagle Rock, Elizabethtown, Rociada,
Rosedale, Tres Piedras, vermejo and
Winsor's. The lowest temperature was