Image 1 of The Columbus courier (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.), September 29, 1911
author: Anonymous
source date: 1911
availability: public_domain

Vv vie co Cex A SMALL ENTERPRISE WELL KEPT Columbus Courier Published In the Interest of Columbus and the Lower hihnbres Valley Vol I Columbus Luna County New Mexico September 29 1911 No I GOVERNMENT MAKES REPORT Eslrnsivc Investigations of P E Fuller of the United States Department of Agriculture is Very Flattering The vimlirt s Valley proper is I he terminus ol t he Mimhres riv ff it being un extensive rolson or Little Hatchet mountains on the r the Southwest Trail published ply is absolutely inexhaustible basin comprising over linmi west ami the Portillu mountains jy the Nock Island lines or which and there are surface indications acres of land oil the east from the northern t were Mloniof this issue to bear out that theory The to The Mimhres river heads in source or the Mimhres river to Hen rly sets forth the wonderful pogrupy or the country show the Hlack range ol mountains in lbc nd Mexico line includes possibilities or pumping for irri Columbus to lie near the center Scant county on the south of the square miles nation in tin lower Mimhres Vil of a vast basin lrom the north continental divide running south