Excerpt from Eddy County, New Mexico: The Most Southeastern County in the Territory Eddy County is the Riviera of New Mexico. It is a garden spot of the great lower Pecos Valley which ex tends north and south 120 miles, and east and west between the foothills, from five to thirty miles. It is the most southeastern and lowest in altitude of the counties of the Territory. Its southern and eastern boundaries are Texas. On the west lie Otero and C'ha ves Counties, and on the north Chaves County. The area is acres, or square miles, almost equal to that of New Jersey, larger than Connecti cut, over three times that of Dela ware, and more than six times that of Rhode Island. The Hawaiian Islands with their population of could be placed in Eddy County and not touch the boundary at any point. Of this area, acres, of which acres are still to be surveyed, are government land, subject to home stead, desert or mineral entry. The county is the sixth in size among New Mexico counties, the twentieth in pop ulation, which according to the census of 1900 was but is at present. Carlsbad, the county seat, had a cen sus population of 963, the remainder of the precinct of Precinct No. 2 had 242 population; No. 3 had 299; No. 4had 339; No. 5 had 128, according to the census of 1900. The assessed valuation is nearly or about $500 per head, a per capita exceeded by only two other counties in the Territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.