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<br />002544 <br /> <br />Tab le 4 <br /> <br />Value of Mineral Production in the Pacific Southwest Area--19pl <br /> <br />Area <br /> <br />Amount <br /> <br />Five- State Area <br /> <br />$1,119,515,000 <br /> <br />Arizona <br /> <br />432,164,000 <br /> <br />California <br /> <br />620,687,000 <br /> <br />Nevada <br /> <br />1"1,303,000 <br /> <br />New Mexico <br /> <br />55,135,000 <br /> <br />Utah <br /> <br />226,000 <br /> <br />Source: U. S. Bureau of Mines, Mineral Yearbook. 1961. <br /> <br />Agriculture maintains an undeniably strong economic position in <br />the area. Livestock.grazing is prevalent over much of the area, and <br />irrigated farming dominates the valleys where water is available. The <br />value of agricultural products sold from Pacific Southwest farms in <br />1959, as shown in figure 4, was $1.2 billion. In 1954 total area <br />sales had changed in composition, with livestock and livestock products <br />replacing crops as the number-one income producer. During the 1946 to <br />1961 period Arizona led all other States in percentage gain in income <br />from agricultural sales. <br /> <br />Pacific Southwest land devoted to irrigated agriculture in 1959 <br />amounted to 2.3 million acres. Table 5 shows that this is an increase <br />of about 4-3/4 percent since 1949 and a decrease of about 2-1/2 percent <br />since 1954. The decrease in irrigated land which occurred during the <br />recent 5-year period in Arizona and Southern California totaling about <br />64,000 acres is due to encroachment of urban developments upon farm <br />lands and 'indicates the trend that may be expected to continue in the <br />futurea The small increases in irrigated acreage which occurred in <br />Nevada, New Mexico,and Utah during the same period represent further <br />development of minor local water supplies. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Lumbering and forestry are activities that provide much of the <br />basic employment in areas such as western New Mexico and eastern <br />Arizona. Modern forest management techniques assure continued economic <br />contributions in this field. <br /> <br />1-10 <br />