Sugar beet farming can be profitable in Valley, especially around Alamosa, due to water and abundance of “Mexican” labor
Soil Map of San Luis Valley, showing soil composition, township grid, agricultural canals, and railroads during the early twentieth century. Made by Holmes J. Garnett, 1903
300 skilled sugar beet raisers coming to Monte Vista, La Jara, and Romeo from Globeville, CO (NE of Denver)
The Lucero family pose by an adobe wall on the White Mountain Ranch in Costilla County, San Luis Valley. Undated photo
Trujillo homestead, near Mosca, builtby Pedro Trujillo, a first generation Hispanic-American, in 1879. He was a small-scale pioneer cattle rancher
Farm workers stand near a pickup truck in a field in the San Luis Valley. A man stands in the back of the pickup truck filled with burlap bags of potatoes, 1950-55
Farmer looking at his field, San Luis Valley Farms
George G. Romero kneels beside the Vallejos Ditch near an old headgate, prior to the USDA Ditch no. 5 Special Improvement Project, San Pablo (Costilla County), 1965?
View of an acequia (irrigation ditch), possibly part of the Vallejos Ditch system in the San Luis Valley
Bill Moreno irrigates his field in San Luis (Costilla County), 1970
