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The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
At the end, each nation had ceded an equal area of land (2,560.5 acres (10.362 km 2)) to the other. The Chamizal Treaty of 1963, which ended a hundred-year dispute between the two countries near El Paso, Texas, transferred 630 acres (2.5 km 2) from the U.S. to Mexico in 1967. In return, Mexico transferred 264 acres (1.07 km 2) to the U.S.
Communal land grants were also made to Pueblos for the lands they inhabited." [1] The majority of the land area within grants was designated as common land for residents. Common land was mostly used for grazing cattle and sheep and harvesting timber. Smaller acreages within the grants were devoted to irrigation agriculture and home sites.
Parts of the United States are sometimes referred to as Old Mexico. California, formerly The Californias; New Mexico, formerly Nuevo México, itself sometimes referred to as “Old New Mexico” Pueblos, namesake of Nuevo México, their advanced trading network once connected with the Valley of Mexico, their network became part of El Camino Real
The final disposition of the common land in the grant came in 1926 when a timber company bought the common land from another timber company for $63,320 -- $3.00 per acre -- and traded it to the U.S. Forest Service for timberlands near Grants, New Mexico. The former common lands became part of the Carson National Forest. [22]
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None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is ...
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