Hatch Valley

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Farmers of the Hatch community, who have developed the chile industry as one which threatens the laurels of King Cotton, are moving out shipments to market. Just three years prior, only a mere 300 pounds of chile had been marketed in the entire Rincon Valley, of which the Hatch Valley was a part. As of 1929, farmers estimated that 250,000 pounds of chile were being sent to market. The Hatch Valley was on its way to being known as the Chile Capital of the World