The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico (1904) (14780755985)

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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904

Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)

Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ambe, thePojoaque, the Santa Fe and the Santa Clara are the principalperennial streams, only part of whose waters are utilized forirrigation. There is a good range, not overstocked. Theagricultural valleys produce deciduous fruits that are pro-nounced the finest that can be raised; alfalfa, cereals andvegetables. The mineral resources which include gold, silver,copper, lead, zinc and turquoise, made the county famous twocenturies ago. The coal deposits are among the best in thesouthwest, the only anthracite coal bed in New Mexico beinglocated here. Clay, lime, marble and sandstone of excellentquality are produced. The climate is the best all aroundclimate in the world. Owing to the historic interest, the cliffdwellings, the beauty of the scenery, its easy accessibility,its trout streams and its varied industries, Santa Fe countyattracts many tourists and healthseekers. It contains a number of prosperous towns and settlementsin addition to the territorial capital. Cerrillos is a mining

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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 257 camp which has a good pubhc school and has a smelter, beingthe center of a rich mining country and near the extensivecoal beds owned by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company atMadrid. Superior building stone is quarried near Cerrillos.In southern Santa Fe county is San Pedro, which when thelast census was taken, had 451 people. Here a fine coppersmelter has been erected to treat the ores of the extensiveworkings of the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Company. NearSan Pedro is Golden, a prosperous mining camp of 323 per-sons. Galisteo is an old agricultural settlement in the centerof a sheep and cattle district. Many nice ranches are in thevicinity. The precinct is credited with 736 people. Glorietais the starting point for most of the travel and traffic for theupper Pecos river and the Pecos Forest Reserve, and near itare iron and copper ore deposits and coal veins and theinteresting ruins of the abandoned Pecos pueblo. Moriarty isthe most southern settlement of the co

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