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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, comp Walter, Paul A. F
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Publisher: (Santa Fe, N.M.) J.S. Duncan: public printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as an electric light plant and a telephone system thatreaches out to all the important towns and mining camps sur-rounding it. There are several substantial church buildingsof various denominations. There is one national bank and onesavings bank here. There are also good hotels. The city hadtwo smelters built during the present year. The industriesof the surrounding country are stock raising and mining.Twelve miles to the south is the Burro mountain mining dis-trict containing principally copper ores and having a smelter,and also producing much of the turquoise sold in the UnitedStates. Nine miles north is located Pinos Altos, one of theoldest gold mining camps of the Territory. Nine miles eastare Fort Bayard and the town of Central, while sixteen mileseast are located the mining camps of Santa Rita, Hanover andFierro, in the center of big copper and iron ore deposits.The climate of this section makes it practicable to carry onmining every day in the year, both on top and underground.
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 179 St. Josephs sanitarium undej* the care and direction of theSisters of Mercy, is situated on a high elevation in the west-ern part of the town, and consists of two large brick build-ings, containing about thirty rooms. There is also locatedhere a county hospital. Lordsburg i^ situated at the junction of the Southern Pacific, the Arizonaand New Mexico, and the Lordsburg and Hachita Railroads.With surroundings it now has a population of about 1,200. Thetown was founded when the Southern Pacific Railroad wasbuilt through southern New Mexico, and was made a divisionpoint by the railroad. It has a large round house, machineshops, an extensive yard of side tracks, coal bunkers, and twolarge oil tanks with a capacity of more than 3,000,000 gallons,as the Southern Pacific is using oil in most of its engines.There are several business houses, two of which do a jobbingtrade. The town has an electric light and ice plant. Thereare three churches and a good public school b

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