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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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. TheDenver and Rio Grande has not quite fifty miles of narrowgauge tracks in the extreme western part, near the Rio Arribaboundary line, but Tres Piedras is the only settlement of anyconsequence it touches, although there is also a station atEmbudo, which is several miles from the town of that name.The scenery along this railroad, especially from Embudo toBarranca, is among the grandest in the southwest. FromEmbudo and Tres Piedras stations to Taos there are roadswith daily stage lines, while the mining camps of Red Riverand Amizett and the settlements of Cerro and Questa alsohave road connection as have to a lesser extent all the postoflices. Recently a new road was completed from Taos toServilleta, on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, makingthe distance from the county seat to the railroad onlytwenty-two miles. Portions of the county are heavily timbered. On accountof the difficulty in bringing the merchantable timber fromthe steep mountain sides to the railroad, saw mills are in
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THE LAND OF SUNSHTNE. 279 operation in various parts, the principal being near Questa,Truchas and Twining. Fernandez de Taosis the county seat and is romantically situated in a beautifulvalley surrounded by mountains which rise abruptly from theplain. It is a very interesting town, quaintly built around alarge plaza. The Roman Catholic church is of great antiquity.Before the advent of the railroads in New Mexico it was a com-mercial center of great importance and even today enjoys agood trade. Among the early American residents were Col.Kit Carson, Governor Wilham Bent, who was assassinatedhere during the Pueblo insurrection, Colonel Ceran St.Vrain,Judge Beaubien, Lucien Stewart and others. Here the firstprinting press west of the Missouri river was set up in 1837by Rev. Antonio J. Martinez and the first newspaper. ElCrepusculo, was published. A good public school, missionschools and a Loretto academy are the educational facihtiesof this town. A weekly newspaper, printed in Enghsh and

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