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Identifier: landofsunshineha02newm (find matches)
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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it derives its name, itsscenic and climatic attractions and its diversified resources,it naturally takes first rank in interest among the politicalsubdivisions of the Territory. It is the central county of the Territory; is rectangular inform, extending south a distance of seventy-two miles fromthe thirty-sixth degree of latitude, and measures thirty milesfrom east to west; embraces a total area of 2,160 square miles,being twice as large as Rhode Island and 200 square mileslarger than the State of Delaware. Of this area 950,000 acresare officially pronounced available for cultivation and pastur-age, while thousands of the roughest mountain acres areclothed with timber and ribbed with valuable mineral bearingveins. It is crossed from east to west by the great trans-continental railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fesystem which operates over seventy miles of road within itsborders, and is tapped from the north by the New Mexicodivision of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 253 extends within the county from Espanola to Santa Fe, adistance of thirty miles. The Santa Fe Central Railwaj^has its terminal at Santa Fe, giving the capital direct connec-tion with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific system. Thelength of its main line in the county is fifty-five miles. Abranch line of the Santa Fe system runs from Lamy to SantaFe, a distance of eighteen miles. A short branch of the mainline also extends to the Madrid coal fields. Wagon roadsreach all the towns of the county, and a telephone is inoperation from Santa Fe to Cerrillos. From the summit ofMount Baldy the surface presents a magnificent panoramaof mountains, mesas and valleys, with many streams of waterrunning down high mountain slopes, over precipices andboulders, into deep and narrow gorges and widening valleys,flashing in the sunlight like ribbons of silver in their hurriedand heedless race to the Rio Grande on the west, and withlofty mountain peaks of southern and northern New

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