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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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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 5 the story of the cures that have been achieved, is now a partof official records. Ample accommodations are offered by tentcities, hotels, sanitaria and homes in the larger towns as wellas the smaller settlements and at the various hot springs,which latter are gaining renown for their potent medicinalvirtues. For the Tourist. Tourists are welcomed. New Mexico has superb mountainscenery, quiet and ^picturesque valleys, unparalleled historicand prehistoric attractions. It is the land of the Cliff Dwellers;of the Pueblo Indians; of the Indian dances; of the Conquista-dores; of towns and buildings older than the oldest historicmonuments of any other part of the United States; of scenerygrand and unique; and to the sportsman it offers good huntingand excellent fishing.
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CHAPTER II. STATISTICS. wwwm mHAT has been accomplished hereby the comparative# M I few, with the employment of limited capital and^j^^l by a mere touch of development, is demonstrated^F^^^ by the following figures which have been carefullycompiled from official statistics:Area: 122,469 square miles. Population. Estimated population, 284,000, in 1904; by the census of 1900,195,310; 1890, 153,503; 1880, 119,565; 1870, 91,874: 1860, 87,034;including Arizona and southern Colorado, 1850, 61,547, Ofthe present population, 144,000 came from the states or arechildren of parents from the states; 127,000 are of native Span-ish or Mexican descent; 13,000 are Indians. Of the 66,396wage-earners in the census year of 1900, 40 per cent or 27,215were engaged in agricultural pursuits; 19,478 in domesticservice; 10,378 in manufacturing, mining and as mechanics;7,208 in trade, and 2,118 in the professions or in governmentservice. An estimate of the population of New Mexico from registra-tion and school

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