Image: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico (1904) (14780203512)

Description: Identifier: landofsunshineha01newm (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., 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: the Raton and the Taos rangesthere are 500,000 acres of merchantable timber, principallyyellow pine and cedar. Near Ehzabethtown are the Morenoplacers which produce more gold annually than any mine orother placer in New Mexico. There are also a large numberof well developed lode mines carrying gold, copper, silver andother minerals, their distance from the railroad, however,restricting their production. It is in its coal fields that thecounty has its greatest source of wealth. Over half a milliontons are produced annually by the coal mines at Dawson andVan Houten, while there are developed coal mines at Bloss-burg, Gardiner, Raton and Johnsons mesas. TheSanta FeRailway cuts through the country from north to south and theDawson Railway enters its southeastern corner and runsnorthwest to its present terminus at Dawson. The county hasgood wagon roads. It is a leader in education and every settle-ment has its school house and church. The county seat andfourth largest city in New Mexico is Text Appearing After Image: THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 159 Raton. It is one of the most prosperous and progressive cities inthe southwest. The last census gave it a population of 3,450,but with its suburbs it now has 8,000 people, and is adding toits population at the ratio of ten per cent per year. It is calledthe Gate City of New Mexico. In ten years from 1890 to 1900it increased its population 200 per cent. It is situated in theshadow of the Raton mountains and is in the center of theiinest coal belt in the southwest, surrounded by prosperousstock ranges, and has tributary to it a wide agricultural sec-tion. It IS also in a promising oil field, and an important divi-sion point on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, thecompany maintaining extensive shojDs there. Over $50,000 amonth are distributed by the railroad company at this point.The trade of the surrounding coal camps is transacted at theGate City, which means a monthly pay roll of §40,000 in andabout the city. The commercial lines are well represente Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico (1904) (14780203512)
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