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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ortance isagriculture. Then comes mining, the camp at Monero produc-ing 50,000 tons of coal a year. The Bromide, Hopeweh andTusas mining districts near Tres Piedras are very promising,copper, gold, silver, lead, platinum and mica being among themineral products. Lumbering is also an important industry,about 50,000 feet of lumber being cut daily. The JicarillaApache reservation is in the county, covering 415,000 acresupon which are 830 Indians making rapid advance. There aremany attractions for tourists, among them being the cliffdwellings of the Pajarito Park. Some of the settlements areamong the oldest in the United States. Tierra Amarilla is the county seat and is situated in the beautiful ChamaValley, with pretty agricultural settlements around it, theprincipal of which is Park View. The population of TierraAmarilla and contiguous settlements, including the charmingsettlement of Park View, is about 2,200. A weekly newspaper.El Republicano, is pubhshed here. Tierra Amarilla and Park
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HID o o <! CQ I—I « O l—H M Ph w H THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 223 View boast of several fine business houses and are also thecenter of a wealthy stock country. At El Rito, the Territorywill build a reform school. At Espanola, La Luz, a weeklynewspaper is published. The tow^n is a busy trade center.San Juan is a large Indian Pueblo. Chamita, near San Juan,is considered by some historians the oldest white settlementin New Mexico. Chama is a modern railroad town on the Denver and Rio GrandeRailroad on which it is a division point, and is a shippingpoint for the wool, lumber and other products of the northernpart. It has public schools and churches. Near the town arestone quarries, from which the stone for the Colorado capitolat Denver was taken. Ranches and stock ranges surroundthe town and nearby are several fine trout streams and goodhunting grounds. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroadmaintains here big dipping vats for sheep. The populationis 500. Abiquiu is one of the oldest settle

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