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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do of an asylum for the blind on whichconstruction work has begun. When five years ago, theAlamogordo Improvement Company was organized, the bareacres of the townsite were all that was visible. With a capitalof $500,000 and an unlimited fund of foresight and energy thecompany began work. The original townsite purchase was1,200 acres, and from the signing of the title deeds to thepresent time the company has expended in cash $400,000, ofwhich $175,000 were for a city water system, $115,000 for cityand suburban irrigation, and the remaining $110,000 forbuildings, street and alley construction, and improvementsfor parks and other city purposes. The city water supply isbrought twelve miles from springs in Alamo Canon, the lasteight miles of the distance being piped. The system has agravity pressure of 100 pounds to the square inch. Thecompany platted its land into city lots and one acre suburbantracts, and has brought the waters to its irrigation systemfrom La Luz canon, seven miles away.
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o Q«O oo ww Cfi Q« 1—t THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 213 A $25,000 court house has been constructed, a $30,000railway hospital is to be built and a $75,000 tie preservingplant has been erected. The town is the geographical andcommercial center of a fine fruit growing section; hasthousands of tributary fertile acres open to government entry;is enthe main line of the shortest route between Kansas City,Denver and El Paso to California and Mexico and is withinseveral hours jaunt of the famous Cloud City, the areal sum-mer and scenic southwestern resort, with which it isconnected by the Sacramento Mountain Railway, one of theengineering wonders of the United States. Tularosa is situated on the El Paso and Northeastern Railway. Itslatitude is about thirty-three degrees north and is at the baseof the White Mountains, whose highest peak about twenty-fivemiles distant, rises 12,500 feet. It is supphed with water bythe Tularosa creek, which is a mountain stream whose sourcesconsis

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