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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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s,periodical in their flow, and many, having no outlet, losethemselves in the sands. Tularosa, La Luz, Sacramentocreeks and the headwaters of the Penasco, of Eagle creek andother brooks flow from the foothills down picturesque canonsinto the open valleys and tablelands. A considerable acreageis under cultivation, it being practical to raise crops in partsof the Sacramento and White mountains without irrigation.A dam across Rinconada canon near Tularosa which willimpound sufficient water to irrigate 20,000 acres, is projected.The leading industries are stock raising, cattle, sheep andgoats doing equally well; mining, especially in the Jarillaswhere gold, silver, copper, lead and turquoise deposits exist;lumbering, there being thousands of acres of virgin timberlands in the Sacramento mountains and manufacturing, therebeing lumber mills, tie preserving plants and railroad shopsat Alamogordo. The Mescalero Apache Indian reservationand part of the Lincoln Forest Reserve are in the county.
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 211 Alamogordo, the county seat of Otero county, 4,r)00 feet above the sea level,has experienced the most remarkable growth of any tov^n inNew Mexico. Five years ago the town was established and ithas today over 4,000 inhabitants, broad streets, brickbusiness blocks well stocked with merchandise, five churches,two large saw mills costing over $200,000, an electric lightplant and ice factory, steam laundry, planing mill, a waterworks system which cost $50,000, a railway hospital, awomans club, a park a mile long, a daily newspaper, the Alamo-gordo Journal, three weekly newspajDers, the AlamogordoNews, the Otero County Advertiser and the AlamogordoJournal, a fine railroad depot, a modern and commodioushotel, a fine public school building and a public library. It isthe headquarters of the sixth judicial district. The generaloffices of the El Paso & Northeastern Railway are located here.Also the Southwestern Baptist College, whose promoters areimproving a suburba

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