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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, 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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ath of Nogal. Even alfalfa is thus grown.Wheat yields thirty bushels to the acre, cabbage 30,000pounds, beans 4,000 pounds, apples and pears 25,000 poundsand grapes 9,000 pounds to the acre. There are in the county200,000 sheep, 85,000 cattle, 10,000 goats and 3,000 horses.Naturally it is a tine stock country. It is rich in coal as well asin the precious and base metals. The coal production of theCapitan mines is 100,000 tons a year. There are extensive un-developed coal fields and iron ore deposits which presage fut-ure industrial prominence. It has produced several mihiondollars worth of gold, its principal mining camps being atWhite Oaks, Nogal and Jicarilla. Fine timber covers the moun-tain sides and the Lincoln ForestReserve is situated in LincolnCounty. There are two saw mills, one flour mill and a numberof reduction and cement works. At Fort Stanton, the UnitedStates Revenue Marine Hospital Service maintains a sanita-rium for consumptives, thus giving convincing ofticial testi-
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 187 mony to the superiority of the chmate of that part of NewMexico. The largest town in the county is Capitan, which nestles in a spot surrounded on every side by ruggedhills which rise on one side into the majestic Capitans and ter-minate on the other in the snow capped Sierra Blanca, thePikes Peak of New Mexico. These rugged hills rising inbroken line to meet the blue arch of heaven furnish everchang-ing scenery for the eye, as every glance reveals some newbeauty to them. The ethereal blueness of the sky and the ver-dant hills in summer, or the brown and sombre of winter,form a contrast of colors more beautiful than ever portra^^edon canvass. Where a little over five years ago stood one houseand a small store, today there is a town of nearly a thousandpeople, with business houses, comfortable residences andeverything that goes to make up a busy cit). Since its set-tlement on the 3d day of March, 1899, Capitan has had a rapidgrowth when it is considered that it

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