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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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xtensive except in a few instances. Still, therehave been many bonanzas in the Territory and from its goldand silver mines many fortunes have been made. Copper isfound in almost every one of the mining counties, and the cop-per mines in Grant and Santa Fe counties are well developed.Considerable iron ore is mined in Grant county, but the Ter-ritorys iron deposits have scarcely been touched, althoughabout 150,000 tons of iron ore are sent to Pueblo, Colorado,annually, from Fierro, Grant county, alone. The productionof lead is, in importance next to gold, silver, copper and iron,and after that zinc ore figures in the mineral returns. NewMexico produces an extra fine quality of turquoise and sup-plies the market almost entirely in the United States. Otherprecious stones are found although not in large deposits. Salt lakes, alum deposits, vast areas of gypsum, sulphur,kaolin, fire clay, corrundrum, bloedite, ochre, graphite andmineral paints, are features of the mineral wealth of the Ter-
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 95 ritory. Marble, granite, sandstone, lime, brick clay and otherbuilding materials exist in many counties. It is in its coal fields, however, that New Mexico possessesits greatest promise for the future. Last year a million anda half of tons of coal w^ere produced by the coal mines atDawson, Van Houten, Madrid, Gallup, Monero, Carthage,Capitan and elsewhere. Coal exists in more than one-half ofthe counties and undeveloped coal veins from four to fortyfeet in thickness await merelj^ the coming of the capitalistand the railroad. Good coal miners can always find employ-ment and make, very good wages. There are also oil prospectsin McKinley, Leonard Wood, Eddy, San Juan, Colfax andSandoval counties. The leading mining counties are: Grant, Santa Fe, Colfax,Taos, Rio Arriba, Sierra, Otero, Socorro, Lincoln, Dona Ana,Luna and Sandoval, although there are mines and mineral in-dications in every county. Manufacturing Industries. New Mexico has made but a beginning in man

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