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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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o conjure with, a namegiven to one of the great transcontinental railway systems, atown whose very name is an invitation to the healthseeker, tothe tourist, the capital of the coming Sunshine State, acounty seat, an archbishops see, the location of many federal,territorial, Catholic, Protestant church institutions, a townmost charmingly situated, with a peerless climate all the yeararound, and a better summer climate than is possessed byany summ.er resort in the world, free from native consump-tion, malaria, enteric epidemics,mosquitoes,excessive summerheat. These and many more are the advantages, resourcesand attractions, the hub of which is the City of Santa Fe. Sierra County. Area 3,081 square miles. Population, census of 1900, 3,168.Present population, 5,000. Assessed valuation in 1903,$1,326,920. County seat, Hillsboro. Post offices : Hillsboro,Lake Valley, Engle, Fairview, Chloride, Las Palomas,Andrews, Kingston, Arrey, Hermosa, Monticello, Shandon.Philipsburg and Tierra Blanca.
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SCENES NEAR HILLSBORO. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 267 Sierra is one of the smallest of New Mexico counties, onlysix having a less area, yet it covers 1,971,960 acres, or 3,081square miles, three times the area of the State of RhodeIsland and more than one and a half times the area of the Stateof Delaware. Of this, 1,775,000 acres are subject to entry underthe federal land laws, of which 274,379 acres are unsurveyed.Only 112,600 acres have been appropriated, and 84,000 acresare reserved. The census of 1900 gives the value of farmsand live stock as $1,829,000. Sierra county is rough and unbroken and the water sup-ply is scant, the precipitation ranging from four to sixinches during the summer, while the total per annum isprobably in the neighborhood of ten inches. Irrigation isgenerally confined to the valleys of the few small streamsflowing eastward toward the Rio Grande. None of these,however, discharge water into the river, excepting duringseasons of excessive snowfall or heavy summer rai

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