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Identifier: landofsunshineha01newm (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., 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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ks and brick yards. Railroads. New Mexico is well gridironed by railroads and new linesare under consideration. During the past three years, 850miles have been added and now every county except one, hasrailroad facilities. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, theChicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the El Paso and Southwest-ern, the El Paso and Northeastern, the Santa Pe Central, theDenver and Rio Grande, the Colorado and Southern, the PecosValley and Northeastern, the Southern Pacific and theirbranches and extensions, are the principal railway lines.These railroads employ a large number of men, and affordsuperior facilities for communication and traffic within thecommonwealth as well as connection with the outside world.Three of the most important lines of transcontinental travelpass through the Territory. Santa Fe and Deming have threeindependent railroad systems, while other places have a com-petition of two railroad lines or are the junction points ofbranches or a main and branch line.
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CHAPTER V. CLIMATE. IT is its climate that is New Mexicos principal and partic-ular boast, and well may its people be proud of it. Asthe altitude gradually declines from 8,000 feet in thenorth to 3,000 feet in the south, the climate is modifiedas far as the mean annual temperature is concerned, but other-wise it is the same in the north as in the south, the sharp win-ter winds of the north being tempered by the warm sunshineand dry air; and the higher temperature of the south being mo-derated by the latitude, the dry air and the invariabl)^ coolnights. There is no other commonwealth, not even Coloradowith its high winds and greater annual precipitation, nor Ari-zona with its hot dust storms and great variations in daily tem-perature, although both possess a fine climate that is a specificfor lung trouble, that can compare its climatic advantages withthose of New Mexico. The Territory knows of no cases of na-tive consumption, and in the higher altitudes and in certain lo-calities, of n

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