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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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d loan associations, atrust comj)any, over a dozen new and commodious hotels,restaurant* and boarding houses; commission and whole-sale firms carrying large stocks of merchandise. Itis a noted wool center, and the annual sales of thatstaple reach into the millions. Here is located thelargest sheep dipping plant in the country and five woolscouring mills are operated. There are published at LasVegas the Optic, an eight page daily newspaper, having theAssociated Press service; several weekly publications, includ-ing the Weekly Optic and Stock Grower, La Voz del Pueblo,El Independiente and La Revista Catolica. There are twelvechurches of various denominations. Las Vegas has about eightmiles of electric railway, two electric light plants and a rollerflour mill, with a capacity of fifty barrels per day, as well asordinary flour mills; a manufactury of mineral and carbonatedwaters; three or more carriage and wagon manufactories;saddle and harness factories; two planing mills, as well as two
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 251 lumber yards; one foundry, one machine shop; two ice plantsand a cold storage plant. The town has two telephoneexchanges; one that connects this city with Denver andother Colorado points. A large and well equipped sanitariumknown as St. Anthonys is conducted by the Sisters of Charity.There are also quarries of building stone near the city. Thecity has a driving park and the Montezuma hotel and sanita-rium at the Hot Springs is about to be reopened. TheTerritorial Insane Asylum having accommodations for 200patients is located liere. It is an extensive institution and itscapacity and buildings are being increased. An addition tocost $30,000 is now in course of construction. Santa Fe County. Area 2,160 square miles. Population, census of 1900,14,658; present population is 18,000. Assessed valuation in1903,12,458,790. County seat, Santa Fe. Post offices : SantaFe, Glorieta, Cerrillos, Golden, Kennedy, Madrid, Moriarty,San Pedro, Chimayo, Hobart, Ildefonso, Nambe,

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