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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amidstorchards and broad cultivated fields. Ever running watersin its irrigation ditches, its thirty-five miles of cottonwoodand other shade trees, its wide streets and beautiful homes,all help to make it an attractive residence city. The suburbsof La Huerta and Hagerman Heights are far famed. The Ber-muda and the blue grass furnish pretty emerald lawn set-tings. The ornamental shade trees include the Catalpa, theChinese umbrella, North Carolina and Lombardy poplar,weeping willows, Russian mulberry, while encircling hedgesof gray cedar bush and the green bamboo cane are ever andanon broken by the shining spike of the giant cactus palm orSpanish dagger. Here and there can be seen roses of all huesand sizes, blooming almost every month in the year, gera-niums of fifteen and twenty varieties blooming in aU the softgradations of color from pure white to the deepest crimsonand royal purple, and many other flowers in profusion. Thearboriculture of Eddy county includes the walnut, the almond
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 173 and the pecan, a flourishing grove of the latter in La Huertagrowing more valuable every year. The altitude is 3,000 feet. It is 1,326 miles from Chicago,868 miles from Kansas City and 1,083 miles from Denver.With immediate surroundings it has a population of 2,000. Itspublic schools are up to date and housed in modern buildings.There are 500 chidren of school age in the city, and nearly allare enrolled in the public schools. There are churches ofmany denominations, a line opera house, commodious businessblocks, a $35,000 courthouse, electric hght, telephone, waterand sewerage systems, graded and well kept streets andthree weekly newspapers, the Carlsbad Argus, the Currentand the Pecos Valley Stockman. The town is a modern andmodel American community with healthy business conditions,and a promise of a great prosperity in the future. Carlsbad is considered one of the leading towns of NewMexico. It is the headquarters of the Pecos Irrigation Com-pany, whose irr

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