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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nvaluableas an aperient and alterative. Plans have been perfected forthe erection of a sanitarium and hotel at the springs. Thebeautiful town of Carlsbad, nearby, however, furnishes goodand convenient accommodations for ah visitors. At Fay wood. Grant county, three miles from Fay wood sta-tion on the Santa Fe railway, are springs of 142 degrees Fah-renheit and which are efticacious in cases of rheumatism,stomach and kidney troubles, and blood and skin diseases,the waters resembhng those of Carlsbad, Austria. Thealtitude of the springs is 5.782 feet. A commodious hotel hasbeen erected at Faywood. Three miles north of the hotel, isanother group of mineral springs. The Coyote mineral springs, twelve miles from Albuquer-que, are highly esteemed for their curative powers. They aremildly laxative and diuretic and are specific in gout, rheuma-tism, dyspepsia and kidney and liver troubles. On the otherside of the Sandias, on the Tejon grant, are also fine mineralsprings but not yet exploited.
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IN THE GALLINAS CANON NEAR LAS VEGAS. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 123 Near Folsom, at an altitude of 6,500 feet, on the ColoradoSouthern Railroad, are hot springs of great medicinal value.Nearby is the extinct volcano Capulin, with one of the mostperfectly formed craters in the southwest. Ten miles southwest of the quaint old Pueblo of Zuni, andfurther south on the San Francisco river, are hot and mineralsprings, known and used by the natives for the past three cen-turies and longer. At an altitude of 6,540 feet, in Socorro county, at Cherryville>accessible by stage from Eiigle, there are hot mineral springs,with a temperature of 120 degrees. At Palomas in Sierracounty, on the Gila river in southwestern Socorro county, onthe upper Mimbres in Grant county, and in other parts of NewMexico are found hot and cold springs, whose curative powersare equal to those of the springs described above, and situatedin canons or valleys of wild but idyllic beauty. Near Estancia,in Valencia county, are v

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