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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t by the Alamogordo Improvement Companysince the advent of the Rock Island. Five hundred acres areembraced in the townsite, which is picturesquely situated onthe Pecos river, and platted around a plaza, one side of theplaza being reserved for a modern hotel. The handsome RockIsland passenger depot faces the plaza, while the commodiousfreight depot is close at hand. It is a prosperous and growingrailroad, trade and stock center, with a population of 1,200.It has two weekly newspapers. The Santa Rosa Star and theLa Voz Pubhca, a bank, several churches, a good public school,railroad shops and round houses. The new town is situatedat an elevation of 4,600 feet. The surrounding country, withthe exception of the valleys along the river, is prairie and de-voted to cattle and sheep raising. Along the valley splendidfruit, grain and vegetables can be grown with the aid of irri-gation. The water in the Pecos river from the Santa Rosacrossing south is alkah, while 100 yards above the crossing it
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 183 is fairly good. The alkaline character of the water below iscaused by gypsum and alkali springs flowing into the river.A remarkable example of the well and wind mill method ofirrigation now exists in the county.. It is the Sumner ranch,eight miles north of Santa Rosa. When one rounds the pointof a barren range of rocky hills and gets a glimpse of this fer-tile farm, one is tempted to believe that a portion of the richagricultural section of Iowa has been transported to thissandy plain. The owners of the Sumner ranch are pioneers,and their success is likely to be followed up by many newcomers. With a tributary territory, such as seems likely tospring up within the next few years, Santa Rosa would beprosperous if all other resources were removed. It is thedivision headquarters of the Rock Island and the El PasoRailroad. It is here also that the El Paso and Rock Islanddivision of the El Paso and Northeastern Railway starts.Santa Rosa is sheltered by hills on bot

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