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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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above the town, and the lands of the valley were totallyunutilized. But with the protection which came with theAmerican occupation, settlers rapidly came, and the valley nowhas a population of approximately 10,000 people. Las Cruces isthe largest town in the valley. The census of 1900 gave the twoprecincts in which the town is located a population of 2,906.The town proper has at present a population of 3,000. Theother settlements in the valley, almost contiguous to the townare Mesilla Park, Mesilla, Colorado, Rincon, La Mesa, SanMiguel, Chamberino, Garfield and Anthony. The town isregularly and symmetrically laid out, and in parts wellshaded. It has an altitude of about 3,800 feet. The altitude,combined with the latitude, renders the winter months themost delightful in the world, while the heat of the summer istempered and cooled with the rains which come about thefirst of June and extend into the fall. The town has a solidand substantial basis for its prosperity. It is essentially an
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 167 agricultural town, dependent in the main upon the prosperityof the neighboring farms and orchards for its welfare. Thereare about twenty general merchandise stores and the usualassortment of drug stores, banks, hotels, restaurants, saloonsand offices of professional men. A few miles to the east arethe beautiful Organ mountains where gold, silver, copper andlead ores have been and are being mined profitably, contribut-ing to the prosperity of all classes in the town. There are alsoon the neighboring ranges many cattle, sheep and goatranches, which are in a healthy condition. Within two milesof the town is the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Artsand the Agricultural Experiment Station. These are institu-tions endowed liberally by the national government and theTerritory, and under their supervision. They are largelypatronized by students from all parts of the Territory, fromthe neighboring sections of Texas and Mexico, and receivesome students from almost e

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