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Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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h so that the cold is not thought a drawbackby the army of consumptives that flock to New Mexico as a sanitarium. It may bestated as absolute truth that we have no severe droughts, no fogs, no hot winds, nocyclones, tornadoes, or hurricanes, no northers, no winter rains, and it was no exag-geration when the Hon. L. Bradford Prince, then governor of New Mexico, in anaddress delivered in September, 1891, speaking of Colfax County, in which theMaxwell grant is located, said: When one views the verdant plains of eastern Colfax, covered with herds of cat-tle, changing to the west into the agricultural lands along the Vermejo, the Ponil,and the Cimarron, dotted with the coal mines of Blossburg and the pine forests ofCatskill, and rising into the golden mountains and gold-bearing streams of Eliza-bethtown, one is apt to say, This, truly, is the promised land. The people who reside here, as well as all domestic animals, areremarkably free from disease. There is something in the dry, pure air,
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TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. 479 possibly ozone, that is destructive to disease germs, and people spendmuch of their time out of doors the year round, which is always con-ducive to good health and a cheerful, happy existence. The so called rainy season, of about six weeks to two months, usuallyoccur* in July and August, during which time showers fall almost daily,generally in the afternoon, the mornings being clear and bright. Thenthe whole country, from the green prairies and valleys up through theevergreen foothills covered with pinon, cedar, pine, and spruce timber,to the high mountains, upon whose lofty summits banks of snow canbe seen, presents a landscape as lovely as the eye could wish to see. In these mountains the scenery is grand beyond description. Thereare many clear, cold, rippling streams in which there are speckled trout,and on either side great forests of pine and spruce timber where thehunter can find deer, bear, wild turkeys, grouse, and other game. Manyof the people spe

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