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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, 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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l mission schools. Baptist Churches thirty-six, of which four became self sup-porting during the past year, one college, and a number ofmission schools. Lutheran Churches three. Mormons, two churches, with 277 souls. A few scatteredmembers in addition at Bloomfield. The Congregational, five churches, 302 members, six mis-sion schools, 500 jDupils. The Christian and other Protestant denominations haveabout twenty congregations in the Territor3^ The Hebrews have synagogues at Las Vegas and Albuquer-que, and have church organizations in three or four of thelarger cities. The number of Hebrews in the Territorj^ is 695. Newspapers. There are seventy-five newspapers published in New Mex-ico, six of them daily, sixty-four weekly, and five monthly.Five of the daily papers have a complete Associated Pressservice. New Towns. The many new towns that have been founded, since thecoming of railroads to New Mexico and their steady growth,are proof that the Territory is not standing still. Within the
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 21 last five years, cities and towns like Alamogordo, Portales,Tucumcari, Capitan, Estancia, Artesia and Roy have beenfounded, while Roswell, Carlsbad, Gallup, Aztec and manyothers are settlements of recent birth, and it is onlj in the pasttwo decades that Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Raton have de-veloped from small villages into hustling, progressive cities. Banks. The following twentj^-one national banks, fifteen of them es-tablished since 1900, are today doing business in New Mexico.The date of their establishment and their paid-up capital aregiven, not including surplus or undivided profits: First Na-tional Bank of Alamogordo, Otero county, established 1900,capital $36,800; First National Bank, Albuquerque, Bernalillocounty, 1878, $200,000; State National Bank, Albuquerque,1904, 1100,000; First National Bank, Artesia, 1904, $25,000;First National Bank, Belen, 1903, $25,000; First National Bank,Carlsbad, 1900, $50,000; National Bank of Carlsbad, 1903, $30,-000;

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