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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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perfection, they consistedof wholly artificial caves in perpendicular cliffs. A doorwayis hewn into the face of the cliffs to a depth of from three tofive feet. Then the excavation of the dwelling began. A frontroom, circular, oval or rectangular was dug out. It may befrom six to twenty feet in diameter according to the use forwhich it was designed. If for a sleeping room only, it is liableto be from six to eight feet in diameter, with low ceiling oftennot over four feet. If designed for a kiva, it may attain to adimension of fifteen to twenty feet in diameter, with higherceilings. Those designed for general living-rooms are usuallyfrom eight to twelve feet in diameter, with ceilings not oversix to seven feet above the floor. There are usually one ormore smaller rooms connected with the main living rooms byvery small doorways. These were probably used for storage.The interiors are generally plastered to a height of about fourfeet above the floor with adobe mortar. In some places there
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COURT HOUSE OF GRANT COUNY AT SILVER CITY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 127 has been considerable attempt at wall decorations. The outerdoorways are small, often not to exceed one and one-half by four feet. Pueblo ruins. These are spoken of as Pueblo ruins not be-cause they have been occupied by the Pueblo Indians in his-toric times, but because of their resemblance to the large ter-raced structures occupied by the hving Pueblo people. Thefinest specimens of this class of ruins in existence are to befound in New Mexico, being very numerous in several partsof the Territory. They are built of sandstone, volcanic tufa,lava and cobble stones, the material used in their construc-tion depending upon the natural formations found in thevicinity where located. The Pajarito Park is a tract embraced between the RioGrande on the east, the Jemez mountains on the west, the Ritode los Frijoles on the south, and the Chama river on the north.It is a park of great natural beauty, being for the most part aplat

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