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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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d telegraph communication with all outsidepoints; the headquarters of the federal and territorialofficials, the meeting place of the legislature, the supremecourt, the United States and territorial district courts andthe various territorial boards; the see of the archbishop ofSanta Fe; the location of the headquarters of the New MexicoHistorical society; a city having started a modern seweragesystem; preparing to build a fine modern central school houseup to the highest standard of excellence and possessing apublic school system with a good high school and four wardschools, and endowed by the national government for pubhcschool purposes with the Fort Marcy reservation of almosttwenty acres in the heart of the city, Santa Fe is naturallyforging to the front as a popular residence town. It has besides the Cathedral, three Roman Cathohcchurches, a Protestant Episcopal church, an English and aSpanish Presbyterian and Methodist church. The United States maintains a Weather Bureau here. The
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 263 two reservoirs of the Santa Fe Water and Light Companylocated above the city on the Rio Santa Fe cost about $300,000,and consist of a large reservoir or artificial lake secured bymeans of a semi-circular dam across the canon 600 feet long,350 feet wide, securely tied to the bed rock and 120 feet high,with mains and service pipes extending to every part of thecity; and a smaller reservoir on the hih side which, with anew ditch line from the canon, supplies the power requiredto operate the citys electric light plant, which is supple-mented by steam. There is here the oldest bank in NewMexico. Its business houses command a large trade areaand it is a gateway through which passes a big share of thewool and other products of Rio Arriba, Taos, San Juan andSanta Fe counties, as weh as of southern Colorado, bound forthe south or for the east. The Womans Board of Trade is a unique and characteristicinstitution. The public plaza and library are entirely underits direct

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