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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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er daysor nights. At Santa Fe in winter, on sunny days, the tempera-ture in the sun runs up from fifty to eighty degrees, and insummer the shade temperature never exceeds ninety degreesexcept once or twice in a decade, ninety-seven degrees beingthe highest temperature on record in thirty years. Even atemperature of ninety-seven degrees, on account of the greatdryness of the atmosphere and the invariably cool summernights, is not as oppressive as a maximum temperature ofseventy-two degrees at Chicago or New York. At Carlsbadand Las Cruces the mean temperature for January is forty-two degrees and in July a little less than eighty degrees, giv-ing the extremes of the mean temperatures for the year insouthern New Mexico. The days of sunshine in every yearaverage from 300 to 320, partly cloudy days from twenty-fiveto forty-five and cloudy days from twenty to thirty, there be-ing more cloudy days in summer than in winter, and no othercommonwealth in the United States has an average sunshine
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 101 record equal to that of New Mexico, which, for that reason isknown as the Sunshine Territory. During the six monthsending March 1, 1904, the weather bureau at Santa Fe re-corded not a single cloudy day. But it is not only to healthseekers that New Mexico is ahaven of refuge. It has been stated by some writers thattuberculosis can be treated successfully in any climate. Allexperience is against such a conclusion. It has been demon-strated beyond question that certain sections of the UnitedStates possess climatic characteristics which are peculiarlyadapted to the successful management of the disease. Theso-called arid regions of the great southwest, which compriseportions of southern Colorado, all of New Mexico and Arizona,together with that part of western Texas known as the LlanoEstacado, may be included in this favored section. The vastand salubrious stretch of country, which is so many timesalluded to as a land of sand, sagebrush and cacti, possessesin an a

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