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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., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the SanMateo and the Zuni mountains, a little northwest of the centerof the Territory, may be considered as a continuation of it.As the center of the Territory, going southward, is reached,the mountain ranges are more disconnected and less loftyalthough still massive. Here the Sandia, the Ortiz, the SanPedro, the San Isidro, the Manzanos, the Gallinas, are namesfor mountains, some of them rich in mineral wealth andothers well timbered to their very summits. Further south, four distinct ranges, broken of course, canbe traced, their axes all converging, apparently towards thecenter. The eastern branch is the loftiest and is known as theWhite Mountains, rising to an altitude of almost 14,000 feet.Continuing toward the south it is called the Sacramento range,while the Guadalupes in the far soutiieast are an apparentextension The second branch is also east of the Rio Grande,commencing to the north as the Oscuro range and continuingsouthward as the San Andreas and Oriran mountains and ter-
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 27 minating in the Franklin range. The third branch consistsof the Magdalenas, the San Mateo mountains, the San Cristo-bal, the Caballos and the Black Range; while the most west-ern fork consists of the Datils and the San Francisco, Tula,rosa and Mogollon ranges, extending into the Burro moun-tains in Grant county. Besides these there are many appar-ently independent mountain groups and ranges, such as theFloridas, the Cooks range, the Ladrones, the Peloncillo, thePedernal hills, the Las Animas hills and others, whose geo-graphical appellations are hardly of interest to the generalreader. Geology. Geologically, these mountains, while part of one system, arenot alike. The importance of being able to recognize the dis-tinctions in their geological formations, is of great economicvalue. From both a mining and a purely scientific viewpoint, therocks of New Mexico are of exceptional interest. The widerange of geological formations represented, the large and di-versifi

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