The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . idstorchards and broad cultivated fields. Ever running watersin its irrigation ditches, its thirty-five miles of cottonwoodand other shade trees, its wide streets and beautiful homes,all help to make it an attractive residence city. The suburbsof La Huerta and Hagerman Heights are far famed. The Ber-muda and the blue grass furnish pretty emerald lawn set-tings. The ornamental shade trees include the Catalpa, theChinese umbrella. North Carolina and Lombardy poplar,w^eeping willows, Russian mulber
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . idstorchards and broad cultivated fields. Ever running watersin its irrigation ditches, its thirty-five miles of cottonwoodand other shade trees, its wide streets and beautiful homes,all help to make it an attractive residence city. The suburbsof La Huerta and Hagerman Heights are far famed. The Ber-muda and the blue grass furnish pretty emerald lawn set-tings. The ornamental shade trees include the Catalpa, theChinese umbrella. North Carolina and Lombardy poplar,w^eeping willows, Russian mulberry, while encircling hedgesof gray cedar bush and the green bamboo cane are ever andanon broken by the shining spike of the giant cactus palm orSpanish dagger. Here and there can be seen roses of all huesand sizes, blooming almost every month in the year, gera-niums of fifteen and twenty varieties blooming in all the softgradations of color from pure white to the deepest crimsonand royal purple, and many other flowers in profusion. Thearboriculture of Eddy county includes the walnut, the almond. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 173 and the pecan, a flourishing grove of the latter in La Huertagrowing more valuable every year. The altitude is 3,000 feet. It is 1,326 miles from Chicago,868 miles from Kansas City and 1,083 miles from immediate surroundings it has a population of 2,000. Itspublic schools are up to date and housed in modern are 500 chidren of school age in the city, and nearly allare enrolled in the pablic schools. There are churches ofmany denominations, a fine opera house, commodious businessblocks, a $35,000 courthouse, electric light, telephone, waterand sewerage systems, graded and well kept streets andthree weekly newspapers, the Carlsbad Argus, the Currentand the Pecos Valley Stockman. The town is a modern andmodel American community with healthy business conditions,and a promise of a great prosperity in the future. Carlsbad is considered one
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