The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . -cipal streets, the popular material for this purpose being ar-tificial stone made of sand and Portland cement upon a foun-dation of gravel. One of the largest sanitariums in the west is located hereand is conducted by the Sisters of Charity. The Santa FeRailway Company has built at this point the finest and mostcommodious station building and hotel on the line of its roadbetween Chicago and San Francisco. The manufacturing interests in addition to the railroadshops, are represented by a foundry
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . -cipal streets, the popular material for this purpose being ar-tificial stone made of sand and Portland cement upon a foun-dation of gravel. One of the largest sanitariums in the west is located hereand is conducted by the Sisters of Charity. The Santa FeRailway Company has built at this point the finest and mostcommodious station building and hotel on the line of its roadbetween Chicago and San Francisco. The manufacturing interests in addition to the railroadshops, are represented by a foundry, and machine shops; abrewery and two ice factories, two flouring mills, two min-eral water establishments, a planing mill, four brick yards,two cigar factories, a broom factory, a wool scouring plant,two steam laundries, a box factory and many smaller estab-lishments. Of the 22,000,000 pounds of wool produced annu-ally in New Mexico, Albuquerque merchants handle fully one-fifth, a large portion of which is now^ manufactured at homeby a woolen mill of fair capacity. This enterprise is very com-. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 147 prehensive in its scope and includes all the processes of pull-ing, scouring, dyeing, tanning and manufacturing wool andleather. The American Lumber Company has erected a large sawmill just northwest of the city with a capacity of 100,000 feetof lumber per day. There are openings here for a canning factory and a beetsugar factory, not to speak of a tannery, shoe factory, furni-ture factory and other establishments. The census of 1900credited the county with $864,604 capital invested in manu-factures, $793,644 of that being invested in gives employment to 1,140 men, and the value of theirproducts is $2,007,772 a year. Nearly all lines of business, commercial, mechanical, andprofessional, are represented. The town has several prosper-ous banking institutions. There are two daily papers: The Albuquerque Journal,issued every morning, and the Albuqu
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