The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . l soon bo constructed from Moriarty, Santa Fecounty, to Albuquerque, over the Tijeras pass in the Sandias,a distance of forty-three miles. It has forty miles of railroad,to which the Albuquerque Eastern when completed will addtwenty-five miles. Its principal mountain ranges are the San-dias and the San Ysidros. There are good mineral indicationsbut no large mining camps as yet, although at Milagros inHell Canon, and in the Sandias, considerable prospecting andsome development work has been done.
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . l soon bo constructed from Moriarty, Santa Fecounty, to Albuquerque, over the Tijeras pass in the Sandias,a distance of forty-three miles. It has forty miles of railroad,to which the Albuquerque Eastern when completed will addtwenty-five miles. Its principal mountain ranges are the San-dias and the San Ysidros. There are good mineral indicationsbut no large mining camps as yet, although at Milagros inHell Canon, and in the Sandias, considerable prospecting andsome development work has been done. Coal veins crop out onthe surface near Tijeras canon in the Sandias and in the north-western part of the county. Isleta, one of the largest PuebloIndian villages, is situated in the southern part, and as it is atthe junction of the Santa Fe Railway and the Santa Fe PacificRailroad, it is much visited by tourists. The county seat andthe largest city of New Mexico, is Albuquerque. In every sense, modern and progressive, it is the acknowl-edged commercial center of New Mexico. Its merchants cover. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 143 a trade territory of about 100,000 square miles, or a districtlarger than the six New England States and the State of NewYork combined, which gives the place a wholesale trade muchlarger than is done by any eastern city of three times its popu-lation. The population of the place, according to the census,was 6,326. Old Albuquerque, which is practically a portionof the city proper, has 1,191 people, and more distant suburbanprecincts have 4,613 inhabitants, giving the city and suburbsa population of 12,042 at the time of the census of 1900, and avery conservative estimate places the increase since that timeat 3,000, making the present total a little more than 15, has a fine system of public schools, with a large and mo-dern school house in each ward and a handsome high schoolbuilding centrally located. There are in addition, a numberof good private schools,
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