The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . tyleof architecture, characteristic of the country, was adopted,and the effect, as seen in the completed building, is mostpleasing. The building is of white staff, one-story and a halfin height, surrounded by large, roomy verandas, in which arehung, amid palms and ferns, inviting swinging seats, madeafter the Mission pattern. It presents a front of seventy feeton the main boulevard and has a depth of fifty feet. In thebuilding are many valuable and interesting historical objects,owned by residen
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . tyleof architecture, characteristic of the country, was adopted,and the effect, as seen in the completed building, is mostpleasing. The building is of white staff, one-story and a halfin height, surrounded by large, roomy verandas, in which arehung, amid palms and ferns, inviting swinging seats, madeafter the Mission pattern. It presents a front of seventy feeton the main boulevard and has a depth of fifty feet. In thebuilding are many valuable and interesting historical objects,owned by residents of the Territory, and kindly loaned bythem for exhibition. Among these is the coat worn by Agui-naldo when he was captured: the filigree silver and jewel tablebelonging to the Womans Board of Trade and Library of Santa Fe, and several other articles, rare andancient, such as the Maria Josefa, the oldest bell inAmerica. The bell w^as cast in 1355, presumably in Spain, andin the 16th century, according to tradition, was brought tothe present site of Algodones by a Catholic MRS. MIGUEL A. OTERO. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. IX The pictorial display which adorns the walls and is con-tained in albums for the information of visitors is very-complete and handsome. The display was prepared underthe supervision of Mrs. William Curtis Bailey, of Las Vegas,manager of the Womans Auxihary Board, and illustratesevery industry of the Territory, the scenery, the people, thehomes, the conditions and every phase of New Mexicos life. EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT. The educational exhibit may truly be said to be an eye-opener to people of the east, whose hazy ideas about thewest, as one writer has aptly put it, receive a strong andwholesome readjustment when they see the actual results ofthe splendid school work and the photographs of the grandand stately school buildings, which demonstrate that NewMexico in proportion to its population is in no way behind theolder states in its public sch
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