The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . uses atfrom $ to $ a week. The laws of competition and trade are the same here as else-where. Fortunes are very seldom made in one day. The poorman who comes to New Mexico must expect to work and towork hard for a living; the capitalist must invest and investjudiciously to make money. After this is said, however, itcan also be truthfully said that New Mexico offers great op-. portunities to the honest and intelligent worker to becomeindependent and to gain affluence and civil and politi
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . uses atfrom $ to $ a week. The laws of competition and trade are the same here as else-where. Fortunes are very seldom made in one day. The poorman who comes to New Mexico must expect to work and towork hard for a living; the capitalist must invest and investjudiciously to make money. After this is said, however, itcan also be truthfully said that New Mexico offers great op-. portunities to the honest and intelligent worker to becomeindependent and to gain affluence and civil and political pro-minence; and to the shrewd and careful capitalist, greaterand surer returns on his investment than any other section onthe face of the Globe. It is to the homeseeker, to the farmer, to the stock raiser,to the miner, to the merchant, to the manufacturer, to thecapitalist that New Mexico is an undeveloped empire of mag-nificent resources which throws a peerless climate into thebargain with the rich returns that are offered to the man withcapital to invest or with brain and brawn to CHAPTER VIII, COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS. nEW MEXICO has an area of 122,409 square miles; whichis more than the area of the kingdom of Italy withits 35,000,000 of people. The population is estimatedto be 284,000. The Territory is divided into twenty-four counties. The northern are Union, Colfax, Taos, RioArriba and San Juan, all bordering on Colorado. The northcentral are San Miguel, Mora, Santa Fe, Sandoval, Quay andMcKinley; the south central are Roosevelt, Chaves, LeonardWood, Bernalillo, Valencia, Lincoln and Socorro; the southerntier consists of Eddy, Otero, Doiia Ana, Luna, Sierra andGrant. A twenty-fifth county, Torrance, with county seat atProgreso, near the geographical center of the Territory, willcome into existence on .January 1, Bernalillo County. This is the smallest and most populous of the counties. Area1,567 square miles, which is several hundred more thanthe are
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