The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . nso, 392 people, near which the government hascompleted an irrigation canal for the San Ildefonso PuebloIndians. Chimayo, in the extreme northern part is creditedwith 319 people and Canoncito or Lamy, seventeen milessoutheast of Santa Fe, with 323 people. Lamy is a railroadjunction point. A quarry of building and limestone is locatednear the place. Extensive beds of plaster paris are found afew miles north of this point. While those settlements are notincorporated, yet they all have public schoo
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . nso, 392 people, near which the government hascompleted an irrigation canal for the San Ildefonso PuebloIndians. Chimayo, in the extreme northern part is creditedwith 319 people and Canoncito or Lamy, seventeen milessoutheast of Santa Fe, with 323 people. Lamy is a railroadjunction point. A quarry of building and limestone is locatednear the place. Extensive beds of plaster paris are found afew miles north of this point. While those settlements are notincorporated, yet they all have public schools and are the cen-ters of fertile agricultural, stock or mining districts. Thereare Indian pueblos all very interesting for their primitive andquaint characteristics. The largest is Santa Clara, with 223people; San Ildefonso, 137 inhabitants; Nambe, 81; Tesuque,80, and Pojoaque 12. Along the Santa Fe Central Railway anumber of settlements have been located or townsites laid are Kennedy, at the crossing of the Santa Fe Railway;Clark and Stanley near the OMara coal fields, Donaciano, on. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 259 the Arroyo Hondo, Vega Blanca and Moriarty. At each ofthese points station buildings and store houses have beenerected. Santa Fe, The historic seat of the government of the Territory ofNew Mexico, as well as the county seat of Santa Fecounty, and the see of an archbishop of the RomanCatholic church, enjoys the distinction of being one of theoldest towns and is the oldest capital in the United permanent settlement by Europeans antedates thefounding of Jamestown and also the landing of the PilgrimFathers at Plymouth more than twenty years. The thrillingand romantic incidents composing its history; the protractedand bloody struggles with hordes of savage Indians; thecapture and pillage by hostile Pueblos in 1680; the generalmassacre of missionaries and explorers and flight of thegovernor and a few followers in the night to El Paso; thereserving of some
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